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Two old women shuffled down a Cleveland street in July of 1989, beaded with sweat.

Though the sun hung low in the sky, the humidity was suffocating.

After a while, the women wiped their foreheads and stopped to rest.

They smiled as they watched a group of kids playing in the street.

Then their gazes suddenly shifted as something moved on the roof opposite them,

squinting against the light,

they could just make out a small figure precariously balanced on top of one of the homes.

At first, the women shook their heads and chuckled. The kids in that house were always up to something. But running

across a roof did seem dangerous and they decided they should make sure an

adult knew what was going on. They were crossing the street to knock on the door when the figure spotted the women and started hopping up and down.

As the women got a closer look at the stranger, their eyes widened.

It was no child on the roof, but a fully grown woman.

Her hands were bound together and a gag hung around her neck.

The woman on the roof tried her best to gesture for help,

glancing frantically from a rooftop window

to the street down below.

She seemed terrified someone was going to follow her outside. As one of the old

women rushed to call the police, the other gasped. It looked like a tall shadow was opening the window behind the bound woman. Hi, I'm Greg Polson. This is Serial Killers, a parcast original.

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