Woman Finds Out Her House Was Once Serial Killer’s Torture Chamber

Just suppose that you've searched high and low for the perfect new home when you finally run across what you think is just what you've always wanted.  You move in, establish your new life, pay all your utility installation fees, get the address changed on all your mail and your checks and then spend a day in the DMV to get your license updated, only to get a call from your friend telling you that your house is on television; and it's not a good thing. Hey, it just happened to Catrina McGhaw.  She signed a lease for a house in Ferguson, Missouri back in March. As far as she knew, it was just a nice, normal suburban house outside St. Louis.

That is, until she got the phone call.  One of Catrina's friends called her last month and told her to turn on the show "Cold Case Files" on A&E, because there was a documentary about a serial killer, who actually lived in that house. In fact, right when Catrina turned on the TV, she saw her house.

Turns out a guy named Maury Travis lived there. He kidnapped and tortured at least 12 women inside the house, and killed them in the basement. He was finally caught in 2002 and killed himself in prison.

And Catrina's landlord is his Maury's mother, Sandra Travis. Catrina says Sandra never told her about what happened in the house. Naturally she wanted to get out of the lease, but she wouldn't let her.

So Catrina went to the St. Louis Housing Authority, who got Sandra to agree to let Catrina out by the end of this month.

And you thought that leaky toilet was a problem.  Wow!

See A&E's documentary on the murders below. Crazy stuff.