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Speaker 1: In the evening of Sunday, February sixteenth, nineteen eighty one,

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Speaker 1: in Brookfield, Connecticut, a bright, waxing gibbus is slowly rising

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Speaker 1: as an ambulance makes its way north along the Root

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Speaker 1: under the darkening sky. Attacks At twelve, the ambulance fears

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Speaker 1: before circling back and continuing east toward the depot. Silver

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Speaker 1: Mine was especially quiet that night. When inside the ambulance,

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Speaker 1: a call was received requesting all emergency personnel beyond the

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Speaker 1: lookout for a white, nineteen year old male with curly

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Speaker 1: was wanted in connection with a stabbing incident. No sooner

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Speaker 1: had the call ended, the driver looked ahead to see

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Speaker 1: a dark figure lit up suddenly in the vehicle's headlights,

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Speaker 1: night with a deep breath. The driver held up his

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Speaker 1: at the ground. Arnie Johnson said the driver. The young

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Speaker 1: man stopped suddenly and looked up, as if only then

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Speaker 1: just registering the person in front of him. Please, he said,

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Speaker 1: his voice trembling in the cold, help me. After the

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Speaker 1: formally arrested for the attempted murder of forty year old

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Speaker 1: Alan Bonno, the manager of a local dog kennel, who

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Speaker 1: had been found unresponsive at its property, having been stabbed

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Speaker 1: multiple times. Ten minutes later, a call came through from

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Speaker 1: year old Arnie Johnson was now facing prison for murder.

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Speaker 1: When Johnson finally began to talk. However, he claimed to

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Speaker 1: but because he hadn't been in control of his mind

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Speaker 1: at the time the devil had You're listening to unexplained

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Speaker 1: and I'm Richard McClean smith eight months previously, in the

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Speaker 1: evening of July nineteen eighty, not ten minutes walk from

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Speaker 1: where Arnie was picked up. Sits a ranch style bungalow

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Speaker 1: tucked away in a small patch of woodland on the

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Speaker 1: edge of the quaint New England town of Brookfield. Insects

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Speaker 1: incessantly against the porch light. From inside, concerned voices are

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Speaker 1: emanating from out of the kitchen where Arnie is. Twenty

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Speaker 1: six year old girlfriend Debbie Gladsol, and her parents, Judy

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Speaker 1: and Carl, are sat round the kitchen table, debating the

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Speaker 1: merits of the young couple's new rental. It had been

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Speaker 1: almost too good to be true when they first heard

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Speaker 1: But now they were beginning to realize maybe it really

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Speaker 1: was too good to be true. After all, the place

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Speaker 1: was supposed to be a new start for the couple

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Speaker 1: and Debby's seven year old son, Jason, as well as

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Speaker 1: and their young cousin also called Mary, all of whom

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Speaker 1: had been living together in Bridgeport, the state's largest city.

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Speaker 1: Formerly a prosperous industrial powerhouse on the coast of the

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Speaker 1: Long Island Sound, Bridgeport had long since faded from prominence,

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Speaker 1: and all had been desperate to leave, worried for the

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Speaker 1: For Annie, especially known as chey Anne to his friends,

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Speaker 1: it was a chance to give something back to his mother,

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Speaker 1: and their eight year old cousin, whom Annie's mother had

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Speaker 1: effectively adopted despite two fathers walking out on them. Mary

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Speaker 1: things were not working out as planned. Having intended to

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Speaker 1: move in that day, they'd arrived at the property to

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Speaker 1: While the extension to the main house where Annie and

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Speaker 1: Debbie hoped to live was still occupied by the owner's daughter,

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Speaker 1: another two months, but there was something else about it too,

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Speaker 1: year old brother, David, now standing in the doorway with

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Speaker 1: a look of abject fear on his face. What's wrong,

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Speaker 1: asked his mother Judy. For a moment, David seemed reluctant

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Speaker 1: Earlier that day, David had joined his mother and two

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Speaker 1: As David went on to explain, the boys had been

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Speaker 1: David watched, paralyzed with fear as the figure raised his arm,

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Speaker 1: then pointed directly at him, mouthing the word beware, before

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Speaker 1: struggled to contain himself, and told David to go back

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Speaker 1: I can't, he said, because the man is here now.

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Speaker 1: Arnie and Debbie looked to each other as Car took

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Speaker 1: to gain in indulging the boy's fantasy, and after some

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Speaker 1: following day, haunted by the young David's peculiar story, Debbie

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Speaker 1: as claimed in Gerrard Brittle's nineteen eighty three book The

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Speaker 1: Devil in Connecticut. When Debby opened the front door, she

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Speaker 1: Stepping down into the cellar to inspect the locked room

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Speaker 1: once more, Arnie could have sworn he felt some one

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Speaker 1: Arnie's mother, however, was a different matter. Unmoved by the

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Speaker 1: The following evening, after a day out together, the family

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Speaker 1: Eight months after his arrest, on October twenty eighth, Arnie

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