Missouri Woman Discovers a Serial Killer Once Lived in Her Home From Watching TV

[Deberg_1990]

It sounds like a made-for-TV movie, but instead it's a real life nightmare for one St. Louis woman.

It's a typical North County ranch house on a tree-lined street.

Catrina McGhaw signed the lease without worry. Her section 8 voucher covered $810 in rent.

Until a family member told McGhaw to check out a cold case documentary about serial killers airing on the A&E Network.

McGhaw is living in the same Ferguson, Missouri house serial killer Maury Travis used as a torture chamber. The landlord even gave her the dining room table; the same one from the crime scene photos.


“When she showed us the house, she said you can have this table if you want,” McGhaw said.

But it's what happened downstairs that freaks her out the most. That's where Travis recorded some of his crimes; at one point he sent the St. Louis Post Dispatch a map to identify victim 17. Some of the victims were tied to a pole in the basement.

“This whole basement was his torture chamber and it’s not okay,” she said.
McGhaw called her landlord, begging to get out of the lease, but the landlord wasn't sympathetic.

Turns out the landlord is the killer's mom.

“She said ‘no you signed a lease you need to stay there until the lease is up.’’’
News 4 called Travis' mother; she claims she told McGhaw about the home's dark past. McGhaw says that's not true, she would have remembered the people murdered in the basement part.

Landlord didn't mention home's deadly past? That's legal in Missouri, Illinois
A local agent said murders, suicides and violent crimes don't require disclosure - only material defects need to be noted.

Although News 4 couldn't get Travis' mom to budge, the St. Louis Housing Authority did.
McGhaw says she will be moving at the end of July, which can't come soon enough.
Also read: 'I got tired of her': Mo. man tells police why he shot his wife
She says things keep getting weirder, and can’t stop thinking about an incident with a two year old relative that was playing in the basement near the pole where Travis tied up his victims.

“She looked over and she was like she’s scared like she saw somebody scared and crying and nobody was there, nobody there,” McGhaw recalled.

It's not clear how many woman Maury Travis murdered. He killed himself in the St. Louis County Jail in 2002.

http://www.kmov.com/news/investigate...266134801.html

[Bugeater]

Sorry your free house wasn't to your satisfaction Catrina. The housing authority should've told you to go pound sand.

[Why Not?]

I don't get the issue. She got a killer deal on rent.

[stonedstooge]

She could have made some under the table money with cash tours of the place.

[LoneWolf]

Section 8 voucher? Well, she was getting an insane deal on the rent.

[TimBone]

I'd rather receive oral from an alligator than read another Deberg thread.

[Baby Lee]

Originally Posted by Flybone McTimmerson

I'd rather receive oral from an alligator than read another Deberg thread.

I'd rather split a Crave Case of White Castle Sliders with Inmem while we watch Alex Smith sign the world's biggest QB contract with the Chiefs on the big screen.

[BigRedChief]

You have to disclose if anyone has ever died on the premises or the land here in Florida. 95 year who dies of old age doesn't matter. Has to be disclosed.

[Mennonite]

Originally Posted by BigRedChief

You have to disclose if anyone has ever died on the premises or the land here in Florida. 95 year who dies of old age doesn't matter. Has to be disclosed.

I believe that is part of the Poltergeist Act of 1982.

[TLO]

**** that. If he just lived there, then OK. But he had people tied up in the basement? No thanks...

[Dave Lane]

And?