Discretion is advice.

This is a nightmare.

On the 6th of November, On the 6th of November, 1955, Alton Coleman was born in Illinois.

Because his mother was working three different jobs to support herself,

Alton grew up in the care of his grandmother.

From an early age, he was antisocial, and he did not get along with others.

And those traits only got worse as he grew older.

When Alton was 18 years old, he was charged with his first sex crime.

Over the next decade, he was charged with a total of five more similar crimes.

He pled guilty to two of them, was acquitted of two more,

and the final two were dismissed. One of the two cases that was scheduled to go to court

was the sexual assault of a 14-year-old girl. But before the 1984 trial began, Alton decided

to go on the run. But Alton did not flee from the law all by himself.

Deborah Brown, a woman with an intellectual disability, came with him.

Deborah and Alton had met the previous year when she was engaged to a different man,

but she quickly decided to leave her fiancé and move in with Alton.

As well as her intellectual disability, Deborah suffered from dependent personality disorder,

giving her an irresistible urge to be looked after by other people.

She relied on Alton and was willing to do anything he asked, no matter the consequences.

So when Alton told Deborah that he was going on the run, she did not hesitate to come with him.

Unlike Alton, Deborah didn't have any criminal charges. In fact, she had never been in trouble with the law ever.

But when Alton started abducting, assaulting, and murdering young children,

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