Here is the sinister reason why nobody wants to live in a $2.4million California mansion that has been vacant for 60 years

A stately mansion in a cozy Los Angeles suburb has repeatedly landed on the market over the past several decades, and even its buyers do not want to live inside it because of its sordid history.

At first glance, 2475 Glendower Place seems like nothing more than another pricey home in the hillside community of Los Feliz. It boasts five bedrooms and four bedrooms spread out across over 5,000 square feet.

The estate has changed hands repeatedly over the past few decades. Each time a new buyer snapped it up, they left it vacant before ultimately deciding to sell again.

As it sat unoccupied for more than six decades, the house began to deteriorate. The yellowing wood staircase, visible through an arched glass window, is only evidence of its decay. Even today, the current owner doesn't occupy the premises after making an unsuccessful attempt to sell it in 2022.

All because it was the site of a grizzly 1959 murder where a husband beat his wife to death with a ball-peen hammer.

Despite presenting as a bargain amid skyrocketing home prices, the property's nearly century-long history is marked with blood. Built in 1925, the mansion was nestled deep inside Los Feliz Heights, an up-and-coming development that catered to the wealthy.

Its first owners were a couple named Harold and Florence Schumacher. The estate served as their family home until the couple's deaths within weeks of each other in 1928.

Two years later, magazine editor Welford Beaton and his son Donald settled in the home.

But Donald soon succumbed to an infection and died at just 21 years old. Welford left the home and filed for bankruptcy the following year.

The story took a grim turn in 1956, when physician Harold Perelson, his wife Lillian, and their three children, Judy, Joel and Debbie, moved in.

Despite the extravagant purchase, Harold’s medical practice was drowning in debt. In a letter to a relative, 18-year-old Judy alluded the family's financial hardships had caused issues between her parents.

These tensions came to a head on the morning of December 6, 1959, when Harold bludgeoned Lillian with a ball-peen hammer as she slept, killing her.

He then went to Judy’s bedroom and attacked her. Judy’s screams woke her younger sister, Debbie, who later told police that her father assured her, 'Go back to bed, baby - this is just a nightmare.'

Thirteen-year-old Joel was the next to wake up. Seizing the distraction, Judy fled to a neighbor's house across the street.

That neighbor, Marshal Ross, tended to Judy’s wounds before calling police and walking to the Perelsons’ property. He found Debbie and Joel 'dazed' but uninjured and urged them to join their sister at his house.

Ross encountered Harold on the second floor and told him to lie down before going to Lillian’s room.

By the time police arrived, Harold was dead. He had swallowed 31 pentobarbital tablets and suffered an overdose.

Medical records show the father of three had spent a week in a mental hospital just a year prior. There he was given chlorpromazine, an antipsychotic used to treat schizophrenia.

Newspaper clippings from the time claim the doctor killed his wife and himself in a 'frenzy of "nightmare"' and blamed the murderous outburst on his problems with money.

Just a year later, the home was purchased by Emily and Julian Enriquez, who owned it for decades.

Julian died in 1973 and Emily passed in 1994. The home was then passed to their son, Rudy. However, it appears none of the family members ever lived on the premises.

The estate became the subject of media attention in 2009, when the LA Times coined it the 'Los Feliz Murder Mansion,' a moniker that is still used today.

It became a popular fixture among YouTubers and ghost hunters in the decades following. Hundreds of people illegally entered the home while Rudy still owned it, and some even took mementos: vintage magazines, an army jacket and the like.

The house went up for sale once again and officially changed hands in 2016, when attorney Lisa Bloom and her husband closed on it for $2.3 million.

Bloom, who is best known for representing disgraced film mogul Harvey Weinstein, vowed to renovate the property. The interior was stripped to its bare bones, but the couple failed to follow through with their plans due to permitting issues.

In 2020, the estate sold to property developer Ephi Zlotnitsky for $2.35. Zlotnitsky has never spoken to the press and appears to have left the home vacant himself.

There has been renewed interest in 2475 Glendower Place in recent years, including a 2022 feature in the Netflix series 'Buying Beverly Hills'.

In that episode, listing agent Jon Grauman of The Agency and agent Brandon Graves met with architect Richard Landry to discuss their plans to remodel the house.

'It's going to take a lot of work to scrub that stain off of it and transform it into something new,' Grauman said of the home's 'infamous past'.

He vowed that the renovated home would be 'one of the most spectacular homes not just in Los Feliz but on the east side of Los Angeles'.

However, these grand promises didn't pan out - after being listed for $5.5 million and failing to attract a buyer, the mansion was taken off the market that November.

Shockingly enough, it is not the only 'murder house' in the neighborhood.

It is at 3311 Waverly Drive, roughly one and a half miles away, that Leno and Rosemary LaBianca were murdered in the early hours of August 10, 1969.

The couple were sleeping when members of the Manson family entered their house and murdered them both.

Property records show that home last sold in July 2021 for $1,875,000.