The Evangelist Family

Who Killed...?

Bill Huffman

True Crime, Society & Culture, History

3.8 • 595 Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2023

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Was this revenge? Was this the occult? Who killed the Evangelist family? "On the quiet summer evening of July 3, 1929, Benny Evangelist and his family were brutally murdered in their residential Detroit home on St. Aubin Street, mutilated by an axe-wielding killer. His wife and four children were butchered while sleeping in their beds, while Benny himself was killed—and nearly decapitated—in his study. Evangelist was known as a carpenter, faith healer and, most intriguingly, a cult leader and author of a self-published religious text, The Oldest History of the World: Discovered by Occult Science." - Via: https://the-line-up.com/benny-evangelist-murders The St. Aubin Massacre Sources: 1. https://www.clickondetroit.com/features/2016/10/05/st-aubin-street-massacre-1929-detroit-family-murders-still-unsolved/#:~:text=DETROIT%20%E2%80%93%20It's%20one%20of%20the,carried%20out%20with%20an%20axe 2. https://the-line-up.com/benny-evangelist-murders 3. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/76528115/ 4. https://www.clickondetroit.com/news/2019/03/20/looking-back-at-some-of-michigans-biggest-unsolved-cases/ 5. https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2017/04/23/the-black-hand-the-epic-war-between-a-brilliant-detective-and-the-deadliest-secret-society-in-american-history-book-review/100373672/ 6. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Hand-American-criminal-organization 7. https://www.newspapers.com/clip/76529230/ 8. https://www.fbi.gov/history/field-office-histories/detroit 9. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Black-Hand-American-criminal-organization 10.https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=Evangelist+Detroit+Free+Press+Detroit%2C+Michigan+05+Jul+1929%2C+Fri 11. https://www.newspapers.com/search/#query=family+of+6+hacked+to+death+page+10&dr_year=1929-1929 12. https://www.americanhauntingsink.com/evangelista Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Slow Burn Media and Evergreen Podcast presents Who Killed, a podcast that provides a voice for the voiceless.
0:13.8	Hello and welcome to this week's episode of Who Killed. I'm your host of Bill Huffman, and this is a Slow Burn Media, Evergreen podcast, and Killer Podcasts production.
0:24.4	We have talked about family annihilators before.
0:27.4	You have people like Christopher Watts, who killed his children and his wife, just to cover up an affair.
0:34.7	You have Josh Powell who killed himself and his children and most likely his
0:40.9	wife as well. This week, I'm going to take you guys back about 100 years to Detroit, Michigan on July 3rd,
0:49.6	1929. And I'm talking about the murder of Benjamin Evangelist and his family in what has become known as the St. Aubin Massacre.
1:01.0	Since this case remains unsolved, it is important to note that some of the shady characters that pop up may actually be involved in this horrible tragedy.
1:12.5	Was this a revenge murder?
1:15.2	Something supernatural or cult-like?
1:18.8	Or could the Black Hand Society be to blame?
1:22.5	One thing for certain is Benny Evangelist was what one would consider today a cult leader.
1:30.1	According to American hauntingsync.com, it was in 1895 when Benjamino Evangelista was born in
1:39.6	Naples, Italy. In 1904, he came to America for more opportunity.
1:45.0	He had skills in carpentry, so he focused on real estate,
1:49.0	and eventually became a successful landlord.
1:52.0	Going by his new name, Benny, he had originally settled in Philadelphia with his brother Antonio.
1:59.0	But the two had a falling out, a weird one to say the least. And according to
2:06.0	Antonio's own accounts, he basically disowned Benjamin when he began having his so-called mystic visions.
2:15.5	This apparently went against Antonio's Catholic beliefs, so he basically told him to leave.
2:22.6	Benjamin picked up shop and took his craziness to York, Pennsylvania, where he ended up working on a railroad
2:29.0	construction crew. Turns out, Benjamin's best friend in New York was also a fellow immigrant from Naples,
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