Dr. Richard Musali was outside doing chores with his sons when a mysterious sound caught his attention.

Then he saw the smoke, dark smoke, billowing in the overcast sky, coming from the direction of his neighbor's house, where Todd and Linda Sturmer lived, about a third of a mile away.

When you say you heard a strange noise, like what type of noise?

We really weren't sure. My son and I talked about it. We said, what is that? We just weren't

sure what it was. We wondered if it could be horses. We really didn't know what the noise could

possibly be.

The Sturmer's home was hidden behind trees, so Dr. Musali couldn't easily see what was happening.

He decided to go investigate. He was a former critical care registered nurse, who then had a second career as a dentist. He headed out in his truck with his 16-year-old son.

He drove down his driveway, on the country road, and then up the Sturmer's long driveway in rural

Lawrence, Michigan. It was the afternoon of January 7, 2007. What he saw when he pulled up was a ghastly sight.

Flames shot out of the white farmhouse.

The roof was being destroyed.

On the ground lay a figure badly burned.

His ears, his eyelids, his lips had all been practically burned off.

Did you know who was on the ground? Not at first. I wasn't sure if it was Todd or possibly his son,

Trevor.

What was the condition of the person you saw on the ground?

He was unconscious, laying on his back,

and he had obviously been burned. He had all hair was gone, which made it more difficult to tell his age.

His skin, it wasn't blackened, as you might have imagined, but burned.

And so weeping cirrus fluid, perhaps a little swollen and puffy, and then also making it a little

harder to determine his age, you know, based on facial appearance, no wrinkles.

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