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The Mossler mansion in River Oaks was at 3699 Willowick. But last year the city was petitioned by an unknown individual to change the address to 3711 Willowick. Too much notoriety I guess. This house was next door to Bob Lanier's home. Interestingly enough this house is only a couple of blocks away from the Joan Robinson Hill house.

She carried on for awhile with her nephew Melvin Lane Powers, then married a young electrician. She divorced him and ended up dying at the Fountainbleu Hotel on Miami beach due to a overdose of sleeping pills. Her autopsy showed that she had been addicted to sleeping pills and demerol for years and that contributed to her death as well. In fact the week before she OD'd in Miami she had been treated at Methodist Hospital for another overdose. They pumped her stomach and released her. She then went to Miami to attend a banking board meeting and od'd again this time fatal.

Candy was worth $33 million at the time she died and disinherited three of her four adopted kids for being "lazy". I wonder who got that money?

Has anyone ever learned what killed Melvin Lane Powers? I've searched but the best I could find is "Harris County Medical Examiner has not released the cause of death". It's been almost two years now. The news reports at the time indicated that it could have been a "mysterious" end.

With Melvin's death all of the principles from the Jaques Mossler case are gone. I wonder if they'll ever make a movie out of this saga?

The Hill house at 1561 Kirby Drive is up for sale again..link

Asking price is $2.1 million, down $200K recently. That is an amazingly low price for a central Kirby Dr piece of real estate. To tell you the truth, I would not be surprised if this house doesn't become a tear down. There have been other tear downs on Kirby Dr before.

If you look at the photos, the house looks pretty dated in decor and design.

Let's see.. you have someone who was killed on the front steps/foyer, another owner died in the master bedroom from cancer.. this house seems to have some serious bad karma attached. I don't know if I could live there myself.

"Ash" Robinson is probably buried in Pensacola, FL. That's where his wife Rhea is buried.

It does look like Boot is the only one left of this entire saga, and he's not talking. He's probably doing the best he can to forget this all. What a horrible experience to have growing up.