From A&E, this is Cold Case Files, the podcast.

December 15th, 1978, the depths of winter in Stearns County, Minnesota, the ground covered in snow, the air bitter cold.

By the light of the moon, 11-year-old Billy Huling runs through the woods.

He runs for help. He runs for his life.

Billy's family has just been shot.

Officer Jim Castreba responds to the call.

As soon as I opened the door into the porch and stepped in,

I could immediately smell the smell of gunpowder.

And with my flashlight, I was able to see a 12-gauge shotgun casing laying on the floor.

Kostriba continues into a darkened living room and the only bedroom on the first floor, where a mother appears to be sleeping.

I saw her laying on the bed, and she was laying with her head towards the foot of the bed,

with her legs drawn up. And just by observing her, I realized that she was dead.

Dressed in a nightgown and robe, 36-year-old Alice Hewling, lies dead.

Kastriba moves upstairs to look for her children.

When I got to the top of the steps, I could see that there was a lot of blood and tissue

and hair splattered against the wall, the far wall.

He follows a trail of shell casings to the second floor.

There he finds three of the Huling children, 16-year-old Susie, 13-year-old Wayne, and 12-year-old

Patty.

Each had been shot gunned to death. The officer

presses on to the bedroom of the one child who survived, Billy Huling.

The sleeping bag was laying on that bed and you could see two gunshot holes actually

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