The infamous pink house where Gypsy Rose Blanchard helped orchestrate her mother’s murder has a new owner—as well as a new color and address.

Located in Springfield, MO, the house has had its share of looky-loos as the scene of the crime where Blanchard persuaded her online boyfriend to kill her mother, Clauddine “Dee Dee” Blanchard, in 2015. It’s become a destination of sorts, much to the dismay of neighbors who complain of people with out-of-state license plates parking in the middle of the road to take pictures.

Blanchard hasn’t set foot in the home since her release from prison on Dec. 28. She and husband Ryan Anderson have been holed up in a $132-a-night four-bedroom Airbnb rental in Kansas City, MO. The couple married in 2022.

Anderson—who got to know Blanchard by writing her while she was behind bars—recently fueled pregnancy rumors with a post on Instagram.

“Me and my little family cuddling together,” he wrote next to a picture of his hand on Blanchard’s bare stomach.

So who, then, is living in Blanchard’s old house?

Property records show that the 1,080-square-foot ranch, built by Habitat for Humanity and gifted to the elder Blanchard, was sold in August 2021 for $97,090. According to TMZ, the current inhabitants are another mother and daughter.

Still, living in an infamous murder house can be tough—which might explain why the house was made over.

The pink siding has been painted blue, the wheelchair ramp removed. Last but not least, the house now has a brand-new address (which we are not listing out of respect for the privacy of the new inhabitants).

These changes have apparently succeeded in foiling some true-crime afficionados’ attempts to find the house, who then resort to asking neighbors for directions (some of whom refuse to help, according to the New York Post).

Does a murder house’s bad vibes ever truly go away?

But despite the changes to its appearance and address, can a murder house ever truly shed its past?

“Once a murder occurs in a home, it can be forever stigmatized, no matter how much remodeling is done,” says Florida/California real estate agent Cara Ameer, who lived in not one but two murder homes. (“I had no idea until it was on the news,” she swears.)

She also once inadvertently sold a house where a man died by suicide. The buyer learned about it from the landscaper, who knew the home’s history.

“There is something about ‘If these walls could talk, what would they say?’” Ameer says. “Living in a home that bore witness to a murder is not typically a place people want to live.”

As for the home’s recent change in address, this was no easy feat: Such changes must be petitioned through the county or city, and there has to be a good reason for it.

“Address changes like that aren’t just handed out,” says real estate consultant Tyler Drew, who once worked in the Los Angeles County land assessor’s office. “If a person were able to easily change their address, it would open up all manner of fraud.”

Yet the Blanchard house isn’t the only notorious residence to get a change of address. Many murder homes have employed the same tactic in an effort to shed their old reputation and start fresh.

Other murder homes with a change of address

Take the sprawling Los Angeles farmhouse where actress Sharon Tate and four other people met a gruesome end at the hands of Charles Manson‘s followers in 1969.

After the murders, the original house was razed and the address of 10050 Cielo Drive was changed to 10066 Cielo Drive.

The 3.6-acre property is currently on the market for a whopping $49,500,000.

Listed by “Full House” creator Jeff Franklin, who bought it in 2000, the elaborate 21,000-square-foot, Andalusian-style mansion boasts 18 bathrooms, a 75-yard tropical pool and grotto, a guesthouse, and a shark tank.

Despite no trace of the original house existing, perhaps the bad juju persists. The estate’s price was reduced several times since Franklin listed it in 2022 for $85 million.

Nicole Brown Simpson’s home

Another murder house that’s tried this change-of-address sleight of hand is the Brentwood, Los Angeles home where Nicole Brown Simpson and her friend Ronald Goldman were murdered in June 1994.

This property sat on the market for two years before selling for $525,000, a drop from its previous sales price by $100,000. But after an extensive remodel and an address change from 875 S. Bundy Drive to 879 S. Bundy Drive in 2006, it changed hands again, this time selling for $1.7 million.

In some cases, the demolition of homes where murders take place—or where murderers might have lived—becomes a cathartic event unto itself. Take the mansion where murder suspect O.J. Simpson once lived. Simpson bought the house in 1977 for $650,000. In August 2021, it was sold for almost $4 million after he was evicted for defaulting on the mortgage.

Hoping to wipe the slate clean, the new owner bulldozed the house. Tired of gawkers and bad vibes, neighbors reportedly cheered as this infamous house fell, according to the Chicago Tribune.

“To the new owner, I say good luck,” said one. “I hope the ghost of Nicole doesn’t haunt you.”

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