Deranged

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:01:15

My name is Tom Sims.
I'm a newspaper columnist.

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Several years ago...

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I covered firsthand
the incredible story...

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you are about to see re-created
in this motion picture.

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It is a human horror story
of ghastly proportions...

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and profound reverberations.

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But because it is human...

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perhaps we can learn
something from it...

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something of ourselves...

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of our own fears and needs.

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But please, let me warn you...

:01:50

the events have been re-created
in detail.

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Nothing has been left to
the imagination.

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It is not a story
for the squeamish...

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or the fainthearted.

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Now that you stand warned,
we can proceed with our story.

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It is the story of Ezra Cobb:

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murderer, graverobber,
necrophiliac perhaps...

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or, as you may remember him from
those stories of long ago...

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the butcher of Woodside.

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When Ez was 10,
his father died.

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For the next 15 years...

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Ez and his mother worked
the farm by themselves...

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growing more dependent on each
other with the passage of time.

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Then Amanda Cobb suffered
a paralyzing stroke...

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which crippled her body
from the waist down...

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and left her bedridden.

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Ez brought her downstairs...

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sealing off the upstairs room
so he could be closer to her.

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For 12 years,
he slept outside her door...

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waiting on her, feeding her...

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bathing her, reading to her,
comforting her.

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