Ever since a family was ripped apart by the grim murder, a creepy house has stood empty and collecting dust.
Abandoned and once frozen in time, the 'Los Feliz murder mansion' is home to an infamous killing in California in which a doctor murdered his wife and attempted to kill his children
Dr Harold Perelson brutally bludgeoned his wife with a ball-peen hammer and attempted the same on his young daughter Judye.
The 50-year-old failed to murder his daughter after his wife Lillian, 42, met her end while she was sleeping in December 1959.
Judye was just 18 at the time and her screams woke up younger brother and sister Debbie and Joel.
The crazed doctor then attempted to tell the two youngest children they were just having a bad dream and told them to go back to sleep. Judye, meanwhile, escaped and alerted the authorities.
As the police rushed to the scene, Perelson took a fatal overdose. Police walked in to find Lillian dead and covered in blood, with the doctor lying next to her.
Dr Cheri Lewis grew up across the street and told the Los Angeles Times about the event and revealed she was due to be at the house shortly after.
She said: "Judye came to our door. I remember having my hand in her blood. I used to baby-sit the children there. I was supposed to spend the next night there, in fact.”
Officially known as Glendower Place, the 5,050-square-foot mansion was built in 1925 and has four master-bedroom-size sleeping rooms on the second floor.
Why the doctor turned to such awful violence, the police believed at the time, was due to financial difficulties, while a World War 2 draft card also revealed he had once been hospitalised for problems with his mental health.
The luxury property overlooks Los Angeles and is said to be worth millions. It was was bought by a couple, Emily and Julian Enriquez, in the year after the murder.
Their son Rudy inherited the house in 1994, but by then it had long fallen into disrepair and locals complained about prostitutes using the house as a hangout, other people were seen having a picnic in the garden.
It was reportedly bought by famous attorney Lisa Bloom, who has represented some of the victims of billionaire paedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
She is believed to have purchased it for £1.9 million in 2016, before moving it on in 2020 for a similar price, according to the New York Post.
Once supposedly containing the wrapped presents of the Perelson children and 1950s TV set, the house has now been cleared.
