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fatally, on a quiet road, in a quiet georgia town. now, linda, the lone survivor, was on route to the hospital in grave condition. what had happened in the dark hours of a monday morning in that modest house? peeling back the layers of the mystery would take years. it would leave a family torn apart, and a community devastated but to begin to comprehend what happened, you need to roll back the clock, back to 2008, to a town called springfield, and a family named the heights. if i were to ask you what the height family was like, in 2007, what would you say? great family. spiritual family. pillars of the community. the height family in 2011? destroyed. what had happened on springfield road? who would want to god fearing people like the heights, dead? coming up he was a go getter.
you are special. when he wasn t putting in long hours at the office. or serving as president of this board, or director of that bank. he took pure delight in raising the cattle on his land that went back for generations. the property on rural springfield egypt road. but above all, philip heidt like to spend time with his family. linda, his wife of 40 years and his three sons craig, chris and carrie. the most important thing is his family. he always wanted his family to be close to each other. he always wanted his family to love each other. then came that horrific night in august of 2008, when philip, carrie, and linda heidt were shot in the height home. only linda survived to call 9-1-1 but now she was in serious condition in the hospital. i could not believe it, because miss linda and mr. philip, they were really nice people. none of the locals wanted to think it had anything to do with the nearby people suspected of cooking meth. and with whom they shared fifth springfield,