Halloween weekend in Grand Forks was pure chaos: packed bars, wild costumes, blackout drinking, and a party bus full of people who could barely remember the night by morning. In the middle of it all, Joel Lovelien stepped outside a bar to help someone who’d supposedly been left behind. Just minutes later, he was found in a parking lot, beaten so badly he wouldn’t survive. Police thought they had their killer almost immediately: a young man in a lion costume covered in blood, with the victim’s blood literally on his clothes. But as the investigation unraveled, so did the case…