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I'm frightened about this.

To know that I could spend the rest of my life in jail for a crime I didn't commit is a very scary thing.

Welcome to Season 5, Episode 108 of Sword and Scale,

a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real. The

The You know, I'm going to be able to be. Gross Point, Michigan, a wealthy suburban area located just outside of Detroit.

Gross Point is made up of five small cities, known as the Pointies, all situated on the coast of Lake St. Clair.

These communities are fueled by old money, and although Gross Point is home to a fairly

substantial working-class community, it is better known for its historic red brick mansions,

private golf courses, and yacht clubs. In other words, the cities that make

up Gross Point are, for the most part, stereotypically wealthy suburban communities. The pointees

are the kind of cities that most people would think of as quote unquote, safe.

And sure enough, the crime rates of the Gross Point communities stand in stark contrast to those of Detroit.

Take for example, the city of Gross Point Park, which shares a border with the city of Detroit.

On the southwest side of Alter Road, you have a city plagued by one of the

highest murder rates in the country. On the northeast side of Alter Road, you have Gross Point

Park, a city that has not seen a homicide in over 20 years. That is, until the winter of 2012.

In January of 2012, Bob and Jane Boshara were living together in their nearly 3,000

square foot colonial home on Middlesex Road in Gross Point Park, Michigan.

Their massive five-bedroom house, which would have stuck out like a sore thumb in any middle-class

neighborhood of the country, looked fairly modest next to the upscale homes on that particular

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