13 Horrifying Crimes by "Demons"

Uber driver Jason Brian Dalton killed six people during a shooting spree in the early hours of February 21, 2016. People asked what drove a man to commit such awful murders. Money? Revenge? The real reason was something much worse. Dalton told detectives thatThe Uber app on his iPhone took over his mind and forced him to kill.A detective for the case said:

Dalton explained that opening the Uber taxi app made a symbol appear. He recognized the symbol as the Eastern Star symbol. Dalton admitted he saw the Uber symbol as the Eastern Star, and a devil head popped up on his screen. Pressing the app button started all the problems.

The app-demon did more than force him to kill; it also helped him travel quickly between locations.

Dalton explained he could drive over 100 mph and run stop signs just to get where he needed to go. Dalton wished he had never mentioned the symbol on his phone. Dalton described the devil figure as a horned cow head or something similar. Then, it gave him a task, and it took over his whole body.

New York City in the summer of 1976 was full of anger, frustration, and fear. David Berkowitz (AKA "the Son of Sam") did not help by killing six people and wounding seven others over one year. After his arrest, Berkowitz told police a demon named "Harvey" controlled him; the demon lived in his neighbor's dog and told him to kill people.

During a three-month break from his murder spree, Berkowitz wrote in theNew York Postto say, "I still roam the night like a spirit.Thirsty, hungry, he seldom stops to rest.

After prison, Berkowitz received a 365-year sentence and became a born-again Christian. Still, he believes the devil and God fight for control of his soul.

Pazuzu Algarad was arrested in 2014 for killing a person and burying the body in his backyard in July 2009. He also helped his girlfriend bury someone she killed later that year. He used the name "Pazuzu" because of a demon mentioned inThe Exorcist, and he hada forked tongue and sharpened teeth.

An anonymous man who lived at the burial site told police hehe felt Pazuzu was possessed:

It was very serpentine. His eyes became a bit glazy, almost gone, like his inner self phased out. You could tell his demons needed something. They took over about once a month, usually on a full moon. They sacrificed at least one rabbit, then he ate the heart and burned the rabbit's flesh.

Investigators later found the home, the site of many animal sacrifices, unsafe for people.

In 1974, Michael Taylor, a simple butcher in Ossett, England, became overcome by an evil spirit. He had an exorcism on October 5th and 6th, 1974. The priests could not expel all the demons, according to Bill Ellis, an expert on folklore and the occult.

The ceremony took place all night.The exorcists believed they cast out about forty demons, including those of incest, bestiality, blasphemy, and lewdness. Exhausted, they let Taylor go home. Still, they felt three demons—insanity, murder, and violence—remained in him.

These are the big three.

After returning home, Taylor murdered his wife. He ripped out her eyes and tongue, tore off most of her face skin, and then strangled their poodle. Police found Taylor naked and bloody in the street, shouting, "It is the blood of Satan."

In 2012, Deborah and Adolfo Gomez admitted they restrained their children (ages 7 and 5) with duct tape inside an SUV in a Walmart parking lot. They believed they were demon-possessed and thought the world was ending.They were demon-possessed..

Investigators arrested the couple in Lawrence, Kansas. They learned the couple was not only possessed but Adolfo also was.Adolfo had not slept for nine days. Perhaps this had something to do with it.So maybe that connection exists.

In March 2016, 17-year-old Tommy Smith tried to rob Peter Churm, a 66-year-old man, for his son's Range Rover keys. Churm refused. Smith flew into a rage and stabbed Churm in the face, neck, and ears. The teenage boy stabbed the old man so hard the knife split in two. Churm ended the attack by bashing Smith in the head with a claw hammer.a claw hammerSmith, who has paranoid schizophrenia, later told a psychiatrist he was magnetically drawn to his victim. He also said he saw a demon.saw a demonA demon floated out of Churm's wounds as he attacked him.

Reverend Cecil Begbie said South African Aljar Swartz was possessed by demons. Swartz strangled a Ravensmead teenager to death before beheading him and leaving the body in an abandoned school in October 2013. Swartz claimed he became possessed by a vague group of "Satanic attacksbut he gave no more details. Allegedly, after beheading his victim, he planned to sell the man's head to a traditional healercalled asangoma.

Reverend Bigbie helped Swartz and told church groups in Africa to pray for him on Good Friday after Swartz was jailed. Swartz said the collective prayer made him feel like pure water flowed through him. He claims demons left him—but courts will not lessen his sentence based on this supposed recovery.

In 1981, 19-year-old Arne Cheyenne Johnson stabbed 40-year-old Alan Bono to death after arguing about Johnson's girlfriend. Police took Johnson in. Johnson gave the defense, "The devil made me do it."

Every paranormal investigator went to Connecticut to interview Johnson. They sought to find out if he was truly possessed. Ed and Lorraine Warren said these investigators helped make the Amityville case famous.AmityvilleJohnson became possessed when he threatened to fight.Johnson threatened to fight.One of 43 demons lived inside Johnson's 11-year-old brother.

As Johnson's trial continued, the paranormal society split. Amazing Kreskin opposed the Warrens' support for Johnson. Kreskin noted the murder served only to exploit public superstitions for lecture money.

A judge denied the demonic possession angle the defense used. Johnson's team had no support. The killer eventually received a manslaughter conviction. Johnson got the maximum sentence of 10 to 20 years and served just over four years at the Connecticut Correctional Institute in Somers.

Jason Nelson, a 32-year-old English man, claimed a demon put him under a spell when he went on a "spree of violence."He raped a woman, tried to rape her daughter, and then killed Jordan Maguire after inviting the man into his home to sell marijuana.

This case lacks facts. In 2015, Reverend Connery Dagadu tried a multi-day cleansing ceremony on Roland Zinneh in Darby, Pennsylvania. Zinneh strangled Dagadu. Zinneh then ran out and started hitting a minivan with a shovel.

First responders saw Zinneh dancing. When they tackled him and cuffed him, he allegedly shouted, “I kill demons."This confuses things because we thought he was the one possessed by demons.

Luis Zambrano, 30, got 26 1/2 years in prison for killing his girlfriend Angie Escobar. He stabbed her over 80 times with scissors. After she died, he shoved her into his car trunk. He told a judge he was possessed when he killed Escobar, but there were also “trust issues.A man murdered his girlfriend over eighty times because of demons and "trust issues."

April 29, 2016, two police officers answered a call about a man screaming in the street. They found a man who told one officer something, "like he knew him from high school," then bit the other officer's hand.

Pamela Fornett, the biter's wife, told WTKR, "I apologize to those police officers about what happened, but I begged them, 'Please, don't shoot my husband.'"

The officers did not shoot him; they took him into custody. People believe he suffers from mental illness. Fornett later stated her husband had beenA demon possessed him."I caught it on camera," she said. "A demon—it really was, so I figured that's what got in him."

Noor Walile, a 38-year-old English imam, raped a boy in the church bathroom where he taught. When mosque elders learned, Walile just saidthe devil made him do it.The elders told Walile he must face the police in England or go back to India forever. Walile fled the police chase but secretly returned to Leicester. Police quickly arrested him and charged him with rape.