Eight abandoned houses on Lancaster’s Starnes Street have been torn down through a state program aimed at eliminating community blight. And no one is happier to see it than Lancaster County Sheriff Barry Faile. Starnes Street is off the east end of Brooklyn Avenue. “That specific area has been a haven for all types of serious criminal activity, including murder,” Faile said, citing the 2012 strangulation death of Linda Massey Gaymon inside one of the houses.