Tenant shock ... Catrina McGhaw only learned about the home’s dark past after a friend told her to watch a cold case documentary. Picture: KMOV/News 4 InvestigatesSource:News Corp Australia
WHEN Catrina McGhaw signed a rental lease for her Missouri home in March she had no idea about the property’s morbid past.
The customer was later officially identified as Maury Troy Travis of Ferguson, Missouri. By June 7 th, the case had been sufficiently strengthened by DNA evidence and tyre tread markings for an arrest to be made. 36 year old waiter Travis was arrested for two counts of kidnapping, which linked to him to several murders around the state. Maury Troy Travis videos and latest news articles; GlobalNews.ca your source for the latest news on Maury Troy Travis. Cold Case Minute: Maury Travis Police Seek Help Identifying Three Victims Of Serial Killer Who Videotaped Torture(CBS) Click to enlarge1 of 1 Illinois State Police are seeking help identifying these three women, who they suspect were victims of serial killer Maury Travis. Their bodies were found in southern Illinois in 2002.
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The home is believed to have been used as a torture chamber over a decade ago by the home’s occupant, 36-year-old waiter Maury Troy Travis.
Travis hanged himself while in custody in 2002 after he was charged with the slaying of two women.
Killed himself ... suspected mass murderer Maury Travis is accused of using the home as a torture chamber. Picture: St Louis County JailSource:News Corp Australia
But police said he was a suspect in as many as 20 murders in the area. Many of the women are believed to have died in the basement of the home.
McGhaw says her landlord — Sandra Travis, the suspected killer’s mother — made no mention of the case or the bodies that her son kept in the basement before his arrest in 2002.
She says the landlord even gave her a dining room table; the same one shown in crime scene photos.
Travis’ mother refused McGhaw’s request to get out of the lease, insisting she had mentioned the property’s sinister past before the lease was signed.
“She said ‘no you signed a lease you need to stay there until the lease is up,” McGhaw told KMOV/News 4.
It was only after the St Louis Housing Authority stepped in that McGhaw was free of the agreement.
“Initially, the landlord was not willing to let her break her lease but we talked with her and eventually the landlord agreed to rescind the lease,” the authority’s executive director Cheryl Lovell told ABC News.
“In this state, there is no duty to disclose. Other states there are, but mostly that is for selling houses.”
McGhaw says she will be moving at the end of July, which can’t come soon enough.
Travis became a key suspect after he wrote to a local newspaper boasting about his 17 victims and sharing a map of where one of the bodies was buried.
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Torture chamber ... Travis reportedly strapped the women to a beam in the basement that still stands today. Picture: KMOV/News 4 InvestigatesSource:News Corp Australia
Police were able to trace the map to his computer.
Police also found makeshift cells in his basement and videos of him tormenting the women before tying them up to a wooden beam in the basement that still stands to this day.
In another scene, Travis is allegedly shown wrapping a belt around a woman’s neck and snapping it before she died.
“This is first kill. Number One. First kill was 19 years old. Name — I don’t know. I don’t give a f---,” he said in the video.
McGhaw said she can’t stop thinking about a haunting incident with a two-year-old relative that was playing in the basement near the pole where Travis tied up his victims.
“She looked over and she was like she’s scared like she saw somebody scared and crying and nobody was there, nobody there,” McGhaw told KMOV/News 4.