I'm Nancy Grace, Breaking Crime News Now.

Maria Trieros stops by her sister's apartment, finds the front door unlocked.

Inside, 74-year-old Maria Hernandez tied up, gagged, and beaten dead.

Investigations finds no forced entry into the apartment, and the building surveillance video

is gone.

Police say ex-con building manager, LaShawn Mackie, killed Hernandez.

Nancy Mackie got a job at the building while finishing parole for a 1999 stabbing, in

which Mackie left the victim lying in the street, with intestines hanging out of his stomach.

Hernandez was beaten with a similar brutality.

Prosecutors say Hernandez had bruises and abrasions all over her body, and lacerations

of her vaginal and rectal areas.

Her official cause of death, homicidal esphyxia.

Mackie, 47 charged with murder, attempted murder, and burglary.

Jenny Fitzpatrick and her two little girls, Peyton Nine, Courtney One, died in a 5am house

fire.

Kyle Tyler, the girl's dad, also in the home, was rescued and taken to a local hospital.

Tyler tells responders he doesn't know what caused the fire, but investigation shows

the fire was intentional.

Tyla Thompson, who was in a relationship from social media posts and concluded the fire

was set as part of a domestic incident.

One child was rushed to the hospital along with her father, but died from her injuries.

Peyton's elementary school released a statement remembering, quote, her positivity and joyful

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