July 29, 2025
Chapter 111: Something Wicked-The Murder of Joshua Bennett
In August 2005, 20-year-old U.S. Army soldier Joshua Bennett returned home to Illinois, grieving the unexpected loss of his father. Ne reconnects with his mother, who invited him to stay the night at her home, but within hours, Joshua would be murdered in his mother’s home by a group of people who believed they were under the influence of a witch’s curse. The murder of Joshua Bennett is a senseless killing fueled by occult paranoia, the power of influence, and a revenge plot gone horribly wrong. At the center: an alleged hex, a woman obsessed with retribution, and a small-town “coven” convinced that violence was their only way out.
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a young soldier caught in the deadly crosshairs of a
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murder plot formulated by what most would call a coven
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one where fantasy and delusion combined with deadly results and
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a young man stepping into a trap that he had
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absolutely nothing to do with. This is the murder of
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Joshua Bennett. Joshua Bennett was born on July twenty seventh,
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nineteen eighty five, in Matune, Illinois, to Jacqueline and Jerry Bennett.
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He had a brother named Jake, and by all accounts,
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growing up, Joshua was described as an incredibly sweet and
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loving little boy. Sometime in the nineties, Jacqueline and Jerry divorced,
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and Joshua decided to stay with his father. They were
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incredibly close and spent a lot of time together camping, cooking,
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and he also spent a lot of time at the
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home of his father's sister, Patty Metzger as she had
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three little boys close in age to Joshua. Patty described
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Joshua as being incredibly kind and how he could see
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the good in just about anybody. She even joked that
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strangers would mistake Joshua for her son because he looked
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so much like her and he was always at her
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home to hang out and play with her children. Joshua
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was positive and overall just so good. He was never
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in any trouble, and he loved to be around people.
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Joshua went to Mattun High School, and while there, he
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joined the JROTC program, which is the Junior Reserve Officer's
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Training Corps. JROTC is a collaborative program between the US
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Military and participating high schools, and they aimed to teach
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students that participate in this program leadership skills, character development,
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and responsible citizen and ship. When Joshua graduated from high
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school in two thousand and four, according to an article
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for The Journal Gazette and Times Courier, Joshua enlisted with
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the US Army because the JROTC had such a profound
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impact on him. Of his enlistment, his friend Jennifer Blackwell said, quote,
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I believe josh just wanted to kind of get out
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of the Mattoon area and travel and just see the world.
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Everybody was rooting for him. We were all proud of him,
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and that was a common theme among all of his
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friends and classmates. They were all so proud of Joshua
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and loved hanging around him. That September, he graduated from
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basic training at Forts Viille, Oklahoma, before going on to
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be stationed at Fort Poke, Louisiana. Joshua was looking forward
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to his upcoming deployment to Iraq in two thousand and five,
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eager to really start his career with the Army, when
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tragedy struck the Bennett family and his father suddenly died
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that July, when Joshua was twenty years old. Joshua was
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granted emergency leave and he headed back to Mattune to
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attend his father's funeral and be with his family, who
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would also go on to lose Joshua's grandfather just a
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few weeks later. At his father's funeral, Joshua reconnects with
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his mother, Jacqueline, who he really hadn't seen much after
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his parents' divorce, and she invited her son to stay
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with her for the evening. Jacqueline was living in Claremont
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with her fiancee Lee Jackson, his twenty three year old
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son Jackie Jackson, and Jackie's pregnant seventeen year old girlfriend,
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Lindsay Cassinger. On August twenty second, Joshua goes to the
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home in Claremont to spend the evening, and that night
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he makes a call to his girlfriend, Jamie Hopper. Jamie
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told Oxygen quote, I talked to josh on the phone
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when they were getting ready to eat dinner. I was
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under the impression that I would talk to him tomorrow.
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I would never thought that would be the last time
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that I spoke to him. Sometime in the earth hours
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of August twenty third, the Richland County Sheriff's Department gets
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a frantic phone call about a break in at one
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seventy five East Fair Street in Claremont. At three twenty
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two a m Shriff's Deputy, Robert Blythe, arrives at the
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home and he walks into what can only be described
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as pure chaos. Deputy Blythe told Oxygen quote, when I
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got there, there was a pregnant woman that screamed at
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me that somebody had been shot and somebody had been stabbed,
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and they were inside the house. Blythe runs into the
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home and on the floor crawling towards him for help
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is a bleeding man. Nearby is Jackie Jackson, who Blythe
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knew from town. Jackie yelled for Blythe and said quote, Robbie,
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I shot him. However, this unnamed man was not the
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only person with a serious injury. In the kitchen of
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the home, Blythe found Joshua lying on the floor. He
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had been stabbed multiple times and the knife presumably used
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to stab him was nearby. In the next room was
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Jacqueline Bennett, also bleeding, who had been stabbed multiple times
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in the neck in the chest. Paramedics immediately come to
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offer life saving efforts for the three people critically injured,
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but while both the alleged attacker and Jacqueline were able
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to be stabilized, it was too late for Joshua, who
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was pronounced dead at the scene at four fifteen am.
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According to News fourteen. In addition to being stabbed, the
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fatal wounds being to his heart, Joshua had also been
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pepper sprayed in the face to incapacitate him. Police immediately
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speak to Jackie to try and figure out what happened,
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and he explains that he was asleep in the basement
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when at around three am, Lindsay had woken up saying
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that someone was in the house and he ran up
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the stairs with a shotgun. According to former Illinois State
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Police Sergeant Kelly Henby, Jackie, upon coming into the kitchen,
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found two masked intruders, one stabbing Joshua in the chest
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in abdomen and the other in the la living room,
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Court records gone to explain, Jackie immediately tried to help Joshua,
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and he's sprayed in the face with mace for his efforts,
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but that doesn't deter him, and he hits the attacker
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in the face with the butt of the shotgun. The
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second intruder jumps into the confrontation, and the three of
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them fought to take possession of the gun. When it discharges,
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hitting one of the intruders in the stomach. Jackie, in
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his shock and panic, drops the gun and tries to
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stop the other assailant. Now he does manage to wrestle
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the knife away from them, and he stabs the intruder
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in the thigh and throws the second attacker down the stairs.
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This intruder manages to get away from the home, running
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off and leaving their partner behind to bleed out on
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the floor. Lindsay, directly following this, runs next door to
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a neighbor to call for help, and according to this neighbor,
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they ran outside and saw the second intruder run into
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the cornfields. The police quickly start canvassing the area looking
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for this injured attacker, ends putting out an APB so
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that every law enforcement officer in the county is on
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the lookout. They also inform hospitals in the area to
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notify police if anyone comes into the emergency room with
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a matching injury. The man that was shot before being
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transported to the hospital tells police his name is David Lindner.
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When police asks for his accomplice's name, all David can
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tell them is that his name is Ricky before he
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slips into a coma. Now police were also able to
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get a motive out of David Lindner. Sergeant Henby said
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when he asked why they had done this, that David
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had said, quote, the lady put a hex on us,
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so we had to kill her. Of course, police are
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confused by this, so they go to the hospital to
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ask Jacqueline about her version of events and her relationship
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to David Lindner ends this Ricky person, and Jacqueline is
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just as confused. According to Oxygen, she told police that
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she had woken up and gone into the kitchen, where
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she was confronted by t intruders and they attacked her. Joshua,
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hearing the commotion, ran into the room to defend his mother,
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being killed in the process, but his actions are what
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ultimately saved her life. Jacklin also claimed that she had
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never met a David Lindner or a Ricki and had
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no idea why they would have broken into her home
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or who would want to hurt her. I will say
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the one major benefit police had in their investigation into
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who the second attacker could be was that, besides the
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fact that he was injured enough that they knew he
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would need medical care, Claremont, Illinois is so small it's
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not even considered a town, as I said, It's classified
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as a village with according to two thousand and five
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census reports, a population of two hundred and seven at
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the time of Joshua's murder. In fact, in the last
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twenty years that population has dwindled even more, and they
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reported a population of only one hundred and sixty residents
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by year ends twenty three. It's a very small area,
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barely larger than one square mile, and it's rural, so
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it's a place where it's very difficult to hide because
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everyone knows everyone. Because of this, it was only a
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matter of hours before police were alerted that a man
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with sharp force trauma had been admitted to a hospital
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in nearby Lawrence County. Illinois State Police Sergeant John Waggle
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arrived at the hospital just after eight am, and he's,
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to his surprise, met by a man limping out of
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the hospital. Waggle stops the man and questions him about
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who he is and how he sustained the injury to
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his leg. The man tells him that he is thirty
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eight year old Oscar rk. The art stood for Richard,
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but everyone referred to Oscar as Ricky, and he heard
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his leg installing drywall. During this interview, to women approach
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thirty four year old Ernia Coottner and twenty year old
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Jenny Woolf. They said they were friends of Oscar's and
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had come to take him back home. According to court records.
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Police questioned both women and ask if they knew David Lindner.
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plan to break into the Benjackson home or of any
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alleged hexts. All Arenia could tell investigators was that Jenny, Oscar,
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and David were at her home the night of the murder,
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but Oscar and Jenny had left in the early evening
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so that Oscar could take Jenny to work, and Lindner
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laughed when Arena told him she was going to bed,
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she said. The next thing she knew, Oscar had arrived
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at her home injured, and she took him back to
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the home he shared with twenty two year old roommate
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Misty Gangloff. When Jenny got off work that morning, the
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three of them drove Oscar to the hospital. Jenny, according
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to the Journal Gazette and Times Courier, said that she, Ernia, Misty,
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and Oscar all worked together at the local walmart and
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they were close friends. Jenny herself lived with Arnia and
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had lived with the Cottner family for over a decade
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since she was about eleven years old, and considered Ernia
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to be a big sister to her. Police though suspicious
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of Jenny and Arenia, especially when they considered Arnia's demeanor,
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which was visibly shaky. Let the women go and went
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to ex home to interview Misty. Misty, like the other women,
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claimed not to know anything about a murder plot or
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a hex, but when police took a look around the home,
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they found a book about witchcraft in Misty's bedroom. Sergeant
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Waggles said of the discovery quote upon seeing witchcraft literature
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at the residence, it would confirm suspicions I had that
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this was witchcraft related. Based on this, they bring the
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women back in for questioning, and Misty explained that the
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group had an interest in witchcraft and the occults and
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had formed their own coven. Of course, at this point
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we have to pause and have a discussion about witchcraft
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and covens, so there's zero confusion about it and what
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this modley crew was actually doing. As I have said
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countless times, when it comes to things like satanism, witchcraft, wicca,
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or paganism and those that believe or practice some variation
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of that is not a bad thing, nor is it
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a dangerous one, especially when you look at what witchcraft
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or belonging to a coven is in a modern context. Sure,
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maybe there are still groups of people that practice witchcraft
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that go out into the woods and dance around a
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fire in the moonlight, but realistically that's probably not actually
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happening now. In fact, I can say with a lot
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of confidence it's not happening now. According to an article
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written by Deborah Blake, the practicing of wicca used to
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mean a coven that was following a specific set of guidelines.
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They were led by a high priest or priestess. There
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were levels to members positions within a coven, and rituals
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