Grim past fails to spook buyers as San Francisco home sells for jaw-dropping price
A San Francisco home where a quadruple murder-suicide occurred in October 2025 sold for $2.2 million, $710,000 above its $1.49 million asking price, just four days after listing. Despite the property's tragic history, it attracted strong buyer interest in the competitive Westwood Highlands real estate market. The home, built in the 1920s, features classic charm and recent updates, appealing to buyers despite the recent deaths on the premises. California law requires disclosure of deaths within the past three years, but the stigma did not deter the sale.
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Metro Grim past fails to spook buyers as San Francisco home sells for jaw-dropping price By Katie Jerkovich Published April 28, 2026, 9:09 p.m. ET A quaint San Francisco home that became the site of a grisly quadruple murder-suicide sold only four days after it went on the market, for more than $700,000 over the asking price. Once the picture of suburban bliss, the three-bedroom, two-bath house at 930 Monterey Blvd became a house of horrors when police discovered the bodies of Thomas Ocheltree, 57, his wife Paula Truong, 52, and their two young daughters, aged 9 and 12 last October. Truong allegedly shot her husband and children before turning the gun on herself in the affluent Westwood Highlands neighborhood.
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