AzQtr
Joined a year ago
A true crime enthusiast and a home buyer... glad I have somewhere to look up the histories that Arizona doesn’t disclose in their home sells.
AzQtr has submitted or contributed to 94 listing(s) on Housecreep. Showing page 1 of 4.
45300 Century Cir
Lancaster, CA, US
LANCASTER, Calif. — California officials have released chilling details of a Lancaster personal trainer who decapitated two of his children and forced their younger siblings to look at their dead bodies for five days. Maurice Jewel Taylor Sr., 34, is charged with two counts of felony murder and two counts of child abuse under circumstances likely to cause great bodily injury or death. He is being held in the Los Angeles County Jail in lieu of bail set at $4.2 million. Taylor is accused of fat…
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5454 W. Indian School Rd
Phoenix, AZ, US
On November 27, 1998 at 4:36 a.m. the Phoenix Police Department responded to a 9-1-1 call regarding shots fired at the Casa Verde Apartments located at 5454 West Indian School Road Apt. #1023. When police arrived the door was open to the apartment. Upon entering the apartment police found the two female victims who were shot and killed. The listed suspects were seen leaving the area after the shots were fired. Rebecca F. Gonzales (18) And Sophia R. Abril (22)
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9117 E. Evans Dr
Scottsdale, AZ, US
On 05/18/96 at 9:36 AM, a welfare check was performed at 9117 E. Evans Dr. Officers upon entry discovered the body of Marek Galewski who had sustained a gunshot wound. The last time Marek was seen alive was April 30, 1996.
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412 N.W. 72nd St
Boca Raton, FL, US
WEST PALM BEACH — A Boca Raton man found guilty in March of dismembering his father’s dead body received a 15-year prison sentence Friday. A jury found James “Jimmy” Scandirito guilty only of abuse of a dead body, declining to convict him of first-degree murder in the death of his 74-year-old father, James “Skip Scandirito.” The younger Scandirito, 50, will receive credit for the 439 days he already has served in the Palm Beach County Jail since his arrest in 2018. Judge John Kastrenakes als…
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228 Clara St
San Francisco, CA, US
SAN FRANCISCO — Police in San Francisco confirmed that the human remains found in a fish tank inside a home on Clara Street last month have been identified as the home's missing resident, 65-year-old Brian Egg. CBS San Francisco reports that police said the San Francisco Medical Examiner confirmed that the torso that was found in the fish tank with no head and no hands on August 15 was missing San Francisco resident Brian Egg. Finally, on August 14th concerned neighbors called again reporting …
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2117 E. Irene Vis
Tucson, AZ, US
The suspect from the mass shooting and house fire in Tucson that left at least two dead has been identified as Leslie Stephen Scarlett. Authorities said the 35-year-old Scarlett is in a local hospital in extremely critical condition. He will face a host of charges when he is released. According to the Arizona Department of Corrections, Scarlett has a criminal history that includes a 2007 conviction for an attempted armed robbery. He was sentenced to six years and was released in August 2013. …
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2236 E. University Dr
Phoenix, AZ, US
The shooting happened just before 5 a.m. near 24th Street and University Drive. Sgt. Andy Williams with the Phoenix Police Department said 911 callers reported hearing multiple gunshots and people screaming. Officers responded to the area and found multiple people shot at the nightclub. The six surviving victims were taken to a local hospital for treatment. No details about a suspect have been released.
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963 King Georges Way trending_up
West Vancouver, BC, CA
A West Vancouver man who killed his wife's cousin before using power tools to chop him into 108 separate pieces will serve another two years and four months behind bars. The killing and dismemberment occurred as the result of an argument that began when Yuan appeared to belittle a device Zhao — an avid inventor and hunter — had fashioned out of hiking poles to serve as a kind of stabilizer for a rifle. In recounting the circumstances that saw Zhao strike Gang Yuan with a hammer, shoot him with…
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709 Magnolia Ct
Broken Arrow, OK, US
On July 22, 2015, in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, 16-year-old Appellant and his 18-year-old brother, Robert Bever, murdered their mother, father, younger sister and two brothers, and severely wounded another sister. The youngest sister, who was almost two (2) years old, survived unharmed. In 2017 the vacant house burned To the ground. The home site was then turning into a park.
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4247 E. Cambridge Ave
Phoenix, AZ, US
On Friday, December 3, 2010 at approximately 12:22 p.m., Melissa Mason and Nicole Glass were found murdered inside their home in the area of 4200 East Cambridge Avenue in Phoenix. The Victims lived together and Melissa was pregnant at the time of her death. There was no evidence of forced entry to the home.
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4130 S. Avenue Ml trending_up
Tempe, AZ, US
May 15, 2021- Tempe, AZ. A 9-year-old girl and 7-year-old boy have been found dead after a woman told a Tempe police officer she was hearing voices telling her to kill her kids, officials said Saturday morning. Police say the woman had flagged down the officer at a police station on Apache and McClintock Drive, and officers later went to her apartment near Mill and Southern to investigate. "Officers went to her apartment and found a 9-year-old girl and a 7-year-old boy dead with "obvious sign…
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15202 N. 12th St
Phoenix, AZ, US
July 6, 2010- The Phoenix Police Department is asking the public's help in finding the person (or persons) responsible for murdering a 57-year-old Phoenix woman who was found dead in her home. Phoenix police Sergeant Tommy Thompson tells New Times that at about 9:30 p.m. on 7/6/2010, Phyllis Mizioch was found murdered in her home in the 15000 block of North 12th Street. The most recent murder was Mizioch’s estranged wife Phyllis Mizioch, a volunteer with Sunshine Angels homes for underprivile…
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8110 North Vía De Lago
Scottsdale, AZ, US
On Jan 23, 2000- Scottsdale AZ, Valerie Pape, 47, killed her husband, Ira Pomerantz, 60 and dumped his headless, armless, legless torso in a Mesa trash bin January 27, 2000. Pape pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 16 years. Pape admitted to shooting Pomerantz during a fight, but has said nothing about how he was dismembered or where the remains are.
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3020 S. Powers Blvd
Colorado Springs, CO, US
May 9, 2021, Colorado Springs- A gunman opened fire at a birthday party in Colorado Springs on Sunday, killing six people before taking his own life, police said. The suspected shooter is believed to be the boyfriend of one of the victims. Colorado Springs police said they responded to a call for service at the Canterbury Mobile Home Park just after midnight on Sunday morning.
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4587 Vernetti Ln
Kingman, AZ, US
According to sheriff's office reports, Robert Egar Buss, 85, was found unresponsive on the living room floor of his home in the 4500 block of Vernetti Lane by a roommate Wednesday afternoon. Medical personnel responded and declared Buss dead. Buss died of apparent stab wounds, the sheriff's office report stated.
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3660 E. Sunrise Dr
Tucson, AZ, US
Gary Lee Triano (November 6, 1943–November 1, 1996) was a millionaire real estate developer from Tucson, Arizona who was killed in Catalina Foothills by a pipe bomb explosion in his Lincoln Town Car on November 1, 1996. His former wife, Pamela Anne Phillips, a one-time model, real estate agent and socialite, was charged with orchestrating her ex-husband's death. In a sensational trial nearly 18 years after Triano's murder, Phillips was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit m…
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3810 N. Maryvale Pkwy
Phoenix, AZ, US
Jeffrey Bellemare, 59-years old, was murdered on November 29, 2013, while working at a Maryvale, Ariz., apartment complex. A uniformed security guard at the Graybriar Condos, he was patrolling the area near 55th Avenue and Indian School Road. The west-side is known as a rough area, and Bellemare was only armed with pepper spray that evening. The day after Thanksgiving, witnesses said they heard two gunshots at approximately 1:30 a.m. and rushed outside to find Bellemare on the ground wit…
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300 W. Fairview St
Chandler, AZ, US
The man who police discovered stabbed to death and decapitated inside an apartment has been identified and police say his death possibly can be drug related and connected to a Mexican drug cartel. Police say Martin Alejandro Cota-Monroy, 38, a Mexican national, was inside an apartment in the 300 block of West Fairview Street the early morning of Oct. 10 heavily drinking with at least four other men before his body and head were discovered nearby about 5:30 a.m., according to police. At some po…
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710 White Ct trending_up
Arroyo Grande, CA, US
For nearly 25 years, authorities have searched for the body of Kristin Smart, the 19-year-old California college freshman who vanished after leaving an off-campus party at the start of Memorial Day weekend in 1996. Now for the first time ever, authorities say they believe her body was buried in the yard of the California home of murder suspect Paul Flores' father — and that it was "recently" moved, according to a court document obtained by The Tribune of San Luis Obispo.
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8526 E. Monterey Way
Scottsdale, AZ, US
February 18, 2015 at just after 4:00 p.m., Scottsdale Police Department Patrol officers responded to 8526 E Monterey Way, Scottsdale reference a female that had been found by her boyfriend deceased inside the home. That female was soon identified as 31-year-old Allison Feldman and her death was quickly determined to be a homicide. Scottsdale Police arrested 42-year-old Ian L Mitcham for the February 2015 murder of Scottsdale resident Allison Feldman. The arrest in Phoenix marks the culminatio…
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1051 E. Mossman Rd
Tucson, AZ, US
Tucson, AZ- Her body was found on March 19, 1976, but Tucson police believed that Smith was probably killed five days earlier, on a Sunday. On that night, McCullough had been seen acting erratically in an empty lot near a food store. He was semiconscious and badly bloodied, apparently from self-inflicted slashes to his wrist. He told one responding police officer that he had cut himself “out in the field,” but another officer later recalled that McCullough said that he had “done it out in his b…
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3583 E. Wildhorse Dr
Gilbert, AZ, US
GILBERT, Ariz. — The Gilbert Police Department said one person is dead and another in custody after an incident at a group home in Gilbert on Monday morning. Gilbert PD says officers responded to the home in a neighborhood near Pecos Road and Higley Drive around 5 a.m. for an "unknown trouble" call, and officers located 49-year-old Steven Howells dead in the home with "obvious injuries." Police say the suspect, 37-year-old Christopher Lambeth, was arrested and booked with the Maricopa County…
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12845 N. 42nd Dr
Phoenix, AZ, US
On February 2, 2020- Phoenix police have identified a man and woman who found dead after an apparent murder-suicide in a northwest Phoenix neighborhood. Officers were called out to the home near 43rd Avenue and Cactus Road around 4:45 p.m. That's where police found 32-year-old Lauren Porter and 41-year-old Joseph Caba with apparent gunshot wounds. Both were pronounced dead at the scene. Police said the investigation is just starting but it appears Caba shot Porter and then turned the gun on …
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5601 N. Delos Cir
Paradise Valley, AZ, US
January 30, 2012- in Paradise Valley, AZ The Shapiros were found dead in their home near 40th Street and Camelback Road on the morning of January 31. When police got to the Shapiros' house, it was on fire. The Shapiros were bound and burned beyond recognition. Theonly reason police went to the home was because they found a car registered to the Shapiros on fire near 7th Street and Union Hills Drive. After finding the car, Paradise Valley police went to the Shapiros' home -- and that's when th…
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6215 W. Elm St
Phoenix, AZ, US
March 16, 2021- A Phoenix man, Gilbert Gonzales, is dead after allegedly killing his uncle, grandparents, and another man, as well as injuring a fifth person at a home Tuesday in west Phoenix. According to the Phoenix Police Department, officers responded a the home near 65th Avenue and Camelback Road around 6:45 p.m. They found the five people with gunshot wounds. Police learned that Gilbert Gonzalez had been drinking and making suicidal comments. Three of Gonzalez’s victims have been ident…
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