Perelson Mansion (Los Angeles, California)
USA /
California /
Glendale /
Los Angeles, California /
Glendower Place, 2499
World
/ USA
/ California
/ Glendale
World / United States / California
house, murder site, mysterious
Built in 1925, the three-story Spanish revival-style home has a basement that boasts a maid's quarters. The first floor features an entrance hall flanked by a glassed-in conservatory and large living room. Toward the back is a den, a dining room and the kitchen. Four master-bedroom-size sleeping chambers are on the second floor. A bar-equipped ballroom measuring 20 feet by 36 feet is on the third level.
No one lived there since the predawn morning of 6 December 1959, when cardiologist Dr. Harold Perelson killed his 42-year-old wife, Lillian, severely beat his teenage daughter, and finally killed himself by taking a massive overdose of barbiturates. The youngest Perelson children, Debbie and Joel, survived. Perelson reportedly told Debbie, “Go back to sleep. This is a nightmare.”
Eighteen-year-old Judye Perelson ran from the mansion and staggered to a neighbor's house. She was treated at Central Receiving Hospital with a possible skull fracture.
Police found Perelson lying dead on the floor next to his wife's blood-soaked bed. He was still clutching the murder weapon, a ballpeen hammer. On a nightstand next to his bed, investigators found an open copy of Dante's "Divine Comedy," which was opened to Canto 1: "Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost . . . " Evidence suggests that Perelson was struggling to make ends meet due to various costly lawsuits and losing money in a bad business deal for a syringe he invented, and this was possibly why he decided to murder his family.
Lillian’s family took custody of the children, and a year later, the house was sold at a probate auction to Emily and Julian Enriquez, who did nothing with the house, and passed it on to son Rudy, who also left it untouched. The house sat uninhabited but still full of its original contents for 57 years. Through grimy, cracked windows, one could see dust-covered furniture, including a 1950s-style television set, seemingly frozen in time. What appeared to be gaily wrapped Christmas gifts sat on a table. After Rudy Enriquez died, the house was sold in July 2016 to Gloria Allred's daughter Lisa Bloom and her husband Braden Pollock.
www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/2475-Glendowe...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/murder-house-sale-an-exp...
la.curbed.com/2016/4/4/11363474/los-feliz-murder-house-...
No one lived there since the predawn morning of 6 December 1959, when cardiologist Dr. Harold Perelson killed his 42-year-old wife, Lillian, severely beat his teenage daughter, and finally killed himself by taking a massive overdose of barbiturates. The youngest Perelson children, Debbie and Joel, survived. Perelson reportedly told Debbie, “Go back to sleep. This is a nightmare.”
Eighteen-year-old Judye Perelson ran from the mansion and staggered to a neighbor's house. She was treated at Central Receiving Hospital with a possible skull fracture.
Police found Perelson lying dead on the floor next to his wife's blood-soaked bed. He was still clutching the murder weapon, a ballpeen hammer. On a nightstand next to his bed, investigators found an open copy of Dante's "Divine Comedy," which was opened to Canto 1: "Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself within a forest dark, for the straightforward pathway had been lost . . . " Evidence suggests that Perelson was struggling to make ends meet due to various costly lawsuits and losing money in a bad business deal for a syringe he invented, and this was possibly why he decided to murder his family.
Lillian’s family took custody of the children, and a year later, the house was sold at a probate auction to Emily and Julian Enriquez, who did nothing with the house, and passed it on to son Rudy, who also left it untouched. The house sat uninhabited but still full of its original contents for 57 years. Through grimy, cracked windows, one could see dust-covered furniture, including a 1950s-style television set, seemingly frozen in time. What appeared to be gaily wrapped Christmas gifts sat on a table. After Rudy Enriquez died, the house was sold in July 2016 to Gloria Allred's daughter Lisa Bloom and her husband Braden Pollock.
www.realtor.com/realestateandhomes-detail/2475-Glendowe...
www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/murder-house-sale-an-exp...
la.curbed.com/2016/4/4/11363474/los-feliz-murder-house-...
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Coordinates: 34°6'56"N 118°17'36"W
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