New Year's Eve is a time for reflection and hope. A moment to bid farewell to the past and embrace the future. But for one family in St. Joseph Township Michigan, the festivities in 2018 would be cut short in the most brutal way.

At 11 PM, the police department received a chilling 911 call from a woman in distress. Her voice was shaking, her words barely audible, but the message was clear, her husband had been shot, and he needed help fast.

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In 1985, Cheryl Gyant was 10 years old, when she learned she’d been adopted.

What she didn’t realize, was that very same year, her biological mother was experiencing a living nightmare, after being abducted by one of the most notorious serial killing duos in American history.....Leonard Lake & Charles Ng

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July 28th, 2019, was the day Menhaz Zaman was supposed to be graduating from Canada’s York University. Instead police were on their way to his parents home for a welfare check.

The call had been made by members of an online community after he’d sent them disturbing photos.

When police arrived, a young man answered the door calmly. But what lay within the home revealed the true chaos that had erupted within his mind.

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In Ontario, Canada, September marks one of the last months of the year to get out and enjoy the great outdoors before packing it in for the season.

In 2017, one fisherman in Oshawa, Ontario, was out on the pier when he noticed something floating in the water.

What he and another fisherman managed to catch in his net, would be a visual that would forever be seared in his mind. Not a prize salmon but something far more sinister: Evidence of Murder.

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Oshawa This Week: Lawyers making final submissions this week in Adam Strong murder trial 

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Join us as we examine one of Canada’s most twisted and notorious criminals. Some called him the House Hermit. Others called him the Cottage Killer.

You’ll hear the story of a sadistic murderer and serial rapist who terrorized Ontario’s cottage country and led police on a trail of horror all the way to the Pacific Coast.

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A bottle of wine, nostalgic love songs and a late night phone call with an ex. It’s a relatable scene for many and one that Scott Dell found himself in, on a wintery night, in Killaloe, Ontario back in 1995.

On the phone was the love of his life, his ex Cherrylle. The wine went down easy, perhaps too easy and Scott scribbled out hopeful notes as the conversation went on for hours, and for Scott, the air in his log farmhouse crackled with the hope of reconciliation.

A reconciliation that would never happen.

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In the early morning hours of June 23rd, 2016, special agents followed a set of tire tracks in a rural field in Bigfork, Minnesota. In the distance, a camper squatted ominously against the treeline. The agents had no idea what they would find inside the camper; they hoped for the best, but were prepared for the worst…

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In the spring of 2016, Brett Ryan’s future looked promising.  He was living in a waterfront condo, had a job at a Toronto tech firm, and was just days away from his big bachelor party weekend.

In a few weeks' time, he’d be marrying his beautiful fiancé and by all outward appearances, things never looked brighter.

But like a heat mirage on a stretch of highway, it was all an illusion and Brett Ryan was about to be exposed.

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August 15th, 2016 was a warm night in Tequesta, Florida. The perfect night to relax and enjoy some fresh air.

For a couple living on Southeast Kokomo Lane, their garage was the ideal spot to hang out on a couch with the garage door up, watching the world go by. Until an encounter with a stranger on the sidewalk shattered their family’s entire world in a few nightmarish moments.

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Palm Beach Post: Austin Harrouff thought he was 'half-dog, half-man' in double homicide

Palm Beach Post: Judge grants audio recording of Austin Harrouff psyche exam

People: Fla. Man Who Killed Couple, Then Tried to Eat Victim's Face Found Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity

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Talhassee Democrat: Inside Austin Harrouff's bizarre online persona

Tallahassee Democrat: Friends, FSU students shocked by slaying

TC Palm: Austin Harrouff: From Post 2018 archives - Victim's daughter said homicides still scar my family memories

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WBPF 25: Jail calls released: Austin Harrouff's father says gruesome murders "not necessarily your fault"

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WPTV: Prosecutor seeks to change laws after Austin Harrouff found not guilty by reason of insanity

YouTube: 911 call from Mina Harrouff

YouTube: Deputy explains why he didn't shoot Harrouff

YouTube: Victim's Daughter to Austin Harrouff: I Hope You Burn in Hell

YouTube: You deserve to die': Sister of Michelle Mishcon makes passionate statement toward Austin Harrouff

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In a small town in Vermont, workers at the Department for Children and Families ended their work day and started thinking about what the weekend would hold for them.

Lara Sobel had plans to go home to her two spirited young daughters, to be joined later by her husband.

No one in the office could have predicted the bloodshed that lay ahead - a murderous rampage that had already begun hours earlier in a small country farmhouse

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