Would it still be haunted if he bought?

GALVESTON, Texas, Nov. 14 (UPI) -- It's no crime to buy a haunted house in south Texas -- even if you were just acquitted of killing and chopping up an elderly neighbor.

Still, Robert Durst's interest in buying "The Haunted Hotel of Galveston" certainly has gotten some other neighbors' attention.

Durst, a cross-dressing millionaire from New York, earlier this week was acquitted on murder charges stemming from the shooting and dismemberment of Morris Black who lived near the supposedly demonic digs.

"It would be a hoot," said Norman Jones, the haunted house's current owner and would-be seller.

The former boarding house is a stone's throw from the apartments where Durst and Black lived across the hall from each other before Black was killed in a struggle with Durst.

The 90-year-old house with 35 rooms is said to be haunted by the ghosts of former boarders. It has been used to get Halloween visitors seriously scared.

"As we all know, people with money have seemingly a harder time psychologically than the average person," Jones said. "And Mr. Durst obviously has been very challenged in his life."

Challenged or not, Durst doesn't seem scared of the haunted house's price: $1.2 million.