This week, Drewby and Yergy discuss the case of Riley Ann Sawyers, a little girl from northeastern Ohio. But after her mother, Kimberly Dawn Trenor, meets Royce Clyde Ziegler II on World of Warcraft, the pair take off to eastern Texas to be with him. But before long, the fantasy world that Kimberly had been playing out over the computer turns into a nightmare for little Riley.

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