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On January 7, 1994, residents of the Berkshire Hills woke up to a typical snowy winter

day in the majestic woods of western Massachusetts.

The quaint New England towns that ideally scenery and the people who lived there could

have stepped out of a Norman Rockwell painting.

Rocked as an imaginable evil, converged on them, appalled that would be cast over the region

and its inhabitants for years to follow.

That day, a trial was beginning for a college student who celebrated his 18th birthday

by purchasing an assault rifle, then opening fire on campus, killing two and wounding four

others.

Elsewhere, two young girls were accosted in the changing room at the local pool.

Another young girl narrowly escaped being abducted at Dunpoint on her way to school, her

quick thinking resulting later in profound repercussions regarding the case of a young boy

who vanished from a strip mall, baffling law enforcement, his body discovered three years

earlier by deer hunters in a remote wooded area, 200 miles away.

All these events appeared unrelated, but it seemed to police agencies and local residents

that the world had suddenly gone mad.

After all, they told each other, these things don't happen here.

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