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Where we left off, it was March of 2014, four months after the deaths of Gordon, Sandra and Monica Klaus. The RCMP were investigating

the case as a homicide. The authorities had concluded that all three Klaus family members died

in the house fire, although the fire itself was so hot and destructive that only the remains

of Monica and Gordon were detected,

and the cause of death wasn't able to be established either, whether they died in the fire or whether they were already dead when it started.

The RCMP quickly decided that foul play was involved.

Keeler the dog had been executed with a nine-millimeter

Ruger just outside the property. A drop of human blood was found meters away. There was a

gerry can full of gas nearby and Gordon's truck had been found abandoned in a different location.

The lone surviving family member was 38-year-old Jason Klaus,

and he had been telling various people that he'd been visited by the spirits of his family members

who had told him that the Klaus family had already been shot with a 9mm Ruger before the fire even started, among other very specific details.

His sister Monica's boss, Brady, was one of the people Jason told about these rumors, and he

ended up as an informant for the RCMP, recording all their interactions and reporting back.

Jason would say the spirits had identified the killer

as being one of his own associates. A 29-year-old man called Joshua Frank from the nearby

town of Castor. In reality, at the time of the murders, Josh was recovering from an injury.

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