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Killed a Runaway, Put Her Head in the Fridge
and one of the killers is now free!
Do you remember the Satanic Panic of the 1980s and ‘90s? It led law enforcement on a wild goose hunt across the country, trying to rout out criminal elements of alleged devil worship and human sacrifice that they believed was behind many horrific murders of that era, including three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas in summer of 1993.
Arkansas convicted three men of those murders, men who are now free after later evidence seemed to exonerate them (although their sentences have not been overturned — they simply were allowed to leave prison with time served). Evidence no longer points to any kind of satanic worship or ritual sacrifice in the case of the West Memphis Three, but in this next story it does play a role.
In June 1990, two frightened young women walked into a police department in Warren, Michigan (a suburb of Detroit) carrying a gruesome package: the severed and skinned head of a 15-year old girl inside a paper bag. They handed the bag to the desk sergeant and explained that they took it out of a friend’s refrigerator. They had opened the fridge during a visit to their friend’s, found the head, questioned their friend who admitted not only placing the skinned skull in the fridge but killing the victim, a runaway girl.
