By  Seamus McGraw

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Foy moved to a window on the stairs and then to an upstairs window to get a better view. He could clearly see the figures of a man and a woman. The woman was leaning against the wall, the man standing before her. In the glow of the great floodlights he could even see their breath turning to vapor in the December air.

Perhaps, he thought to himself, he had just caught sight of a couple engaged in some kind of furtive back alley tryst, but, still, for some reason, he could not turn away.

Instead, he went back downstairs, crossed into his kitchen and out the back door, onto a concrete porch, where he caught a full view of the two figures. And just as he arrived at the porch, just 80 feet away he saw the most savage and brutal thing he had ever seen.

Frozen Terror

"I saw the one figure reach his hand up and bring it down in slashing motion. And that's when the woman who was against the wall dropped to the ground," Foy recalled. Even now, years later, Foy says he is still haunted, not just by the horror of what he saw, but by his own reaction to it. It is not uncommon for witnesses to violent crimes to recount the same experience: how they become frozen, not really with fear, but with confusion as their minds fail to grasp the full scope of the evil playing out before them.

That's how it was for Foy. Nothing in his experience had prepared him to be a witness to murder.

Alley

"I'll tell you the honest-to-God truth...I didn't want to believe what I saw. My mind just totally shut down," Foy said. "I don't even know how to explain it to some people. But what did happen is that...my senses kicked in...I knew I had to pay attention to what was going on. And it was almost like everything got real crisp, I mean really detailed...I've never had more of a detailed picture ever."

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