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🗓️ 5 November 2025
⏱️ 25 minutes
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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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