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In early 2007, a young widowed mother of two was just settling into a bigger home after living for several years in a cramped apartment with extended family.

She was looking forward to spring because she finally had a backyard and was going to plant a garden.

She had so many hopes, and as a new Canadian, this was the place her dreams were supposed to come true.

But on a cold snowy day, in February of 2007, all those plans came to an abrupt end.

When you really get to know somebody and start to kind of walk in their shoes as much as you can, and know a bit of their background, it just totally changes how you view them.

This is a tragedy and you have to be there to see it, to feel it, to sense it, the desperation of these people.

I'm Nancy Hicks, a crime reporter for Global News.

Today, on Crime Beat, I highlight the importance of knowing the full story before rushing to judgment, because we never know what people have gone through.

This is Tormented by Trauma.

This story begins many miles away from Calgary in Wartorn, Chechnya.

A set Magomedova was born in 1970. She grew up in a rural area near the capital, Grozny.

She was from a large family and got married when she was 17 years old.

For a time in Chechnya before the war, she ran a little restaurant in the town.

I think she was quite successful at it. She liked to cook and cook.

That's Marilyn Millions, a close friend of the Magomedovas. She graciously agreed to be a part of this episode to help me share their story.

In 1992, a set and her husband had a daughter. They named her Aminette, but everyone knew her as Amina.

And then in 1994, a bomb was dropped on their house and her husband was killed, and she was expecting the second child at that time.

So that was the start of, I think, things just going downhill for them.

A set and her young family were victims of the first Chechen war with Russia, which started in 1994. She was left widowed.

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