273: From Sweet Catholic Boy to Satan’s Murderous Disciple… The Haunting Tommy Sullivan Case

Lights Out

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True Crime, News, History

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🗓️ 24 November 2025

⏱️ 119 minutes

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0:24.8	The home of your kind of cozy, Denelm. The home of homes. Light Out, everybody.
0:43.9	What's up, everybody?
0:44.9	Welcome back to another episode of Lights Out.
0:49.2	I'm your host Josh, and I'm your host Austin.
0:51.5	And I'm the producer, Daniel.
0:53.6	Today, we're taking look at a very disturbing case.
0:57.1	This one, man, left me thinking all sorts of things and honestly feeling a little just disturbed.
1:05.6	Yeah.
1:06.1	It's a disturbing one.
1:07.1	And it's sad.
1:08.0	It's very sad.
1:08.7	Oh, yeah.
1:10.6	Tommy Sullivan is at the center of this case.
1:14.4	He's a 14-year-old.
1:16.0	By all accounts, all-American boy, went to Catholic school, had the family, had the whole life.
1:22.4	Yeah, the nice suburbs to grow up in, riding bikes, playing games.
1:27.0	And seemingly out of nowhere, he takes this deep dive into darkness, essentially straight to hell.
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