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ST. LUCIE COUNTY, Fla. — WPTV spoke to a Treasure Coast father whose family was fractured by violence just before Thanksgiving in 2015.

The hurt inside James Hiner is never far from the surface.

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"It's the nightmare that never ends," Hiner told WPTV reporter Jon Shainman.

In November 2015, there was a fire at his son Matthew Hiner's home north of Port St. Lucie.

James Hiner said the next day he made a gruesome discovery.

"I brushed some debris away, and there was the burned-out skull of my son," said Hiner.

He's still incredulous that he was the one to find his son and not the first responders.

Investigators shared with the

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