Angel Marie Sawyer had a blended family with Milton Sawyer. They were business owners in a small town in North Carolina. Detectives first showed up to the scene of the crime and were made to believe that Miltons murder was a burglary gone wrong but they quickly found out there were secrets to uncover.  

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