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March 2, 2025 60 mins

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On a frigid January night in 2023, April Lyda’s quiet evening with her kids in Tulsa shattered with a scream that still haunts her. She rushed downstairs to find her 9-year-old son Zander bleeding on the couch, gasping, 'She stabbed me,' as chaos erupted in their apartment. Bodycam footage captured a frantic scene—April screaming, 'You better pray he lives!' Allison tells us the sad story of Zander Lyda.

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