64: Back in Crime - Haunted History: Arne Johnson

Corpus Delicti

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4.5 • 608 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

Today we bring you the story of the one and only time someone tried to enter a plea of not guilty by reason of demonic possession in the United States. The demons first started out in an 11 year old boy, and moved on to a 19 year old who went on to stab his landlord to death. Possessed, or just a convenient excuse? You decide.

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Music by:
Kai Engel
"Daemones"

Blooper music by:
Art of Escapism
"Coal Miners"

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Sources:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trial_of_Arne_Cheyenne_Johnson
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18911235&BRD=1656&PAG=461&dept_id=13278&rfi=6
https://web.archive.org/web/20080829012011/http://www.mmdnewswire.com/brors-sue-world-fmous-psychic-lorrine-wrren-for-flse-ccustis-in-devil-book-2347-2.html
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/19688/the-devil-in-Connecticut
https://archives.law.virginia.edu/dengrove/writeup/arne-cheyenne-johnson
https://www.apnews.com/c758c33ba4756f757e1dfec4f0abd39e
https://www.nytimes.com/1981/03/23/nyregion/defendant-in-a-murder-puts-the-devil-on-trial.html

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hey everyone, it's Jen.
0:25.1	And this is Lindsay, and I thought I turned my phone off and I didn't.
0:29.1	Do you hear that?
0:30.8	No, I didn't hear it.
0:32.5	Well, this is Corpus Dilecta, the most professional podcast you will ever hear.
0:36.3	Literally.
0:37.5	Rookie mistake.
0:39.0	All right.
0:39.4	Tonight we are going to be bringing you a really awesome story.
0:42.9	So I asked on Facebook and our Twitter account for everyone who believes in ghosts.
0:49.1	And I was shocked and overwhelmed about how many people are like, yes, they exist. Yeah, I was shocked and overwhelmed about how many people are like, yes, they exist.
0:57.4	Yeah, I was shocked too.
0:58.6	I did not expect that many.
1:01.0	Oh, my gosh.
1:01.8	I'm like, am I all alone in my beliefs?
1:04.6	I.
1:05.2	You and Paul from the Varmint's podcast.
1:08.4	Yeah, that's it.
1:09.6	Because we were like, no.
1:11.7	Not happening. But everyone else is like, no, not happening.
1:13.7	But everyone else is like, of course we believe.
1:15.0	Why wouldn't we believe?
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