On this week’s episode we look at the murder of Alan Bono. In 1980 a young boy was thought to be possessed by multiple demons. During one exorcism it’s believed that those demons then entered into the body of his sister’s boyfriend, Arne Johnson. Weeks later, Arne would go on to stab Alan Bono over 20 times. Arne claimed that he was possessed making it the first time someone in the US used possession as their criminal defense.

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