Kentucky murder case takes center stage in new HBO documentary

A crumbling Victorian mansion in Louisville’s historic Old Louisville neighborhood became the backdrop for a shocking murder case that has now inspired a new HBO original documentary. The two-part documentary, “Murder in Glitterball City,” retraces the sordid twists and turns from a 2010 crime that claimed the life of a Lexington man.

The property at 1435 South Fourth Street, owned by Jeffrey Mundt and his boyfriend Joseph “Joey” Banis, turned into a crime scene on June 17, 2010.

“The two guys were fighting, the police thought they were responding to a domestic disturbance, one of them ratted out the other and told the police to go down to the basement and dig a dead body out of the wine cellar floor,” said David Domine, author of “A Dark Room in Glitter Ball City,” the book that inspired the HBO documentary…

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