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10 Episodes 2015 - 2015
Episode 1
Sat, Feb 14, 202644 mins
Occult Crimes looks at the case of Glenn Taylor Helzer, Justin Helzer, and Dawn Godman who kill and dismember five people in California. Their goal is to overthrow the Church of Latter Day Saints and hasten the return of Jesus Christ. Initially, they beat and slash a retired couple to death after forcing them to write checks. They later kill Selina Bishop who attempted the cash the checks written by the elderly couple. They also target Selina's mother and her boyfriend.
Episode 2
Sat, Feb 14, 202643 mins
Occult Crimes looks at the Order of the Solar Temple. Founded in the 1980's in Geneva, Switzerland, by Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret. the Church quickly expanded into France and Canada. Internal disagreements leads to growing paranoia in Di Mambro. He informs the Order that they must travel to Sirius. He orders the murder of former member Antonio Dutoit and his family. Members of the cult later commit mass suicide.
Episode 3
Sat, Feb 14, 202645 mins
Occult Crimes looks at the criminal organization in Matamoros, Mexico, that performed torture and human sacrifices during occult ceremonies. In 1989, University of Texas premedical student Mark Kilroy disappeared in Matamoros after going there with friends to go drinking. Kilroy is kidnapped and killed. His body would, then, be used in a cannibalistic ritual by Adolfo Constanzo the leader of a drug gain. Police eventually discover the ranch revealing numerous other victims. Constanzo later dies in a gun battle with the police in Mexico City.
Episode 4
43 mins
In 1997, Natasha Wallen Cornett, a bipolar teen, and five of her friends between the ages of 14 and 20 decide to leave their miserable lives in Pikeville, Kentucky and runaway to New Orleans, Louisiana. They all pile into a small car stolen from one of their mothers armed with two guns "for protection." Along the way, they stop at a rest stop in Tennessee where the religious Lilliled family was picnicking. After being approached by the Jehovah's Witnesses, the runaways decide to steal their van. They take the family of four down a secluded road, where they are all shot and left for dead in a ditch along the side of the road. The 34-year-old husband, 28-year-old wife, and their 6-year-old daughter all die while their 2-year-old son survives but is left with permanent disabilities. The group takes the van, leaving their car behind with its registration plates removed but foolishly leaving the VIN number. After fleeing to Mexico, they are caught and taken into custody just two days after the murders. The group eventually pleaded guilty to carjacking, kidnapping, murder, and attempted murder resulting in all six of them receiving three life sentences without the possibility of parole plus an additional 25 years.
Episode 5
43 mins
Occult Crimes looks at the Eustis, Florida, murders of Naomi Ruth Queen and Richard Wendorf by a vampire inspired group led by Roderick Ferrell. Ferrell and accomplice Howard Scott Anderson kill the couple so that their daughter Heather Wendorf could run away with them.
Episode 6
43 mins
Occult Crimes looks at the case of the Beasts of Satan a black metal band who were convicted of a series of satanic murders in Italy. The first murders were of Fabio Tollis and Chiara Marino in 1998. The police initially believe they have run off, but Fabio's father investigates the case. A third murder of Mariangela Pezzotta is committed in 2004. Andrea Volpe and Pietro Guerrieri are later arrested and given prison sentences.
Episode 7
44 mins
Occult Crimes looks at the Chicago Ripper murders where a satanic cult involving Robin Gecht, Edward Spreitzer, Andrew Kokoraleis, and Thomas Kokoraleis kill and mutilate eighteen women over a period of eighteen months. The police bring in Spreitzer who identified Gecht and his obsession with breasts. Eventually, they are all arrested and sent to prison.
Episode 8
Sat, Feb 14, 202643 mins
Occult Crimes goes to Germany and looks at the stabbing murder of Frank Hackert by Satanists and goth culture enthusiasts Daniel Ruda and Manuela Bartel. It looks at how alienation drove both of them to the Goth movement and later through a magazine ad to each other. Obsessed with Satanism they kill Ruda's friend Frank Hackert after inviting him to dinner. The are arrested but show no remorse claiming they are doing Satan's will.
Episode 9
Sat, Feb 14, 202643 mins
Occult Crimes looks at the 2001 murder of Robert Schwartz in Leesburg, Virginia. Robert's daughter Clara Schwartz plays an online role-playing game and manipulates a deeply troubled fellow player Kyle Hulbert into kill her father for insurance money. Both are arrested and sent to prison with long sentences.
Episode 10
Sat, Feb 14, 202643 mins
Occult Crimes looks at the 2001 murder of ninety year old Mabel Leyshon in North Wales. The woman was attacked, her body was drained of blood, and her heart was removed and placed on a silver platter. Police identify Matthew Hardman as the perpetrator. The young teen was driven by a desire to become a vampire.