Byron Smith was tired of his home being burgled. He said it had been broken into at least a half dozen times. And he was determined not to let it happen again.

So, Smith set a trap and laid in wait to protect his “castle.”

When two teenage cousins broke into his house on Elm Street, it set off a true-life horror story.

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