Jean must have known it wouldn’t be difficult. Property ownership is public record. Once Lassie and I were back in the house, I booted up my laptop at Marge’s kitchen table and started investigating. First I went to an online homes-for-sale site and typed in the addresses of the for sale/sold/razed houses I’d circled on my map. After finding their selling prices, I looked up the comparables in the neighborhood. Sunnydale houses typically sold for $200,000-$300,000. Jean’s “dead body houses” had all gone for around $40,000 less. Using the Maricopa County Assessor’s site, I dug a little deeper and found that nine of the twelve “dead body” houses had been bought by Underwood Holdings, whose offices were in Bogota, Columbia. The new owner of Charlie’s house wasn’t listed on the site. The sale was probably too recent. I called up the assessor’s office. “Just a moment,” said the woman who answered the phone. “I may have it…yes, just came in.
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