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there s a darkness that s at work here. you believe nick hillary killed your boy? yes. people call me a murderer. i m 100% innocent. you could have heard a pin drop in that courtroom. reporter: potsdam. way upstate new york. a small speck on the map on the road to the canadian border. that they like to joke up there that there s more cows than people, and i don t think they re joking. reporter: in this sleepy place, with a main street from the 1950s, you d think nothing happens that could possibly interest the outside world, but an epic story has been unfolding here. a murder case, for sure, but so much more than that. it s a little bit fargo. it is a little bit fargo. jesse mckinley, a reporter for the new york times was drawn to it. it s got a small town. it s got love triangles. it s got fated love. and those elements, for a writer, are irresistible. reporter: the woman in the middle of it all, tandy cyrus. a very pretty woman in a town where pr
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