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On a sunny morning in July 2000, 24-year-old Martin Peterson knocked on the door of House

in Redoa, west of Copenhagen, Denmark. He wanted to check in on a stepmother, Mariana

Peterson and her two young sons, after not hearing from them for a couple of days.

He noticed a note on the door, but something didn't feel right. The note implied that

the family had gone away on vacation and wouldn't be back until several days later.

The note was so strange and suspicious that Martin notified the police, just to be on

the safe side. When the police arrived at the House, they saw the furniture was covered

in plastic and moved away from the walls. Other than that, everything seemed okay.

But once forensic investigators moved in, they found a copious amount of blood and human

tissue belonging to a mother and her two young boys. There was vomit in two toilets and

a foul smell seeped from the basement. They had discovered the aftermath of a slaughter.

These events took place in Denmark, but ten years earlier, another grizzly murder was committed

in America. The body of a 59-year-old woman was found buried in the sand at Cape Hatteras

in North Carolina. The police spent four months trying to identify the body and only had

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