WINSTON-SALEM -- Wells Fargo Bank placed the lone bid at the foreclosure auction for a home in Clemmons where the skeletal remains of two men were unearthed last October. Three people face charges in connection with the men's deaths. Neighbors are relieved that the bank plans to demolish the home.

It was a day neighbors on Knob Hill Drive in Clemmons had been waiting for. The home where authorities say Joshua Wetzler and Tommy Dean Welch had been buried in shallow graves in the backyard was sold at auction.

"This property has been sold back to the note holder for $123,798.39 and that concludes my sales for today," said Lee Cox, agent for Trustee Services of Carolina.

Unless another bidder comes along in the next 10 days, the auction marks the beginning of the end for neighbors who have stared at crime scene tape, investigators coming and going and gawkers. 

"Happy. Yeah, very happy,” said Keith Bryson, who lives across the street. “Hopefully the 10-day period of waiting will go by quickly and the bank will get rid of that house. That's what the whole neighborhood wants. We just want the house gone."

Authorities charged Pazuzu Alagarad, who lived in the home with his mother, with Wetzler's murder. They charged Algarad’s girlfriend, Amber Burch, with Welch’s killing. Krystal Matlock has been charged as an accessory after the fact. Preliminary results from an autopsy show they had been shot to death.

The discovery of the bodies came as a shock.

"Nobody thought anything,” Bryson said. “They were model neighbors the last however many years. We never saw them. They never came out of the house."

Wells Fargo spokeperson Janie Kiryluik said the bank would move as quickly as possible to demolish the home, which Bryson said would return the neighborhood to the way it once was.

"Everybody's been upset for the last six months,” said Bryson. “It's a wonderful neighborhood. Wonderful neighbors. So, we'll get our neighborhood back and everything back to normal."

Cox said anyone else interested in buying the home had 10 days to submit a bid five percent higher than the bid from Wells Fargo. A second bid would start another 10-day waiting period to allow any other interested bidders to come forward.