Murder down the street

[jeffrey]

Yeah, I know that this doesn't seem like a general financial topic, but bear with me. This Friday a lady down the street was murdered by her gardener (the first murder in our city in nearly 4 years). She had yet to move into her house - she had spent the last two years getting it built to perfection coming out nearly every weekend to oversee what the contractors had done. They were supposed to finally move in at the end of this month, had hired a gardener to put in a whole new landscape and this happens.

It seems such a shame that after putting in all that time and effort into building the house that she never got to enjoy living in it. I'm hoping she was the type that liked the journey (the building of the project) as much as the destination. While it's hard to take away anything positive from tragedies like this, I think it is a good reminder to step back and remember to enjoy the journey each and every day since there are no guarantees...

[m3racer]

Motive?

[faithman1012005@yahoo.com]

Yeah so many of us don't take time to smell the roses! In todays world we can get so busy with things we forget that success is a journey, not a destination. Also the above story would be a great example of why I cary a firearm.

[mommyof4]

That is really sad to hear.

[jeffrey]

Motive?

no idea - still searching for the gardener...

[Broken Arrow]

I'm sorry to hear that, but yes, a good reminder indeed.

[simpleyme]

we had a double murder in our tiny town just down the street a couple years ago people flocked into town to look at the house hoping that the murder would drive the house price down,it did not it is still listed at a half mill
a lot of people just want to see where people were murdered and tour the house for that reason,what the he## is wrong with people?

[mommyof4]

we had a double murder in our tiny town just down the street a couple years ago people flocked into town to look at the house hoping that the murder would drive the house price down,it did not it is still listed at a half mill
a lot of people just want to see where people were murdered and tour the house for that reason,what the he## is wrong with people?

Wow, if a murder happened in a house I was looking at, there is no way that I would ever buy it. That would just creep me out.

[Aleta]

What a tragedy and yes those houses suffer. I hope like you that she received satifaction from what she accomplished on a day-to-day basis.

Yes, we have to enjoy each day that we have because there is no promised of tomorrow.

[Joan.of.the.Arch]

we had a double murder in our tiny town just down the street a couple years ago people flocked into town to look at the house hoping that the murder would drive the house price down,it did not it is still listed at a half mill
a lot of people just want to see where people were murdered and tour the house for that reason,what the he## is wrong with people?

My gosh, was housing so tight?! Vultures! I've only heard of people being repelled by such a thing!

My city is up and down from first place in murder in the US, yet in my own neighborhood about 8 years ago there was a murder behind a business which stunned all because we'd not had an area murder in the previous 40 years. I still have not been to that business - not afraid, just squeamish or something.

In Jeffrey's neighborhood I imagine there are a lot of people making sure doors and windows are locked, children are attended outside, and an eye kept out for the gardener. Phrases like "return to the scene of the crime" float through peoples' heads. Such violence tends to put one on guard like never before. Even if the murder was not random, we suppose that it could just as easily come our own way.

[Goldy1]

yea it is creepy. I think it would be awful to even live on the block of one of those high profile crimes (property values and just creepy) but it could happen anywhere really!

[asmom]

we had a double murder in our tiny town just down the street a couple years ago people flocked into town to look at the house hoping that the murder would drive the house price down,it did not it is still listed at a half mill
a lot of people just want to see where people were murdered and tour the house for that reason,what the he## is wrong with people?

Good grief, if I needed affordable housing that bad I would have just moved to another area.

[Ronin]

we had a double murder in our tiny town just down the street a couple years ago people flocked into town to look at the house hoping that the murder would drive the house price down,it did not it is still listed at a half mill
a lot of people just want to see where people were murdered and tour the house for that reason,what the he## is wrong with people?

I see murder scenes all the time at houses, and I always get creeped out when I return to the house later... especially when new people are living there and don't know about the murder.

[Pitman]

I see murder scenes all the time at houses, and I always get creeped out when I return to the house later... especially when new people are living there and don't know about the murder.

Why? It's not like the deceased spirit is floating around the living room like in the movies.


Back on Topic:
Carpe Diem

[jeffrey]

In Jeffrey's neighborhood I imagine there are a lot of people making sure doors and windows are locked, children are attended outside, and an eye kept out for the gardener. Phrases like "return to the scene of the crime" float through peoples' heads. Such violence tends to put one on guard like never before. Even if the murder was not random, we suppose that it could just as easily come our own way.

You know, it isn't like that at all from what I can tell. I haven't changed anything that I do and the neighborhood kids still play on the street. It seems to me to be more of an aberation (these things don't happen often here), although an extremely unfortunate and a sad one.