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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...
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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.