View full sizeThree people were shot â a nine-year-old boy and the 41-year-old homeowner fatally â at 535 S. 23rd in Saginaw. (9/21/09)SAGINAW, MI — These are places where bad things happened.
An 879-square-foot Saginaw home at 535 S. 23rd appears in an online story about homes where homicides occurred alongside several palatial estates, including music producer Phil Spector’s 8,686-square-foot, 33-room mansion in Alhambra, Cali. and famed fashion designer Gianni Versace’s 26,000-square-foot, one-time home in Miami, Fla.
Spector was convicted of murdering B-list movie actress Lana Clarkson at his mansion, named the “Pyrenes Castle,” on Feb. 3, 2003; Versace became the last victim in a three-month, five-victim killing spree committed by Andrew Cunanaan in 1997.
Also featured if the Houston home of Andrea Yates, who is serving live in prison for the 2001 drowning of her five children — 6-month-old Mary, 2-year-old Luke, 3-year-old Paul, 5-year-old John, and 7-year-old Noah — in the home’s bathtub.
The story’s author, Tabitha Sukhai, didn’t select the homes for their curbside appeal.
Titled “American Murder Houses II,” the story on the This Old House website focuses on infamous estates that provided the setting for grizzly killings.
The small house in Saginaw was the site of three homicides since 1990.
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Devin ElliottThe most recent killings in the home, the Sept. 20, 2009 fatal shootings of Barnell Amos, 41, and 9-year-old Heavenrich Elementary School fourth-grader Devin Elliott, a family friend and overnight guest, were the result of a robbery, police believe.
The slayings of Devin Elliot and Barnell Amos remain unsolved.
Anyone with information is asked to call Saginaw Police Sgt. Joseph Dutoi at 989-759-1248 or Crime Stoppers at 800-422-JAIL.
They weren’t the only killings to occur there.
On June
10, 1990 a Meals on Wheels volunteer delivering food found Joyce C. Crandall, a then-69-year-old grandmother and the homeowner, slumped in a recliner. Crandall had suffered multiple bullet wounds, several stab wounds and a
fractured arm.
More than a year later, police arrested Timothy Granderson, then 25, the son of a neighbor who told police he didn’t mean to kill Crandall.
Barnell AmosThe three-bedroom bungalow is owned by the Barnell Amos estate, Saginaw assessor records show, and the story says state property disclosure laws don’t require agents to tell prospective buyers about the home’s violent past.
The story does not contain the date it was written or published, but the oldest comments are from Oct. 30, 2011.
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