The Homicide Squad

Constable Jeffery Arnott was on duty in the town of Japarit when a call came through from the local Lutheran minister requesting an officer's presence at a property 26km south. The minister had just been summoned there himself, and it was disturbed by what he had found. Constable Arnott saw a female body with noticeable facial and arm bruising in an advanced state of decomposition lying on the bed. Flies and maggots had gathered on the body, under which there was an enormous stain on the mattress, and a foul odor permeated the room. Ralph Vomor told other responding officers that Joan had died as the group had been physically reading the demonic spirits from her