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Back in March 2023, someone emailed me and told me to watch this specific case closely as it unfolded. Now, just weeks
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before this email came in, a fire had ripped through a Chicago home, killing a mother and her three kids. Now, the
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husband, the kid's father, was a Chicago firefighter on duty that night. The city
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mourned. The department rallied. The case was ruled undetermined and suspended by August that same year. But
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while many people were grieving this senseless loss, someone in the Chicago area was emailing me and the tip was
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vague, but they told me basically to just pay attention to the story as it unfolds because though it looks like a
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tragic accident on the surface, there might be more if I dug deeper. So I waited, I watched, and honestly for a
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while nothing happened. So like just to be sure, I asked one of our reporters to
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dig into this story, talk to the family, pull records, see if there was actually
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a there there. And the very first thing she found, the woman who died alongside her kids was planning to take those same
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kids and leave her husband on March 8th. And the fire that killed them happened the night before. We had to keep digging
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from there. And you won't believe everything we found. All because of that one tip that came in.