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From the Toronto Star, I'm Kevin Donovan,

and this is Death in a Small Town, Episode 4, The Daycare.

I grew up in a town a half-hour drive from where the McClellons live.

The first time I went to interview them, I was pleasantly surprised to come across Camp

Sylvan, just up the road.

I was a boy scout, and we froze our butts winter camping out there when I was a kid.

This is farm country, a criss-cross

of fields broken up by bush and rivers. This part of southwestern Ontario was nestled in

between two of the Great Lakes, Huron and Erie. To get to Roseanne and Kent's house,

you drive west of London, a city of 400,000.

Park Hill, their closest town, has some fine old Victorian buildings, remnants of when

it was a mill town in the 1800s.

The McClellan's live at the end of a dead-end road that cuts through green rows of corn.

It's a hot day, and the brown tassels on the cobs shimmer in the heat.

And everywhere I look, I see wind turbines turning lazily.

They look to me like some advancing mechanical army from the War of the Worlds.

The McClellan house is across from Kathy Webster's,

the family friend who babysits and does housekeeping for them.

I pull into the McClellan's driveway.

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