Annie Elise

But when these 911 calls were pouring in, nobody had the full story yet.

However, this wasn't the first time that the investigators had been called to Susan's house.

They were more than familiar with the name Susan Loritz.

Like I said, I want to take you deeper inside this case, into the lives of the people involved, and into the community where it happened.

Because there were all of these strong neighborhood bonds, yet they masked a tension that really simmered for a long time with this neighbor, and it eventually exploded into violence.

So on the night of June 2nd, 2023, it really started off like any typical night.

It was the middle of summer.

All the kids in the neighborhood were out of school for summer break.

So that meant having way more time to play outside.

And a group of kids made up of multiple neighborhood families had been playing in this particular section of the block where it's kind of just like this open field.

There's a lot of properties on the block and it looks to be two duplex properties, but then in between the two of them, this big wide open field.

So they would go in that field, they'd play football, they'd kick around the ball, they would bring toys over there.

It was really kind of like, I don't want to say a park, but like the footprint of a park, if you will.

A very big extended area of grass.

And this was where the kids usually played.

I mean, sure, they might go to one family's yard or another, but with the large amount of kids that all came together on a regular basis...

Sometimes it was difficult to play in those smaller yards.

They would need this big open field to play tag, kickball, football, whatever it is.

So now, like I said, this field was completely empty.

I'm not sure if maybe there was a home there in the past and it was torn down or if it had always been an open field, but the point being, it was an empty field between two rental properties.