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SATANIC PANIC (part one)

American Hysteria

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The Death of Rickie Casso

P ricky casso committed suicide in jail just forty eight hours after his arrest. Ricki had serious untreated mental illnesses and was taking a ton of psychoactive drugs. The son of sam admitted through several interviews with his court appointed psychiatrist that the demon story was nothing but a way to commit violent crime without taking personal responsibility. He felt the world had rejected him, and he wanted revenge against women in general, who he believed did not pay him the attention he deserved. So if you consider satan to simply be an adversary, as the original translation suggests, then the organized satanists were truly satanic.

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