The strange boy next door enters the picture.

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Maybe there's nothing so terrifying in the world as the long, few seconds that tick down when a character hears a strange sound behind a door and approaches it.

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"When I got a call from Lex to invite me in the back door he said he didn't think it was my cup of tea - which was a strange comment, " added Jefferies.

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But in what authorities called "a strange twist, " detectives also found Duran locked in a small bedroom with a padlock on the outside of the door.

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