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The home sold for $390,00, $10,000 more than the asking price,

and was sold to Modesto real estate agent Gerry Roberts, who plans

to make it his home.



Roberts said that his bid was accepted after he sent Laci's mother,

Sharon Rocha, and Scott's father, Lee Peterson, a letter praising the

home's charm as "exactly what I had been looking for all this time."

He said he would honor the home and planned to keep it in his family

for many years to come.



Scott and Laci paid $177,000 for the home in 2000.

I wonder were the money went to . I don't know if I would want to live their. especially knowing something awful had happened.

Just a thought but if hes a real estate agent I wonder if hes thinking about turning a "celebrity home " profit contrary to his statements about keeping the home.

(Not that its anybodies business)

1humanbeing wrote: Just a thought but if hes a real estate agent I wonder if hes thinking about turning a "celebrity home " profit contrary to his statements about keeping the home.

(Not that its anybodies business)I wondered that, myself. I also wondered if it was some sort of deal with

another real estate agent buddy to keep home prices up in the

neighborhood or something? Because from all I've ever heard, homes

where crimes are committed are "hard sells". Some of them have even

been completely torn down. (I think the house where the Manson murders

of Sharon Tate and the others ocurred was one of those)

Good grief! How morbid is that???!!!!

TW2005 wrote: I didn't think the murder took place in the home? Nobody really knows where exactly where the murder took place but there was no evidence that it took place in the house.You're absolutely right... but I think the perception is that it took place

there... in the general public, I mean.



I think there are ways he could have done it without leaving a crime

scene per se.

He'd only get half, anyway, the other half going to Laci's heirs. But

depending on how much was left after the remaining mortgage was paid

off...



In California at least, the law is vague and there have been many challenges

to it, it is based on the "Son of Sam" laws on criminals not profitting from

their crimes.

There are also people who are fighting for the CRIMINALS right to free

speech. Go figure.



I believe Sharon Rocha's suit to put any of her daughter's murderer's

profits in a trust is still wending its' way through the courts...