WEBVTT - Episode 2: Under Satan's Hammer 0:00:02.800 --> 0:00:07.440 School of Humans. This show follows the investigation of serial 0:00:07.520 --> 0:00:12.120 murders and contains material that may be disturbing. Listener discretion advised. 0:00:19.239 --> 0:00:25.320 It's twenty twelve Krugersdorp, South Africa. Ria Grunewald's prayer group 0:00:25.640 --> 0:00:31.040 Overcomers through Christ were under attack. Someone was sending a message. 0:00:31.360 --> 0:00:34.920 They believed it was Satanists from Cecilia's past. The same 0:00:35.000 --> 0:00:38.960 demons who chronically tortured Cecilia were now out for Rhea. 0:00:39.920 --> 0:00:43.800 Rhea's connection to Cecilia was the only thing protecting OTC, 0:00:44.280 --> 0:00:47.599 and now Ria had severed that connection just. 0:00:47.600 --> 0:00:51.479 Before the murders thought it they was car bombings happening 0:00:51.760 --> 0:00:53.120 to SKA Ria. 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:58.000 Virtual bombs were used to intimidate people attending of these meetings. 0:00:59.200 --> 0:01:02.680 The bombs were in indeed a message, but not from Satanists. 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:08.040 In truth, it was Cecilia Stein, the Mastermind, ordering her 0:01:08.080 --> 0:01:12.080 new subjects to carry out these crimes in hopes of 0:01:12.200 --> 0:01:17.560 scaring Rhea in his submission. After being poisoned and receiving 0:01:17.640 --> 0:01:20.960 death threats, Rhea had been doing her best to distance 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:25.919 herself from Cecilia, who felt deeply betrayed, and the rivalry 0:01:26.040 --> 0:01:30.319 had turned violent. The first two acts of wanting terrorism. 0:01:31.200 --> 0:01:34.640 Both involved car bombs hand made by the members of 0:01:34.680 --> 0:01:40.480 Electus Perdaeus. Here's detective Susette Kenoz she woke. 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:41.200 Out to her car. 0:01:41.400 --> 0:01:45.960 She smelt petroleum, he said, heavy smell. When they came out, 0:01:45.959 --> 0:01:48.400 they saw that there was all kinds of little packages 0:01:48.480 --> 0:01:49.680 underneath the cause. 0:01:54.160 --> 0:01:57.840 The police were called and the bombs were disarmed. No 0:01:57.880 --> 0:02:01.480 one was hurt this time, but Rhea and her followers 0:02:01.640 --> 0:02:09.000 were all struck with a nameless fear. A few weeks later, 0:02:09.400 --> 0:02:13.480 OTC met again at a new location, the home of 0:02:13.520 --> 0:02:18.760 Pastor Reginald ben Dixon, Rhea's new mentor in faith. Before 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.920 the meeting started, the prayer group encircled the house. They 0:02:23.000 --> 0:02:26.959 joined hands, called in protection against the devil and his demons. 0:02:27.800 --> 0:02:31.359 They created an invisible wall sealing the home to keep 0:02:31.400 --> 0:02:36.160 out all things unholy. But then an hour into the meeting, 0:02:36.880 --> 0:02:45.639 a series of explosions shook the house. When they rushed outside, 0:02:46.000 --> 0:02:49.440 they discovered huge holes where the bombs had exploded against 0:02:49.440 --> 0:02:56.280 the lawn. Rhea's car was smoking and severely damaged. A 0:02:56.320 --> 0:02:59.880 few weeks later, at midnight on the evening of July fifteenth, 0:03:00.240 --> 0:03:03.840 Pastor George nell a spiritual adviser to Rihea's prayer group 0:03:04.320 --> 0:03:07.040 arrived to survey the wreckage of his house of worship. 0:03:09.919 --> 0:03:12.880 The Lighthouse Full Gospel Church that he had led for 0:03:12.919 --> 0:03:17.920 eight years, had been set on fire. As the building smoldered, 0:03:18.360 --> 0:03:21.000 the pastor found a note taped to the wrought iron gate. 0:03:22.400 --> 0:03:27.000 Scrawled in big block letters, It reads, who is going 0:03:27.040 --> 0:03:34.400 to protect you now? Rhea. Rihea had gone to the cops, 0:03:34.960 --> 0:03:37.440 but she was convinced that she was dealing with supernatural 0:03:37.480 --> 0:03:41.800 forces until the bombings in the church fire, she remained 0:03:41.840 --> 0:03:45.560 in the nile that her spiritual daughter Cecilia, the woman 0:03:45.600 --> 0:03:48.360 whom she had once bottle fed back to health and 0:03:48.520 --> 0:03:52.000 cared for for four long years, could ever want to 0:03:52.040 --> 0:03:56.360 do her harm. Rhea couldn't bear to grasp that ugly truth, 0:03:57.280 --> 0:03:57.960 so she didn't. 0:03:58.560 --> 0:04:01.400 The revenge was totally on are. The only think she 0:04:01.800 --> 0:04:04.800 was doing wrong was she might friends with Celia, and 0:04:04.840 --> 0:04:08.000 she protected Celia, and she mighte Celia her best friend, 0:04:08.520 --> 0:04:13.720 and then she deserted Celia and Stela just couldn't take it. 0:04:13.720 --> 0:04:16.760 It's pure revenge. And if you look at the people 0:04:16.800 --> 0:04:20.600 that got murdered, they were all close friends for Ria. 0:04:23.000 --> 0:04:26.239 From School of Humans and iHeart podcasts. This is Queen 0:04:26.320 --> 0:04:30.400 Havoc and Her Murder Cult. I'm your host, Kurt Kubachek, 0:04:33.080 --> 0:04:41.840 Episode two Under Satan's Hammer. When we first arrived in 0:04:41.880 --> 0:04:46.080 South Africa, Jennifer and I quickly learned about a nationwide 0:04:46.200 --> 0:04:50.560 energy management technique called load shedding. That's where the power 0:04:50.600 --> 0:04:53.920 grid is shut down in certain areas at certain times. 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.279 This is meant to lessen the strain on the country's 0:04:57.320 --> 0:05:00.840 electricity system, but it shifts the burd into the people. 0:05:01.839 --> 0:05:05.960 Here's Jermaine Kraher, our South African producer, as we drive 0:05:05.960 --> 0:05:09.239 across Krueger Store from the airport to our hotel. 0:05:09.960 --> 0:05:11.200 How do you does. 0:05:11.080 --> 0:05:12.599 Everyone just have backup batteries? 0:05:12.680 --> 0:05:12.840 Oh? 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:16.640 No, everyone just sits in the dark. Really, yes, backup 0:05:16.640 --> 0:05:19.600 batteries are incredibly expensive and a lot of people still 0:05:20.000 --> 0:05:22.720 don't have the resources for that. We've sat four or 0:05:22.720 --> 0:05:26.599 five days with our power before. The problem with that 0:05:26.800 --> 0:05:32.080 is our water pumps work on electricity, so after two 0:05:32.160 --> 0:05:38.120 days of no electricity we lose water as well, which 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:41.960 is a little bit of a nightmare. Hi, how are 0:05:42.000 --> 0:05:43.360 you good? 0:05:43.400 --> 0:05:45.240 Get I'm just dropping up some gays. 0:05:45.720 --> 0:05:48.760 Back at the hotel. We found ourselves without WI Fi. 0:05:49.440 --> 0:05:53.080 Even the backup generator wasn't working. Our first taste of 0:05:53.080 --> 0:05:57.919 load shedding, we were deep in it now, experiencing firsthand 0:05:58.080 --> 0:06:02.800 this darkness that could take over it any more. I 0:06:02.880 --> 0:06:06.080 kept thinking about the members of Electus Perdaeis, the ones 0:06:06.080 --> 0:06:10.200 who sided with Cecilia when Otisi was divided, how dark 0:06:10.240 --> 0:06:12.960 their lives became after making the choice to become the 0:06:12.960 --> 0:06:17.359 lords and ladies of Queen Havoc's bloody court. Not only 0:06:17.400 --> 0:06:20.640 were they carrying out amateur acts of violence against Rhea, 0:06:21.000 --> 0:06:23.800 who had in some respects been a caretaker to them all, 0:06:24.440 --> 0:06:27.400 but the closer they got to Cecilia, the more they 0:06:27.440 --> 0:06:34.160 lost themselves, lost their moral compass, and became her loyal soldiers. Mirinda, 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:37.400 for example, moved in with Rhea after suffering through a 0:06:37.400 --> 0:06:41.440 tough divorce in twenty eleven. Rhea was there for her 0:06:41.600 --> 0:06:45.479 when Marinda needed her most, but that also meant she 0:06:45.600 --> 0:06:51.080 lived next door to Cecilia. Cecilia's petit with short hair 0:06:51.480 --> 0:06:55.159 sometimes spiked at the top. She wears baggy clothing and 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:59.000 small gold hoop earrings. She has a silver tongue and 0:06:59.120 --> 0:07:02.320 is mastered in the art of posturing, so that everyone 0:07:02.400 --> 0:07:04.359 wanted to be in her good graces. 0:07:04.839 --> 0:07:09.479 She has the superpower in manipulation. I mean she can 0:07:09.520 --> 0:07:13.000 open a university teaching people manipulation. 0:07:14.720 --> 0:07:19.680 So rather quickly, Marinda grew devoted to her, became desperate 0:07:19.840 --> 0:07:24.680 for Cecilia's approval, and by January of twenty twelve, Mirinda 0:07:24.720 --> 0:07:29.040 Stein had officially taken Ria's place as Cecilia's right hand 0:07:29.440 --> 0:07:33.640 and primary caregiver. The maternal rights that Ria once held 0:07:34.160 --> 0:07:38.160 had been transferred to Mirinda. Here's journalist Jana Marx. 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:44.040 Marinda ultimately did everything she did to impress Cecilia. She 0:07:44.240 --> 0:07:47.880 just wanted to get her approval, and that included her kids. 0:07:48.520 --> 0:07:52.720 Like Ria and Cecilia, Mirinda was a mother. She worked 0:07:52.760 --> 0:07:55.320 as a high school English teacher and was known to 0:07:55.320 --> 0:07:56.360 be quite intelligent. 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:00.760 All the people that she has turned to believe in 0:08:00.800 --> 0:08:05.560 her are well learned people. Mirenda's IQ is more than 0:08:05.600 --> 0:08:06.600 one hundred and forty. 0:08:07.160 --> 0:08:12.240 That's Colonel Christelle Boison a strong, almost intimidating presence, A 0:08:12.320 --> 0:08:16.520 seasoned and decorated detective. She's both mentally and physically tough 0:08:16.680 --> 0:08:19.280 and full of insight. She was close to the case 0:08:19.280 --> 0:08:23.520 as well. She told us about Mirinda's transformation, her fall 0:08:23.600 --> 0:08:24.680 to the dark side. 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:29.680 She was a loving mother, a loving spouse, and when 0:08:29.720 --> 0:08:33.880 she met up with Cecilia, Cecilia started feeding the bedside 0:08:33.880 --> 0:08:37.680 of Mirenda. Marenda even testified in court to say that 0:08:38.280 --> 0:08:41.600 killing a person is the most exciting thing that you 0:08:41.679 --> 0:08:44.240 can ever do in your life. 0:08:44.600 --> 0:08:48.720 What a statement. Mirenda was fully committed to her role 0:08:48.800 --> 0:08:52.360 as the right hand to Secilia, even if that meant 0:08:52.600 --> 0:08:56.600 robbing her children of their innocence. Our resident scholar, doctor 0:08:56.679 --> 0:08:58.960 Niki Falkoff speculates. 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:02.600 Maybe the very natere of trying to be this kind 0:09:02.600 --> 0:09:06.080 of perfect white Christian mom and wife and teacher is 0:09:06.120 --> 0:09:09.520 part of what made her available to this narrative of 0:09:09.559 --> 0:09:11.880 Satanism that you know you are special and you have 0:09:12.000 --> 0:09:15.240 been chosen. You have been chosen to help fight evil. 0:09:15.480 --> 0:09:18.440 The fear of Satanism, paired with the promise of doing 0:09:18.480 --> 0:09:21.520 God's work, kept Mirinda glued to Secilia. 0:09:21.640 --> 0:09:25.280 She relied on a certain scripture where said the prophet 0:09:25.360 --> 0:09:29.880 Eli was given Samuel to raise, and obviously Eli was 0:09:29.920 --> 0:09:32.800 a prophet, so Marinda thought she will just give her 0:09:32.880 --> 0:09:37.040 children to Cecilia to raise, and she grounded her decision 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:41.560 on that scripture. So, from a very early age, the 0:09:41.679 --> 0:09:45.559 children and Cecilia's lives were completely integrated. 0:09:48.280 --> 0:09:50.640 I don't know about you, but when I was ten, 0:09:50.920 --> 0:09:54.000 I was playing basketball in the driveway and video games 0:09:54.040 --> 0:09:58.280 with my neighborhood friends, not building bombs and setting churches 0:09:58.320 --> 0:10:01.680 on fire, not being groomed by my own mother to 0:10:01.720 --> 0:10:07.200 commit brutal acts of violence. Upon Cecilia's orders, Marinda cut 0:10:07.240 --> 0:10:10.080 her kids off from their father, making them believe he 0:10:10.240 --> 0:10:13.600 no longer wanted to see them, and discouraged any social 0:10:13.640 --> 0:10:18.800 interaction outside of their apartment complex, Casana Flats. She made 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.320 sure her kids didn't have any friends of their own, 0:10:22.000 --> 0:10:25.079 no one that might make them second guess their devotion. 0:10:26.120 --> 0:10:29.680 Here is Rosalind McNabb again, child advocate and psychologists. 0:10:30.480 --> 0:10:34.680 They were told your dad does not want to see you. 0:10:35.240 --> 0:10:38.960 Then they were told you will not speak to anyone 0:10:39.440 --> 0:10:45.000 at school because actually Cecilia knows everything about what is 0:10:45.080 --> 0:10:46.120 being spoken about. 0:10:50.440 --> 0:10:55.160 They came to believe that Cecilia was omnipresent. One silver 0:10:55.240 --> 0:10:57.920 lining of being an ex Satanist was that she had 0:10:57.960 --> 0:11:01.280 been granted the power of astral project. She could be 0:11:01.360 --> 0:11:06.160 anywhere at any time, and she could hear everything. Marinda 0:11:06.200 --> 0:11:09.480 treated Cecilia like a prophet one who had survived the 0:11:09.559 --> 0:11:12.960 darkness and had seen the light. And now she was 0:11:13.040 --> 0:11:16.640 ready to impart her holy knowledge for the supposed benefit 0:11:16.679 --> 0:11:20.840 of all. And so did Zach and Michaela Valentine. They 0:11:20.880 --> 0:11:26.040 were also true believers in Cecilia. Her influence was immediately evident. 0:11:27.400 --> 0:11:31.400 When we visited Detective Susette, she showed us pictures of Michaela. 0:11:32.400 --> 0:11:36.600 I mean she was a beautiful woman. In a year time, 0:11:36.679 --> 0:11:39.000 she went from this to this. 0:11:40.080 --> 0:11:43.960 In the first picture, she is bright, youthful. She looks 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:47.320 happy and grounded. She was just twenty one when she 0:11:47.400 --> 0:11:51.880 met Cecilia, studying to become a pastor. In the second photo, 0:11:52.559 --> 0:11:56.480 Michaela's style seems to have changed drastically. Her face is 0:11:56.559 --> 0:11:59.600 laden with heavy makeup and there's a look in her eye, 0:12:00.120 --> 0:12:07.240 maybe fear, maybe sorrow. Whatever it is, it's dark with 0:12:07.320 --> 0:12:10.920 Kayla's husband, Zach had known Cecilia since they were kids. 0:12:11.360 --> 0:12:15.520 They attended the same church, presumably before Cecilia was lured 0:12:15.559 --> 0:12:18.760 him by Satanists. Now he had a well paying job. 0:12:19.280 --> 0:12:22.200 He was a financial adviser at an insurance company called 0:12:22.240 --> 0:12:26.560 Discovery Life. Six feet tall, Zach kept his head shaved 0:12:26.559 --> 0:12:30.480 clean and had piercing blue eyes, his sly smile looked 0:12:30.480 --> 0:12:33.400 as if he knew something you didn't, and he was 0:12:33.520 --> 0:12:37.880 fiercely loyal to Cecilia. It's important to keep in mind 0:12:37.920 --> 0:12:41.640 that Cecilia still depended on others at all times. She 0:12:41.840 --> 0:12:44.600 kept up the narrative that if she stepped outside a 0:12:44.640 --> 0:12:49.040 certain perimeter around Casana Flats, she would be attacked by Satanists, 0:12:49.679 --> 0:12:53.520 so getting a job was out of the question. Zach's 0:12:53.559 --> 0:12:58.600 salary provided a cushion. Here's Detective Ben Boysen with some 0:12:58.679 --> 0:12:59.360 hard numbers. 0:13:00.160 --> 0:13:02.560 Zach Valentine gave them more than a nine a thousand 0:13:02.640 --> 0:13:03.920 ze monthly. 0:13:04.160 --> 0:13:07.880 The equivalent of nearly six thousand dollars per month. We 0:13:08.040 --> 0:13:11.360 also learned that EPD was as high as they could 0:13:11.360 --> 0:13:18.719 afford to be, using primarily meth and cocaine. While See 0:13:18.960 --> 0:13:22.280 found the drugs, it was the group's funds that paid 0:13:22.280 --> 0:13:26.480 for them. This dynamic worked to deepen the toxic codependency 0:13:26.600 --> 0:13:30.480 that Secilia was fostering among her followers. It also kept 0:13:30.520 --> 0:13:33.000 them numb enough that they were less likely to notice 0:13:33.040 --> 0:13:35.520 that it wasn't just their money that was falling through 0:13:35.559 --> 0:13:44.679 their pockets. Their identities were disappearing too. But according to Secilia. 0:13:45.080 --> 0:13:48.440 Their cash wasn't just for drugs and groceries. It was 0:13:48.440 --> 0:13:52.400 for orphans. Here's psychologist Rosalind McNab. 0:13:52.679 --> 0:13:59.439 Zach Valentine, I'm an intelligent person who bought this story 0:13:59.800 --> 0:14:05.040 that I have this orphanage of all these children whose parents, 0:14:05.120 --> 0:14:09.120 whose mothers are safeness, and we need to save them. 0:14:09.320 --> 0:14:12.120 We need to get all this money and send it 0:14:12.160 --> 0:14:12.920 to these kids. 0:14:14.200 --> 0:14:17.920 There were no pictures, no receipts, no medical bills, no 0:14:18.080 --> 0:14:22.080 phone calls, no proof at all that these orphans actually existed. 0:14:22.680 --> 0:14:27.000 But if Cecilia trusted them, Zach did, and he gave 0:14:27.040 --> 0:14:33.360 his money willingly. Saving children became the primary purpose of 0:14:33.400 --> 0:14:39.400 Electus Perdeas. This mission to save orphans overseas worked beautifully 0:14:39.440 --> 0:14:42.600 to keep morale high among the members. It was a 0:14:42.640 --> 0:14:46.840 holy mission, they could easily understand. It was also how 0:14:46.880 --> 0:14:51.200 Cecilia convinced Electus Perdeas to carry out yet another more 0:14:51.280 --> 0:14:55.960 heinous act of revenge against Ria Grunewald. Just as Rhea 0:14:56.000 --> 0:14:59.800 had refused to believe that Cecilia was capable of such ruthlessness, 0:15:00.600 --> 0:15:05.040 Cecilia refused to believe that Rhea would actually reject her. 0:15:05.600 --> 0:15:09.520 She wanted Mama Ria back and would do anything to 0:15:09.600 --> 0:15:10.400 serve that end. 0:15:10.960 --> 0:15:14.600 Then she kills Ria. Riakon returned to her, so she'll 0:15:14.680 --> 0:15:17.520 rat a go for people close to her eliminate that 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:19.760 one thing her place will be open again. 0:15:28.560 --> 0:15:31.760 After the car bombs in the church fire, Rhea stopped 0:15:31.800 --> 0:15:35.200 communicating by phone with the other members of Overcomers through Christ. 0:15:36.320 --> 0:15:40.720 They were all receiving persistent death threats via text. Rhea 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:46.040 believed their communications were somehow being intercepted through word of mouth. 0:15:46.600 --> 0:15:49.880 Rhea passed a message to her followers calling for one 0:15:50.080 --> 0:15:54.720 final meeting. That night, Rhea informed her followers that she 0:15:54.840 --> 0:16:00.720 was dissolving Overcomers through Christ. Ria's unceasing anxiety, he finally 0:16:00.760 --> 0:16:04.200 saw some relief when the police found fingerprints on one 0:16:04.200 --> 0:16:07.040 of the bombs that had been thrown into Pastor Nell's church. 0:16:08.800 --> 0:16:12.400 Turns out they belonged to Marenda's dime. That was enough 0:16:12.400 --> 0:16:15.600 to arrest her and bring her in for questioning, but 0:16:15.680 --> 0:16:19.840 law enforcement became stymied by the potential defense that Marinda 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:22.760 could have been simply reading the newspaper, thrown it in 0:16:22.800 --> 0:16:26.120 the trash, and then later that same paper was used 0:16:26.120 --> 0:16:29.720 to make the bomb. This was enough for reasonable doubt, 0:16:30.360 --> 0:16:32.720 so Mirinda was let off with the warning. 0:16:32.920 --> 0:16:34.680 They couldn't connect to the crime, so. 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:35.360 They later go. 0:16:39.280 --> 0:16:42.840 After this event, Rihea finally started coming to terms with 0:16:42.920 --> 0:16:46.200 the fact that Cecilia might actually be the one behind 0:16:46.240 --> 0:16:49.200 the recent wave of violence, so she agreed to work 0:16:49.200 --> 0:16:53.240 with the police. The plan was simple. Rihea would meet 0:16:53.280 --> 0:16:56.400 Cecilia at a coffee shop located just across the street 0:16:56.680 --> 0:17:00.560 from Casana Flats. The police officer would sit clow spy 0:17:00.760 --> 0:17:03.920 and listen in on their conversation. The hope was that 0:17:03.960 --> 0:17:07.520 Cecilia would implicate herself, or at the very least give 0:17:07.520 --> 0:17:10.440 the cops a good lead should anything grave happen to 0:17:10.560 --> 0:17:16.639 Rihea in the future. The day of this sting, the 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:20.119 officer met Ria at her new apartment. They agreed to 0:17:20.200 --> 0:17:23.560 drive separately. He would walk in first, just to be 0:17:23.640 --> 0:17:26.560 safe and secure a seat with an earshot of Cecilia. 0:17:27.840 --> 0:17:31.679 But when Rhea arrived, all she saw was Cecilia in 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:35.679 a booth waiting for her. The police officer was nowhere 0:17:35.760 --> 0:17:41.440 to be seen. Rihea couldn't just walk away or Cecilia 0:17:41.480 --> 0:17:45.080 would know something was up, so she sat down across 0:17:45.080 --> 0:17:51.200 the table from her. Cecilia's hatred was palpable, jaw tight, hands, 0:17:51.240 --> 0:17:54.480 clenched eyes obscured under a baseball cap. 0:17:55.000 --> 0:17:55.600 There was no. 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:59.680 Trace of that helpless, spiritual daughter Riea had once cared for. 0:18:03.280 --> 0:18:06.680 And so begins the persistent tragedy of how the police 0:18:06.720 --> 0:18:13.480 handled the numerous investigations related to otc EPD, Rhea, Cecilia, 0:18:14.119 --> 0:18:18.600 and all the bloodshed to come. Despite everything that went 0:18:18.680 --> 0:18:22.120 woefully wrong in this heroin case, amid all the varying 0:18:22.240 --> 0:18:26.000 versions of these events, almost everyone we spoke to agrees 0:18:26.040 --> 0:18:26.720 is on one thing. 0:18:27.240 --> 0:18:29.200 But first of all, I think if the judicial system 0:18:29.240 --> 0:18:31.840 played the well, many of these metals could have been prevented. 0:18:32.359 --> 0:18:34.800 The sole thing could have been prevented if the police 0:18:34.960 --> 0:18:35.640 did they job. 0:18:37.720 --> 0:18:41.680 Sitting at a booth across from Cecilia's menacing presence, Rhea 0:18:41.760 --> 0:18:45.719 spoke first. She calmly told Cecilia to stay away. 0:18:46.280 --> 0:18:49.439 Cecilia stood up and said, well, if you think the 0:18:49.440 --> 0:18:53.719 car bombings was that bad, people is going to start dying, 0:18:54.600 --> 0:18:55.800 and she walked away. 0:19:00.000 --> 0:19:03.800 Oh, would make good on that promise and without much interference. 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:08.879 The police had let Ria down twice now and would continue. 0:19:08.520 --> 0:19:09.879 To do so. 0:19:09.960 --> 0:19:13.960 Here is another journalist who covered the coming horrorse Maritzka Kotz. 0:19:14.800 --> 0:19:18.879 I feel that if police actually managed to stop the 0:19:18.920 --> 0:19:22.520 group in twenty twelve, so many people would have still left. 0:19:22.560 --> 0:19:24.880 Today, they could have prevented so many murders. 0:19:25.800 --> 0:19:29.200 And here's Detective Susette with the most difficult truth to bear. 0:19:29.640 --> 0:19:34.680 At least seven people died because of the way the 0:19:34.680 --> 0:19:39.560 police did not do what they were supposed to do. 0:19:40.080 --> 0:19:44.200 Not just the police, this state prosecutor's office as well. 0:19:46.280 --> 0:19:49.959 Soon after meeting Ria at the diner, Cecilia informed her 0:19:50.000 --> 0:19:53.399 flock that she had a vision a woman with blood 0:19:53.400 --> 0:19:57.360 streaming down her face. The woman was Natasha Berger, who 0:19:57.359 --> 0:20:02.760 had taken Cecilia's place as Ria's closest all. The revenge 0:20:02.800 --> 0:20:05.320 plot was about to enter its next phase. 0:20:05.880 --> 0:20:11.919 She told the group God gave these people five things 0:20:11.960 --> 0:20:17.240 to pray about, But what the group and Natasha specifically 0:20:17.320 --> 0:20:22.680 did was she only prayed for four of those five things. 0:20:23.359 --> 0:20:28.639 And because Natasha only prayed for the four death curses 0:20:29.560 --> 0:20:35.560 was put upon over three hundred children and they all died. 0:20:36.400 --> 0:20:39.520 I know it's wild, but the bite method had worked. 0:20:39.840 --> 0:20:44.960 Cecilia now controlled their behavior, information, thoughts, and emotions. 0:20:45.119 --> 0:20:48.359 Any person in their right mind would know if three 0:20:48.440 --> 0:20:52.480 hundred kids ended up dead, it would be news. It 0:20:52.520 --> 0:20:55.359 would be in the world news, never mind just in 0:20:55.400 --> 0:20:58.800 our country. But they actually believed Celia. 0:21:00.000 --> 0:21:04.240 Elia's psychological playground had twisted her follower's sense of truth, 0:21:04.880 --> 0:21:08.439 and now Cecilia's teeth were sunk deep into the hearts 0:21:08.480 --> 0:21:13.720 of Zach, Mirinda, and Mikayla, according to Yana Marx's book, 0:21:14.119 --> 0:21:16.959 In order to focus her follower's hatred and channel it 0:21:17.040 --> 0:21:20.520 at her new enemy, Natasha Berger, Cecilia gathered the group 0:21:20.520 --> 0:21:24.000 in her bedroom. She told them that Natasha was the 0:21:24.040 --> 0:21:27.520 one who was truly standing in direct opposition to the group. 0:21:28.600 --> 0:21:32.280 We have to take Natasha out, Cecilia said. It's blood 0:21:32.320 --> 0:21:32.800 for blood. 0:21:33.160 --> 0:21:35.960 She was telling people the Bible since she was go 0:21:36.000 --> 0:21:39.360 and killed, but actually she was taking revenge. 0:21:42.880 --> 0:21:46.240 LaRue was in charge of preparations for the operation. He 0:21:46.400 --> 0:21:48.680 kised the area and saw that in order to reach 0:21:48.760 --> 0:21:52.800 Natasha's townhouse door, they would have to get past security guards. 0:21:53.760 --> 0:21:56.639 The guards recorded the license plate number on each car 0:21:56.680 --> 0:22:02.640 that entered the complex. Cecilia found a work around. LaRue, 0:22:02.840 --> 0:22:06.280 under the cover of night, would steal a license plate 0:22:06.359 --> 0:22:08.560 off of a random car on the street and place 0:22:08.600 --> 0:22:12.920 it on Zach's car. Simple as that, and on July 0:22:13.040 --> 0:22:18.639 twenty fourth, twenty twelve, it worked. Zach, Mikayla, and Marcel, 0:22:18.960 --> 0:22:21.760 who was an angsty tween at this point, got past 0:22:21.800 --> 0:22:27.800 the guards. When they got to Natasha Burger's home. They 0:22:27.840 --> 0:22:31.200 sent Marcel, the most innocent looking one, to the front door. 0:22:34.640 --> 0:22:38.600 Zach and Michaela waited in the car. Up her sleeve, 0:22:38.920 --> 0:22:43.679 Marcel had a surprise, a taser. She anxiously knocked at 0:22:43.720 --> 0:22:48.520 the door, ready to immobilize Natasha. Then Zach and Michaela 0:22:48.560 --> 0:22:52.240 would swoop in and finish her off, but when Natasha 0:22:52.280 --> 0:22:56.400 opened the door, there was an additional security gate between them, 0:22:56.560 --> 0:22:58.480 so the clever Marcel improvised. 0:22:58.960 --> 0:23:01.640 She said hook at passed in a garden in one 0:23:01.640 --> 0:23:05.880 of the cheese and she wanted to walk through Natasha's flat, 0:23:06.080 --> 0:23:09.200 and Natasha just said no. 0:23:08.400 --> 0:23:12.439 But Marcel was persistent, and Natasha reluctantly agreed not to 0:23:12.520 --> 0:23:15.240 let Marcel in, but rather to go look for the 0:23:15.280 --> 0:23:22.359 cat herself. Natasha quickly disappeared in the back garden. After 0:23:22.400 --> 0:23:24.879 a few minutes, she returned to the front door and 0:23:24.960 --> 0:23:29.240 broke the news no cat. Then she politely shewed the 0:23:29.240 --> 0:23:33.119 young killer away and embarrassed Marcel tromped back to the 0:23:33.200 --> 0:23:43.399 car and delivered the bad news. Electus Perdeas continued to 0:23:43.440 --> 0:23:47.080 survey on Natasha for a few more days until they 0:23:47.080 --> 0:24:06.920 discovered a weak spot. On the afternoon of July twenty sixth, 0:24:07.080 --> 0:24:12.479 twenty twelve, Zach and Mikayla Valentine approach Natasha Berger's housing 0:24:12.520 --> 0:24:17.200 complex for the second time, this time wearing wigs and 0:24:17.280 --> 0:24:21.160 carrying gift bags with colorful tissue peeking out, all part 0:24:21.200 --> 0:24:24.840 of their new ruse. Because of that weak spot they 0:24:24.880 --> 0:24:26.119 had discovered. 0:24:25.800 --> 0:24:30.560 Natasha left her little puppy in daytime when she went 0:24:30.600 --> 0:24:32.280 to work with one of the neighbors. 0:24:33.200 --> 0:24:39.040 Natasha's neighbor is a sweet, older woman named Joy Burnside. 0:24:39.480 --> 0:24:43.159 Natasha's poodle, Bubbles, starts barking as soon as Mikayla and 0:24:43.240 --> 0:24:46.880 Zach walk up to Joy's townhouse. The knocking only makes 0:24:46.880 --> 0:24:51.800 the dog bark more, but then the door opens. Joy 0:24:51.840 --> 0:24:56.680 greets them warmly. Bubbles eagerly wags her tail. Mikayla smiles 0:24:56.720 --> 0:24:59.760 back at Joy and says hello. Then she points to 0:24:59.800 --> 0:25:02.679 the gift bag in her hands and excitedly explains that 0:25:02.720 --> 0:25:05.240 they've traveled all the way from Kruger's door to surprise 0:25:05.359 --> 0:25:08.640 Natasha for her birthday. Mikayla asks Joy if she'll let 0:25:08.640 --> 0:25:11.520 them in so they can wait inside until their friend 0:25:11.600 --> 0:25:15.720 gets home. The elderly neighbor is hesitant at first, but 0:25:15.840 --> 0:25:20.000 then succumbs to the charms of their thoughtfulness. She welcomes 0:25:20.040 --> 0:25:24.080 the married couple into her home. Just a warning here. 0:25:24.600 --> 0:25:29.200 The violence that comes next is quite disturbing. The moment 0:25:29.280 --> 0:25:32.080 her back is turned, Zack pulls out a knife. He 0:25:32.119 --> 0:25:34.440 says he won't hurt her as long as she cooperates. 0:25:34.880 --> 0:25:38.080 Joy is frozen in fear. He demands to write a 0:25:38.080 --> 0:25:42.080 note to Natasha. Joy trembling, finds a pen and paper 0:25:42.119 --> 0:25:46.440 and scribbles a message, Natasha, please come see me urgently, 0:25:47.040 --> 0:25:50.439 Auntie Jay. Zach orders Mikayla to go put it on 0:25:50.520 --> 0:25:54.119 Natasha's door. When she returns, Zach winks at his wife 0:25:54.119 --> 0:25:58.960 and says, she's all yours love. Cecilia had specifically requested 0:25:58.960 --> 0:26:04.320 that Mikayla kill Joy to practice a test of Michaela's loyalty, 0:26:04.840 --> 0:26:07.679 but when Michaela looks at Joy, the frightened old woman, 0:26:08.200 --> 0:26:11.879 she doesn't have the heart. I can't, She screams and 0:26:11.920 --> 0:26:19.680 flees from the old woman's house. Zach is shocked and disappointed. 0:26:19.080 --> 0:26:19.639 In his wife. 0:26:20.080 --> 0:26:24.240 He fears Cecilia's reaction and potential for a severe punishment. 0:26:26.000 --> 0:26:29.760 Joy tries to capitalize on Zach's momentary distraction. She makes 0:26:29.800 --> 0:26:32.080 a play for the door, but Zack is too fast 0:26:32.080 --> 0:26:37.600 for her. At six feet tall, he towers over the 0:26:37.640 --> 0:26:41.679 cowering woman. Zack has no mercy. He stabs her in 0:26:41.680 --> 0:26:46.240 the neck six times, then, as if overcome, he hits 0:26:46.240 --> 0:26:49.800 her with a hammer ten times, and after that, in 0:26:49.880 --> 0:26:54.200 his blind rage, he slits her throat. Blood splatters across 0:26:54.240 --> 0:27:01.040 the room, covering everything the walls, floors, and bedding. Somehow, 0:27:01.240 --> 0:27:04.280 Joy isn't dead, but Zach leaves the room to place 0:27:04.280 --> 0:27:07.800 a barking bubbles in the cupboard. While he's gone, Joy 0:27:07.880 --> 0:27:11.399 crawls to her phone. She manages to dial for help. 0:27:12.400 --> 0:27:15.439 Unable to speak, though, she lets the phone fall to 0:27:15.480 --> 0:27:19.880 the floor. Then she drags herself towards the front door. 0:27:20.760 --> 0:27:23.440 Perhaps her dead body can become a warning to Natasha. 0:27:24.200 --> 0:27:27.560 Joy's last breaths escape her lungs there on the living 0:27:27.600 --> 0:27:35.000 room floor. Zach returns from stashing the puppy. He sits 0:27:35.000 --> 0:27:37.720 down in the living room and stares at Joy Burnside's 0:27:37.760 --> 0:27:41.960 body waiting for Natasha to arrive. He doesn't have to 0:27:42.000 --> 0:27:50.800 wait long. Immediately, Zack grabs Natasha and pulls her into 0:27:50.800 --> 0:27:54.680 the apartment. She puts up a brave fight. She screams 0:27:54.720 --> 0:27:58.040 and thrashes against him, right up until the hammer comes out, 0:27:58.600 --> 0:28:02.480