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Due to the graphic nature of this episode, listener discretion is advised.

This episode includes discussions of murder, necrophilia, and cannibalism.

We advise extreme caution for children under 13.

But wasn't unseasonably warm night in Milwaukee, 17-year-old Nicole Childress was shivering.

She couldn't process what she was seeing.

A figure was running down the street, heading straight for Nicole and her friend Sandra.

Instinctively, she wanted to run, but then her eyes adjusted to the darkness and she

saw how young he was.

The boy couldn't be older than 14.

He was naked and bleeding and could barely stand.

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