Phoenix council approves ‘middle housing’ plan, rankling historic homeowners

Robert Warnicke, a lawyer and vice president of the Phoenix Historic Neighborhoods Coalition, saw value in the Judd home and bought it in 2015 to use as a law office and save it from demolition to add more apartments.

PHOENIX – About once or twice a week, tour buses of true crime fans visit the home where  Winnie Ruth Judd lived with her two victims before she shot them in 1931.

The double murder and Judd’s sordid tale are now part of central Phoenix’s lore.

Robert Warnicke, the home's current owner, now shows tourists what he thinks is blood-stained flooring and his collection of vintage postcards of downtown Phoenix to inspire a love for the historic parts of the city.

Warnicke worries the charm that made people fall in love with the city’s historic districts might be imperiled with a new law.

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