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When Jerry Hyman's son arrived at his father's home in Everett, Washington, he found his

grandmother and Alzheimer's patient, alone in the house, starving and dehydrated.

His father was missing.

The furniture was gone.

Within hours, police realized that Jerry's living housekeeper, Barbara Opel, had robbed

him and fled, but where was Jerry?

The next morning, Opel's 11-year-old son led police to Jerry's body, soon stunned detectives.

We're getting confessions from a rag-tag group of teens and preteens.

With Barbara Opel's command, they had set upon Jerry Hyman with knives, fists and baseball

bats, and battered him to death.

From 13-year-old Heather, who frantically stabbed Jerry after having sex with her boyfriend,

to seven-year-old Tiffany, who helped clean up the blood.

This is the horrifying true story of how a mother turned her children and their friends

into stone, cold killers, and then rewarded them for their crime.

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