Murder House on Hendricks

Started by Popeye, March 10, 2016, 07:58:14 AM

Popeye

Does anyone remember the Murder House on Hendricks?  The house was nicknamed this because two people were stabbed to death in this house in 1983 by three teenage boys and one adult man (20 years old).  Two of the juveniles are still in prison, the youngest was murdered in prison and the oldest I cannot seem to locate ANYWHERE.  I'm not sure if he died in prison or not.  They all plead guilty and all received life sentences.  I do know their names, the attorneys that represented them, some of their parents' names and where they all lived when this took place (Springfield area) and where they were originally from. 

The two people who were murdered were Charles and Anne Acker who were brother and sister and they worked for Seaboard which is now CSX. 

I have been researching this for quite some time.  If anyone has any information or knows anything about this please let me know!  Since this took place at the beginning of the 80's there is not much on the web. 

Thank you!   :) :)

coredumped

Welcome to the forum Popeye. I've never heard of this house, but you're right, resources seems scarce. I was able to find this article from the gainesville sun:
https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=Vj9WAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3OkDAAAAIBAJ&pg=5708%2C3888434

and this from the Florida today:
https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/125338975/

QuoteJACKSONVILLE Two teen agers arrested v in Rochester, N.Y., pleaded innocent Friday in the Aug 5 stabbing deaths of two Seaboard Systems Railroad employees Charles Joseph Keech, 17, of Rochester, and Patrick Southworth, 16, of Chilli - cothe, Ohio, stood quietly in the courtroom as their lawyers entered the pleas to first - degree murder charges before Circuit Judge A C. Soud. Carlton Edward Nazworth, 20, and Donald Edward Thomas, 19, both of Jacksonville, had already pleaded innocent in the deaths of Charles Acker, 53, and his sister, Anne Acker, who were found under bedsheets in their home in the fashionable San Marco neighborhood Treasure hunter, state end long battle
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Tacachale

Do you believe that when the blue jay or another bird sings and the body is trembling, that is a signal that people are coming or something important is about to happen?

coredumped

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There's also more information than you can shake a stick at here:
https://core.duvalclerk.com/CoreCms.aspx?mode=PublicAccess
Enter last name: keech
First name: charles

He'll be the the first result. There's lots of documents, including his arrest warrant:



Here's his sentencing:



You'll need to register to the site (it's free) to get some info, but there's lots of things you don't need to log in for.

The address the warrant is: 2705 Hendricks Ave (Google Street View: https://goo.gl/maps/CCpZDg5aaW42 )



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cowford

Interesting.  I ride my bike past that house a few times a week and now won't be able to pass it without gawking.  I wonder of the current owners got a good deal on the house because of the murders. 

JBTripper

According to Zillow, the house was purchased in 1988 for $86,500. Not sure if that was a fabulous deal at the time, but given that the current Zestimate is north of $300,000, then I'd say the post-murder owners did pretty well!

coredumped

There's a "Carlton E Nazworth (not Jr) burried in Nassa County, here's some pics:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GSln=nazworth&GSfn=carlton&GSbyrel=all&GSdyrel=all&GSob=n&GRid=52292856&df=all&

Looks like he died in 93, this was probably his father, maybe his son is buried up there with him.
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