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Imagine two boys growing up in Ohio.

They live about 90 minutes from each other and never meet.

That's a believable story, right?

Imagine these boys, now a little older, heading down south.

Hoping to cash in on a construction boom, they settle in a small town called Deland.

Small town you've probably never heard of unless you're from Central Florida, which is

the only reason I know about it at all.

In their 20s, these men work in the same business and the same little area, but never cross paths.

Maybe this story becomes a little less believable.

Okay, so these two men, they grow tired of Florida for whatever reason.

They follow the next boom, this one's more about oil, a few states over, where they have

their pick of where to live between Houston and Galveston Island.

There are about a dozen small, mostly middle-class towns there, but somehow they choose the

same one.

And not only that, they end up living two doors down from one another.

This is the part where the story begins to get spooky.

One of these men, Tim Miller, goes on to become a national hero.

He saves missing children for a living.

The other, his name is Clyde Hedrick, goes on to become a suspected serial killer.

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