Demonic

I think again because of the brutality of the killing here, the circumstances...

Out top story tonight. A salvage murder in the 4th parish has brought the locals there..

...shaping up as one of the most disturbing story of 1988 so far.

Martha Livingston allegedly killed four of her friends before hanging herself...

in what the authorities are calling a ritualistic murder...

... a cult related case. It's the biggest thing that happens since Lizzie Borden

5 young people killed as part of a bizarre satanic ritual...

WFAL7 Jean Stanton, is live at Lawford parish with that story...

Neighbors said they are puzzled that someone they described as quiet and who kept to herself could be capable of the.. .

Those around this area surely remembered the Martha Livingston murders that shocked all..

More than twenty years after the Livingston murders, some ...

residence maintained paranormal phenomena played a role in those murders..

It's Grace's first time using a medium to cleanse a house of negative energy...

but she is willing to try anyway... - It's interesting because we'll do an open house and ...

...people would walk in and like: "Who lived here and why did they moved

- Did somebody die in here? - .. Someone says

that ghosts are nothing more than lost souls who were stuck in their sorrows... .

But whatever you believe about the afterlife, it's undeniable

that something horrific happened in this house all those years ago...

I'll be there.

I said I'll be there.

Why am I in a bad mood?

Uh... Deb heard noises next door, wanted me to check it out.

Yeah.

Livingston House.

No, it's completely quiet.

I'll call you back.

This is probably a stupid question, but this is the best you got?

- Very stupid question. - Huh, ha, ha, ha. I'll take it.

- Hello. - Hi Detective. Sorry to bother you but I got a call

about a disturbance from the 4 LaForte Road out by the section of the swarm.

We need immediately assistance and my closest officer is 20 minutes out.

Uh no. That's alright Margery, I'm 2 minutes away I'll take it.

Sorry, to bother you. I know you had a date tonight.

If only the bad guys respected my social calendar.

Halt!

Goddamn it, Leonard. You scared the shit out of me.

- You okay? - Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

- What the hell is going on? - There's blood in there.

- Stay here. Do not move. - Yeah, yeah, yeah.

Police!

Police.

This is detective Lewis. Requesting backup and EMS vehicles at number 4 LaForte Road.

I repeat. I need backup and EMS vehicles at number 4 LaForte Road.

Copy that.

Police!

Margery, where...

Police! Hold it boy. Stop. I said stop.

Stop...!

Stay down. Stay down.

Alright. Alright, alright.

You okay?

Look at me. Look at me. Stay with me. You okay?

Alright. You're okay.

You're okay...

ONE WEEK EARLIER

Are you okay?

John?

John?

Are you okay?

Are you gonna answer my brother?

Yeah. Sorry man, what was the question?

You were talking about what you saw in the house.

You said you were having visions of her.

I just want to clarify who the 'her' was.

Was it one of the victims, or uh..

-... the owner of the house? - No.

No, it was my mum.

She died a few years ago, and uh...

I don't know. I just keep... seeing her in this house...

but I've never been inside of it before.

She's... sitting there.

Smiling.

Telling me to let go.

She is younger than I remembered her. She's closer to my age.

And you've always had these visions?

No, only just started a few months ago.

This is a... This is really great stuff.

Bryan's going to love this.

Bryan?

Yeah, Bryan Purcell.

Hey. Hey, please don't walk away from this. I feel like we are actually getting somewhere.

-Why didn't you tell me that Bryan was involved? - Because I didn't think it mattered.

You didn't think that it matter that your ex-boyfriend was coming along?

It's was three years ago.

Look. I was going to tell you, but I needed to know if you would come first.

Hey, look. Sam, I appreciate what you're trying to do man, but I uh....

- I don't this stuff to cure my nightmares okay. - Okay.

But visions like this aren't just going to go away unless we really hit them head on.

- What does that mean head on? - It means we go to the house.

Once inside of it, we'll evaluate your connection.

See if these visions have any sense of realistic within the structure itself.

Yeah. Bryan?

Bryan, Jules and Donnie would be there to evaluate the paranormal aspects..

They believe that where there were victims, there are spirits.

No.

Bryan does not care about victims, or spirits, or anything going on with me, okay.

He is an opportunist who only cares about capturing ghost on tape,

so that he can make as much money out of it as he can.

Which is why he is going to insist, we go with or without you.

Look. A lot of unexplained things happened in that house all those years ago.

I think that when your mother heard about it, it stucked with her.

I think those things haunted her. like they are haunting you.

But hey. Don't listen to me to me.

It's your mom. She's the one telling you to let go.

You haven't slept in weeks.

I understand your skepticism,

and this might not work. But what if it does?

Just try it.

Please.

Her name is Michelle Chapman. We think she's the suspect's girlfriend.

No sign of her yet but we did find her purse inside.

- Let me try to pull the prints from the murder weapon. - Alright.

- Don’t hang around on my account. Go find some prints. - Yes sir.

Here, here, here...

- How many are there? - So far 13 cameras.

Almost the entire house is covered, but we're not seeing anything.

- God damn it. Erased? - No. Scrambled. Dead air.

There's recorded information but...

We got a mass murderer from that many angles, and you are telling me we don't have a single thing?

- I have a good feeling about this. - Henry, what are you doing with the freezer?

- Sometimes freezing the drives helps the data recovery. - Henry...

... there's going to be more murders if you screw up those drives.

I'm telling you right now.

Look. We'll bagged it.

And we'll try to defragment the data files and see if we can recovery anything but...

6 drives, 2 terabytes full of raw data could take sometime.

- Hey, Percy. - Hey, Percy.

- His rights been read? - Yes sir. Reeves got it.

How are you doing, John?

- Have you found Michelle yet? - Not yet, so...

Hoping you could help us with that.

- He took her. He took her away. - Who took her?

I got to go find her. 'Cos he couldn’t have gone far.

How many of you were there, John. 6? Were there 6 of you?

Are you listening to me?

You got to get out there and... find her.

We're looking for Michelle right now. I promise you that.

But what I need from you right now is... tell me who is missing?

John, look at these photos right here. And tell me who is missing?

- Bryan Purcell. - Bryan Purcell.

- When's the last time you saw Bryan? - I don't know.

You don't know? You said he took her. Where did he take her?

- I don't know. - Where?

- It happened so fast. I don't know. - Did Bryan Purcell kill these people, here?

Did he kill your friends?

No?

It was the house.

It was the house.

The house did... did something to him.

"The house did something to him."

If that could hold up in the court of the law, John. You know...

Usually convicted houses in the state Louisiana.

This house is different.

What were you doing in the house, John?

They woke it up. They...

They try to contact to the other side and they woke it up.

They woke it up. They woke up the house.

I only did it for Michelle.

It's my fault. Please be alive. - John....

Please be alive.

Listen to me John. I need you to stay calm, okay.

If it was Bryan.You have to find him. Before he hurts Michelle.

Okay. You have to find him!

- We will. - Please... Please...

Please.

Detective. No prints on the axe. Wiped clean.

There can't be any prints on the axe, Jenkins. The house did it.

Sir?

- Never mind. - You want me to bring him to the station?

Uh..no. I want you to keep him here.

We got two people out there, could be victims, could be killers.

Right now this guy is my only shoot at putting this thing together

- So I want him close to me, yeah. - Yes sir.

- Keep him here... Okay. - Yes sir.

Dispatch. That's a negative on the transport.

- Hi. - Hey.

- It's... it's me. You busy? - Yeah, I'm busy being stood up.

- I'm sorry about that, something came up. - Two hours I've been waiting , Lewis.

If you could just let me get a word in.

I got a triple homicide here in the Livingston house.

What?

- Martha Livingston? - Yeah.

Do you have someone in custody?

I do. I do. But uh...he's in shock right now. Says he can't remembers anything

Plus I got 2 people who are missing, the entire force is looking for.

- Oh. Copycat crime maybe. - No, no... no maybe.

- Kid saying they woke the house up. - Huh.

- Yeah. - Okay, I'm on my way.

Alright good, it's a date.

No, no. It was suppose to be a date. It's definitely not a date.

- Reeves. - Yes sir.

Get everything you can on the Livingston case, okay.

Yes, yes sir.

Hello... it's Jules here. I'm in the car... waiting. So bored.

- Bryan, say something. - Uh. (car horn)

Where are they?

Speak of the devil.

Let's go, you lovebirds.

Hey.