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I'm Melissa McCarty.

And I'm Kelly McLeer.

We are the journalists who brought you killing dad, the Crystal Howell story.

Now we bring you another jaw-dropping case.

And it's one where the truth is more compelling than fiction.

Over the course of the next eight episodes, we are going to take you on a true crime ride

unlike anything you've ever heard. Crime sprees committed mimicking scenes from the Terminator movies.

It's a saga of epic proportions, one that involves vicious gang ties, a savage double

murder, a firearm store robbery with guns blazing, a multi-state manhunt, a kidnapping,

a California freeway high-speed chase, a hostage situation, a Hollywood-style shootout in downtown Los Angeles,

the devastating earthquake of 1994, suicide attempts, a death so sad it's unimaginable,

and finally, an execution. And all of those things happened in just a matter of days.

It's one of the most heinous and sad cases we have ever come across in our careers,

and you're going to hear all the details from the people who lived it. Some speaking for the first time

publicly, and you'll hear from the killers themselves. We now bring you the miscreants.

The family who kills together stays together.

I'm the king of the jungle.

On January 3rd of 1994, four lives would collide.

Two had planned the encounter.

The other two had no idea what was about to come their way.

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