Due to the graphic nature of these killer's crimes,

listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of murder, assault,

and sexual abuse that some people may find offensive.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

It was the kind of California summer

that should have been impossible to ruin,

sunny without being too hot,

a light breeze rustling through the redwood trees,

and the distant center of a barbecue in the air.

But for the residents of Greenfield Ranch,

their idyllic life had become a bit of a nightmare.

Their most problematic neighbor, Leonard Lake,

was conducting target practice right in the middle of the forest.

Greenfield was supposed to be a peaceful place,

a refuge for hippies and creative types fleeing the city.

And though the residents each owned their own plot of land,

the community abided by a certain set of rules.

One of those rules and perhaps the most important

was no guns.

Yet ever since Lake had moved in,

he'd made it clear that the rules didn't apply to him.

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