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When Julie Martin's 16-year-old son rang as she drove home from work, his words made her blood run cold. Don't come home. Dad's at the front door."

His father, Bylent Bill" Troshupa, was subject to a restraining order barring him from the family home after violent rages. His sudden arrival, nearly a year later, spelled danger.

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