"It was like they left to go to the store and were coming right back. There was no reason to believe they were abandoning their home."
On 12 August 2023, officers from the Berkeley Police Department in Missouri arrived at a small rental house on Graham Lane, a quiet residential street located just a stone's throw away from St. Louis Lambert International Airport. They were there to conduct a welfare check. Family members of some of the home's residents had been calling, increasingly frantic, unable to reach their loved ones for weeks.
When investigators entered the house, they expected the worst. They were bracing themselves for a crime scene. What they found instead was somehow more unsettling...
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