Discretion is advised.

Ten-minute murder.

Wesley Howard and Lauren Joseph Herzog lived at a small town neighborhood

where there weren't many other kids to play with.

The two boys lived on the same street in Linden, California, and quickly became inseparable.

Even when Lauren and Wesley, who was known as Wes, grew older, they didn't see any point in

making new friends. Instead, they stuck with just each other through their teenage years.

Even if Lauren and Wes had decided to branch out and make new friends, they wouldn't have

had much luck. Their favorite hobbies weren't exactly friendly. They found a lot of joy in bullying

other students at their high school, and usually spent their spare time getting drunk or high.

When they graduated high school in 1984, they moved from Linden to Stockton, California, got an

apartment together, and were free to abuse methamphetamine as much as they wanted to.

At the time, Linden had a population of less than 2,000 people.

Everybody knew everyone else's business.

And the rest of Linden's permanent residents were well aware of Lauren and Wes's reputation as heavy drinkers and meth users.

It didn't matter what else was going on in their lives, even when they were in a romantic relationship with women,

or when Wes was married and had several children, their first priorities were always drugs and each other. Despite now

living in Stockton, they often went to the Linden Inn bar to drink and to talk to Kim Vanderheiden,

the daughter of the bar's owner, with whom Lauren had a brief romantic

fling. At 1998, Kim Vanderheiden's sister, Cindy, was seen walking out of the Linden Inn with

Lauren and Wes. After that, she was never seen again. For investigators, it was like they'd been

handed two suspects on a silver platter.

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