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On the evening of July 25, 1993, Gregory Nicholson, a federal witness in a methamphetamine conspiracy case against Dustin Honken, Nicholson's girlfriend of a few weeks, Lori Duncan, and Duncan's six and ten year-old daughters, Kandi and Amber, were kidnapped from the Duncan family home in a quiet Mason City, Iowa, neighborhood by Honken and his then-girlfriend, Angela Johnson. 2 They were driven in darkness to a farm field, and one at a time, murdered execution-style with gunshots to the back of their heads, and buried in newly dug graves. While Honken was slaying the two adults, Johnson was comforting the two girls by telling them that the gunshots they heard were fireworks. Honken then returned to the vehicle, escorted the two girls into the field, and executed them at point blank range. A little more than three months later, on November 5, 1993, Honken and Johnson lured the last remaining …