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or on our website. On August 28, 2003, the Great Lakes City of

Eerie, Pennsylvania, was in the height of summer. 46-year-old Brian Wells did what he had done

most mornings for the previous 10 years. He went to his lunchtime shift as a pizza delivery

man at Mamma Mia's Pizza. The pizza joint was a small, unassuming place in a single

story red brick shopping plaza on one of Eerie's main shopping strips, Peach Street.

Hugging the edge of the car park, there is a law firm, a hair and nail salon, a dentist,

and a laundromat. Typical local stores, the Kondra Drive Pass without knowing they're

really there. Cars pull in and out of the car park every minute. The car that pulled out

just after 130pm that day was Brian's, off to deliver his last pizzas for the shift.

He pulled out in his old green geo-machro hatchback and headed south down busy Peach Street.

Three and a half miles down the road, Brian turned left down a dirt access road, arriving

at a quiet wooded area by the transmission tower for the local TV station. He slowly

pulled to the side of the road and turned off his ignition, stepping out of the car to

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