Let's think about a scenario. You've been looking for a new home and finally after a long search,

you're closing on buying your dream house. But while you're waiting for the paperwork to go through,

somebody comes up and asks you, do you know what happened in that house? And of course you don't,

so you go to Google and the search results tell you a horrible story.

11 family members were brutally murdered inside of your future home one Easter Sunday.

Would you still move in?

That's the question that Cinnamon Baker had to ask herself when she was buying the house at 635 Minor Avenue in Hamilton, Ohio in 2008.

Her boyfriend's coworker asked them about a man named James Rupert,

and when the couple looked him up, what they found was not pretty.

Discretion is advised.

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My name is Joe. I'm the host, and thank you for joining today.

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That was awful. Sorry.

Okay, let's get to today's story.

From the very beginning, the life of James Urban Rupert was problematic, to say the least.

He was born on April 12, 1934, to Leonard and Charity Rupert, who already had a two-year-old son, Leonard Jr.

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