For over a year, Robin Gecht had been leading his own satanic cult composed of three of his own workers. But as they committed more murders, they got sloppy. When a victim left for dead survived her attack, it opened a window for police.
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on the night of October sixth, nineteen. Eighty two,
Ninety year, old Beverly Washington walk the streets of Chicago. It was more dangerous than usual to be out by yourself, but that
He was a sex worker and she needed the money
was her lucky night. She hadn't
out long when a Red Van pulled up beside her and slender white
man with a mustache leaned over to talk to her as he asked what she
searched the eyes darted around them, as if he was scoping
their surroundings, the men
Jerry Jittery, which Beverly was used to claim
we're always equal parts excited and nervous, but she already knew the cops weren't around
they were safe in a way. So she got to business and named her price to her
surprise. The man offered her even more money, delighted, Beverly,
the cash and hopped in the front seat. The man drove
a more secluded spot then suggested they get in.
back of the van to fool around but sudden
Beverly was unsure about her John. His excitement was
who, eager to Hungary, she told him they could stay in the front
suddenly Beverly was staring down the barrel of a shot gun, the man held
steadily at her head and ordered her to climb into the back of the van terrified,
She did, as she was told in the back, though
made Beverly Strip, as he pointed the gun at her, then he handcuffed
sexually assaulted, her Beverly sobbed, but she hoped the worst of it was over. It wasn't,
the man reached for something in his pocket and pulled out a handful of pills. He forced
capsules into her mouth and crying Beverley swallowed them. The law
thing she saw. Was the man standing over her with a wire pulled taught in his hands? That's when every
saying when Black
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by the summer of nineteen eighty two twenty eight year old, Robin gagged, had the all american dream in the palm of his hand, a home, wife and kids, plus a respectable blue color,
career in construction. Anyone
met Robin in his everyday life thought he was charming and charismatic
I couldn't imagine the twisted nightmares that he orchestrated in his free time for over a year.
and had been leading his own say. Ten occult composed.
twenty one year olds, Ed Sprite, Sir and Thomas Cooker, Alice and Thomas's. Eighteen year old, brother Andrew together
the four men abducted, raped, mutilated and killed women at Robins Whim the exact number.
Their victims isn't entirely clear, but by June
of nineteen. Eighty two. It seems they had taken up to seven lives, but not all of the ripper crews. Victims ended up dead. On June thirteenth
Robin in one of his henchman attack twenty three year old sex worker Angel York. After
sexually assaulting her and cutting into her breast Robin
the angels wounds with duct tape and left her.
To die in an ally against the odds
He'Ll- survived passers by discovered her and rushed her to the hospital where she told the police
what happened! She was so traumatized that she couldn't remember specifics about her attackers. Still the pool
these recognized her unique wounds, angels battered by
had similar injuries to the body of twenty one year old sex worker, Linda Sutton, who'd, been found a year earlier,
in May of nineteen, eighty one Robin and his crew abducted, Linda, raped her cut off her breasts.
and left her dead body in a field in a Chicago suburb at first
baby police had considered the gruesome murder to be a crime of passion, but an
story, changed their approach, the similarity
The crimes was too striking to ignore detectives real
I that whoever murdered Linda had probably attacked angel too, and maybe others
After all, several mutilated bodies had turned up in Chicago over the last year. Suddenly everything fell into place and the pattern suggested a terror
fine truth. There was a serial killer in the city, but he was
working alone angel reported that at least
two men abducted, her even one
person committing crimes at this level of violence would have been unsettling, but the possibility that there was a group of people working
together to kill women was almost to destroy
to believe Robin
however, wasn't worried about whether or not the Chicago police were on his tail in fact detect
and didn't seem to concern him in the slightest Vanessa is going to take it
in the psychology here and throughout the episode please.
Vanessa is not a licensed psychologist or psychiatrist, but we have done a lot of research. For this show thanks Greg
discuss last time, even though Robin was never officially diagnosed with a personality disorder he may have.
played psychopathic tendencies throughout his life. According to criminal psychologist, Robert D, Hare psychopaths
over confident in their ability to lie, they appear unfazed by
deception and on the off
as they do get caught, they figure they can
simply lie their way to safety again by this day,
Robin, had successfully deceived everyone in his life. He can
his wife, kids
and neighbors that he was an average guy he'd. Also,
all three men into his murderous satanic cult. Robin probably figure
that, if the cops ever did catch up to him, he would be able to talk.
His way out of trouble. So even though
he left a witness alive. He
likely never considered. It would lead to capture and
If he knew angel, had told the cops about him, it didn't seem to affect his drive to kill on August.
The eighth nineteen, eighty two to one
after Angel York Survival, Robin ushered his crew into his Red Van to go hunting for their next kill
together: the men cruised around the Chicago area. Looking for a prime target, when
I've been saw eighteen year old, sex workers Sandra Delaware. The van lurched to stop. By now the group do exactly what to do. They snatch Sandra off the street,
it and dragged her into the back of their van to keep her from struggling.
drew his hands and wrists were bound with shoe lays the men
It turns raping and beating her while the torture continued
and tied Sandra's bra around her neck, squeezing it tight with China
you're pinned to the ground Robin carried out his awful ritual. He pulled out a piano wire
and sliced off her left breast. The details.
What happened next are upsetting in the extreme, so we won't cover them here when they were
done with their horrific Games Robin and his crew
dumped Sandra under a bridge on the North branch of the Chicago River. She was
likely dead at that point, but it probably wouldn't have mattered to Robin either way. He has
what he wanted his victim.
flash back home
in Robin's attic. The men gathered
round the amputated breast Robin Red
passages aloud, satanic passages
during these rituals, perhaps add Andrew and Tommy really felt like they were taking part in an ancient ceremony by the
1980S Satanism was more of an exciting aesthetic that
true religion for most people, Robert had seen
they convinced the rest of the ripper crew that the murders and answering activities were part of, say Kanak rituals, but the truth was likely more self serving in his
book, encyclopedia of murder and violent crime. Criminologist Eric W Hickey explains that killers keep body.
Parts or trophies as a sign of control and as a way to reenact their fantasies through sexual gratification,
Robin had always found in ten sexual pleasure in cutting women's breasts now his say: ten
old gave him the excuse to touch consume
and pleasure himself with them. He couldn't get enough
in two weeks of centres. Murder Robin gathered his crew
for another outing after a few
where's of driving around they spotted rose back Davis a thirty year old marketing exit,
It is even though Robin usually targeted vulnerable sex workers. It seemed he
generally liked, taking whatever woman caught his attention, it possible
gave him a rush to know that nobody was out of his reach. The rippers grabbed Bro.
Off the street and in their van, where they brutal
as to the same way they had all their other victims, except he chose not to cut off and keep her breast afterwards, Robin ordered his crew to leave her body be
and an apartment building on North Lakeshore, DR once again it's on
clear whether or not she was dead by the time they sped away. In their van. It was a public law
Haitian for a body dump and roses
it was discovered on September. Eighth, then,
A few weeks later, the body of thirty year old Sri MAC was found in an empty construction site in South Barrington
the news of rose and sweet bodies set off a wave of panic. It was finally clear to the police
we're chasing either a serial killer or a team of them
out outlets dubbed the group. The ripper crew after Jack, the ripper just like that
one thousand eight hundred and eighty eight London slasher, the Chicago rippers, were as brutal as they were prolific. It was a
ding comparison and
locals read about them in horror. At First Robin probably didn't mind all the attention
eight year old likely enjoyed, knowing that his actions could inspire such widespread fear, but the rest of his crew didn't feel the same way
and Andrew and Tommy were burned out. They didn't
I had the same insatiable desire to kill as their leader, which is
likely why they didn't all attend every killing, not to mention
Three younger men were nervous about getting caught even as
police found, more bodies and the media wrote about their crimes. Robin didn't seem to care.
being discreet even though
when all of their leader, Ed and
when Tommy started to drag their feet and where has it
to join in on more attacks, but rob
his biggest problem wasn't losing control of his henchmen or cops tracking him down. In fact it
nothing to do with his secret life as a killer. The most
pressing issue for him was rent its unclear. Why? But robins contract work,
started to slow around this time. With no customers, the gift family fell behind in their bills. To avoid being
evicted. Robin's wife rosemary may have taken more shifts at her waitressing job, and perhaps this
TIM feeling, emasculated everywhere, he looked
and was seemingly losing control is crimes, weren't, stayin quiet, his followers were dragging their feet and he couldn't provide for his family
anger, probably boiled up inside of him, threatening to spill over.
at any minute, and he only knew
one way to find relief. He needed to go hunting coming
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Now back to the story. It was early
October, nineteen. Eighty two and twenty eight year old, Robin Gagged hadn't, killed anyone in a month and he probably felt frustrated for a number of reasons
Robin felt like he was losing control over his small band of followers with all of the meat.
attention, the ripper crew was getting
Andrew and Tommy were hesitant to go hunting not to mention work, had dried up
Robin's family was struggling to pay rent each day that passed without a murder. It's possible Robin grew, more frustrated
when a human experiences stress our bodies, release cortisol this hormone
keeps us on high alert, ready for the instinctual fight or flight response. Usually
after the pressure or danger has passed
levels decrease and the person system goes back to normal, however,
if someone is under constant stress, it can lead to other health problems like headaches, trouble, sleeping anxiety and depression according to
one, nineteen, ninety eight book sexual homicide patterns and motives.
stress is often a trigger that leads serial murderers to kill. So,
and cortisol levels are high and they need a release.
Whence may become one of the ways. Some killers led out anxiety, and after a month
the bottling up his frustration. It seemed raw
and was ready to burst that night,
Only came out October sixth, about a month after the DES
free of rose back Davis Run
in rallying his somewhat reluctant crew likely using his manipulative charm to motivate them. They
build into the Red Van and set out to Hunt Robin
was on anticipation. He could practically taste the blood
after a couple of hours driving around Chicago the Ripper crew, hadn't found their usual target to abduct many
unlikely. It stopped going out alone for fear of becoming the ripper next victim
probably only agitated Robin even more, he knew
did a release any release, so the twin
the eight year old grabbed his shotgun. Normally
Robin never used guns on his victims. He preferred to save
and prolong their pain as he beat and stabbed them to death. A gun was too quick, but Robin was done being
picky within a matter of minutes. Robins eyes landed on twenty eight year old Raphael Toronto, who,
standing in a phone booth with his friend. The car.
I slowed as Robin propped himself up on the window and aimed then he squeezed
the trigger the bullet hit. The phone booth, Raphael and his companion tried to take cover, but
Nowhere to run or hide Robin fired so
well more times, killing Raphael and injuring his friend Robin
the familiar rush of power wash over him, giving him the smallest
bit of release. There was no sexual or ritual listing aspect to the murder, but the control he expects,
it was enough for now
three followers, on the other hand, didn't know what to make of the drive by shooting. This was so different
from their usual ritualistic torture of women. Ironically, this is what made them feel uneasy
not enough to turn on Robin, despite
me doubt his hold on them was firm. It's also
possible. They were scared of their leader. After all, they knew how easily he could torture and kill people
Maybe they thought if they left they'd, be next. So
returned home, tight lipped ass ever, but it seems
everyone was done killing just yet that night, Robin decided to finish the hunt, and it seems he did so alone.
after driving around Robinson,
twenty year old sex worker Beverly Washington and knew he'd found his next victim. He pulled
over and started negotiating with her, he was so
eager to get her into the van that he offered to pay even more than she suggested Robin seemed anxious
over excited to Beverly.
It wasn't all that unusual for a John, so sheep,
get the money and got into the front seat, then Robin drove them to a secluded spot once part
Robin told Beverly. They should get in the back of the van at first. She
I said no, but then
pulled out a shotgun and threaten to shoot her unless she did ass. She was told terrified, Beverly climbed into the back robin following behind pointing the gun at her. He ordered her to strip and then placed here
cuffs on her once she was naked and trapped. He sexually assaulted her without
help of all his henchman Robin thought it best to sedate Beverly so that she would stay still while he completed his ritual, so he forced.
Hills into her mouth and ordered her to swallow them one. She had passed out Robbins
waste into her breast, severing it completely.
And he was done with her Robin dumped Beverly unconscious form by some railroad tracks. He,
we assumed she was already dead or that she would be soon after that he drove home with his grim trophy
one thousand nine hundred and eighty article published by the FBI, would classify Robins breast mutilation and sexual attacks as lust murders as the paper.
explains some killers who attack for lust are especially sadistic. This is because
tool. Gratification is an important goal for them, possibly even more important than avoiding detection. Certain
Most killers often act on impulse and leave sloppy crime. Scenes behind we saw
this when Robin leaned out the van with a shotgun and when he
Beverly without checking if she was alive, not only did he,
not consider that he was leaving a trail. He didn't seem to care, but he was about to pay
price for his mess October,
likely a few hours after Robin left the scene, someone spotted Beverly's body by the tracks she was covered in so much blood. They thought she was dead, but miraculously
really stirred. She was still alive,
Twenty year Old was rushed to the hospital where staff traced to treat her her injury
were horrific, but doctors manage to stabilize her when the Chicago police
about Beverly wounds. They realized it was likely another attack from the ripper crew. They hurried to the hospital to see what information she could tell them about her attackers.
Beverly was to injure to speak, but she was determined to share her story with the cops. Using a note,
had to write and blinking yes or no answers. She pain
taking lyric outed. What she remembered today
a prize: it was more than they'd uncovered. In months of investigation, Beverly wrote that her attire
it was a slender white man who looked to be around twenty five years old. He had greasy
brown hair and a moustache and wore a flannel shirt and square toed boots.
when a year old also told authorities that the man picked her up in a red van that had a wooden partition separating the front and back seat. She also saw a string of feathers hanging from what she thought was the rear view mirror with this information.
Please put together a composite sketch of the man who attacked Beverly. A call went out
all officers in the Chicago area to look for a red van with feathers in the windshield, but Beverly,
description. Wasn't the only break the cops got that week of
two days later, they added another woman to the Ripper crew body count. On October ten fifteen year old, Steve Grist was walking home to save time. He took a short,
cut through Clarendon Hills Cemetery, but my trekking through the grave
the teen saw something that made him stop and stare a swarm
of birds were pecking at a mysterious bundle near some bushes Steve's
closer to get a better look and immediately
hideous stench washed over him, Sub
he knew what the object was. It was a human body, Steve ran home,
when told his family what he found and they immediately
call the police,
officials arrived, but extensive decomposition made identifying the body difficult. It seemed it had been.
for a while
after examining dental records, police discovered that the body belong to twenty one year old, real estate agent, Laura
Kim Borowski. The rippers had abducted
murdered Lorraine. Five months earlier, while she was,
to work in the Clyde suburb of Elmhurst. The only
since that was left behind where her purse shoes, which had fallen to the pavement during the frenzied abduction until
her body turned up. Lorraine's disappearance had remained a missing persons case, but now the people of
the Congo wondered what other unsolved crimes the rippers were responsible for Robin smugly read these panicked in horror struck headlines. He
I'm sure, the fear of an entire city, and that was only the beginning. He was just getting started, or so he thought
coming up Robin continues. His rampage, even as the net closes around him now
to the story
in the October nineteen eighty two Chicago police
we're closing in on the ripper crew
Beverly Washington's description of her attacker and the growing list of bodies, officials,
felt it was only a matter of time before they had a suspect in custody, and they were right on October twentieth,
a police car spotted a reddish Orange Dodge Van driving around the city, not on
did the unique color match Beverly description of her attackers vehicle, but
string of feathers hung in place of a rearview mirror bingo. They flesh
Their lights and pulled the driver over, however,
men at the wheel didn't resembled the description Beverly had given two detectives: that's because the driver was twenty one year old, Ed Sprites, her not rob and get the police question. Dad
who stammered nervously through the exchange. He told the cops that the vehicle
wasn't actually his. It belonged to his boss
Officers asked ad if he could take them to his boss, backing him into a corner panicked,
led them to Robin's home in Villa Park when Robin stepped outside,
the officers immediately recognized his face: the mustache, the smug confidence he match, the
composite sketch exactly
They were sure he was the man who attacked Beverly Washington and likely many others
as they stood on the lawn peppering Robin with questions. He was
did as though he had nothing to hide
twenty eight year old, acted, calm, casual and even dismissive. He didn't seem much like a killer. He seemed like a carpenter who was annoyed to be distracted from his work still
new, knew they had their man, so they asked Robin to accompany them
to the station. It's unclear
exactly what happened next, but some kind of lie
whether it was with photos or with Robin physically. There was presented to Beverley who,
still in the hospital
as soon as she saw a Robin's face, she pointed him out and burst into tears. There
was no mistaking her. Attacker she'd remember his face until the day she died with Beverly
see the Chicago police arrested, robbing who, in the meantime, got a lawyer. They pressed him for more information about Beverly, as well as the other river attacks, but he practically laugh
more of five days later. Investigators jobs became even more difficult when Robin posted a fifty thousand dollar Bonn and why
walked out of the police station. It's unclear where he got the
money, given his recent financial difficulties, not that it mattered. He was back home with her
main suspect back on the streets police had to rethink their strategy. It was clear to them that
Robin had attacked Beverly Washington and they were almost certain. He was the killer, simply put, he was dangerous and they needed to get him off the streets soon
so the police decided to talk to the man who led them to Robin and
right, sir, he had seemed
nervous when they pulled him over and they hoped he had more information on his boss. They called him
and for an interview. However, when Ed walked into the police station, he acted.
More strangely than when they pulled him over. He was visibly sweating and seemed thrown by the most basic questions. It was clear he was hiding something
After a while of being battered with questions, Ed, cracked and the story he had to tell was even more shocking than the police expected admitted
Robin was more than just his boss. He said that together, the two of them had abducted,
mutilated and murdered. Multiple women
some of the women included ones. They already knew about like Linda Sudden and Sandra Delaware, but for most
Ed could only describe their appearance still. It was
ah for investigators, crucially
confirmed their suspicions around Robin and meant they could take him back into custody in all adds confession
implicated, jacked in seven murders at one charge of aggravated battery. Although it seemed he didn't need ads.
help in getting rearrested,
about a week after Robin, walked out of the police station. He went hunting its paw
will. He sense that is time of killing was coming to an end and wanted to make the most of his freedom while he still had it, but it's more likely.
In his arrogance made him feel invincible either in the infamous
and or a new ride. He picked up a twenty five year old woman who will call scarlet near rigged
field. According to the woman's police report, Robin offered Scarlet one hundred fifty dollars to tell him
goriest stories she could think of when she hesitated Robin revealed a homemade weapon,
large piece of broken glass embedded in a wooden handle. He started slashing at her with a makeshift acts. Trying to reach her face
garlic blocked most of the attacks with her arm and scrambled to get out of the car, but
door was locked. She thought her way past
Robin and lunged for the door handle on the drivers side. She managed to get the door
open and flung herself across her attackers body tumblr
the door and onto the side of the road
reach safety, Robin sped off terrifying.
she went to the police and reported the incident as she described
her attacker, the police realized exactly who she was talking about between this attack and
confession. The Chicago police had more than enough to arrest Robin again and November fifth, one thousand nine hundred and eighty two. They tracked him down at a relative's house and took him into custody
like before Robin didn't, seem worried by the arrest, and perhaps he didn't need to be because as soon as he arrived at the police station things,
changed again at sprites her. Without this,
and that same day, presumably for more questioning, it's not clear how
the twenty one year old, somehow learned that Robin was nearby and he immediate
recanted most of his seventy eight pages of testimony panicked. He went back
through all the murders, scrambling. The stories of the details no longer made any sense. He content
it did himself repeatedly, as the interrogators tried to figure out what was happening. There is only one thing:
it's clear about in this new version of events. Robin get was not in
called in any of the murders whatsoever. It seem
had decided he couldn't give up his leader after all,
we don't know for sure. Why had changed his story so abruptly, but given what we
know about Robin his methods and
cold. In general, we can hazard a guess.
nineteen. Eighty study published in the American Journal of Psychiatry examined a cult whose leader was cruel. Six out of fourteen
followers remained loyal to the abuse of dictator for almost four years until the group's dissolution. The study
and that the loyal devotees convinced themselves that their leader was only acting for their benefit Edna
he was going to prison after his detailed confession. There was little he could do to change that now, but it's possible. He felt compelled to protect Robin
the person who had given him shelter, work and purpose instead at shift
blame onto someone else entirely. He said that he was found
the orders of Andrew Cooker Alice,
on November seventh nineteen eighty two police picked up: nineteen year old, Andrew Kokoraleis for questioning Andrew
like ad was nervous, and it didn't take him long to confess to everything. However, Andrew
even more details for the police through rambling and often income
prehensile confession Andrew admitted to eighteen, murders, farm
Investigators were expecting. He also pointed to Robin,
as the leader of their group. Next, the police,
by the Cocoa Ellis Household, to speak with Andrew's family. That's when his
their Tommy implicated himself in everything. The twenty two year old could make eye contact with the police.
And he was shaking and sweating. His parents tried to explain
their eldest son was a little slow and probably did not
and what was going on, but it was too late. It took only me
it's for the police to suspect that they found another member of the ripper crew. On November tenth Tommy agreed to take a polygraph test which he failed. Afterwards, he admitted to being present for three murder:
he remembered killing twenty one year old, real estate agent, Lorraine, Borowski and recalled some of the details about abducting and abusing her baffled,
active, suppress the twenty two year old for more information trying to
We stand why the men would do this. They were surprised when Tom
I told them their reason. They had
killed in the name of the Devil, Tommy described
Robin introduced him and the rest of the crew to Satanism. He also admitted that Robin kept their victims, flesh for
actual and cannibalistic acts all performed in
the motel rooms or robins attic. He said that Robin kept a box of the mutilated body parts,
and guess that he'd seen as many as fifteen breasts in there after Tommy statement, the
These spent the following days trying to corroborate his story. They spoke with motor
well managers and discovered that Robin had rented multiple rooms for parties and strange religious gatherings at some point official
also decided to explore Robins attic inside the so called chapel. They fancy technic literature and the two
the Box Tommy described, but they didn't find any breasts. Blood or hard proof of satanic technic murders.
without any hard evidence. All the prosecution had to go on were the three confessions which no
we wouldn't be so bad, but this
is presented a unique problem for investigators, hardly any
The stories matched up each of them
recalled different murders and the details, rarely aligned on date, location or victim for many,
The accounts investigators didn't even have enough information or evidence to prove that anyone died. So officials,
cited to work backwards. They started with the bodies they did have Linda Sutton.
Lorraine, veracity, Shui MAC Santer, Delaware rose back Davis, Raphael Toronto and
another. It seems they were unable to identify. The three men confessed
two torturing and killing these women and recalled enough details for the.
At least to be certain by the
the process officials could hold the ripper crew responsible for eight murders, but that was it.
And there was another snag, a big one, while Andrew Tommy
to implicate rob in the slayings Robert himself maintained his innocence and, despite their certainty that he was involved, there was no physical.
but instead prove Robin, was present for any of the murders without that the prosecution didn't think they could
cure a conviction for the murders. Still they got
please charge him with attempted murder and rape based on his attacks on Angel York and Beverly Washington. It wasn't much
but it was something over the next year.
the group received various sentences. In the end,
we cook was found guilty of murder for killing the Rainbow Borowski and was sentenced to
Seventy years in prison, Tommy's brother,
Andrew was convicted of aggravated kidnapping and two counts of murder and sprites are received even more charges. Five counts of murder aggravated kidnapping deviate. Sexual saw
and rape, both Ed and Andrew, were sentenced to death,
As for the mastermind of the Ripper crew, Robin Ghek was convicted of attempted murder, armed violence, rape aggravated kidnapping,
and battery and devious,
Sexual assault prosecco
knowing how dangerous he truly was pushed for them.
maximum sentence and they got it
Robin, was sentenced to one hundred twenty years in prison for more than a decade the Chicago Ripper sat behind bars.
living out their new lives in a nineteen. Eighty
Find appeal Andrew tried to recant his confessions and accused the police of coercion,
But the accusations were eventually dismissed. Clearing the way for his execution
in March of nineteen, ninety nine, the
The five year old was put to death by lethal injection,
was the last person to be executed in Illinois. Not long
Andrew aunt. His end, the state reversed its position on the death penalty, so in two thousand and three
right through sentence was commuted to life in prison. Tommy.
the Ko Corral story, was different again during his prison term,
he became a reformed Christian and apologize to the barrel family. Then, in March of two thousand nineteen, the fifth,
eight year old was paroled. Having served about half of his sentence.
Tommy's release caused a stir in the Chicago area. What police made
and they were no longer worried about Tommy. Their true
concern was still behind bars and would be until at least twenty forty two
To this day, Robin Gecht maintains his innocence and given a
history of manipulation and deceit. He will
I clean never admit to any of the vicious murders. His cult carried out. That's a secret he's determined to keep between just him and the devil
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