On December 10, 1909, three women were attacked in the house at 401 West Perry Street. Eliza Gribble, 70, was born in England and had settled in Savannah before the Civil War. She had recently rented the house with her daughter, Carrie Ohlander, 36, who had come from Memphis to live with her. Maggie Hunter, 34, a would-be seamstress who had separated from her much older husband, had moved into a rented room only the day before. Eliza and Carrie were found dead. Maggie was found barely alive at the front door and died in the hospital three days later.

The killings set off a frenzy. Before any evidence pointed anywhere, Savannah's Black community was blamed. Mobs tore through neighborhoods, and the Los Angeles Herald reported 150 Black people held as prisoners at the police station. Then, on her deathbed, Maggie Hunter named her estranged husband, J. C. Hunter, to the Reverend John S. Wilder, and police found bloody clothes and a bloody rag in his house. Hunter was convicted in August 1910 and sentenced to hang. On the eve of his scheduled execution in December 1911, his sentence was commuted to life, and in 1923 he was pardoned. Other men were held or charged but never convicted. Ghosts & Gravestones calls it 'the most diabolical crime in the history of Savannah.'

In 1944 the house and its neighbors were torn down for the 15,000-square-foot warehouse now at 234 Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. That warehouse later hosted ticketed paranormal investigations, and it appeared on the Travel Channel's Ghost Adventures in 2014. Check the current status before you go, because Wikipedia describes it as a former tour site.