In the Bleak Mid Winter: REDUX - Part One

The Devil Within

EVIO Creative

True Crime

3.2 • 2.8K Ratings

🗓️ 3 September 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

The Devil Within - Season One In the bleak midwinter of 1988, the quiet town of Jefferson Township, New Jersey, was shaken to its core. A mother was found brutally murdered. Her teenage son vanished into the night. What unfolded in the hours and days that followed would horrify even the most seasoned investigators — and feed directly into the fever dream of the Satanic Panicsweeping across America. This was the case that introduced listeners to The Devil Within. It wasn’t just a true crime story — it was the beginning of a descent into fear, paranoia, and the darker corners of human belief. Now, we’re re-releasing The Jersey Devil with a twist. Host and writer Branden Morgan returns to the story with new commentary, reflecting on what it meant to tell this tale the first time, what he’s uncovered since, and why the Sullivan case still lingers in the American imagination. This re-release also marks a milestone: the launch of the new MGM+ documentary series Let the Devil In, based on season one of The Devil Within. The four-part series — premiering August 31st — expands on the original story with exclusive interviews, never-before-seen evidence, and firsthand accounts from detectives, first responders, and those who lived through the nightmare. In This Episode • The brutal 1988 murder that shocked Jefferson Township. • How the case became entwined with the national hysteria of the Satanic Panic. • New behind-the-scenes reflections from Branden Morgan. • How this story connects to the upcoming MGM+ series Let the Devil In. Why Revisit This Story Now? Because some stories never truly leave us. They echo, they evolve, and sometimes, they return in ways we never expect. The Jersey Devil is not only a cornerstone of this podcast — it’s the origin of a much larger journey that’s about to play out on screen. Follow & Connect • Instagram: @eviocreative (https://instagram.com/eviocreative?utm_source=chatgpt.com) • Email: [email protected] • Watch Let the Devil In on MGM+ – Premiering August 31st 🔥 Re-release. New commentary. The story that started it all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	EVO
0:03.0	Hello
0:07.0	Hello, welcome back to the devil within.
0:14.0	So we're doing something new starting this week.
0:17.0	I announced it last week in support of the MGM Plus show, Let the Devil in,
0:23.5	which is based on season one of The Devil Within.
0:27.0	We're re-releasing season one, and we're starting that today.
0:30.6	So I'll give you a little background on each episode.
0:34.2	I'll talk about where I was kind of creatively,
0:40.0	who I interviewed for each episode and and where kind of where the story went and what how it parallels with the episode of the
0:48.0	TV show that most recently aired so last night the 31st episode one of Let the Devil
0:53.8	in dropped on MGM Plus. The episode
0:56.3	is entitled Shock and it basically covers that night in January of 1988 in Jefferson Township,
1:03.5	New Jersey when, you know, forgive me, all hell broke loose. So let's go back five years to when I started writing the podcast.
1:15.4	In fact, we could go back a little further.
1:17.0	We could go back about 10 years to when I first decided I wanted to do something creative
1:21.7	with the Tommy Sullivan story.
1:24.5	So first, I think the first iteration of the story was a feature film that I
1:34.3	think it was a feature film that I called Clinton Road. And that haunted stretch,
1:42.2	or haunted stretch of road on the outskirts of my town
1:45.6	was the setting for all of this evil that befell Jefferson Township.
1:52.3	And now Clinton Road definitely was explored in the podcast,
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