

Louis Housing Authority eventually intervened, and McGhaw is moving at the end of this month, despite what Sandra Travis said. In this county, you only need to report physical defects of the home (I assume that’s true for a lot of counties, actually). Now get this, though: technically, a landlord doesn’t have to disclose anything about horrors in the home’s past. McGhaw says that’s not true, she would have remembered the people murdered in the basement part. News 4 called Travis’ mother she claims she told McGhaw about the home’s dark past.

“She said ‘no you signed a lease you need to stay there until the lease is up.’’’ Turns out the landlord is the killer’s mom. McGhaw called her landlord, begging to get out of the lease, but the landlord wasn’t sympathetic. Needless to say, she wanted out of the lease. And she’s leasing that thing out! Catrina McGhaw rented it from Sandra, and of course, Sandra made no mention of what had happened there. McGhaw found it out via watching a documentary on television. Here’s where the story gets a lot weirder, 12 years after Travis himself committed suicide: his mother, Sandra, is still the owner of the home where the torturing occurred. If you click that second link above, there’s some fairly sordid stuff about him and his videotaping of some of the murders the police chief in the area apparently ordered psychological counseling for anyone who had even watched the footage. He hung himself in jail in 2002 before officially confessing to any of the murders, however. Louis (Ferguson, Missouri) area around 2000-2002. If you’ve never heard of Maury Travis, you can watch the video above, or read this or this. He was a serial killer who predominantly murdered prostitutes - potentially as many as 17 - in the St.
