When a woman in Enoch, Utah, was woken up by loud popping sounds in the middle of the night,

she assumed they were fireworks.

He was, after all, January 4th, and despite it being past the time it was legal to still be using

fireworks, he wasn't unusual for people to skirt the rules.

Shrugging it off as an annoyance, the woman went back to sleep,

not knowing the horror that was happening in another house in that same neighborhood.

This is Monsters.

Music Michael Haute was born on January 7, 1980 in Seattle, Washington, where his father, Robin Haid,

had been attending the University of Washington Dental School.

When Michael was only an infant, his father graduated from dental school and the family moved

back to Robin and his wife Brenda's hometown of Cedar City, Utah, where Robin set up a dental

practice that he would go on to operate for 37 years.

Robin was actively involved in many activities with his children, one of them being a leader

for the Boy Scout troop Michael

was involved in all the way up to Eagle Scout. Growing up, Michael played sports and was involved

in outdoor activities. After high school, he spent a summer working at a processing plant in Alaska

before going on a mission to Brazil representing his

Latter-day Saints Church. Eventually he enrolled in business courses at Southern Utah University

where he met a young woman named Tasha Earl. Tasha Earl was born on January 19,

1982 in Omaha, Nebraska. Her family eventually moved to Overton, Nevada, where

Tasha graduated from high school. She enrolled at Southern Utah University, eventually graduating

with a bachelor's degree in child development studies. Before that happened, though, she and Michael

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