The Killings Were Committed With a Four Hundred Calibre Gun

Whatever group may have been involved, it wasn't an established, organized religious group. It was apparently a small group of want to be satanists and occult practitioners. Their best chance of not getting caught was to stop the attacks and let burk whits take the fall for them. As we'll hear, they reportedly had leverage over burk wits to keep him quiet. Some have speculated that they may have had enough leverage over him to force him to get caught and be a sacrifice to the police to keep the sect from getting caught as a whole.