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For years in the mid-1980s, Charles Ng would visit Sean Doyle every night.

It was always the same nightmare. But Ng, one of America’s most notorious serial killers, was never the aggressor in the dream.

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He was always helpless, stranded in a bear pit at the zoo. Doyle had a high-powered rifle with a telescopic sight. Night after night he would line up Ng in the crosshairs and pull the trigger.

“It was so realistic, I could literally see the bullet ripping into his chest and slamming him into the ground,” said

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Doyle, telling the story recently at a Calgary pub.

As Ng lay dead or dying, Doyle would see the killer’s mother. She didn’t say anything, but her eyes did.

“They were saying to me, ‘You’re no better than he is. You just killed him,'” Doyle said.

“Night after night after night.”

The nightmares took their toll, and his health began to suffer. Doyle now believes he was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder. He was scared to go to bed at night for fear Ng, and his own anger, would return.