Keith and Elaine Dardeen: A Family Trying to Escape Death

The Dardeen family was supposed to be starting over. Keith and Elaine were packing up their lives in rural Illinois, seven months pregnant with their second child, ready to leave behind a string of unsolved murders that had terrified their community for years. They were trying to outrun the danger. Then, on November 18th, 1987, Keith didn't show up for work. What police found inside their mobile home that day became one of the most savage and inexplicable crime scenes in American history. A pregnant mother beaten into labor. A three-year-old boy murdered alongside her. A newborn killed minutes after entering the world. And Keith? He was found the next day in a field, executed and mutilated in a way that suggested someone wanted to send a message. The evidence is still there. The DNA is still waiting. And someone out there knows what happened that night in Ina.

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