Serial Killers at Home

About This Post: This post is a little different from the others I've submitted. While murderers Avery Brock and Tony West spent a considerable amount of time getting drunk and taking drugs at the house in question, they never officially lived there. Rather, it was the home of the victims; two eccentric gentlemen who made the mistake of welcoming 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, due to the dead trees that once surrounded the property, were hiding money in their home. On December 12, 1982, the 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 n...