Introduction

This pod cask contains coarse language, adult themes and content of a violent and disturbing nature. Listener discretion is advised. This is christie, and welcome to canadian true crime, episode 11, the shell lake massacre. The hoffmans were an ordinary farming family, dev lutherans. Their fifth child was victor ernest hoffman, born in 19 forty six. At about age ten, he began having strange experiences and frequently felt urges to kill daily. When he met some one new he would feel an impulse to kill them. It was around this time that victor would later say he first saw the devil. He recalled a pitch black creature about six feet