Family Strangled House

Jackie Ortiz of Chicago-based Judicial Sales Crop. holds a public foreclosure auction Tuesday, May 25, 2010, outside the Monroe County Courthouse in Waterloo, Ill., of a two-story Columbia house where a mother and her two young sons were found strangled a year ago. Wells Fargo Bank, which holds the mortgage on the house, was the only bidder, buying the property for $256,419.96. (AP Photo/Jim Suhr)