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Trick or treat?

YOU’RE THE JUDGE!

On 31 October 2017, a manhunt was underway.

After being called to a flat in Cedar Creek Landing, Jacksonville, Florida, officers had discovered a gruesome scene.

Not a haunted house, set up by Halloween revellers.

This horror was all too real.

Two women had been shot in the head.

One, Ashlee Rucker, was dead.

Her sister, Lisa Rucker, was somehow still alive, but choking on her own blood.

And now, among the Halloween partygoers and trick-or-treaters in ghoulish fancy dress, a real monster was at large.

Ashlee’s boyfriend, Chad Absher.

Ashlee, 30, had met Chad one spring day just over three years earlier.

Swept up in their love story, the two soonAshlee’s young son.

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