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True crime can be strangely fascinating.

This true crime is odd, a calm and haunted.

I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows.

Welcome to Fantasmo Crime.

The Flagstaff of 1937 was quite different from the sleepy little railroad town it had once been.

Immigrants from Boston had passed through this pine forest near the mountains in 1876,

and marked their camp with a pine tree stripped of its bark and branches,

and crowned it with an American flag in honor of the country's centennial.

Their Flagstaff became a landmark, and eventually the name of the town.

By the 1930s Flagstaff had become a thriving small town thanks to the local university,

the Lowell Observatory, and tourists coming to see the Grand Canyon.

The wealthy side of town was on La Rue Street, and it was here, on North La Rue Street,

that the walk-up family home was located.

In our modern era, it's sad to say, but family and nihilators are not as shocking as they had once been.

While not common, a family member slaughtering several members of their own family happens far too often.

The Amityville horror occurred in the aftermath of Ronald Defeo, Jr., killing his parents and four of his siblings.

Familicide is predominantly a male phenomenon.

The thought of a mother killing her children is nearly unfathomable for many of us.

There was Susan Smith, who killed her two sons in 1994 by drowning them in her car.

Andrea Yates drowned her five children in 2001.

The podcast Broken Hearts featured the heart family whose two mothers drove the family off a cliff in their family car in 2018.

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