Serial Killers at Home

Disclaimer: This post is a little different from the others. While the murderers in this story spent a considerable amount of time at the house we will be analyzing here, getting drunk and taking drugs, they never officially lived there. Rather, it was the home of the victims; two eccentric gentlemen who made the mistake of welcoming two troubled young men into their lives. The Killers: Kenneth Avery Brock (b. 1965) and Samuel Tony West (1952–2023) were roommates and the perpetrators of the notorious Corpsewood Manor murders. The two decided that the older gentlemen, who had built a large fortress in the Georgia woods called Corpsewood Manor, and provided them with drugs and alcohol upon occasion, were hiding money in their home. On December 12, 1982, he two young men went to the estate under the guise of buying homemade wine and, after gaining the old men's trust, shot and killed Dr. Charles Scudder, his partner Joseph Odom, and their two English mastiffs. Finding no money in the ...