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A 10-year-old girl may have given police the best clues to catch a serial predator and I have to tell you about
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her because she is probably the most aware intelligent 10-year-olds I've ever come across. In 1988, right before
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Christmas, a masked man broke into the home of Sharon Wills and her family in Ringwood, a suburb of Melbourne, just
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before 5:00 a.m. He unlocked the door by sliding a newspaper under it, knocking a
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key that was in the door out and pulling it through under the door to where he was outside, which is just wild. The
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intruder ties the mom and dad with copper wire and tells them he just wants money. But when he moves into the next
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bedroom where the children are, four girls including Sharon were sleeping there,
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it becomes obvious that money is not what he is after at all. After she hears her parents scream,
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Sharon pretends to sleep and she continues to pretend to sleep when a dark figure comes into her room.
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But then, he calls her by name as though he was targeting Sharon specifically. The intruder blindfolded her, gagged
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her, and carried her out of the house to a car he had waiting. But Sharon did something incredible.
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While the man drove her away, she took note of the details in the car, the bucket seats and the beige carpet floor.
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And then, after driving a bit, they arrived at the man's destination. Wherever it was, Sharon recognized that
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it was a quiet neighborhood. It seemed like there was a driveway and it felt like a house.
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At one point, Sharon is left alone and she moves her blindfold to see even more. Peach curtains, a peach bed head,
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a striped lamp, a tripod. But Sharon doesn't stop there. Sharon tracks her time in the house the
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intruder took her to by using the radio he left on and she's even able to identify that she heard planes overhead
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during a certain window of time. Now, how do I know all this? Because when the attacker is finally
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done with Sharon, he releases her alive. Mr. Cruel wasn't a household name when this happened, so Sharon likely didn't
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know that he was who she was dealing with. But that didn't stop her from being aware enough to provide some of
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the most vital clues into who Mr. Cruel could be.