The Michigan home belonging to a man who confessed to murdering his Grindr date before he ate his testicles has sold at a foreclosure auction for $101,733.28.
Four people furiously bid on the picturesque property on Wednesday, with the eventual winner agreeing to pay a whopping $21,000 over the reserve.
The home, located in the township of Morrice, belonged to Mark Latunski, 50, who confessed to killing Kevin Bacon, 25, at the address last December.
On Thursday, a judge deemed Latunksi unfit to stand trial and ordered him to be transferred to a psychiatric facility.
The Michigan home belonging to Mark Latunski (right) has sold at auction for $101, 733.28. Latunski’s Grindr date, Kevin Bacon (left) was brutally killed inside the home last December
The picturesque property, located in the township of Morrice, is pictured from the outside. Bacon’s body was found in a secret room in the basement
The identity of the winning bidder has not been identified, and it is unclear if they plan to move into the home.
However, another person who bid on the property spoke with MLive-The Flint Journal and said they were interested in using the house as a ‘potential rental’.
‘Just investment purposes,’ they stated, adding that they had not inspected the home.
‘We just don’t know what the interior (is like), what the biohazard could be,’ they added.
Despite selling for above the reserve, the home is cheaper than most in the town, where the average property price is around $180,000.
The foreclosure auction took place at at the Shiawassee County Courthouse. The winning bidder is seen signing papers
Bacon arrived at the home on Christmas Eve, and did not come out alive. Following news of his death, two other men claimed that they had been locked in the basement of the home
Bacon, a Michigan hairstylist, is pictured in a social media snap taken before his untimely death
Latunski, a former chemist, began chatting with Bacon, a much-younger hairstylist, on the dating app Grindr last December.
Bacon went to Latunski’s home on Christmas Eve, where the gruesome events unfolded.
Bacon’s naked body was found four days later on December 28 hanging upside down from the rafters of Latunski’s Michigan home by a rope tied around his ankles, after police went to conduct a welfare check for Bacon when they were tipped off that he may be inside.
Latunski confessed to officers that he had killed his date by stabbing him in the back and then slitting his throat with a knife.
A judge deemed Latunksi unfit to stand trial and ordered him to be transferred to a psychiatric facility
The suspect also confessed to cutting off Bacon’s testicles and eating them.
It later emerged that two other men may have had a lucky escape from the suspected killer in the months leading up to Bacon’s death.
Just months before the gruesome murder, two men called police on separate occasions, saying they had escaped from Latunski’s basement.
A horrifying 911 call from October emerged of a 40-year-old man who said he was running away from Latunski’s house.
‘I want you to know like I’ve never ever had anything like this happen. I don’t know if he drugged me. All is know is I ended up locked up in the f***ing basement, okay? Chained in the basement,’ the male said.
The caller explained to the dispatcher that he ran into Latunski at a bus station that night.
‘I met this guy. I’m Bi. He’s cute. He hit on me. I don’t know we went out to the car and talked. We went to the store, had a soda. I woke up in the basement,’ he said. ‘He seemed like a nice guy.’
The man told the 911 operator that he used a butcher knife he found in the basement to cut a leather strap restraining his ankles, which was connected to a chain, and then fled on foot.
In a bizarre twist, the man later returned to Latunski’s home and stayed there for two or three days, according to the police.
No charges were ever filed in that case.
Then, in November, another man dialed 911 to report that he was running away from Latunski’s home.
The 29-year-old man called officers to report that he had been tied up in the suspect’s basement.
‘I’m trying to get away from some creepy guy,’ the caller tells the dispatcher. ‘He had me tied in his basement.’
‘He’s after me.’
The victim sought help from a neighbor, while on the phone to police.
Officers arrived on the scene just as Latunski turned up to retrieve the leather kilt the man was wearing, saying it was expensive and belonged to him.
The victim again declined to file charges against Latunski, telling police their activity was consensual.
Police said they did not follow up on Latunski because both men declined to pursue charges against him.
Proceedings at the foreclosure auction on Wednesday are pictured above