635 Minor Avenue House is located in Hamilton, Ohio, USA. It is an old terraced house, built sometime before the 1930's and was home to the Ruppert family. In the 1930's, Leonard and Charity Ruppert gave birth to two sons, Leonard Jr. and James. While older by two years, Leonard Jr. left home and went on to become successful. James never did move out and was never successful. Both of James's parents regarded James as lazy and favoured Leonard Jr. This made James envious of his brother and it is this envy that would eventually develop into a paranoid madness.