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On a warm summer day in 2021, a central Alberta family returned home from a camping trip.

But something wasn't right.

A gate was open and so were several windows in their home.

The teenage daughter and her mother waited outside, while the father went into their

house to check if everything was okay.

I noticed a pair of shoes on the floor right in front, right on our floor mat.

And I looked at them and I was thinking, I wonder if my son is home.

So I called out his name, nothing, and I called out his name again and at that time somebody

responded to me.

There was a stranger in his home and in the blink of an eye.

Your life phrases in front of you, it feels like you're in a movie or something and you're

wondering what's going on and why is this happening to me.

I'm Nancy Hicks, a senior crime reporter for Global News.

Today, on Crime Beat, I share one man's harrowing brush with death.

This is One Minute and 41 Seconds of Terror.

The man at the center of today's story is in his late 50s and for privacy reasons, I'm

not going to disclose his real identity.

Instead, I'm going to call him John.

I'm a businessman that I live in central Alberta, I have a wife from two kids and enjoy going

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