Turns out, the leader — whom they call the Lord of Chaos — and creator of the Underworld game, directs players to fight a fatal battle against their enemies. One man finds it hard to tell fantasy from reality, with frightening consequences.

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Once in custody, several unlikely suspects describe a bizarre Live Action Role-Playing game called “The Underworld” — which doesn’t seem so harmless when one suspect begins talking about the game’s villain.

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Investigators catch a break when a neighbor reports a car stuck in the mud in Dr. Schwartz’s driveway two nights before his body was found. A tow truck driver, caught in a lie, then decides to step up, busting the case open.

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Renowned DNA scientist and father of three, Dr. Robert Schwartz, is found stabbed to death more than 30 times by a sword inside his Virginia home. A Satanic pentagram and other clues point to some sort of witchcraft.

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Renowned DNA scientist Dr. Robert Schwartz is found brutally murdered inside his secluded Virginia home in the weeks before Christmas 2001. As investigators dig in, a dark, paganistic theme hovers over the crime. As suspects emerge, a Live Action Role- Playing game, scripted by the least likely person imaginable, reveals a frightening subculture of young adults dabbling in the occult. Greed, control, manipulation and hatred unravel in an outrageous and unbelievable homicidal plot. Join investigative journalist and New York Times bestselling author M. William Phelps as he sorts out the deadly measures some will go to get what they want. 

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Tonya is behind bars again. The only thing that can free her is evidence nobody bothered to consider the first time. And if they dismissed her story fifty years ago – why would they trust it now?

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What begins as an ordinary afternoon ends with Tonya in handcuffs and her family in disbelief that she’s a convicted murderer. It turns out there’s a lot more to the Bonnie and Clyde story than was previously known.

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With a new identity, Tonya begins to believe her past is buried for good. But when her story makes it to primetime TV, a swaggering young special agent starts closing in.

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In a last-ditch gamble, Ohio Bureau of Criminal Investigation agents conceive an elaborate ruse to try to get Margo’s relatives to turn on her.

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On the run with nothing but adrenaline and borrowed luck, Margo Freshwater vanishes into Baltimore while detectives waste precious time chasing the wrong trail.

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