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In the dead of night, a sleeping family is viciously attacked.

This is everybody's nightmare scenario.

Only one person escapes alive.

I was watching her.

She seemed extremely calm.

They just seemed like the perfect family.

Sometimes evil appears where you least expect it.

How are you?

There are monsters.

And you could never tell where this killer might strike next.

Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

Steeped in history and tradition.

It's home to a thriving Amish community, as well as picture-perfect neighborhoods.

Like Mannheim Township.

A place where doors are usually left unlocked.

A lot of people would regard that as the kind

of suburb that exemplifies the American dream.

But on a Friday night in May, one family's dream comes to a violent end.

At 2.30 a.m., the quiet is shattered by a scream.

And sounds of a struggle inside a home on Peach Lane.

Minutes later, 20-year-old Maggie Haines bolts

from the house, waking her neighbors, who call 911.

Lancaster police confront a grisly scene.

Two bloody corpses, side by side, in the master bedroom.

And a teenage boy, sprawled lifeless in the hallway, slashed and stabbed repeatedly.

This is everybody's nightmare scenario.

Defenseless at home, just sleeping, and somebody sneaks

into your house with a knife and stabs you in your bedroom.

When we first approached the house, we didn't know if one person was involved

in the murders or if there were multiple people.

There could have been a lookout.

There could have been a driver waiting nearby.

We had no idea.

Police immediately call 25-year veteran homicide detective Allen Leed.

They said, Al, there's been a triple homicide and we need you for you to come in.

The victims are quickly identified as the Haines family.

50-year-old Tom, dead from stab wounds to the chest.

Next to him, his wife, 47-year-old Lisa, also dead from multiple stab wounds.

And 16-year-old Kevin, their youngest child and only son.

The most violent, the most vicious attack was done to Kevin.

The teenager had been stabbed more than 50 times in his back, arms, and face,

and his throat slashed.

There is blood everywhere on the walls and floor,

proof that he fought back against his attacker.

It sticks with me to this day, thinking about what happened to Kevin.

If there was a murder, you'd just certainly obviously

prefer that it's a bullet to the head and it's over quick.

And Kevin didn't die quickly.

The entire family wiped out, except for one.

20-year-old Maggie Haines, who escaped without a scratch.

She tells police she got out of the house as

quickly as she could, and never saw the killer.

Crime scene investigators comb every inch of the house.

They don't find any fingerprints, suggesting the killer wore gloves.

But they do find one key piece of evidence.

The most important thing that we found at the crime scene, there was a trail of

bloody shoe prints between some of the bodies at the home.

Just looking at the shoe tread impressions inside, I

knew that only one person had walked through blood.

That's all I knew at that point.

Following those footprints, the investigators determined that after

killing Kevin, the intruder went back to Tom and Lisa's room.

The killer saw that Lisa was still alive, so the killer

finished Lisa off with a one final slash to the throat.

Next, detectives track the killer to the second floor bathroom.

Under black light, a chemical called luminol reveals traces of blood in the

sink, a chilling glimpse into the killer's state of mind.

Imagine how cool you have to be slaughtering these people and taking the

time to wash your hands and wash the knife in their house before you run.

Since the family typically left their doors unlocked,

the attacker could have come in at any time.

What's unusual is that nothing seems to be missing from the house.

This wasn't a burglary gone wrong.

It was a deliberate massacre.

In the daylight, another potentially important clue surfaces behind their

house, a baseball cap with duct tape on it.

When forensics reveal traces of blood and hair on the hat, police know it's a

treasure trove of DNA and a chance to quickly wrap up the case, if they can get

a match from the national database of known criminal offenders.

But when test results come back, there's no match.

The evidence is put in storage for future testing against possible suspects.

I knew we had collected enough evidence that could solidify charges against

somebody later, but we had no idea who that would be.

Next, investigators start looking into the background of the Haynes family.

Listen, I want you to do a background check.

Was Tom possibly having an affair?

Was Lisa having an affair?

Did the family owe money?

Was the family involved in drugs?

Did they have gambling debts?

Were they involved in some kind of unseemly or illicit activities?

But as they dig deeper, police can find nothing out

of the ordinary in this typical middle class family.

They just seemed like the perfect family.

Leave it to Beaver, Ward and June Cleaver.

That's the type of people they were.

I couldn't believe anyone wanted to hurt such a nice family.

Be like killing happiness.

It just didn't make sense.

Tom Haynes was the branch manager of an industrial supplies company.

His wife, Lisa, taught preschool at their church.

All three of my kids went through the preschool program, so I knew who she was

by sight and by name.

Maggie Haynes is a college sophomore.

She was academically very, very gifted, and she was sweet and vivacious.

Last was Kevin, a shy 16-year-old with just a couple of close friends.

He excelled at his school's quiz ball, a high-level scholastic competition.

Kevin was a happy-go-lucky kind of guy.

Nothing really seemed to bother him.

Guess what I'm doing this summer?

The Haynes family seemed happiest just spending time together.

Their idea of a great time was staying home and reading and cooking supper

together, perhaps watching a movie, and then 10, 11 o'clock into bed.

So who would want to slaughter this loving family?

And why leave 20-year-old Maggie untouched?

Police focused their attention on the college student.

Why don't we begin by having you tell me exactly what happened?

Well, I was asleep in my room.

Maggie goes to school at Bucknell University, a hundred miles north of Lancaster.

She explains to investigators that she arrived home for summer break,

the night before the murders.

This is a Friday night.

Maggie and Kevin went to a local mall to buy Mother's Day cards for their mom, Lisa.

That evening after dinner, the family watched a movie together.

Kevin and his mom went to bed first, while Tom and

Maggie watched the end of the Phillies baseball game.

Finally, father and daughter headed upstairs.

Three hours later, Maggie claims she was woken up by a loud noise.

It sounded to her like a scream.

She heard the sounds of physical struggle from down the hallway.

She tells police the noise was coming from her brother Kevin's room.

When she stepped into the hall to investigate,

she was hit with the overwhelming stench of blood.

Next, she claims she ran to her parents'

bedroom, where a horrifying sight awaited her.

Her father was lying absolutely still on the bed, and her mom, Lisa, was sitting up

and it was in a state obviously of shock and said, please, go for help, go for help.

Maggie says she sprinted downstairs and outside, not

knowing what was happening to the family she left behind.

Her story seems to fit the facts, but what strikes

detectives as unusual is her demeanor during the interview.

My father was lying in bed.

I didn't realize at the time that he was already dead.

Maggie's response in the immediate aftermath

of the tragedy was quite frankly troubling.

I was watching her.

She seemed extremely calm.

The police had to consider whether Maggie somehow knew more than she was letting on.

Was it perhaps a boyfriend of Maggie's from college who had committed the killings?

She throws more fuel on the fire of their suspicions when she ends her type

statement about the murders with five striking words.

Her closing comment on her statement was, and you know the rest.

It just seemed like a very blase comment to make after

learning that your family has been viciously murdered.

They must consider the horrific possibility

that Maggie has murdered her entire family.

Could she have done all this and then fled out and created the scene and created the

theatrics that, hey, somebody just murdered mine?

Absolutely she could have.

Coming up, could a dark secret have triggered a deadly rage?

Why was somebody so viciously angry?

There had to be somebody that just hated them.

In the quiet calm of Pennsylvania Dutch country, the Haines

family was viciously murdered while asleep in their beds.

The only survivor?

20-year-old Maggie Haines, who doesn't have a scratch on her.

Investigators must now determine whether Maggie was just lucky to escape the

tragedy or an active participant in the crime.

You didn't have a robbery.

It was the only thing here.

People came in to kill.

Of course, she had survived, so it's like, how does one person get out of the house?

Detectives know of countless cases involving multiple

homicides, where the lone survivor ends up being the killer.

This is especially true of family murders.

So the question is, how could Maggie not have killed her family?

When Maggie appears unusually detached during questioning, suspicions only grow.

It was the first thing you saw when you came out of your bedroom.

I couldn't really see anything, but I thought that I smelled blood.

It was a little odd that she wasn't displaying more emotion.

And they called the police from there.

But the forensic evidence doesn't support Maggie as a lone killer.

There were bloody footprints.

A man's size 13.

And when Maggie knocked on the neighbor's door

for help, there wasn't a trace of blood on her.

Still, no one was ready to rule her out as a suspect just yet.

The other detectives and the other officers

actually felt strongly that she was involved.

Either not physically involved, but maybe somebody, you know, coordinated this.

Police had to eliminate the possibility that

Maggie hired someone to commit the murders.

But no large withdrawals appear on her bank records, and

a check of her phone logs yields no suspicious calls.

We got into her background, and we got her computers from everywhere, her laptop.

I mean, there was just nothing.

In countless interviews, Maggie never deviates

from her original story or betrays a hint of guilt.

Detectives eventually determine that her strange call during

questioning was simply how she coped with extreme stress.

People deal with loss a different way.

How are you supposed to react?

Your family's wiped out.

She got out that night, but she carries the scars and

the loss with her, you know, the rest of her life.

Still, a nagging fact remains.

For some reason, the killer did not go after Maggie, who

was sound asleep just 10 feet away from the other victims.

Between the time you called the police and their

arrival, did you see anyone leaving the house?

I don't see anyone.

Could this mean the killer knew Maggie and intentionally

spared her life while targeting her loved ones?

To probe further, investigators head to Maggie's

school, Bucknell University in central Pennsylvania.

Perhaps there was some boyfriend working in the shadows at Bucknell, or perhaps

even some crazed professor who might have been responsible.

The team interviews Maggie's friends and teachers,

including one professor with whom she had worked closely.

Did you guys ever socialize off campus?

Nothing formal, maybe a hello, how are you?

But after hours of interviews and days of investigation,

the team runs into one dead end after another.

Out of the 50 or 70 people that I interviewed, nothing jumped out and came

to the top that said, hey, this is the reason this might be the person.

Detectives turn to the private and professional lives of Maggie's parents,

Tom and Lisa.

We were checking financial records, computer records, employment records,

personal records.

As far as, you know, was somebody have a vendetta against Mr. Hanes?

Did somebody have a vendetta against Mrs. Hanes?

It just felt like it had to be somebody that just hated them.

And we couldn't fathom that there would be anybody in existence like that.

Diane Garber was a longtime colleague and friend of Maggie's father, Tom.

Tom Hanes was a very warm, compassionate, encouraging, uplifting, positive person.

He was respected by everyone that he knew.

But further questioning reveals there was at least

one person who wasn't such a big fan of Tom's.

We had an inside salesperson that we did not feel was pulling his weight.

He was kind of taking advantage of every chance he had not to do his job.

Bill, you got a moment?

Yeah, what's up, Tom?

Let's see.

Two weeks before he was murdered, Tom Hanes confronted the man in his office.

This is ridiculous.

The conversation at one point generated into a bit of a shouting message.

Here, this guy had an altercation with Mr. Hanes.

When we went to talk to him, he wasn't around.

And this was going for two or three days.

This guy, we don't know where he's at.

Eventually, the employee returned.

He'd been away visiting family and was shaken by word of the murders.

On top of that, he's got a rock-solid alibi.

That night, he was with his wife and other friends.

They had gone out.

We had receipts.

We had video that confirmed that they were there.

So it took him out of the picture.

Another potential suspect is eliminated.

Detectives now ask a different question.

Did anyone have a motive to kill Lisa Hanes, Tom's wife?

Lisa was very soft-spoken, very quiet.

She didn't like to be in the limelight.

She just kind of liked to be in the background, take care of her family.

They find nothing remotely negative about the preschool teacher and devoted mother,

which leaves detectives with the last victim, Kevin, Tom and Lisa's 16-year-old

son, who sustained far more horrific injuries than either of his parents.

The question plaguing investigators is why.

Did Kevin receive this vicious attack because

he actually fought with the perpetrator?

That's a factor.

But why was somebody so viciously angry with Kevin?

When investigators go looking for answers at Mannheim High School, they discover

that, much like his parents, Kevin had a squeaky

clean reputation that no one was willing to dispute.

Unlike many of his peers, who had begun experimenting with illicit drugs,

Kevin was a model student with a brilliant mind.

He was the star of his school's quiz bowl team,

a shy, awkward kid with a limited social circle.

He was one of the intellectual elite in high school.

If Kevin wasn't absolutely the smartest and the brightest, the most talented kid

in grade 10, he certainly ranked among the top three or four.

Attempts to link Kevin to any unusual outsiders at his school come up empty.

He spent nearly all his spare time with two

close friends, Benjamin Opp and Alec Kreider.

Detectives interview both Benjamin and Alec, probing for secrets in Kevin's life

or for any potential enemies.

Not a single red flag goes up.

Detectives are at a complete impasse.

After chasing down a series of promising leads, they still

can't make any sense of this gruesome triple homicide.

When you're going to kill three people, typically there's a motive behind it.

You have to have some reason, and there was

no reason turning up for any of these people.

With no suspects and no arrest anywhere on the

horizon, fear and panic hold Lancaster in a vice grid.

People were convinced that a lunatic was on the loose, and

you could never tell where this killer might strike next.

Coming up, two suspects suddenly appear on police radar.

And no one can believe what turns up next.

This was a law enforcement tip.

They sounded credible, so we had to move on.

Somewhere in the peaceful landscape of Lancaster,

Pennsylvania, a vicious killer is on the loose.

Nearly a week into the investigation, police have

yet to uncover a solid suspect in the savage murders.

Of Tom, Lisa, and Kevin Haynes.

They could not possibly dig up any dirt on the Haynes family.

The Haynes family were squeaky clean as advertised.

With no progress on the case, the entire community is paralyzed with fear.

No one knew who had done it.

If the person was still out there, you know, waiting to strike again.

Manheim Township had always been a place where

people never even bothered to lock their doors.

Now, security becomes everyone's obsession.

I have friends who work for alarm companies.

They said that their alarm business, and this was several alarm companies,

increased 700% during this time period.

Investigators are starting to believe they're

hunting the most frightening of perpetrators.

A homicidal stranger.

I was just more and more convinced we had a serial killer that had struck.

The team compares notes on other home invasions

and reaches out to law enforcement nationwide.

We notified all the police departments throughout the United States, via police

communications and police computers, and we just tried to give them a blanket

information with hope, so maybe somebody in

another police department has something similar.

They look at homicide cases across the country that involve the same MO,

stabbing with a knife, and multiple victims.

It turns out that in the last six months, there were four such cases in New York

State alone, and one in Florida, and another one in California.

Could there be a serial killer on the move who had just struck in Pennsylvania?

The cross-country search intensifies when a North Carolina highway patrol officer

pulls over a car on a routine traffic stop.

They had stopped the vehicle, and the vehicle was from Pennsylvania,

and the vehicle had two male occupants that were en route to Florida.

The trooper is suspicious when he observes several fresh cuts on the driver's hand.

He discovers bags of marijuana, and worse, a hunting knife in the car.

Face forward, hands on your head.

It's enough to bring the two in for questioning.

And during the interview, the young men let slip

a confession that is nothing short of a bombshell.

These two guys said, look, we just got away with murder in Pennsylvania,

and they also said these two guys, we also just

got away with a home invasion in Pennsylvania.

Back in Lancaster, the investigative team

believes they've finally gotten their big break.

This was a law enforcement tip.

They sounded credible, so we had to move on it.

The first thing Detective Allen Leade wants to check is their shoes.

Based on the tread pattern, an FBI crime lab has determined that the bloody

footprints left at the crime scene were made by a type of hush puppy shoe.

The report back from North Carolina is not encouraging.

He said that they were wearing sneakers, which the sneakers pattern was not the

same pattern that we had, but they very well could have changed shoes.

The cuts on the driver's hand were explained away as the

result of a freak accident while working at a saw mill.

The men also provide alibis for their whereabouts on the night of May 12,

when the Haynes family was murdered.

Allen Leade has one last shot to connect these two suspects to his case.

A baseball cap, investigators believe was left behind by the killer in the Haynes

backyard, which contained DNA from hair samples.

We had some DNA left at the scene.

We didn't know who it belonged to, so we've

obtained a DNA sample from these two gentlemen.

When their DNA doesn't match, the case completely collapses.

Their false confession about a home invasion

and murder was just made up to look tough.

The elimination of these two from North Carolina was very disappointing.

The excitement and anticipation of being able to clear this crime quickly evaporated.

In the end, despite the nationwide hunt, there's no evidence linking the massacre

of the Haynes family on Peach Lane to any other known case.

Now, two weeks into the investigation, police are no closer to finding the killer

of Tom, Lisa, and Kevin Haynes.

All they can do is follow up on the avalanche of calls to

a tip line that are still pouring in from the community.

Then one day, one of those random tips gives investigators a lead from an

unexpected source, a probation officer at a nearby juvenile detention center.

We have somebody who might be able to help us out.

He said, Al, he says, I have a juvenile here.

He's 17 years old.

He's telling us that one of his friends got into a house in Mayheim Township a

couple weeks ago and took care of a family as part of a gang initiation.

And the kid says, what do you mean you've taken care of the family?

I've taken care of them.

That's all you need to know.

The details the teen gives about his friend Hector's alleged crime are eerily familiar.

He went upstairs to the parents' room and he

killed the father and then he killed the mother.

He did the father first and then the mother?

Exactly, in that order.

He said that he went down the hallway and he started rifling through dresser drawers

where a boy was sleeping and wound up killing the kid after

slashing him and gashing him with a knife numerous times.

He knew some vital information about the crime

scene that had basically been kept confidential.

The kid knew that a dresser drawer in Kevin's bedroom had been found open.

He also claims Hector showed him a blood -stained knife the day after the murders.

It was incredible.

Oh my gosh.

That was the facts of our case.

Next, did the perfect family come up against the perfect killer?

Whoever did this knew the neighborhood and an escape road knocked out in advance.

After nearly three weeks, police think they're finally on to the killer who

snuffed out the lives of the well-loved Haynes family in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.

He walked into the house with a knife.

Their new lead comes in the form of a 15 -year-old from Juvenile Hall named Angelo,

who tells police his friend Hector bragged about the murders in disturbing detail.

The criminal investigators thought, this kid might actually be the perpetrator.

This might be the person we're looking for.

But will Hector repeat the grisly confession?

Angelo agrees to wear a concealed wire in the hopes

of getting his friend to commit the story to tape.

How you feeling?

Nervous.

We were trying to get the other boy to say something

about the Haynes case so that we could pursue it further.

We'll do this.

What'd you do after Matt's party that night?

They listened closely on the wire for four days as Angelo

keeps bringing up the Haynes family murders to Hector.

Have you told me about that guy's house you broke into?

You know what I'm talking about.

No, I don't know what you're talking about.

He would never bite, would never say one solitary word

about this and very clearly he knew nothing about it.

When their best lead goes down in flames, it's a crushing disappointment.

Angelo had made the whole thing up.

It all been fabricated by this kid perhaps because he thought it might afford him a

way out of juvenile detention but again it was a false alarm that amounted to nothing.

We all had our hopes up high so we went back to rock bottom again.

It was incredibly frustrating.

For the second time, a false confession has wasted precious time.

Investigators are discouraged and there is still a killer on the loose.

All the detectives put their personal lives on hold.

They were working 18 to 20 hour days.

They were exhausting every possible angle.

It was a really impressive level of dedication.

There were times where I would wake up in the middle of the night not only thinking

about the case but, you know, having that genuine concern for my family.

There was endless speculation.

There were so many rumors throughout the course of the criminal investigation.

Neighbors were blaming one another sometimes.

We could not find even anything close to a

valid reason why the Haynes family were victims.

Because of that, we had no suspects.

Maggie and questions continue to haunt the seasoned detectives.

Why did the killer spare 20 year old Maggie's life during his killing spree?

Why did the killer wear gloves and clean off the

knife yet leave a trail of bloody footprints?

And then there was the vicious and personal nature of the

attack as if the perpetrator knew the victims intimately.

Whoever did this obviously knew the layout of the house.

They knew that the Hayneses kept their doors unlocked.

Whoever did this knew the neighborhood and an escape road mapped out in advance.

Just after midnight on June 7th, Detective Alan Leeds' focus on the case

suddenly gets sidetracked.

Detective Leeds?

A police dispatcher informs him that a local teenager is threatening suicide.

And it's not just any teenager.

I said, who is the kid?

And he said, Alec Crider.

The name Alec Crider rang a bell only because

Alec Crider was Kevin Haynes' very best friend.

Detective Leeds can see one of his worst fears coming true.

Kevin's violent death was beginning to take a toll on those closest to him.

I thought that this would happen with some of Kevin's friends, only because this is a

horrible thing to happen, and then if there's some issues going on inside

emotionally, this just may have been what triggered it.

It's a tragic twist to an already horrific case.

Kevin and Alec were thick as seas because I would always see them together,

always talking.

After the murder, Alec said, I don't know who

could have done something so cold -hearted.

And he had tears in his eyes.

Almost four weeks after his friend's murder, Alec is threatening to kill himself.

I have a gun.

What?

He's on the phone with Carolyn, a girl he had just started dating.

He tells her that he has a loaded pistol and wants to pull the trigger.

Yeah, if I can't see you, I'm going to kill myself.

Keeping him on the phone, Carolyn slips a note to her aunt, who alerts police.

Is he upstairs?

Not long after, Detective Lee and other officers

successfully intervene to stop the attempted suicide.

Lee reaches out to the despondent boy.

I said, Alec, why... what's going on?

Why do you want to harm yourself?

And he kept telling me that this world's a terrible

place, that there's evil people in this world.

And I agree with him.

And he says, look what happened to my best friend.

He thought here was a kid driven around the bend by the

murder of his best friend and his best friend's parents.

With his mother's consent, Alec is committed

to a psychiatric facility for evaluation.

From there, he continues to write passionate letters to his girlfriend.

In the meantime, Caroline's aunt had contacted Alec's mother.

And the aunt had said, in no uncertain terms, would

she permit Caroline to have a relationship with Alec.

On Alec's parents' next visit, they give their son the bad news,

worried about how he might react.

You just kind of stopped seeing her, son.

You had to stop seeing her.

Alec took a deep sigh, then looked at his parents and said, Mom and Dad,

you're going to have to step out for a second.

What Alec said next, no one wanted to believe.

I have something in my life to know.

Ellen and Kevin Haynes has run into one dead end after another.

The tragedy even drove Kevin's best friend, 16-year-old Alec Crider,

to the brink of suicide.

Now locked up in a psych ward, Alec sits alone with his counselor,

having just banished his parents from the session.

In a calm voice, he makes an unbelievable statement.

Afterwards, the counselor immediately calls Alec's parents

back into the room and tells him to repeat what he said.

Mom, Dad, I killed the Haynes family.

No one knows what to make of this stunning declaration.

I can't imagine the trauma or the anxiety and

the anguish his parents were going through.

Kevin was your best friend.

When I heard about this, I thought Alec was doing this to get back at his parents.

And I guess probably they were hoping what he was saying was not true.

But Alec's account is chillingly accurate.

He tells his parents that he dressed in black clothes

and covered the logo on his baseball cap with duct tape.

Then he headed to the Haynes home with a flashlight and his hunting knife.

As a frequent guest at the house, Alec knew the garage door was always left open.

He went upstairs and stabbed Tom Haynes while he lay sleeping.

He moved on to Lisa,

then went down the hall for Kevin, who fought back fiercely.

Her brother's screams jolted Maggie out of a peaceful sleep.

She rushed into her parents' room to hear her mother whisper her last words.

As Maggie fled the house, Alec finished off his best friend.

Finally, he went back to Tom and Lisa's room, where he found Lisa still alive.

So he delivered one last fatal blow.

Before leaving, he went to the upstairs bathroom and washed the blood from his hands.

He thought he'd killed everyone in the house.

But in a strange twist of fate, Maggie was spared

because Alec had no idea she'd come home from college.

If he had known, he would have gone after her as well.

I can't believe you did this.

Alec's parents are devastated.

How could they believe that their very own son could have done something like this?

But Alec assured them he says, yes, I did it.

A quick search of Alec's home turns up a damning piece of evidence.

A hunting knife streaked with dried blood.

Nearby, a pair of black gloves is soaked with blood.

And most startling of all, the shoes that Alec wore when he was admitted to the

psychiatric facility are black hush puppies, size 13.

The tread from the shoe and all their imperfections

matched exactly to the tread patterns in blood.

And there was still blood in the seams and on the tread.

The shoes, knife and gloves found at the Crider

home are all sent to the crime lab for DNA testing.

There, the grim truth is confirmed.

They were able to link up Kevin's DNA and Alec's DNA on all these items.

Hidden in Alec's dresser, police find the most disturbing evidence of all.

A journal entry, apparently written just after the murders.

It says, Alexander was born on May 12th at 3.30, 2007.

He's now declared himself a new person.

He's embraced it.

He's empowered by it.

Now he's Alexander.

It's almost like he was proud that he was able to pull off this horrendous deed and

that he was making a statement, a closure, that he was completed.

On June 16th, 2007, Alec Crider is arrested.

The community erupts with conflicting emotions.

They didn't need to worry anymore that there was a lunatic on the loose.

Worrying where this lunatic might next pounce.

But on the other hand, it was very troubling and disconcerting to the community.

This was a native son.

This was one of their own golden boys.

How could one of our good boys possibly do this?

When I learned that Alec was a murderer, I just said no.

Because that didn't make any sense to me.

His teachers loved Alec.

They thought the world of Alec.

And he fit in with his students.

He was the leader of that intellectual pack.

The detectives on the case are equally shell-shocked.

He fooled some very experienced investigators.

And he would have fooled I think just about anybody the way he came across.

He was smart.

He was calm.

And he was able to cover it up and go back to his life.

In fact, his final exams were shortly after this.

And from what I understand, he did outstanding.

The burning question for the police is no longer did Alec kill the Haynes family,

but why?

We like to have motives.

We like to know why somebody does something.

That's the mentality of the occupation.

Why did he do this?

Alec never offers any motive for his savage crime.

But after reading his journals, it's clear to investigators he'd been

obsessed with the idea of killing for some time.

He wrote, I never once believed that killing out of cold blood was wrong.

In another journal entry, he writes, I despise happy people.

I would love to kill happy people.

Did Alec view the Haynes as such a happy family?

They made the perfect target?

What we're talking about here is a fledgling serial killer.

We're talking about a 16-year-old academic

prodigy who was a serial killer in the making.

The only motive was he's a killer, and he has to kill.

And that's not something people want to accept.

There are monsters, and Alec Kreider is one of them.

Alec is declared mentally competent to stand trial.

But as his day in court approaches, he pleads guilty,

hoping his youth will sway the judge's rulings.

But the brilliant teen is dead wrong.

The judge refuses to grant him leniency.

In a video statement to the judge, Maggie Haynes, the only surviving member

of her family, finally reveals the excruciating pain of her loss.

My world was shattered.

I miss him every moment of every day.

Kevin is my beloved little brother.

Even though the police have told me that there was nothing I could have done to

prevent his death, I still feel a sense of guilt that I should protect him.

Dad is what big sisters do.

I would have given anything for him to be alive today instead of me.

Alec Kreider, the despicable individual, he stabbed my family to death.

He has shown no remorse for his actions.

I never want him to be free from prison.

I need to make certain that he does not have a chance to victimize anyone else.

In a heartbreaking reversal of fate, the little

brother played the role of protector of his big sister.

Kevin, in a way, saved his sister because he fought

for his life and it gave her an opportunity to get out.

Appalled by the monstrous crime, the judge

gives Alec the maximum sentence allowed by law.

Alec has no chance whatsoever of ever being paroled, no chance whatsoever of

having his sentence commuted, not a ghost of a chance.

Alec will die in prison in old man.

This boy could have been anybody's son, anybody's brother, anybody's best friend.

We've all grown up with somebody like Alec, but he

harbored some hidden evil that nobody saw in time.