This is an I-Heart podcast.

And I was like trying to grab these books out of her hand because I didn't want her to get

rid of them.

I didn't want her to burn them.

And I was like, please no, please no, please no.

And she's like, yes, this is what we're going to do.

Then she took them from me.

She took them out of my hands.

And then she threw them all in the wood stove.

So she closed the door and that was that.

Couldn't retrieve them.

They were on fire.

Crystal Lester Pitch peered over a man's shoulder to see the computer screen.

There was a news report on it, and there was Jess.

Jess with her red hair, wearing a bright red coat and black gloves.

She was saying something to a man with a microphone,

but Krista couldn't hear what she said.

It was kind of surreal, honestly.

Krista was the girl whose mom once burned her books to cast away devil spirits.

She was in her 20s now, standing in a house in Spokane, Washington, where Victor's followers had relocated.

She lived there with other River Road members, all clustered around the screen.

Victor's right-hand woman, Jan, had warned Krista this news story was coming, but she wouldn't

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