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The Devil's Audition - Part Three — The Devil Within, podcast-episode

The Devil's Audition - Part Three

The finale of The Devil's Audition traces how Valerie McDonald's remains, found in 1991, were finally identified as hers a decade later.

The Devil's Audition - Part Two — The Devil Within, podcast-episode

The Devil's Audition - Part Two

The Devil Within's second episode on the Valerie McDonald case revisits her disappearance from San Francisco, the men who surrounded her, and the remains found years later.

Christa Pike: The Devil On Death Row - Part Three — The Devil Within, podcast-episode

Christa Pike: The Devil On Death Row - Part Three

The Devil Within's finale on Christa Pike covers her decades on death row and Tennessee's botched 2026 execution attempt.

Christa Pike: The Devil On Death Row - Part Two — The Devil Within, podcast-episode

Christa Pike: The Devil On Death Row - Part Two

Part two of The Devil On Death Row reconstructs Colleen Slemmer's murder, the pentagram carved into her chest, and Christa Pike's trial and death sentence.

Christa Pike: The Devil On Death Row - Part One — The Devil Within, podcast-episode

Christa Pike: The Devil On Death Row - Part One

The Devil Within opens its series on Christa Pike with the 1995 Knoxville murder of Colleen Slemmer, a pentagram, and the waning Satanic Panic.

The Devil's Ledger - Week of Oct. 5th, 2026 — The Devil Within, podcast-episode

The Devil's Ledger - Week of Oct. 5th, 2026

A weekly roundup episode of The Devil Within covering Christa Pike's death row case, a surviving execution, fraud, and a new horror film.

The New Monsters: The Loveland Frogman - Part Three — The Devil Within, podcast-episode

The New Monsters: The Loveland Frogman - Part Three

The Devil Within concludes its three-part look at the Loveland Frogman, tracing the legend from 1955 to a 2016 Pokémon Go sighting.

The Devil Within challenges faith and justice

The Devil Within: Murder, Cult Ties, and Satanic Panic

On a snowy January night in 1988, 14-year-old Tommy Sullivan murdered his mother, Betty Anne Sullivan, in their Jefferson Township, New Jersey home—then set the house ablaze and took his own life. The case would ignite a firestorm of suspicion about teenage occult involvement and fuel the 'Satanic Panic' that gripped America.