Julian passed away first and then Emily, in 1994, at which time their son, Rudy, inherited the house. While the couple visited the mansion on occasion, and even stored some of their possessions there, for reasons that remain unclear, they never inhabited the property, nor did they ever move the Perelsons’ belongings out! The house simply sat, frozen in time, collecting dust on its midcentury furnishings. Shortly after the killings, the family’s home was sold via probate auction to Emily and Julian Enriquez, who lived in Lincoln Heights. area, what makes this particular case so compelling is what happened afterward. While hardly the only instance of a familicide occurring shortly before Christmas in the L.A. Perelson to murder is a secret he took to the grave. And, according to journalist Jeff Maysh’s extensive “Medium” article on the subject, there had been several suicide attempts by Harold leading up to the killings. Though the teenager was hospitalized, she sustained no life-threatening injuries.Ī motive for the crime was never discovered though the Perelsons were said to be having financial difficulties. It was a heinous scene, but fortunately, all three children were spared, thanks in large part to Judye’s screams. After telling Marshall to return home, Harold then entered a bathroom, swallowed a cocktail of pills, and laid down on the floor next to Judye’s bed, where he passed away minutes later.
Venturing upstairs, he came upon Harold, dripping with blood, walking around the second floor in a “very agitated state,” according to a United Press article that ran in several papers the following day. While Judye stayed behind, Marshall headed up to the Perelson residence, where he found Debbie and her older brother, Joel (13), whom he promptly sent outside. In the confusion, Judye managed to escape from her father and the house and raced to the home of a neighbor, Marshall Ross, who called the police. The noise in turn woke the Perelsons’ youngest child, Debbie (11), causing her to run to Judye’s room to investigate the wails. The blow wasn’t fatal, though, and instead awakened the 18-year-old, who began screaming. He then ventured into the room of his eldest daughter, Judye, and struck her in the head with the same hammer. The doctor first took the tool to his wife’s head, killing her with one blow at approximately 4:30 a.m. Harold Perelson, a successful cardiologist and USC School of Medicine professor, picked up a ball-peen hammer and set about on a murderous spree. But that is exactly what happened in the early morning hours of December 6th, 1959, when Dr.
Situated on a quiet, leafy cul-de-sac in the exclusive Los Feliz Hills neighborhood, the sprawling residence might seem an unexpected place for a grizzly near-familicide to occur. Werner could foresee its bloody future when he designed it in 1925. I was so intrigued, I ran right out to see it in person bright and early the next morning! Perched atop a steep hill, the three-story home seems to loom over the road like a real-life haunted house, almost as if architect Harry E. I first learned of the infamous dwelling, the murder-suicide that took place there, and the incredibly strange state the house remained in for the next sixty years from a friend late one night in 2011. Titled The Los Feliz Murder Mansion, it can be listened to via all podcast platforms, as well as on its official website which features myriad photographs, legal documents and footage concerning the home and its bizarre past.
#HAROLD PEELER SERIES#
A podcast series that deep-dives into the history of the property and its various owners was also just released this past May. Copious articles have been written about the Spanish Revival estate, it was a regular stop on the Dearly Departed Tour until neighbors got irritated with the constant attention and it is a popular pilgrimage for those obsessed with all things macabre. Vice deemed the stately residence the “crown jewel of Southern California murder lore,” and that’s not hyperbole.
#HAROLD PEELER PATCH#
The Los Feliz Murder House, a landmark for L.A.-based true-crime aficionados, is in escrow yet again! For those who don’t follow such things, the property is one of the city’s most notorious homicide sites, ranking up there with Nicole Brown Simpson’s Brentwood condo and the patch of grass in Leimert Park where the Black Dahlia’s dismembered body was found.
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