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Quote:Land that was once home to an American murderer whose story inspired the movie Psycho has been pulled from an online auction, the owner says.

The bidding was stopped by eBay on Saturday, five days after it was first listed, said Mike Fisher.

In an email to Fisher, eBay said the listing violated its policy against murder memorabilia.

"It was bound to be controversial," Fisher said. He inherited the land in Wisconsin from his grandfather, who bought it at an auction...

Quote:eBay pulls 'Snowtown door' sale

A DOOR purported to be from the infamous Snowtown bank vault where eight mutilated bodies were found in barrels has been offered for sale on the internet.

But it was withdrawn from sale after 10 days.

The vault door was offered on internet auction site eBay with a starting price of $100,000, eBay spokesman Alastair MacGibbin said.

But nobody submitted a bid, and eBay withdrew the item today as soon as it learned the door was linked to the Snowtown bodies-in-barrels murders, he said.