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.

In 2024, Gov. Katie Hobbs signed House Bill 2721 into law. This bill was meant to create more “middle housing,” and it requires all cities and towns with at least 75,000 people to allow the construction o

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