Inside a barn on a woman’s ranch in Southern California, the body of a naked and beaten sixteen-year-old girl was discovered with a single bullet wound to her head. This gruesome scene would expose a couple’s depraved and twisted game of hunting for young teenage girls. The female offender would not be shown any leniency or given sympathy by the Criminal Justice System for her crimes.
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