Strangers, today we're playing part two of Decade of Terror, originally aired May 19, 2022.

What might make one community the focus of so much tragedy, violence, and loss?

How much hardship and heartbreak can one small town endure. And when we see human being

suffering and still continuing on, are we more struck by their similarities to us, or by how

differently we'd handle the same fate? Welcome to Strange and Unexplained with me, Daisy Egan.

I'm a writer and an actor who really wants to believe that humans are inherently good,

but after 58 episodes, I'm really starting to struggle with that idea.

Last week, I told you about some of the worst tragedies that befell the people in and around Dryried in New York in the 1990s.

The thing is, though, we only got to 1996 before we ran out of time.

And if you haven't listened to last week's episode, go do that now,

unless you like living dangerously and being hopelessly lost, in which case, proceed.

This week, we'll pick back up with those missing cheerleaders

and dive into the remaining three years of the deadliest decade on record for Dryden,

otherwise known as the Village of the Damned. And again, a quick warning, this episode

deals with some pretty dark stuff. As always, I don't get too graphic because gross.

But there is some violence and references to suicide, so please take care when listening.

Before we move ahead, let's take a quick look back at the first seven years in this decade-long nightmare.

It started in 1989 when all four members of the Harris family were slaughtered in cold blood style in their home.

The suspected killer was killed by the police in a shootout.

A woman buried her two-year-old daughter in the woods,

who she very likely smothered to death for not going to sleep as quickly as she wanted her to.

Another woman was murdered by a man whose only defense in court was not that he didn't do it,

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