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Post by Graveyardbride on Oct 14, 2014 15:56:48 GMT -5
North Carolina Satanists Charged with MurderSALISBURY, N.C. – Two skeletons were dug up from the backyard of Pazuzu Illah Algarad, a tattooed, self-described Satanist who was born John Lawson, and Amber Nicole Burch, his alleged wife (both pictured above). Algarad reportedly changed his name in 2002 to that of the devil in the 1973 film The Exorcist. Algarad bragged to friends about eating parts of bodies he burned and buried in his yard, but his claims were dismissed as nothing more than sick jokes.
Now, Algarad, 35, and Burch 24, have been charged with the murder of Joshua Fredrick Wetzler, 37, and Tommy Dean Welch, 36, who were found in shallow graves at the couple’s home in the village of Clemmons, North Carolina. They are being held without bond. Krystal Matlock, 28, of Winston-Salem, was also charged with accessory after the fact for allegedly helping bury one of the bodies sometime between June and August of 2009. Forsyth County District Judge Gordon Miller told the trio they could receive life in prison without the possibility of parole, or the death penalty, if convicted. They are due to appear in court October 23.
Bianca Heath said she lived with Algarad, who reportedly filed his teeth to sharp points with a Dremel tool, for a month in 2005 and he told her about the bones in his backyard. “Paz told everyone. But I never believed him. I’m sure no one else believed him either. He laughed about the skeletal remains when telling the story on why he did what he did,” she added. Heath claimed Algarad told her he picked up two prostitutes at two separate locations and killed and ate them, burning the corpses in a fire pit before burying what remained.
The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office is still searching for additional human remains on the property.
Wetzler and Welch were killed separately in July and October of 2009, respectively, according to arrest warrants. Algared is accused of killing Wetzler, with Burch allegedly helping bury the body. Burch allegedly killed Welsh and Algarad assisted with the burial.
On Facebook, Wetzler’s family said he was a beloved father and they had devoted the last three years to finding him. “I would like to know why,” Martha Wetzler, Joshua’s mother, said. “Why? Why they killed either one of these men. We knew it had to be him,” she said of Algarad. “You know, we were pretty sure that it, everything coincided with the stories we heard. I mean, he didn’t keep it a secret.”
She added that the last time she had spoken with Joshua was shortly after Father’s Day in 2009. “He’d spent Father’s Day with his son and he, you know, was really happy and I mean, he loved that child. So we knew he wouldn’t just get up and leave. Heartbroken. We always had that little bit of hope, even though you know in your heart, but you still have that little bit of hope.”
In 2010, one year later, Algarad was charged with accessory after the fact in the death of Joseph Emmrick Chandler.
Algarad told psychiatrists he practiced a “Sumerian” religion that involved monthly ritual sacrifice of a small animal. He told interviewers he had to perform a ritual every month during what he called the “black moon” and repeatedly asked if he could leave the hospital to perform the rituals, even promising to come back after he had finished.
Forsyth County officials declared the house where Algarad and Burch lived unfit for human habitation. There was debris, mold and animal feces throughout the dwelling. On the door (pictured above) there was a sign warning law-enforcement not to enter. “No gang members allowed: anyone that dresses the same, has the same badge and call themselves the authority of the land they did not create,” below which is an image of a skull and cross bones and the words: “Evil will triumph.”Source: WSOC News, October 13, 2014.
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Post by natalie on Oct 16, 2014 10:52:24 GMT -5
And people lived with and married this weirdo and sicko? Wow.
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Post by madeline on Oct 17, 2014 12:33:25 GMT -5
No matter how disgusting or weird a man is, there will always be some idiot woman who will take up with him. Look at that Bert Dahl creep, who was trying to open the pagan church in Arkansas. He is ugly, uneducated and a womanizer who comes on to other women just after his wife brings a newborn baby home and she's still married to him. A lot of women think that they have to have a man to validate their worth.
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Post by jason on Oct 18, 2014 16:17:38 GMT -5
Never underestimate the stupidity of a woman. I'm not saying that there aren't men who become involved with weirdo women; I see men with tattooed, stringy-haired, drug-addicted or drunken sluts all the time. But when it comes to abusive relationships, women are far more likely to become involved with, and stay with, some ugly, abusive, worthless POS man. Think about those women who were abducted, abused, kept locked in crates under the bed and strung up like slaughtered animals. Even when their abusers gave them the freedom to leave the house, go out running, go shopping, or whatever, they just kept coming back for more. Has anyone ever heard of a man doing that?
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Post by kitty on Oct 19, 2014 5:15:52 GMT -5
You don't have a very high opinion of women, do you, Jason?
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Post by Kate on Oct 20, 2014 0:04:00 GMT -5
I don't have a high opinion of women who allow themselves to be abused either and the woman who went back to the man who kidnapped and abused her for all those years is an insult to women everywhere.
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Post by jason on Oct 20, 2014 15:18:24 GMT -5
You don't have a very high opinion of women, do you, Jason? I don't have a high opinion of stupid women and a woman who becomes involved with some Satanist, Wiccan or other loser is stupid. |
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Post by pat on Oct 21, 2014 15:48:48 GMT -5
Jason, how did you get Kitty's quote to appear like that?
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Post by jason on Oct 21, 2014 18:11:49 GMT -5
Jason, how did you get Kitty's quote to appear like that? All you have to do is click "Quote" at the top of a person's post and you will be taken to a window with their quote at the top. |
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Post by Graveyardbride on Mar 1, 2015 11:13:30 GMT -5
A Look Inside the Home of a SatanistCLEMMONS, N.C. – As the black door affixed with the image of a human skull and the words “Evil Will Triumph” opens, a world of filth, graffiti-covered walls and animal remains is revealed inside the home of two people accused in a pair of North Carolina murders with suspected Satanic overtones. “I don’t believe any of my hoarding cases will match with this one,” said code officer Ken Nelson of the Forsyth County Housing and Community Development Department from behind the camera. He’s speaking in a 9½-minute video (link below) of the property shared with People by the department.
This residence in question is 2749 Knob Hill Drive in Clemmons, the home of Pazuzu Illah Algarad, 35, and 24-year-old Amber Nicole Burch, the woman he described on Facebook as his wife, both of whom were charged with murder after the discovery of skeletal remains in the backyard in October 2014. Authorities later identified the victims as Joshua Wetzler, 37, and Tommy Welch, 36, both missing since 2009. Police also arrested a third person, Krystal Matlock, 28, as an accessory after the fact.
An accompanying report documents health hazards that include “broken glass and sharp instruments everywhere, along with hundreds of flies dead and alive, decayed animal parts and remains, animal cages with carcasses and a dried blood-like substance on the walls.” As the code officer wrote after his inspection: “There are many reasons why this home does not qualify for human habitation.”
A friend of Burch’s who visited the residence in 2009 said when she entered the house, it was difficult to avoid stepping into excrement that appeared to be both animal and human and the stench was so powerful she thought she might vomit. She also saw filthy dishes piled up with “bugs crawling all over them.”
Algarad, she added, was completely naked and never put on any clothes while she was there. He told her he got high from eating the “still-beating heart” of a sacrificial animal and bragged openly about having killed two prostitutes. “He was on all kinds of drugs and drink when I got there,” she recalled. “I’m pretty sure I witnessed him peeing in the corner” and his behavior was “very sexual, very provocative.”
After nearly a month, investigators released the house to the owner, Cynthia James, Algarad’s mother, who lived in the home with Algarad and Burch. However, she cannot return to the residence because it has been declared unfit for human habitation and she has been ordered to meet with county housing officials concerning cleaning up the property and making necessary repairs. If she fails to do so, the house will likely be condemned.
Algarad, formerly John Lawson, legally changed his name to reference a demon in The Exorcist and sported “666” tattoos and teeth filed into spikes. In a People interview, Keith Bryson, a neighbor, said Algarad “told me he practiced Satanism.”
Watch video.
Sources: People, November 8, 2014, and WGHP, November 5, 2014.
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Post by Sam on Mar 2, 2015 1:51:10 GMT -5
It's hard to believe that people could live in a place like that. |
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Post by natalie on Mar 2, 2015 13:33:07 GMT -5
Looks like the inside of a crack house.
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Post by natalie on Oct 30, 2015 14:21:42 GMT -5
Satanist Found Dead in Cell of Apparent Suicide
A self-described Satanist facing murder charges was found dead in his North Carolina prison cell. Pazuzu Algarad, 36, was discovered unresponsive around 3 a.m. Wednesday by correctional officers at Central Prison in Raleigh with a wound to one of his arms, according to the Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office. Doctors and medical staff attempted to revive him for more than an hour, but he was pronounced dead at 4:20 a.m., officials said.
Algarad was transferred to the facility in May at the joint safekeeping request of his attorney and the district attorney’s office for reasons that haven’t been released to the public, District Attorney Jim O’Neill said at a press conference. He would not divulge why Algarad was transferred to the prison, but said inmates are typically sent to the prison on safekeeping orders to keep either themselves or others safe, or for reasons related to their mental or physical health.
O’Neill would not say if Algarad was in general population or solitary confinement or discuss the manner of his death, but the North Carolina Department of Public Safety labeled the death an “apparent suicide.”
Algarad was due in court Thursday, almost exactly one year after skeletal remains of two missing men were found buried behind his since-bulldozed Clemmons home, officials said.
Joshua Fredrick Wetzler, 37, and Tommy Dean Welch, 36, are believed to have been killed separately in July and October of 2009 by Algarad and his live-in girlfriend, Amber Nicole Burch. Both Algarad and Burch were charged with one count each of murder and one count of accessory after the fact to murder. Burch remains jailed.
A second woman, Krystal Nicole Matlock, was accused of helping bury one of the bodies. She was charged with accessory after the fact to first-degree murder.
Officials would not discuss how the death of Algarad, who in 2012 reportedly changed his name from John Lawson to that of the Assyrian demon discussed in The Exorcist, would complicate or simplify the double-murder case. “In any case where a life is lost – he has a family, he has friends – we don’t celebrate the loss of life,” O’Neill continued. “It’s sad for them and out of respect for them we ... don’t comment on it.”
The State Capitol Police Department is conducting an investigation with assistance from the City-County Bureau of Identification.
Source: Caitlin Nolan, October 29, 2015.
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