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A KILLER adopted my girl

Adventurous and free-spirited, Cathy Terkanian ran away from home when she was 14 years old.

She worked in a bar, then got a job with a travelling fair. Falling in love, by 16 she was pregnant.

She married her boyfriend, who was three years older than her, but despite their best efforts, the teens struggled.

‘It just fell apart, as things like that will do,’ Cathy later recalled.

She went back to her mother’s house and, when her baby girl, Alexis Badger, was five months

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