Roy A. and Gladys Westbrook House

Fort Worth, United States

Exterior only

Visible from the street; the inside is private.

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A Tudor Revival house in Fort Worth, Texas, designed by architect Joseph R. Pelich, the Roy A. and Gladys Westbrook House is best remembered for a sensational 1953 murder that occurred within its walls. In 1946, oilman William Clark purchased the property and married Mary Waterstreet Tuerpe in 1951; three years later, after becoming suspicious of her intentions and reducing her inheritance to ten dollars, Clark was found shot dead on May 22, 1953. His death, initially ruled a suicide but later determined to be murder, implicated his wife and three accomplices, though Tuerpe was ultimately acquitted in 1955 and continued to occupy the house for the next five decades. The house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on January 8, 2009.