Before we begin, just a trigger warning, the following episode contains references to graphic

physical violence. Please listen with care. We lost our matriarch. I lost the love of my life.

When Victoria Hurd found out her beloved mother, Claudia,

and stepfather Chip had been killed,

her whole world fell apart.

She was my world.

She was the past and the future.

And that's changed now. She couldn't imagine someone stabbing

Chip and Claudia dozens of times. But even when Victoria and her daughter Sarah arrived at the

funeral home, they had no idea just how brutal the murders actually were. So as they

planned the burial, Sarah and Victoria asked to see Claudia's body. And we were very persistent

about wanting to see her, really just having a clarification. Like, that is my grandmother that died.

It's my mom that died.

I need to know that.

I don't want to just believe it because somebody told me.

And we went to the funeral home and the woman there,

and she was like, you can't see her.

No one at the funeral home would explain why they couldn't see Claudia,

who Sarah affectionately called Granza.

And the woman at the funeral home told us that they needed at least 24 hours before we can see Granza.

So they waited the 24 hours, and then finally were brought into the room with Claudia's body.

They called in a specialist from UC Davis.

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