Widmer house up for sheriff’s sale in 2010

This house at 5250 Crested Owl Court in Hamilton Twp. in Warren County, where Ryan Widmer and his wife lived before Sarah’s death in August 2008, will be auctioned in January. Ryan Widmer was convicted of murder in April, but he will get a new trial next year.

Staff photo by Justin McClelland This house at 5250 Crested Owl Court in Hamilton Twp. in Warren County, where Ryan Widmer and his wife lived before Sarah’s death in August 2008, will be auctioned in January. Ryan Widmer was convicted of murder in April, but he will get a new trial next year.

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By Ed Richter, Staff Writer Updated 1:47 AM Friday, November 20, 2009

LEBANON — The Hamilton Twp. house where Ryan and Sarah Widmer once lived will go on the auction block in January during a Warren County Sheriff’s sale.

U.S. Bank began foreclosure proceedings in April after Ryan Widmer stopped paying on his mortgage in November 2008.

At the time he was on unpaid leave from the Warren County Convention and Visitors Bureau and living with his mother in Mason pending his trial for the August 2008 death of his wife, Sarah, 24, an Edgewood High School graduate.

Ryan Widmer, accused of drowning his wife of four months in an upstairs bathtub, will be retried beginning March 15 after his April guilty verdict was overturned by Warren County Common Pleas Judge Neil Bronson amid allegationos of juror misconduct during deliberations. He is out on bail, again living with his mother as he awaits his new trial.

According to the public notice for the sheriff’s sale, the house will be auctioned at 10 a.m. Jan. 11 in the lobby of the Warren County Common Pleas Courthouse, 500 Justice Drive, Lebanon.

The property, located at 5250 Crested Owl Court, was appraised at $165,000 and will not be sold for less than two-thirds of the appraised value, according to the sale notice.

The buyer would need to put 10 percent down of the purchase price at the time of sale with the balance to be paid in full within 30 days, according to the notice. The sale notice also stated the appraisal did not include an interior examination of the premises.

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I understand why many would not want to purchase this "tainted" home, however, EVERY house that you purchase from someone else has some sort of history. Personally, If I could see the conditions on the inside, Iw ould consider purchasing it. However, I would have to revamp the bathrooms, etc, to make it MY home. Why such a stigma. it's just a home. People die in their homes everyday, and then the homes are sold to other individuals. A home is what you make it.

whynot
1:29 PM, 11/20/2009

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I pity the Real Estate Agent who gets this property. People won't want to buy it, but they will expect the agent to let them go thru it.

forclosureseller
11:56 AM, 11/20/2009

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Would not want this house....even for $110,000.
Creepy!

Dawg Dan
9:27 AM, 11/20/2009

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