A Case Almost Too Gruesome To Mention_ The Little Falls Killings

The quiet house on Elm Street in Little Falls, Minnesota, where Byron Smith waited. A story of fear, violence, and the unmistakable sound of gunshots that echoed through Thanksgiving Day. Byron Smith, a retired security engineer, was tired of being repeatedly robbed. He installed cameras and armed himself, determined to protect his home. On Thanksgiving Day 2012, Nick Brady and Haile Kifer broke into his house. They descended into the basement, where Smith was waiting. The recording captured the first shots, the groans, and then the execution: shots of mercy as he called them "idiot" and "bitch." He killed them in cold blood.