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Crime Stories with Nancy Grace.

The Devil's Den, killer suspect was bounced from school to school to school because of

inappropriate behavior with little girls, but no one ever fired him.

That's how he ended up at the murder scene.

Joining us now is a very special guest.

It's Danica Harold. She is a longtime friend of the murdered mom and dad, stabbed dead on a public hiking trail for

families trying to protect their daughters. Ms. Harrell, thank you for being with us.

When did you learn that your friends, Kristen and Clinton, had passed away, were killed.

About midnight between Saturday and Sunday.

How did you find out the news?

Someone sent me a news article, and I actually thought it was a hoax, so I started researching it.

Now, you've known them for a long time.

What was your reaction when you discovered they hadn't just passed on that

they had actually been stabbed dead? I was pretty mortified. It was very, it was very hard to learn that

information. Could you tell us, Ms. Harrell, about the two of them? We keep hearing that they were

murdered trying to protect their daughters, that the

mom helped her two little girls get away from the killer. And then after they were safe,

in her mind, she went back to help fight the killer off her husband. And in so doing, she herself was murder trying to defend him.

Does that sound like her?

100%.

They were all about their family.

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