Discretion is advised.

This is 10-minute murder.

In 1973, many American families believed it was safe for their young children to wander the streets alone.

Neighborhoods were considered to be a safe space, full of trustworthy people who looked out for one another.

It was a year before Ted Bundy and BTK started killing, giving the 70s a reputation of being the start of the golden age of serial killers,

and still several years before parents would truly begin teaching their kids about stranger danger.

All of this meant that during Halloween of 1973, nine-year-old Lisa Anne French's parents didn't have any reservations about letting their daughter go trick-or-treating

alone. The fourth grader had initially planned to spend the night with her friend, Anne Parker,

but Anne got grounded by her parents, leaving Lisa to make her way to the neighborhood party alone,

trick-or-treating as she went along. Just before 6 p.m., Lisa left her house.

She was proud of her costume.

She dressed up like a hobo,

wearing a green jacket and black hat,

and had painted freckles on her face.

She stopped by several houses

before she decided to knock on the door of another neighbor,

a man named Gerald Miles Turner,

Jr. Lisa wasn't visiting the houses of complete strangers. She'd knocked on the doors of one of her

classmates and a teacher from her school, and had stopped by to chat with both people before

collecting her candy and going on her way. Gerald Turner also wasn't a stranger to Lisa. He and his

girlfriend, Arlene, had recently had a child together, and Lisa loved to say hello to the baby

whenever she saw him. That night, she rang Gerald's doorbell, and after he opened the door,

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