One of the most popular ways for people to celebrate the month that Halloween takes place is by watching the best horror movies and one of the most popular sagas, without a doubt, is “The Conjuring”. However, Netflix went further, delving into the origin of these stories, which are based on true events, which makes it even more terrifying.
“The Devil on Trial” or, as it is called in Spanish, “Juicio al diablo”, is a dark documentary that investigates, through videos and home dramatizations, the apparent demonic possession of a child and the brutal murder that followed.
This production will premiere on Netflix on October 17 and has already sparked high expectations.
The Devil Made Me Do It True Case
After moving into a new house and cleaning it, the Glatzel family began to experience supernatural things, especially due to the 11-year-old boy David, who began to have demonic visions, as an old man with black eyes, a face, thin. , animal features, sharp teeth, pointed ears, horns and hooves, according to her mother, Judy Glatzel, to People magazine.
The boy had terrible nightmares at night and woke up with scratches and bruises all over his body. The presence of a priest did not help, as they saw David being beaten by invisible hands and began to growl and speak in strange voices, reciting verses from the Holy Bible.
His family then invited the married couple of demographers Ed and Lorraine Warren to perform an exorcism. The process lasted 5 days and involved between 4 and 6 priests, in addition to Arne Cheyenne Johnson, a friend of David’s sister Debbie.
During the process, David hovered, stopped breathing, and made a premonition of murder. Arne caused the demonic spirit to enter his body and leave David alone, which seemed to work.
Since then, according to his girlfriend and mother-in-law, Arne started to be someone else, growled and said he saw “the monster”, but then he didn’t remember anything. He even crashed his car into a tree, saying that the demon made him crash it.
A few months later, Arne committed the brutal murder against his owner and friend Alan Bono after they went out to eat with him, accompanied by Debbie, Johnson’s younger sisters and a young cousin. Bono got drunk and threatened to abuse Arne’s 9-year-old cousin, so the two began to fight.
Arne pulled out a knife and murdered Alan in cold blood, severely wounding him, then walked down the road in a trance towards the forest. He had committed the first murder in the entire history of the town of Brookfield.
Johnson was found a few streets later by the police, to whom he said, “The devil made me do it,” hence the name of his case.
Arne’s defense claimed for the first time in history that he was under the influence of demonic possession when he committed the murder, however, the judges did not believe him and he was sentenced to 20 years in prison in 1981, of which he only served 5 and was released for good behavior.