Police chief investigates 'most grisly murder in 35 years' before discovering blood-spattered scene is a horror movie set



Firefighters who responded to a hotel blaze stumbled upon a blood-spattered hotel room littered with bottles of alcohol and even a piece of a scalp.

Police Chief J.R. Blyth, who was called in to investigate, described the discovery at the George Washington Hotel in Pittsburgh as 'the most grisly murder scene in his 35 years in law enforcement'.



Detectives had spent eight hours of overtime on the investigation before Chief Blyth realised the blood wasn’t real and that the murder scene was in fact the leftover set of a horror movie filmed two years ago with Corey Haim.

'Crime': Police said the room at the George Washington Hotel in Pittsburgh was the grisliest murder scene they had ever come across... until they realised it was a film set

The film called New Terminal Hotel shot a scene in the hotel and the owner, Kyrk Pyros, decided to leave the room untouched in case the crew had to come back for re-shoots.

Mr Pyros was bemused by the police's discovery of the 'crime scene'.



He said: 'I smiled and the [coroner] looked at me and said, "I am not finding this funny". I said, "Well, that is where [New] Terminal Hotel was shot. That is our scare room.'



The police chief called in detectives for eight hours of overtime before realising that it wasn’t actually a murder scene.

It's only a movie: A colourful scene from New Terminal Hotel, which was shot at the George Washington



Shock and gore: Another scene from the film. Hotel owner, Kyrk Pyros, described the leftover set as 'our scare room'

He may have been influenced by the fact that 12 people have died in the George Washington Hotel since 1923, and that it has a reputation for being haunted.

According to Mr Pyros, the fire started in the hotel's laundry room. No one was badly injured during the blaze but several people were treated for smoke inhalation.



Corey Haim, former Eighties teen heartthrob, died in March aged just 38 from a suspected accidental drug overdose.

He starred in cult classic The Lost Boys alongside Kiefer Sutherland, and dated Victoria Beckham briefly in 1995 just before The Spice Girls went global.

Unreal: Detectives spent eight hours' overtime on the investigation before Chief J.R. Blyth (left) realised the blood was left over from the set of the horror movie filmed two years ago with Corey Haim (right)





