On an overcast morning in 1993, Doreen had let her four-year-old son walk just down the block to the local summer day camp.

They held summer activities at the park, a tenth of a mile or an eighth of a kilometer down the street.

When the rain rolled in and the events got cancelled, Doreen went to Picker Boy up, but he was nowhere

to be found.

This is monsters. Oh, Eric Smith was born on January 22nd, 1980 in Savannah, New York to Randy and Tammy Hevener.

Randy and Tammy were high school sweethearts who got married when they were still teenagers.

They had a daughter together in 1979 when Tammy was only 17 years old.

Not long after that, they separated, but Tammy was already pregnant when they did.

Tammy married Theodore Smith, who went by Ted while she was still pregnant with Eric.

Tammy had suffered from epilepsy and took a medication called Trimethedione since she was five years old.

She continued the medication while pregnant with all of her children despite it being known to cause

birth defects.

Tammy eventually took Randy to court for not paying child support, so he claimed Eric

wasn't his child.

Eventually, Ted legally adopted Eric and he and Tammy had their own child a few years later.

Savannah, New York is a very small town in the western part of the state.

In 1993, it had a population of 974.

That kind of small town is where people generally say that kind of thing couldn't happen here.

But it did happen.

When Eric was a few years old, he developed slowly, taking longer than average children to learn to walk and talk.

He would also frequently hold his breath and bang his head against the wall.

When he was three years old, he got up in the middle of the night and lit a bunch of papers on

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