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Not long after the Halloween horrors have ended, a cyclist's gruesome murder leaves her community in shock.

Her head was missing and had been cut off. This was brutal beyond brutality.

To know that a woman was murdered like that was terrifying for everybody.

Before investigators can identify a suspect, another victim is found.

You have two bicyclists who are killed about 10 months apart

in a brutal fashion.

Despite grisly public displays, the killer evades capture

for years.

They're looking at pages and pages of potential suspect.

The general theory was our perpetrator was either dead or he'd moved on.

But was the killer merely hiding in plain sight?

He had created this persona, this character that he played in public, called The Zombie Hunter.

He's right there.

He's taunting us.

This was truly over-the-top evil.

See how it's possible.

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