More attacks on real estate agents documented.
The Mortgage News Daily website has an excellent article on the Sarah Anne Walker murder, with brief excerpts of other attacks on agents.
They raise the point that there don’t appear to be any hard and fast statistics on attacks on real estate agents. Besides the local real estate boards, I don’t even know who would keep those kind of stats, but it seems like someone should be keeping track. If anyone knows of an attack on a real estate agent that is related to their job, please let me know about it. I’ll keep track of all I receive and start documenting any common threads in the attacks.
Here are some of the attacks they mention:
St. Petersburg, FL, March 2006. A neatly dressed young man posing as a relocated Drug Enforcement Administration agent spent over four hours looking at houses with a real estate agent before asking to return to one of the first homes he had seen. There he attacked her, took her car keys and purse while threatening to kill her with the gun and the 12-inch hunting knife he had concealed on his person. The agent was hurt but not seriously.
Diamond Bar, CA, November 2005. A newly licensed real estate agent was shot and critically wounded while canvassing a neighborhood for clients. The victim had apparently appeared to be acting suspiciously and a homeowner shot him after he knocked on his door. Police thought the agent may have been mistaken for someone the homeowner had had an altercation with earlier in the week.
They also mention attacks on agents in Baltimore Maryland and DeKalb County, Georgia. You can read the full synopsis of those four attacks on their website.
That’s so sad that these crimes are happening…and worse that no one is taking notice. I’ve heard of women agents being assulted before but it seems that it get’s covered up rather well.
You may not be interested in out of state attacks but I’ll just mention that it was probably in the 1980’s in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, that I served on jury duty for a perpetrator charged with meeting a realtor at A Vacant house and viciously beating her. I don’t remember the details, but I believe she was also raped and hospitalized for her injuries..His name was “Householder”. And he was convicted. Sincerely, Muriel Richey
In Memory of Sarah Anne Walker
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Denise, thanks for the link. My prayers are with her family.
Muriel, thanks for the story. I tried to find a news story I could link to about the attack you mentioned, but I’m not the Google expert my little sister is.
I’m glad the creep got thrown in jail and convicted. Throw away the key and forget about him.
West Chester Pa .. A twenty something female Realtor was attacked at knife point and raped by a client while showing condominiums in last quarter of 2005.
Allentown Pa. .. Agent (female) was killed at vacant house in 2004.
I was selling condos that had been converted from apts in 2004 when attacked and nearly killed by a person posing as a potential buyer. Person was caught and is now serving 3 life-time sentences. I am now in the middle of a law suit and am looking for any stories that I can read on this subject. If you know where I can go for this please let me know.