On October 31st, 1984, Doreen Erbert would return home from taking her 4-year-old daughter Trick or Treating. Her husband Charles would head out to a liquor and shortly after he left, there would be a knock on the door. Doreen would answer the door expecting more Trick or Treaters, but little did she know that whoever was on the other side of the door had ulterior motives.

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