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It's a nice looking building in a good neighborhood. They were not "random" or "break-in" murders. If you were new to the area you'd have no idea of it's "past".
House with a bloody historyBy Jeff Morganteen
Staff Writer
Article Launched: 09/17/2008 01:00:00 AM EDT
STAMFORD - The red brick apartment building at 39 Glenbrook Road houses a bloody past.
It was called Laurelton House in the 1990s but was renamed Redstone Manor after the third killing 10 years ago.
The most recent slaying in the building - the fourth in 16 years - occurred Sunday night, when a 62-year-old woman shot and killed her 41-year-old handicapped daughter, then turned the gun on herself.
In 1998, a 20-year-old man stabbed and beat his father to death in an apartment, then left the body in the parking lot, wrapped inside a carpet. The son went on the lam and eventually was apprehended in Nebraska. In court his lawyers said the stabbing was in self-defense because the family had a history of abuse.
In 1996, a 24-year-old man stabbed his stepfather to death in their apartment, also claiming self defense.
In 1992, a love triangle among Russian immigrants turned deadly in the building. A man fatally shot his wife's tutor after the two declared their intention to marry.
State Sen. Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford, grew up in the Glenbrook neighborhood and said he can't recall another building with such a past. He was on the Board of Finance in 1998, when the stabbing death of John Fasoli Sr. grabbed the city's attention.
"It seems like an extraordinary series of unfortunate coincidences," McDonald said. "Certainly there's no precedent that I'm aware of in the city for such a string of deadly domestic violence in one place."
He said that should not reflect on the building, because it is "a wildly weird set of unconnected violent incidents."
Such histories, though, could affect property value, said Phil Caruso of Marr & Caruso Realty and president of the Stamford Board of Realtors. It might not matter that the events were domestic incidents and that the building is not in a high-crime area, Caruso said.
"You never know what people's thoughts are," he said. "People may not want to rent or buy in that building even though they were domestic. It wasn't like people breaking in and murdering people in the building. It's just bad luck."
Sunday's deaths occurred in a fourth-floor apartment, where officers found the bodies of Angela Labbadia and her daughter, Christina. Both apparently died of gunshot wounds, police said. They were treating the case as a murder-suicide.
Christina was mentally and physically handicapped and lived alone in the Glenbrook Road building. It appears Labbadia thought Christina could not live without her support, said Capt. Richard Conklin, head of the detective bureau.
Labbadia suffered from health problems and depression, and faced eviction from her apartment in Shippan, Conklin said.
"It appears this is something she had contemplated for some time," he said.
It was Stamford's third homicide this year.
House with a bloody historyBy Jeff Morganteen
Staff Writer
Article Launched: 09/17/2008 01:00:00 AM EDT
STAMFORD - The red brick apartment building at 39 Glenbrook Road houses a bloody past.
It was called Laurelton House in the 1990s but was renamed Redstone Manor after the third killing 10 years ago.
The most recent slaying in the building - the fourth in 16 years - occurred Sunday night, when a 62-year-old woman shot and killed her 41-year-old handicapped daughter, then turned the gun on herself.
In 1998, a 20-year-old man stabbed and beat his father to death in an apartment, then left the body in the parking lot, wrapped inside a carpet. The son went on the lam and eventually was apprehended in Nebraska. In court his lawyers said the stabbing was in self-defense because the family had a history of abuse.
In 1996, a 24-year-old man stabbed his stepfather to death in their apartment, also claiming self defense.
In 1992, a love triangle among Russian immigrants turned deadly in the building. A man fatally shot his wife's tutor after the two declared their intention to marry.
State Sen. Andrew McDonald, D-Stamford, grew up in the Glenbrook neighborhood and said he can't recall another building with such a past. He was on the Board of Finance in 1998, when the stabbing death of John Fasoli Sr. grabbed the city's attention.
"It seems like an extraordinary series of unfortunate coincidences," McDonald said. "Certainly there's no precedent that I'm aware of in the city for such a string of deadly domestic violence in one place."
He said that should not reflect on the building, because it is "a wildly weird set of unconnected violent incidents."
Such histories, though, could affect property value, said Phil Caruso of Marr & Caruso Realty and president of the Stamford Board of Realtors. It might not matter that the events were domestic incidents and that the building is not in a high-crime area, Caruso said.
"You never know what people's thoughts are," he said. "People may not want to rent or buy in that building even though they were domestic. It wasn't like people breaking in and murdering people in the building. It's just bad luck."
Sunday's deaths occurred in a fourth-floor apartment, where officers found the bodies of Angela Labbadia and her daughter, Christina. Both apparently died of gunshot wounds, police said. They were treating the case as a murder-suicide.
Christina was mentally and physically handicapped and lived alone in the Glenbrook Road building. It appears Labbadia thought Christina could not live without her support, said Capt. Richard Conklin, head of the detective bureau.
Labbadia suffered from health problems and depression, and faced eviction from her apartment in Shippan, Conklin said.
"It appears this is something she had contemplated for some time," he said.
It was Stamford's third homicide this year.
(As we sit here in our apartment complex, where the police show up regularily and arrest people & our car was "broken into" the other day.
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