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In the early morning hours of June 23, 2016, special agents followed a set of tire tracks in a room filled in pig fork Minnesota.

In the distance, a camper squatted ominously against the tree line. The agents had no idea what they'd find inside the camper.

They hoped for the best, but were prepared for the worst. Join me now. As we uncover the case of a five-year-old girl in her babysitter Melissa Norby, you'll learn how murdering kidnapping were discovered to be an unimaginable plot concocted by a woman desperate for love.

And a sick man who would stop at nothing to possess the object of his twisted fantasy.

For most little girls, a sleepovers a chance to stay up late giggling, eating junk food, and watching movies way past bedtime.

For five-year-old Brittany, the youngest of five children to parents Scott and Amanda, spending the night at the home of her mother's best friend, Mrs. Place, was something she did often.

Melissa Norby, missy to her friends, was a 35-year-old single mother living in Hillcrest Manor Mobile Park in Bemidji, a city of nearly 15,000 in northern Minnesota.

Known for its many schools, proximity to parks and forests, and the statue of Paul Bunyan and his trusty sidekick, Bayebe the Blue Oaks.

June 21, 2016, was supposed to have been the usual sleepover for young Brittany and Mrs. Home.

But as Tuesday evenings slipped into Wednesday, things took a harrowing turn.

Every parent's worst fear come true, and every child's boogieman come to life.

It started with a fire at 3.30am. Firefighters were called to Hillcrest Manor, located at 3,900 Irvine Avenue, Northwest, where the mobile home shared by Melissa and her son was burning out of control.

An explosion had rocked the home, blowing the windows right out of the trailer.

Once the flames had been put out, firefighters found a gas can in one of the bedrooms, which led them to believe this was no tragic accident.

Instead, a case of arson. And as it turned out, this fire had been set on purpose, and attempt to cover up something far worse.

Inside the trailer, the severely burned body of Melissa Norby was discovered, can seal them under a charred mattress in the middle of her home.

To investigate, agents of the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, known as the BCA, were called in.

Upon further examination of the crime scene, they found that Melissa's body was fully clothed, her hands bound above her head with duct tape and her feet tied together.

Investigators would later discover that the manor for death was strangulation, not only were they looking at arson, now they were also looking at murder.

On June 22nd, at approximately 3.30 a.m., the Bemidji Police Department, the Bemidji Fire Department were dispatched to a report of a house fire in the 3,900 block of Irvine Avenue.

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