![]() ![]() ![]() For a short while they turn the shuttered porn store, still furnished with its inventory and pervy back booths, into a hangout-slash-squat and decorate it with devilish flair. He also tries to get into the mindset of the teens involved in the 1986 murder: college-bound Derrick, already-troubled Alex, manic Seth, helpful Angela. ![]() It is not, sadly, the Gothic Victorian of the book’s cover but something more mundane - a brick building that, if property values don’t go up, is probably near the end of its days. It began as a diner, became a newsstand, then a porn store in the shadow of a freeway. So he researches, as you would, to discover the building’s history. It’s almost two decades later, and the traces of the crime have been erased. But for this story, he’s got an easier way in: The house is for sale.Ĭhandler buys it and moves in. Chandler has had modest success with a slightly unusual method: He finds his way into his true crime tales through the locations where they took place. It’s the early 2000s when crime writer Gage Chandler gets a tip about a forgotten, unsolved 1986 “devil house” murder in Milpitas, Calif., a small town between San Francisco and San Jose. ![]()
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