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Feb 2023
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Re-release: Midwestern Malice

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A small town is jolted awake when 31 year old Laura Wynn is found dead in her home. And when a double homicide hits a nearby town, people are terrified. Thirteen years later their fears are confirmed when DNA proves the killer lives among them.


Season 1, Episode 19 originally aired on ID on September 15, 2011. 


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