Would you live in a house where a murderer once lived?

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I remember watching a documentary about British serial killer Dennis Nilsen and I was surprised that the two houses he lived in, at two addresses in muswell hill and cricklewood in London are still there and are still on the market even now. Personally I wouldn't want to live in them, knowing of the hideous and sickening nature of his crimes and the bodies he hid under the floorboards and so on. Would you live there ?

Merely where a murderer lived, why not?

If it's potentially damaged or contaminated from their murderous behaviour I might be less willing. I don't really want to live in a home that's had a gallon of blood soak into the flooring regardless of the story behind how it got there.

Yes, if said murderer is confirmed to be dead and surely will never return to said house.
Better if the case is closed on top of that.

Whatever physical evidence can be throughouly cleaned and fixed.
Better if someone had lived long enough there and did not end up like having accidents, or something cancer or anything can be caught through exposure.

Whatever non-physical traces can be cleansed.
Better if a legit and skilled exorcism and blessing had done it well of it's space.

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Why not? Maybe not - like Funeralxempire already said - in that case when everything in there would be covered with the dried up blood of their victims, the blood spots everywhere, ewww.

Btw, in Poland there was a very famous case like a couple of years ago (I'm too lazy though to check what year it was exactly) - the so called Rakowiska murder. Two young people, a couple, killed the boy's parents in cold blood in the most brutal way - no one later on wanted to buy the house where the murder was commited because of the bad fame, although the price was very low from what I heard. The teens - now young adults - are in prison now. That girl was an agressive psychopath - and a young poet to boot. Her poems were widely read although she was only 18 or 19 back when she killed her boyfriend's parents together with him.

P.S. That's all I managed to find on this case in English -> https://mathildestansky.medium.com/the- ... 5caa0bc049

Nah. That would creep me out.

I once rented a room where I found out the room, indeed the bed I was sleeping in was the one where the landlord's mother had recently died.

I got out of there pretty quick. She was buried in the garden too.

I'm thinking the same as has already been said by others...if the place was clean and the murderer was dead or in jail for life unable to come back and kill me for living in the house or something, I possibly would.

It would also depend on how other people viewed the property. If it was a place crime nuts came to photograph or ghost hunters came by hoping to catch something, then no, I would not. That could get aggravating real fast. But if no one treated the place like a spectacle, maybe. It would also depend on the price...did becoming a murderer house make the thing go up or down in value? If the price tanked as a result, I would definitely consider it if the location was rural. I'd love to get out of a city.

I wouldn't. It would creep me out too much. I wouldn't be able to do that.

Judging by prison marriage rates, the girls like an axe murderer.
Maybe living in a murderer's house would be an advantage in the dating game.

I would not.

Logically there's no reason not to but I think it would creep me out too much.

I don't believe in ghosts at all, but human brains are wired to be superstitious so it can be hard for me to override that with logic, especially if I'm in bed.

I think it would creep me out, but then again I don't know who lived in my house, so maybe I already do?

Once when I was a kid, my tooth came out and I never found it. I often imagine someone else buying that house far in the future and finding an old tooth in some dark corner. That would be confusing and gross.

There were rumors about my childhood home -- there was allegedly something (someone?) buried underneath the basement floor.  No news articles about missing person about the time the house was built, but the first owner was allegedly a wealthy man who died without heirs except for the fellow Freemason to whom he willed the property.