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Case 128: Joan Vollmer

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The Exorcism of Joan's Thyroid

Within two days of police finding her body, both Australian and international media outlets were reporting on the bizarre case. Ralph openly spoke to the journalists who turned up at his property, sharing all of the details about the exorcism. An autopsy determined that the thyroid cartilage in Joan's neck had been fractured due to the amount of pressure that the perpetrators had applied, and she died of cardiac arrest. Her funeral was scheduled for Friday, February 5, less than a week after her death. Roughly 60 of Joan's friends and fellow churchgoers attended but her family were absent, reportedly too distressed by the manner of her death that be there.

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