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It contains adult themes and may contain descriptions of violence.

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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

We're in the series Deadly Therapy.

In each one of this month's episodes,

I detail a case of people seeking help from therapists, gurus, and others.

But instead of receiving healing, they become victims.

Many people of faith leave strongly in the power of prayer.

Some look to ministers, priests, rabbis, and other spiritual teachers to provide help in guidance.

When one woman was at her wit's end, caring for her special needs child,

she turned to the church for help.

But one pastor would take things too far, resulting in a tragedy.

This is the case of Terence Catrell, death by exorcism.

In early August 2003, Pamela Hampill noticed a woman struggling with a little boy in a supermarket

in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Simply trying to do a bit of grocery shopping,

the mother was obviously having a hard time getting the boy to obey her to stay by her side

while she shopped. She had to keep stopping to pull him along. Pamela realized fairly quickly

that something was different about the child in the way he responded to his mother,

or perhaps didn't respond to her. He didn't answer her or look at her,

nor was he acting like a typical rebellious child having a meltdown in a grocery store.

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