Larry and Connie Van Oosten were awakened one morning in 2017 by a masked intruder with a weapon. He stuffed them into the trunk of an old Caprice and hauled them off to a secret room. It seemed at first like a sophisticated heist designed to clean out their bank accounts–but the truth was both weirder and more unsettling than they could have imagined. They’re still dealing with it.

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