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    LIVING NIGHTMARE

    Jul 14, 2022 4 minutes

    Like so many teenagers looking to express themselves, Ashlee Martinson was sharing her deepest thoughts with others online as a blogger.

    But rather than the typical schoolgirl fixations of makeup or boys, Ashlee was more interested in serial killers and vampires.

    The 16-year-old was obsessed with the genre of horror and she wrote dark stories about death under her pseudonym Vampchick for her blog, Nightmare.

    Her words were fearless but behind them, Ashlee believed she was living in her very own horror story at home with her abusive step-father, and a mum who she felt was failing her.

    In 2015, Ashlee was living at home with her three younger step-sisters, aged

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