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The Strange and Unusual Podcast

The Evil Eye and Witchcraft Murder in Kalamazoo

The Strange and Unusual Podcast

Alyson Horrocks | Morbid Network

True Crime, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, History

4.71.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2024

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

On this week's episode we delve into the superstition of the evil eye and a case of witchcraft murder in Kalamazoo in 1929

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On July 23rd, 1929, panicked and dishevelled, Roy and Dela Tomlin and their five children rushed

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into a Detroit police station and begged for protection from a lethal menace that was after

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them.

1:19.8

It was a witch, they said.

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She was an old woman who lived on their street.

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And they told the police that she made tables move on their own, and broomsticks danced by themselves.

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That was frightening enough, but now, they said, people weren't getting sick, and it was all the witch is doing.

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Della Tomlin herself had fallen ill and they said there was no other explanation for her sickness.

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It was the witch's curse.

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Eventually, Delo's condition grew dire enough that she had to seek emergency services.

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Dela recovered, but the family worried that next time the witch may actually kill her.

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