It was Christmas Eve 1979, and Kimberly Thompson, then 8, was visiting her grandmother in Stockton, eager to open presents. The adults said she would have to wait for the arrival of her oldest sister, Sheri. The TV news had been repeating for days a story about three people found shot to death on the […]

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