When Morgan Metzer glimpsed a masked figure standing in her bedroom doorway shortly after midnight on New Year's Day 2021, she thought she might just be seeing things. But then —

Morgan Metzer : He's standing there like a soldier, like with his fist clenched and like he was ready to go. … He ran at me and jumped on top of me. And that's when he started pistol-whipping me.

Just hours earlier, she'd been ready to ring in the new year in Canton, Georgia, with her best friend, Nichole Stabasefski.

Nichole Stabasefski : That's what we were looking forward to. … And I knew she was exhausted.

It had been a long year for Morgan. Recently divorced, her 8-year-old twin son and daughter were spending a few days with her sister in Florida.

Nichole Stabasefski : I mean we're moms. … We just

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