Wouldn't have purchased the home had she known
OWASSO, OKLA. (AP) -- A 27-year-old Navy veteran who bought a home where three people once were shot to death said she would not have made the purchase had she known what had happened there.
Valinda Martinez closed on the home two weeks ago. She started moving in before a cable technician told her of the house's history. Martinez says neither the sellers of the home, Joe and Tonya Morgan, nor their real estate agent, Marilyn Hardacre of Collinsville, mentioned to her the fatal shootings at the home in August 2005. Martinez was stationed in Spain at the time of the murders. Tulsa County land records indicate the Morgans bought the house in 2006. Efforts by the Tulsa World to reach them by phone proved unsuccessful. Hardacre referred questions about the sale to Terrie Foster, the general manager of Keller Williams Realty in Owasso.
Foster says if the real estate agency had told Martinez of the home's history voluntarily, the law would hold the agency liable if the seller didn't want that information disclosed.
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