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House where 2 bodies found has lengthy criminal history

ATLANTA — Police say a northwest Atlanta home where two bodies were found has been a scene of many crimes.
 
Channel 2's Tyisha Fernandes obtained police reports documenting criminal activity in and around the home on Madrona Street.
 
So far this year, police have been called to the house 14 times for prostitution, drugs and fighting.
 
In February of 2013, a 16-year-old girl was assaulted inside the home. Fernandes leaned 57-year-old Mason Johnson was arrested and charged with the crime.

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Johnson has also been arrested four times for squatting in four different homes in NW Atlanta. He also has several drug charges.
 
Neighbors told Fernandes that they've seen Johnson in and out of several different homes in the neighborhood.
 
Police have not named any suspects or persons of interest in the double murder, but they've identified 33-year-old Heather Camp as the first woman found wrapped in a sheet.
 
As police were investigating that murder, they found a badly decomposed body locked in a closet that was nailed shut. The medical examiner is still working to identify that woman.

Neighbors told Fernandes they worry the problem of abandoned houses is leading to squatting in the area. They say they have seen the same man squatting at numerous empty houses and that he has been charged with trespassing.

The house where the bodies of the two women were found was also abandoned.

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