Hello, campers, grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.

We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie. And I'm Whitney. And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.

We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the true crime campfire.

Monsters and folklore are easy for us to comprehend.

You can only kill a werewolf with a silver bullet.

To stop a zombie for good, you have to destroy its brain,

and vampires can't enter your home without your explicit permission.

They also have pretty straightforward motivations.

Werewolves, animalistic rage, zombies, brains, vampires, blood.

Human monsters have motivations that are a lot more opaque.

What could possess someone to kidnap a woman in broad daylight?

To break into a home in the middle of the night to kill the strangers inside.

What if no one saw anything?

How do you catch a ghost?

This is Let the Right One In, a Halloween grab bag. Case 1. Depravity. The Murder of Ethel Kid. It was April 13, 1989, and Ethel Kid's daughter was wondering where she was.

Her parents had purchased some land about a mile away from her house

in Burr Hill, Virginia, and were building their dream house in preparation for her husband's retirement.

The house was almost done, and Ethel often stayed there while her husband Gilbert was still working

in Washington, D.C., but Ethel spent a ton of time with her daughter. The previous day, Ethel spent most of the day with

her and the kids, but this morning she hadn't heard from her. She called the new house, but got a

voicemail. Hmm. That was odd, but not unthinkable. Maybe she's already on her way for a cup of

coffee, she told her husband Thomas, as he left for work.

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