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On Halloween night in 2003, Heather Stephenson-Snell walked along Holland Street in Radcliffe, concealed beneath a white sheet, with a Scream mask covering her face and a sawn-off shotgun hidden underneath. Months of obsession, harassment, and meticulous planning had led to this moment, but her carefully constructed plan was about to unravel in a way she had never anticipated.

In March 1978, just two months after Charlie Chaplin's death, two men stole his coffin from a Swiss cemetery and demanded a ransom from his widow, Oona. What followed was a bizarre investigation involving wild theories, threatening phone calls, and an elaborate police operation. But while the thieves had succeeded in stealing one of cinema's greatest legends, getting paid would prove considerably …

In 1975, 25-year-old architecture student Hallie Ann Seaman disappeared after leaving her university studio in Seattle. The following day, her burned-out car and body were found miles apart. For nearly fifty years, her killer remained unidentified — until a DNA match revealed a name that had never appeared on the original list of suspects.

The Lin family were murdered while they slept, wiped out in a single night by someone they trusted. What unfolded inside that home would shock Australia and become one of the most devastating family tragedies the country had ever seen.