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Arriving at the shop at twenty minutes past midnight, she found the house dark and the door locked.

Thinking that the Marrs had forgotten that she was still out, she knocked but received no answer.

She first heard no movement inside, then a noise that sounded like footsteps on the stairs.

Assuming that someone was coming to let her in, she heard the baby upstairs cry out.

However, no one came to the door.