Episode 51: Elyse Pahler

The First Degree

Alexis Linkletter and Jac Vanek

Society & Culture, True Crime, News

4.5 • 10.4K Ratings

🗓️ 31 July 2019

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

The disappearance of a 15-year-old girl named Elyse Pahler was initially ignored by law enforcement. But months later, a 16-year-old boy confessed to killing her—and claimed that her murder was a part of a carefully concocted plot by him and his friends to sacrifice her to the devil. They believed the killing would be their ticket to hell—and it would in turn make them better at their instruments, which they wielded in their thrash metal band. On episode 50, Jac, Alexis and Billy discuss the chilling case and explore how the band death metal band was dragged into a precedent- setting lawsuit accusing music companies of intentionally introducing youngsters to a violent, X-rated world of devil worship, human sacrifice and necrophilia. 🎟 Catch up to FOUR bonus episodes per month plus full video episodes over on Patreon: patreon.com/thefirstdegree 📸 Instagram: instagram.com/thefirstdegree 🕺 TikTok: tiktok.com/@thefirstdegreee 👤 Facebook: facebook.com/thefirstdegree Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	First degree.
0:02.0	First degree.
0:04.0	First degree.
0:06.0	First degree.
0:08.0	First degree.
0:10.0	The first degree.
0:12.0	Get on the news.
0:14.0	Get on the trailer.
0:16.0	Get on the face.
0:18.0	These things are supposed to happen in movies.
0:20.0	Not in real life.
0:22.0	I think the part that's really shocking to me is how childish they're like
0:26.0	what their beliefs was that if they did this horrible thing then like
0:30.0	they would be rewarded with these amazing musical skills and they would go pro
0:34.0	and become famous parents.
0:36.0	And yet
0:38.0	what they did, what they actually did in reality
0:42.0	seemed so adult and so horrible and how could they have even thought of this
0:46.0	as a 16-60-year-old kid.
0:50.0	Hey guys, welcome to the first degree. The True Crime podcast
0:54.0	that you might end up on. My name is Jack Bannock. I'm sitting across from a
0:58.0	Lexus link letter and next to Billy
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