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Augusta, Georgia, known around the world as the home of the Masters Golf Tournament.

It's also where the Howell family raised their daughter, Sierra and Crystal,

until secrets carefully buried in the southern soil, reached the light.

And there was nothing good left in Augusta from Michael Howell.

After a highly contentious divorce from his wife, Christina,

the revelation that his oldest daughter Sierra was not his biological daughter and being arrested and charged with stalking, it was time for Michael to pack up and go.

He moved to his vacation home in Maggie Valley, North Carolina. The routine of talking to dad each day started to exhaust Crystal,

and their conversations turned too dark for the teen.

He began being more obsessive than concerned, I guess, to tone of voice kind of switched.

And one afternoon he asked me, he was like, do you know what a vigilante is?

And I was like, what? And he explained to me, like, sometimes bad people deserve to die.

And he told me like what my mom had done was bad.

Like she had betrayed her family, she didn't love me, she didn't care about me.

And he had said to me that sometimes that he needs to be taken care of and I'm just like, where's it going? And I'm like, so on the phone, because sometimes I could have to be taken care of. And I'm just like, where is you going? And I'm like, so on the phone, because sometimes I had to cut things out of my dad to be like, where are you going with this? Like, because he would just go on and on. And I'd go like, okay, what's the point here? And he had asked me, he was like, we used to have your mom and make it look like an accident. And I'm like, no.

Like, my friend, I'm not doing that. But I'm not, it's not me.

That's, didn't you explain me. Like, you're a kid, I'm an adult. If I do something, I'm going

to go back to jail. And is that where you want to see me?

Were you ever scared at what he was saying?

Or did you just pass it off?

For a long time, I kind of just brushed it off

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