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For this week's episode, we're going

back nearly 29 years to May 1993. On May 1st, the president of Sri Lanka was

assassinated by a Tamil tiger suicide bomber. On May 10th, French painter Paul Zizons

La Gross Palm sold for $28.6 million at auction.

On May 18th, the number one movie was the critically panned erotic thriller Sliver,

starring Sharon Stone and William Baldwin.

The number one song in America was, That's the Way Love Goes, by Janet Jackson.

Englewood, Colorado is part of the Denver metropolitan area.

It's directly south to Denver.

In the early 1990s, it had a population of around 30,000 people.

It was owned the 5-year-old Alexander Burrellas,

who went by the name Allie,

her two brothers and her mother.

That spring, the family had moved in

to the Golden Nugget apartment complex.

On the evening of May 18, 1993,

Ali and her brothers were playing and eating pizza in the complex as a courtyard.

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