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EPISODE · Mar 4, 2021 · 22 MIN

"The Devil Made Me Do It"

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Arne Cheyenne Johnson is the focus of the next Conjuring movie. He was allegedly possessed by demons that drove him to commit murder, and he would go down as the first attempt to ever claim demonic possession as a defense in a United States courtroom. Sources for this episode: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1981/09/13/by-demons-possessed/3479fa6b-eee3-4233-a2fc-b9defa403504/ https://apnews.com/article/c758c33ba4756f757e1dfec4f0abd39e http://www.the13thfloor.tv/2016/10/18/the-demon-murder-case-of-arne-cheyenne-johnson/ https://archives.law.virginia.edu/dengrove/writeup/arne-cheyenne-johnson Discovery Channel's A Haunting https://allthatsinteresting.com/arne-cheyenne-johnson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Arne_Cheyenne_Johnson https://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-250-arne-johnson-20140412-story.html https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpaAdZA5sEs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Arne_Cheyenne_Johnson https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/11/13/The-murder-trial-of-Arne-Cheyenne-Johnson-in-Danbury/1507374475600/ https://www.newstimes.com/news/article/Brookfield-man-sues-over-demon-book-86231.php

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