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Thank you. The Minds of Madness podcast. Listener discretion is advised. Most people don't realize how many lives quietly end on an ordinary Monday morning.

Not with a scream, not with a witness, but with an absence.

A routine that breaks just once.

And by then, it's usually already too late.

In Delmar, New York, behind a locked door, in a neighborhood where nothing like this should ever happen. That's exactly what unfolded for Peter

Porco. But before we continue into this case, I want to take a brief moment to share something with you.

Going forward, Minds of Madness will continue releasing weekly audio episodes.

With additional audio and video episodes, we'll be calling between the madness episodes every other Thursday.

And with that, let's get back to the story. When Peter Porco,

a well-liked law clerk, didn't show up for work on Monday, November 15th, 2004, after co-workers

couldn't reach him, police were sent to the home he shared with his wife Joan in Delmar,

a quiet community just outside of Albany. When officers arrived, they immediately noticed a key still in the lock of the

front door, along with small droplets of blood on the porch. They also discovered that the house alarm

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