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Conjuring Magic and Murder: A Mystery in Motor City Ep. 15

The Strange and Unusual Podcast by Alyson Horrocks

Sep 22, 201801:01:34Society & Culture

On July 3, 1929, Italian immigrant and occult mystic healer, Benny Evangelist, was beheaded with an ax in his home office. The killer than murdered Benny's sleeping wife, Santina, and their four children upstairs. The mu...

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Conjuring Magic and Murder: A Mystery in Motor City Ep. 15 is an episode from The Strange and Unusual Podcast by Alyson Horrocks. On July 3, 1929, Italian immigrant and occult mystic healer, Benny Evangelist, was beheaded with an ax in his...

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Published Sep 22, 2018, 01:01:34 long, audio available.

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On July 3, 1929, Italian immigrant and occult mystic healer, Benny Evangelist, was beheaded with an ax in his home office. The killer than murdered Benny's sleeping wife, Santina, and their four children upstairs. The murders remain a mystery, but what kind of motivation could inspire such a frenzied and brutal attack? In this episode, we delve into occult practices, magic, folk Catholicism, magical healers, a suicide inspired by fear of the ax killer, Italian folklore, as well as a look at the misconceptions about immigrants at the time, and how that may have affected the case, leaving it a perplexing, eternal mystery.

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Conjuring Magic and Murder: A Mystery in Motor City Ep. 15 is from The Strange and Unusual Podcast by Alyson Horrocks.

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Published Sep 22, 2018 and 01:01:34 long