Rudolf and Marianne Austein purchased the house at 3849 Halter Road in 1957 as a country summer home. The Austein family had more money than they knew what to do with. Wealth dripped off the family name. Rudolf Austein’s clothing lines sold in the millions all over the world and became a household name. Think Hilfiger times ten. Unfortunately, Matthew Austein, the youngest of seven brothers, suffered from schizophrenia. In 1980, the twenty-nine-year-old loaded a shotgun and blew his parents’ heads off. Then he drove around Colsen and murdered his siblings, one by one. The Austein residence sat empty for the next ten years.
Melody Miller purchased the barn-like house in 1990 with the help of her daddy’s wealth. She turned the place into an auction gallery and started public auctions a few
