Dryden, located in the Finger Lakes area of New York State, just a few miles from

Ethica. It appears idyllic, but in the 1990s it was anything but there were murders and car racks, drunk driving accidents and workplace homicides.

Come with me to December 1989 when the Harris family, busy preparing for the Christmas holiday, receives an unexpected and unwelcome visitor.

This visitor would set in motion ten years of bad luck for the community of Dryden, a series of incidents that would have the community known as the village of the damned.

And yes, investigation discovery did do a series about all of these cases, but we're going back to the beginning, where it all started, with the Harris family murder.

The call, it started out innocently enough, a neighbor heard an alarm going off at the Harris home. Could an officer please respond?

It was almost 730 AM when New York State Police Trooper John Beno responded to the home.

Court documents show that when he arrived, he saw one set of tire tracks in the fresh snow, tracks that led from the garage across the lawn to the street.

Trooper Beno knocked on the door announcing himself, then he rang the doorbell. He could hear the alarm going off in the house.

But aside from the blaring and repetitive noise, the house was still.

Beno used an unlocked door in the garage to let himself into the home.

Once inside, he realized the building was filled with smoke. He tried using the home phone to call for assistance, but the lines were down. So he radioed for backup, police and fire this time.

Then he tried to search the house for residents. He was concerned that the occupants were overcome by smoke and halation. If only that were the case. But the smoke was thick and he retreated to the yard, waiting for the fire department to respond.

When firefighters accessed the upstairs bedrooms, they found a body sprawled on the floor in the master.

It appeared to be the body of a young woman. She was nude and there was something placed over her head. As they moved on to the next bedroom, they found more bodies, three more bodies, two adults and the body of a child.

The Harris family had been murdered. Their bodies set ablaze.

Each member of the Harris family was bound, their head covered with a pillowcase. Each of them shot in the back of the head at close range.

Some reports say they were shot once, others say they were each shot two or three times.

No matter how many shots were fired, the results were the same. No one survived.

The body from the master bedroom, the nude female. That was 15-year-old Shelby Harris. She'd been sexually assaulted before her murder.

The bizarre crime scene left law enforcement scrambling. Who would do something like this? How could it happen in a place like Dryden? Why would you target the Harris family?

Dad, Warren Anthony Tony Harris. He worked in sales for an electronics company. The mom Dolores, Dodie Harris. She ran a small store where she sold crafts, gift items and antiques. Her store was in a building at the edge of the property.

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