Abandoned House with a Dark History
Goshen - May 9, 2010 The house can be seen from Route 17 in Goshen. It is almost alongside facing the highway as the road it᾽s on runs parallel and close to the highway. The house sits alone in the sparsely wooded and mostly open countryside and its haunted look draws motorists᾽ eyes naturally to it. You᾽ll pass it when you go from, say, NYC to Binghamton or Niagara Falls.

We pass by it whenever we go to NYC. But only recently did we learn that in 1992 two dead bodies were found inside the house dumped by a serial killer whose victims were random women he picked up in our town and the surrounding villages, including one 14-year old girl who just finished eighth grade. (source: wikipedia.org)

Tragic as it was, we moved from our basement apartment in the congested city into our new home only seven miles away from that house shortly after the killer᾽s confession and conviction. Had we known that mass murders made headlines there, our first impressions of the town would have been different and we might not have moved there at all.

But we didn᾽t know. And so today I like saying that I gave my children the chance to live in the rural countryside with plenty of room, fresh air to breathe, and friends from families with traditional values should they decide later on to head for the city and live the sophisticated urban life, unaware of our county's not-so-distant, dark past.

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