Would you move back into this macabre home?

A while back, there was a rather gruesome murder a few doors down from where I live.

I live in quite a nice area, in that the families here seem to be decent and keep to themselves.

There is never much noise in the neighbourhood and certainly no police sirens whizzing by.

The year before last, a few days before Christmas this particular fiendish neighbour decided to hire three prostitutes. He killed one in a very macabre way. Stabbing her over 56 times in the bedroom and then raping the other two, who luckily got away and fled.

The most bizarre part is that his wife was at a Christmas party and he was clearly undertaking all these shenanigans whilst she was enjoying the company of her friends, oblivious to all of his strange behaviours at this point.

Anyway, it was a particularly cold and wintry Christmas and the streets around the homes suddenly looked more dreary and grey after the murder.

It left a horrible feeling hanging about, not only in the area but also in town, where people were talking about it.

The house was boarded up for a long time and I walked past a few times in the early evening thinking about how dismal it looked and how ‘messy’ it must be inside due to the dramatic events that had happened there. I admit I do have a vivid imagination too.

To my surprise, once the police had done their thing, removed the boarding around the door and vacated, which took some months I think, the wife moved back in.

She is living there now.

I find this shocking, am I alone in this thought? Would you move back? Would you sleep in the bedroom the murder took place in? Personally I don’t think I could sleep at all.

I think I’d never return not even to collect a few things. Would you return? How would you deal with it? Have you ever come across a similar closer to home incident where something similar or different happened after the event occurred?