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On the morning of July 7th, 2019, Sergeant Dan Burbeck responded to a call at the home of a 49-year-old woman in a small Texas town.

Burbeck got to the house and found a bloody crime scene in the master bedroom.

Evidence that a violent struggle must have taken place there the night before.

Now, three of their members of the victim's family were home that night, and they had been

in close proximity to the master bedroom.

The victim's husband had been asleep on the couch, just steps away from the master bedroom. The victim's husband had been asleep on the couch, just steps away from the master bedroom, the victim's teenage daughter was asleep in the room just next door, and the victim's son had been in an upstairs bedroom playing video games all night. But they all said they didn't hear a thing the night

before.

And so it seemed totally inconceivable to Sergeant Burbeck that this violent attack could have

taken place in one room while the entire family just kind of went about their business and heard nothing.

And so Burbeck believed something sinister must have happened in that house the night before,

and it seemed very possible, if not likely, that these family members were a part of it.

But the sergeant had a problem.

The victim of this apparent crime in the master bedroom was nowhere to be found.

But before we get into that story, if you're a fan of the Strange Dark and

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Okay, let's get into today's story. Oh, Everything to play for is taking on its biggest challenge yet. We've had two parters. We've even had three parters. This is a four-parter and the reason why we're

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