. >>> clayton and janice johnson lived in the tiny coastal fishing village of shelburne, nova scotia. it's a close-knit community where townspeople all know one another. for the johnsens, it was an ideal place to raise their two young daughters, 11-year-old donna and 9-year-old dawn. >> we had two lovely girls. we were always together. you can ask anybody around the community, whenever they saw us, we were together. very rarely we went anywhere individually. >> clayton was an industrial arts teacher at the local high school. janice was a homemaker. the johnsons were a deeply religious family and very active in their church, volunteering much of their free time to church activities. >> we were always out visiting people and doing this and that. my mom was the type of person that she didn't like to just sit around doing nothing, so we were always busy doing something. >> the morning of february 20th, 1989, was a typical one for the johnson family. after the children left for school, clayton carried some laundry to the basement for his wife. [ phone ringing ] moments later, the telephone