The Devil Within A Prayer in Spring: REDUX - Part One
🕯️ The Devil Within — A Prayer in Spring: REDUX (Part One)
Presented by the Evio Creative Podcast Network
This week, The Devil Within reaches the closing chapter of its season one re-release in support of the upcoming MGM+ docuseries Let the Devil In.
In A Prayer in Spring: REDUX (Part One), Branden reflects on the final full episode of the original series — an episode that blends poetry, tragedy, and geography into a meditation on grief and faith in Jefferson Township.
🎙️ Poetry Corner with Branden: “A Prayer in Spring” by Robert Frost
The episode begins where it all began — with a poem.
Robert Frost’s “A Prayer in Spring” becomes the anchor for a discussion of gratitude, impermanence, and surrender — how Frost’s plea to “keep us here, all simply, in the springing of the year” mirrors the Sullivans’ own brief, fragile peace before tragedy struck.
Branden unpacks Frost’s lesser-known work and its place within the poet’s canon, contrasting its gentle acceptance with the melancholy of “Stopping by Woods,” “The Road Not Taken,” and “Nothing Gold Can Stay.”
“It’s not joy Frost struggles with — it’s permission. Permission to enjoy something beautiful without waiting for it to end.”
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🌲 The Newark Watershed
The episode then turns to the land itself.
Branden explores the Newark Watershed, a vast system of reservoirs and protected forest that spans 35,000 acres across Sussex, Morris, and Passaic counties — explaining how the isolation of this region helped shape the haunting stillness that defines northern New Jersey.
“When people think of New Jersey and the only images conjured are Newark or Atlantic City… get up north and you’ll see why it’s called The Garden State.”
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🕯️ The Sullivan Family’s Unfinished Story
Finally, the episode revisits the Sullivan family’s grim aftermath.
Years after Tommy Sullivan’s death, tragedy continued to follow.
• His brother Brian died by suicide just over a decade later.
• His aunt, Betty Ann’s sister, left behind her entire life after seeing the crime scene photos — and spent the next twenty years living as a cloistered nun.
Branden recounts how investigators later tracked down members of the family and uncovered new, disturbing details about Tom Sullivan Sr., whose life and secrets take center stage in next week’s Part Two.
“It seems the family just can’t escape tragedy — like it was written in blood in some cosmic contract that began that night.”
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🔥 Next Time
Part Two reveals what became of Tom Sullivan Sr. — the man at the heart of it all — and why his story changes everything you thought you knew about The Devil Within.
💀 Credits
Written and hosted by Branden Morgan
Produced by Evio Creative in association with Bellaire Studios
Original music and sound design by [Engineer Name]
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