Alex Christopher Ewing finally faces a jury – and leaves an indelible memory on the woman beaten with a weathered ax handle and the prosecutor who tried him for escape, burglary and attempted murder. This is a 9NEWS (KUSA) production9NEWS WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagramGoogle+

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The Fear All These Years | Chapter 10: Swift Justice

Park Ranger Mike Meyer patrolled the not-so-tranquil waters of Lake Mead during the go-go ‘80s, a time of cocaine, powerboats and mob hits. But his biggest bust came the day he crossed paths with Alex Christopher Ewing – and had to decide whether to open fire.Learn more at 9news.com/blameThis is a 9NEWS (KUSA) production9NEWS WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagramGoogle+ 

The Fear All These Years | Chapter 9: A Stone-Cold Stare

Nancy Barry heard her baby cry, jumped up to fix a bottle, and walked into her kitchen to find a shirtless man carrying a club. The man savagely beat her and her husband – then vanished into the desert, leaving behind only footprints. Even so, police knew pretty quickly who they were afterLearn more at 9news.com/blameThis is a 9NEWS (KUSA) production9NEWS WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagramGoogle+.

The Fear All These Years | Chapter 8: Trouble on Racetrack Road

In 1984, Henderson was a sleepy bedroom community of fewer than 30,000 people 15 miles from the Las Vegas strip. It was seldom in the news. That changed the night a suspect in a middle-of-the-night rock attack fled from sheriff’s deputies during a bathroom break at a Henderson filling station.Learn more at 9news.com/blameThis is a 9NEWS (KUSA) production9NEWS WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagramGoogle+

The Fear All These Years | Chapter 7: Escape

It was the early morning of Jan. 27, 1984. A 25-pound rock slammed into Roy Williams, jolting him awake, cracking a rib and tearing open a gash in his head that would require 85 stitches. Just as fast, the shadowy figure that attacked him bolted, disappearing into the desert outside Kingman, Arizona. Only decades later would he learn that the man accused of attacking him had allegedly killed four people earlier that month in Colorado.Learn more at 9news.com/blameThis is a 9NEWS (KUSA) production9NEWS WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagramGoogle+

The Fear All These Years | Chapter 6: Kingman

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A legal opinion from Nevada’s attorney general finally caught up with a man who’d been behind bars there for decades. Suddenly, there was a flurry of activity in Colorado – all of it kept under wraps by police until the day a tip to a reporter led to a stunning scoop. Would it be the answer?Learn more at 9news.com/blameThis is a 9NEWS (KUSA) production9NEWS WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagramGoogle+

The Fear All These Years | Chapter 5: The Answer?

The murders of three members of the Bennett family — and, to a lesser degree, the killing of Patricia Smith — got lots of attention. But they weren’t the first hammer attacks in the area. Before those slayings, there was an attack on a young couple and an assault on a woman who was left for dead.Learn more at 9news.com/blameThis is a 9NEWS (KUSA) production9NEWS WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagramGoogle+

The Fear All These Years | Chapter 4: The Hunt

She knew something was wrong when she arrived at the bus stop after work and her mother wasn’t there waiting for her. After catching a ride home with a cousin, she crept to the front door of her darkened condominium, opened the door, flicked on the lights and walked into a scene of absolute horror.Learn more at 9news.com/blameThis is a 9NEWS (KUSA) production9NEWS WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagramGoogle+

The Fear All These Years | Chapter 3: In the Shadows

After a middle-of-the-night hammer attack left three members of one family dead, anxiety spread through the Denver area — homeowners questioned utility workers in their yards, teachers answered difficult questions from children, and neighborhoods hired private security. But most shocking was the news there’d been other, similar assaults that hadn’t gotten any attention when they happened.Learn more at 9news.com/blameThis is a 9NEWS (KUSA) production9NEWS WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagramGoogle+

The Fear All These Years | Chapter 2: Twelve Days

Two women are bound together by family ties –- and by an attack that made no sense when it happened. It still makes no sense, and yet they’re similarly pulled apart by the fallout they’ve lived with over all these years. For them, that snowy night 35 years ago might as well have been yesterday.Learn more at 9news.com/blameThis is a 9NEWS (KUSA) production9NEWS WebsiteFacebookTwitterInstagramGoogle+

The Fear All These Years | Chapter 1: Haunted

In this final episode, Jeremy returns to where this series began – Chuck’s home. There, he learns what’s next for the property as a man in an excavator begins to tear down the last remaining piece of Chuck’s life in the physical world. And what about Mystery Mike? A handwritten letter from jail shows up on Jeremy’s desk. And for the first time, Denver’s Chief of Police speaks about Chuck’s case. While Chuck was lost at home, can something be found in his story as the final chapter concludes?

BLAME: Lost At Home Episode 10 - The End

Who was that stranger who came to Chuck’s family with a warning about their father? “Mystery Mike,” as Jeremy Jojola calls him, prompted Chuck’s sons to start searching for their father a year before he was finally found dead in his living room. In this episode, Jeremy takes you along on his journey to find Mystery Mike. What does Mike know?

BLAME: Lost At Home Episode 9 - Tracking Down Mystery Mike

Compulsive hoarding affects a surprisingly large number of people in the United States. To better understand this disorder, Jeremy sits down with Cory Chalmers, an expert who appears on the A&E show Hoarders. Turns out that Chuck was just one of millions who suffer from this “Hidden Epidemic.”

BLAME: Lost At Home Episode 8 - Hoarding: The Hidden Epidemic

Jeremy uncovers the original 911 call made by a neighbor 383 days before Chuck was found in his living room. Prophetic words as she warns the city Chuck may dead in his home. However, it took police 9 months to contact Denver's Department of Public Health and Environment, the agency responsible for finally recovering Chuck’s remains. Jeremy questions how this agency took another 4 months to find Chuck Lost at Home.

BLAME: Lost At Home Episode 7 - Paralysis by Analysis

The Fear All These Years | What’s happened in the decades since a man with a hammer unleashed unspeakable violence in two quiet Denver suburbs?

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