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Norma pinned us down and Mary had grabbed his by the neck and started like strangles.

And then she was, had a hand here and she was getting the sand and then pouring at my mouth and

it couldn't go on quick enough and she tried to stuff her fingers down basically to go further down

and obviously I was terrified and I think Norma was a little bit frightened I just seen what Mary was doing because Norma jumped up.

And by that time, she had jumped up and I managed to struggle and get free and run home.

Welcome to Season 3, Episode 73 of Sword and Scale, a show that reveals that the worst monsters are real. Yeah. You know, we often cover the horrible things that happen to children by the monsters that infect our

otherwise mostly civil society.

But we've never explored the idea of what happens when the monsters are the children themselves.

So I decided to start looking for a story about a child killer, a particularly nasty one

with little or no remorse, but instead a very sick psychopathic mind.

And I found one. And then I found another one. And then I found another one after that.

So today, we're probably going to make you hate kids. If you don't have a sense of humor,

I'm really kind of kidding.

But stay tuned because some of these stories are as fascinating as they are chilling.

And they show that there's really no age limit to commit murder. There was a horrific murder and the judge made the observation that it was a very savage

murder and the defendant Zachary Davis would not be, could not be handled in juvenile court.

The allegations in the juvenile petition are that she was asleep and that he came in and

murdered her with the sledgehammer and then set the house on fire while his brother

was lying asleep. 15-year-old Zachary Davis attended Station Camp High School in Gallatin, Tennessee, near Hendersonville, where he lived.

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