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This episode contains discussion of violence against children and murder.

On April 21, 2021, a nine-year-old girl in Lafayette, Indiana left her home, and she didn't come back.

Police started searching the neighborhood for her, and soon made contact with 42-year-old James Brian Chatwell II.

It seems unlikely that they knew anything about Chatwell or his extensive criminal history at this point.

They probably simply thought he was just another guy in the neighborhood.

Someone who may have seen something.

Chatwell told the officers that not only did he know the girl, but that she had actually been in his house a little bit earlier.

But she had left, and he said that he did not know where she was now.

The officers took Chatwell at his word, and left him to resume their search for the child.

And Chatwell, perhaps thinking he had gotten away with something, went back to the child, because he had lied.

He knew exactly where she was. She was his prisoner.

He had lured her into his house to pet his dog, and then he had attacked her.

He hit her in the head again and again and again, growing angrier as the child struggled to fight back.

She was strong and determined, but Chatwell somehow managed to get his hands around her neck, and he squeezed, choking her.

He maneuvered the now weakened child into a headlock, and held her there until she fell unconscious.

He took her to his basement.

We are going to leave out the details of what exactly Chatwell is accused of doing to the girl.

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