Steven Brian Pennell was a man known for the murders he carried out in Delaware, United States.
Pennell was sentenced to death for the murder of Shirley Anna Ellis, 23, and Catherine DiMauro, 31, during the 1980s. However, during the investigation that was carried out, it was found that he could be suspected of three other murders, also of women.
His ‘modus operandi’ consisted of kidnapping them while they were on Route 40 – the highway that runs through the United States from California to North Carolina. When he approached them, He would tie them up and then hit them with a hammer, in addition to inflicting other types of physical violence on them with a ‘torture kit’ that he kept in his car.
‘The murderer of Route 40’, as he was named by the media, was executed on March 14, 1992, at the age of 34.
Pennell was not only the first recognized murderer in the city of Delaware, but also to ask for the death penalty as a form of conviction.and his case was the first in which DNA tests were used as absolute evidence, since blood and hair of the victims were found on the mat of his vehicle.
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How does your house look?
The place where Pennell lived until he was imprisoned remains intact. Nobody has wanted to move to the site and neither has it been destroyed to create a new construction.
Even just looking at the outside can lead to the conclusion that the house is abandoned. Just like in horror movies that show haunted places, the house is full of plants that reach the height of the second floor windows.
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The paper that covers the walls of the room, which at one time must have been decorative, is now yellow and seems to be falling off, consumed by mold and humidity.
The floor is littered with rubble, garbage, and other debris that could indicate that some animals, or even some homeless people, have inhabited the place over the years.
In the center is a nearly intact table and a typewriter on it. In the photograph you can see a teddy bear perfectly accommodated on top of the flowered armchair that adorns the desolate room, although it is not clear if it has always been there.
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One of the creepiest rooms inside the house has a shelf with several porcelain dolls that, due to the deterioration of the place, have mold on their faces and clothes.
The main room remains surprisingly intact. If it weren’t for the general deterioration of the property, it could be said that someone sleeps in the perfectly made double bed in the center of the room.
There is still a radio and television covered in dust.
the house of a murderer
The photographs were taken by Ben Jamesa photographer who searches for abandoned places and publishes them on his social networks under the account ‘Places Forgotten’.
From what he commented on social networks, James came across the site without knowing who it had belonged to, he only found out when a police officer told him about it.
“I had no idea who he was, but apparently he was the only known murderer in Delaware. At some point in his life he lived with his wife in a trailer, but this is the house he stayed in until he was arrested and where he apparently killed one or two of his victims.”, James indicated in his social networks.
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