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It was 1987, and the sleepy town of Ina, Illinois, had become paranoid.

Teenagers, nervous about becoming victims, would wait patiently for their parents to pick them up from school,

rather than the normal assertion of independence

that comes in the teenage years. Gone was the carefree nature of childhood. Adults also

determined not to become victims drove around packing guns in their vehicles, better safe than sorry.

Gone with the sense of security from the outside world that's normally present in small towns. Opened doors were locked. Hospitality became a

relic, neatly stored on the shelf for better times.

The past two years had been hard on the small town of Ina.

They had seen more devastation than they were equipped to handle.

In 1985, a teenage boy by the name of Thomas Odle in Jefferson County had savagely murdered his mother, his father, a first sibling, a second sibling, and a third sibling as they individually arrived home.

One would think that family homicide would be the most horrific crime the town would ever face.

But they would be wrong.

In 1987, there would be a crime so inconceivable and so gruesome that when townspeople

thought of it, they were so distressed that many sought therapy to deal with their

fear. One man, according to an article in the St. Louis dispatch, who lived about a half-mile

from the crime scene for this week's episode, had a hard time both sleeping and eating afterward,

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