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A holiday horror. I'm Jason Horton. I'm Rebecca Lebe.

And this is Ghost Town.

Little Falls, Minnesota is a quiet place of less than 10,000 residents at the mouth of the Mississippi River.

The city's biggest claim to fame is being the boyhood home of aviator Charles Lindberg, but beyond that, Little Falls is a poster child for Midwest Americana, community antique shows, forested parks, and county fairs. But like many of

the idyllic cities that boast wholesomeness and hometown heroes, all in Little Falls is not what it seems.

In fact, one of the most notorious Thanksgiving crimes took place in Little Falls. This crime was a window into one resident's paranoid and

violent psyche, and all terrifyingly caught on tape. Today on Ghost Town, the Thanksgiving Day murders.

On the night of November 22nd, 2012, two teenagers, 18-year-old Haley Kiefer and her cousin, 17-year-old

Nicholas Brady, cased a home in Little Falls, Minnesota. Brady and Kifur were petty criminals,

to be sure. Brady had stolen drugs before, and the two had burglarized other houses in the area.

But they were young, nonviolent and unarmed.

This night would, in their minds, be no different than their past crimes. With the culture of their

city being fairly relaxed and low crime in general, the two teens thought they'd break in and be in and

out fairly quickly. First,

Kiefer and Brady cased the house at 14319 Elm Street, finding an upstairs window to enter.

Kifeer then waited outside the window while Brady broke in and climbed into the house,

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