Photos: Selling a home with a sordid past

The Los Feliz house where a murder-suicide occurred in 1959 is for sale but sat vacant for decades.

(Genaro Molina / Los Angeles Times)

April 14, 2016 6:25 PM PT

Sometimes you can get about the asking price, and other times you have to tear it down.

The Rancho Santa Fe home where the 1997 Heaven’s Gate suicide occurred was rebuilt.

(Denis Poroy / Associated Press)

Neverland no longer has amusement-park rides and has a new name: Sycamore Valley Ranch.

(Jim Bartsch / Jim Bartsch)

O.J. Simpson’s Brentwood estate eventually sold for around its asking price.

(Mark J. Terrill / Associated Press)