Slain Alburtis Women's Home is For Sale

The Alburtis homestead of Althea and Jeannette Walbert  -- 122 Cobblestone Court -- is for sale.

The women were found dead in the home March 11 by a family friend. Lehigh County Coroner Scott Grim ruled the mother and daughter's deaths homicides. The manner in which they died has yet to be disclosed, but they were killed in the house.

Mick Seislove, the Prudential Patt-White agent who listed the home last week, says it's a good, solid house in the often-preferred East Penn School District.

The $150,000 asking price for the corner property is dictated solely by the home's features and amenities, he says.

Indeed, the home has already been shown twice, he says, and all potential buyers are told about the incident before they see the house.

"It's a good home in a nice neighborhood," he says.

Homes in which violent crimes have been committed are a challenge to sell, he says, but not impossible. He referred to the Lower Macungie home of Jeffrey Howorth and the Salisbury Township home of Bryan and David Freeman, teens who killed their parents in February and March of 1995.

Both homes were sold, Seislove says.

Seislove said there are no signs that any kind of crime was committed in the Walbert home.

According to the listing, the home is a "traditional farmhouse" built in 1820. It has three bedrooms, a detached garage, oil heat and half a bathroom on the second floor and a shower in the basement. "It has a nice stone fireplace," he says.