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The Devil Within

The Sean Sellers Story - Part One

The Devil Within

EVIO Creative

True Crime

3.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 November 2025

⏱️ 25 minutes

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🜏 THE DEVIL WITHIN The Sean Sellers Story — Part One Chapters I–III: The Boy Who Called Himself Ezurate Before the headlines, before the courtroom sermons, before the televised tears, there was only a boy—born in California, raised across the plains of Oklahoma, and restless inside a world too small to hold the storm gathering in his head. In Part One, we walk into the dark heart of the 1980s, when Satanic Panic crackled across America like static, and fear of the occult seeped into living rooms as fast as MTV and microwave dinners. But this wasn’t a case of suburban hysteria clashing with teenage rebellion. This was a child who drifted—from fascination, to obsession, to ritual, and finally into violence. We follow Sean Sellers from lonely adolescence to Black Mass role-play that stopped being play. His journals filled with sigils, his world narrowed to demonology and control, until fantasy crossed the threshold into murder. A convenience-store clerk shot without a word. Parents killed as they slept. A teenager insisting he was possessed. A justice system unprepared for a killer still in high school. This is the first half of a tragedy where belief—real or claimed—becomes blood. 🔪 Chapters • Chapter I — The Making of a Killer A childhood marked by drift, a mind marked by fracture, and a boy who began speaking the language of the occult. • Chapter II — A Pact in Blood The murders that shook Oklahoma — and a confession that blurred the line between belief and convenience. • Chapter III — The Trial of a Child Satanism meets jurisprudence in a courtroom that had no script for a teenage “demon prince.” 🎧 Listen, Rate, Review Follow The Devil Within wherever you listen to podcasts. Your reviews help new listeners find the shadows.🕯 Evio Creative Network Explore more from the storytellers behind The Devil Within: • The Devil’s Ledger — weekly real-world hauntings, mysteries & folklore • The Ides of April — candle-lit historical storytelling • Criminal Mischief — true crime with Carolyn Ossorio • Taboo Treasures — forbidden history & cultural deep-dives Follow: @thedevilwithinpod • @eviocreative 🛠 Sponsor Shout-Outs Support the brands who support this show: • Quince — timeless essentials, honest prices 👉 quince.com/DEVILWITHIN — free shipping + 365-day returns • Mint Mobile — wireless for just $15/month 👉 mintmobile.com/DEVILWITHIN • ExpressVPN — protect your privacy everywhere 👉 expressvpn.com/DEVILWITHIN — up to 4 months free • MOOD — legal THC & CBD shipped nationwide 👉 mood.com/DEVILWITHIN — 20% off first order • Ollie Dog Food — fresh food for your best friend 👉 ollie.com/IDES — 60% off your first box • Monarch — the platform for mastering your finances 👉 monarch.com/IDES — 50% off your first year 🕳 Next Week Part Two: A Broken Mind, A Saved Soul, and a Death Chamber in Oklahoma. A killer turned evangelist. A nation divided. And the last juvenile ever executed in America.The question shifts from “What did he do?” to “Can a soul be redeemed, even when the body cannot?” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

EEO

0:02.0

Welcome back to the Devil Within.

0:13.0

This is Sean Sellers, the making of a killer.

0:16.0

Before the blood, before the headlines, there was a boy.

0:20.0

Sean Richard Sellers was born on May 18th, 1969, in Corker in California, a sun-bleached

0:26.9

town steeped in the grit of the San Joaquin Valley.

0:31.9

His early years were marked not by tragedy, but transients.

0:36.5

His family moved frequently, chasing opportunity, leaving their roots shallow.

0:42.0

His biological father vanished early.

0:44.5

His mother, Vanda, remarried a trucker named Lee Belafato, and together they moved to Oklahoma.

0:52.5

So Sean was raised on the dry winds of Amarillo and the scorched blacktop

0:56.5

of Oklahoma City. He was smart, uncannily so, but it was a sharpness edged in glass, thin,

1:04.2

brittle, and ready to shatter. Even as a child, there were signs.

1:14.0

Sean's imagination was vivid, but often unsettling.

1:18.6

His early fixations on comic book heroes morphed into something darker.

1:20.4

Vampires.

1:21.9

Gothic horror.

1:23.3

The macab.

1:47.4

He grew fascinated by tales of possession and power, of creatures lurking just beyond the veil of ordinary sight. Teachers noted his artistic talents, but also his growing isolation. His notebooks became cluttered with morbid drawings. Figures with hollow eyes, pentagrams carved in ink,

1:54.7

spells written phonetically in the margins. His mother brushed it off. Boys will be boys,

2:03.9

a phase. But Sean was slipping, slowly and with little resistance, into a world that would not forgive him.

2:09.4

At 15, he discovered Anton LeVay's Satanic Bible.

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