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该系列舵手唐·曼西尼打造，讲述自从一起庭院拍卖会后，某小镇上出现了多起杀人案，被连环杀手灵魂附体的鬼娃娃恰奇，持刀索命来了。

A 16 year old boy who had thought that his father's death was an accident, suspects otherwise when he receives a 10-year-old lost letter his father had written just before his death.