Framed for murder?

By Paul McGeough
Updated August 17 2013 - 8:08pm, first published 3:11am
The Peru six … (clockwise from back left) Tom Hanlon, Harrison Geier, Andrew Pilat, Jessica Vo, Hugh Hanlon and Samuel Smith. Photo: Mike Baker & Ellis Parrinder
The Peru six … (clockwise from back left) Tom Hanlon, Harrison Geier, Andrew Pilat, Jessica Vo, Hugh Hanlon and Samuel Smith. Photo: Mike Baker & Ellis Parrinder

"That place on the corner - it's haunted," a local journalist declares to me in deadly earnest as we mount the steps to police headquarters in Lima. He's pointing at Casa Matusita, a decaying mustard-coloured building perched on the corner opposite, abandoned for more than 60 years after a grisly family murder in the sprawling first-floor apartment. Having just arrived in the Peruvian capital, it's a reminder of just how deep superstition runs in this country of 30 million.

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