{"id":4947,"date":"2024-03-23T02:40:43","date_gmt":"2024-03-23T02:40:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/the-owners-of-the-jonbenet-ramsey-murder-house-fail-to-find-a-buyer-despite-price-cuts\/"},"modified":"2024-03-23T02:40:43","modified_gmt":"2024-03-23T02:40:43","slug":"the-owners-of-the-jonbenet-ramsey-murder-house-fail-to-find-a-buyer-despite-price-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/2024\/03\/23\/the-owners-of-the-jonbenet-ramsey-murder-house-fail-to-find-a-buyer-despite-price-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"The Owners of the JonBenet Ramsey Murder House Fail To Find a Buyer Despite Price Cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The infamous Colorado Tudor<\/a> where the body of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBen\u00e9t\u00a0Ramsey<\/strong> was discovered can\u2019t find the right buyer.<\/p>\n

The gated, five-bedroom, 5.5-bathroom home in Boulder, CO, was pulled off the market at the beginning of the month. This was the sixth time the home has failed to sell, according to the New York Post<\/a>. And it was despite the top-floor penthouse with two bathrooms, kitchen with a separate catering kitchen, and hefty price cuts.<\/p>\n

The 7,240-square-foot home, built in 1927, was initially listed for $7.25 million in November 2022. The price had been whittled down to its most recent $6,249,000 before the owners took it off the market.<\/p>\n

But the lower price might not have been enough for buyers to overlook the unsolved mystery of the young girl who was found dead in the home.<\/p>\n

JonBen\u00e9t Ramsey\u2019s body was discovered in the wine cellar near the basement on the day after Christmas in 1996.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe market perceives anything dealing with children who have been injured, abused, or murdered as the most heinous condition. It has a dramatic effect on property values,\u201d says Orell Anderson<\/strong>, a forensics real estate appraiser at Strategic Property Analytics who specializes in damaged real estate. He also worked on assessing the Colorado property after the murder.<\/p>\n

The 7,240-square-foot home, built in 1927, was initially listed for $7.25 million in November 2022.<\/p>\n

Andy Cross\/The Denver Post via Getty Images<\/p>\n

JonBen\u00e9t\u2019s body was discovered in the wine cellar near the basement on the day after Christmas in 1996. Her skull was broken, and a garrote was tied around her neck. An autopsy ruled the cause of death was strangulation.<\/p>\n

Before her body was found, Patsy and John Ramsey<\/strong> found a ransom note in the home demanding $118,000 to get their daughter back.<\/p>\n

The Ramseys, who had purchased the home for $500,000 in 1991, moved out after the murder. The home was sold to an investor for $650,000, according to the Post. The profits of the sale were pledged to the JonBen\u00e9t Ramsey Children\u2019s Foundation.<\/p>\n

Patsy and John were suspects in the murder for more than a decade. They weren\u2019t cleared of the crime until 2008, two years after Patsy died of cancer.<\/p>\n

The Ramseys, who had purchased the home for $500,000 in 1991, moved out after the murder.<\/p>\n

Helen H. Richardson\/ The Denver Post<\/p>\n

Homes with a tragic history<\/a>, especially ones involving children, often sell at a 10% to 25% discount\u2014or even more, says Anderson. The percentage increases based on the awfulness of the crime and how much attention it received.<\/p>\n

Earlier this week, the Beverly Hills mansion where the Men\u00e9ndez brothers<\/a><\/strong> gunned down their parents sold for $17 million\u2014down from its initial list price of $19,999,500.<\/p>\n

When terrible things happen in a home, it will immediately turn off many prospective buyers. They might feel uncomfortable being in the same room where someone died, even if it\u2019s been thoroughly cleaned and redone.<\/p>\n

The new owners will also have to deal with what can be unwanted attention<\/a>. In some cases, like the home where Gypsy Rose Blanchard<\/a><\/strong> orchestrated her mother\u2019s murder, the home\u2019s address and appearance will be altered to discourage looky-loos and true-crime aficionados who still travel to the property.<\/p>\n

\u201cPeople have some fascination or fetish about murders in general,\u201d says Anderson. \u201cPeople go on vacation, and one of the things they do is maybe visit all the murder houses.\u201d<\/p>\n

Tim and Carol Schuller Milner<\/strong>, the current owners of the Ramseys\u2019 former home, have been trying to offload the property for more than 15 years. They purchased it for $1.05 million in 2004 and put it on the market four years later for $2.68 million. They tried again in 2009, listing it for $2.29 million, according to the Denver Post. The property was relisted in 2011 for $2.3 million and then again for $2 million in 2014.<\/p>\n

Carol Schuller Milner, the daughter of \u201cHour of Power\u201d televangelist\u00a0Robert Schuller<\/strong>, told Inside Edition<\/a> that she wanted to undo the home\u2019s stigma when she purchased the property.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis has become a dark monument, this thing that was just sitting there, just a constant reminder of something horrible that happened, and I\u2019m just a believer in undoing stuff like that,\u201d she said in the 2016 interview.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a wonderful place to live. It is home,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

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Doug Pensinger\/Getty Images The infamous Colorado Tudor where the body of 6-year-old beauty queen JonBen\u00e9t\u00a0Ramsey was discovered can\u2019t find the right buyer. The gated, five-bedroom, 5.5-bathroom home in Boulder, CO, was pulled off the market at the beginning of the month. This was the sixth time the home has failed to sell, according to the…Read More→<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4948,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4947","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4947"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4947\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4948"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4947"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4947"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/billingsrealtybrokers.paradiseinnovations.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4947"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}