“¹² For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.” – Ephesians 6:12

“Beloved, believe not every spirit, but try the spirits whether they are of God: because many false prophets are gone out into the world.” – 1 John 4:1

Introduction

‘m sorry to delve into such a morbid topic, but in light of recent horrific events—like the murder of Charlie Kirk, which has received a lot of attention, especially on social media—perhaps it’s a good time to remind people who’s usually behind such violence (or rather, who).”

The focus here will be on individuals who hear voices associated with violence. I have already made several posts regarding this matter.

However, since then, I have come across numerous other news reports about people hearing voices telling them to do bad things to others (including themselves and even animals), which leads me to think it would be worth revisiting this matter.

The Root of the Violence is Spiritual

What compels people to unjustly commit great harm to another or murder are demonic spirits.

Indeed, Jesus Christ said in John 10:10 about satan:

“The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to KILL, and to DESTROY: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.“

Sometimes, people commit such crimes under the urging of the voices they hear.

Indeed, if you are hearing voices (whether internally or externally) saying bad things, and/or have desires to harm others, or do other evil acts, it is no doubt demonic – it comes from the evil one! The voices you hear are not because of voice to skull (V2K) technology, synthetic therapy, someone planted a chip in your head, or electronic harassment, as some who hear voices have posited. You are the target of the devil.

The following needs emphasis: HEARING VOICES COMMANDING YOU TO COMMIT HARMFUL ACTS POINTS TO DEMONS OR EVIL SPIRITS!

Indeed, this is perhaps one of the most blatant signs of demonization, or at the very least, an evil spirit is communicating to you.

While it’s true that most people who hear voices don’t act on violent commands, in most—if not all—cases, it’s demonic, especially if persistent, critical, or derogatory. (Additionally, the enemy can sometimes mask malevolent voices with your own inner voice. The enemy can be very tricky. Again, have discernment.)

It’s worth noting that using certain drugs, such as methamphetamine, cocaine, classic hallucinogens such as LSD and psilocybin, and dissociative drugs like PCP and ketamine, is known to lead people to hear voices. Drug use is one of the biggest demonic door openers. Thus, it’s likely that in most cases when people are on drugs, the voices they hear come from evil spirits.

Another thing worth noting is that people from certain cultures readily acknowledge hearing voices as spiritual, such as many Indigenous peoples across the Americas, Australia, and Siberia, as well as several African peoples, who may regard voice hearing as a form of spiritual communication from their ancestors or a shamanic calling. However, such voices are likely demonic, as they never lead to belief in Jesus Christ of the Bible.

Some people claim they have clairaudience, which is the ability or faculty of hearing something not present to the ear but regarded as having objective reality. Clairaudient people can “hear” clear, non-physical voices or messages from spiritual sources, such as spirit guides or other “dimensions,” beyond normal hearing. However, the voices they hear are likely to come from the demonic world since such people tend to be psychics, mediums, or channelers and be involved in the New Age/occult, which has been exposed here. The Bible strongly condemns such practices as they are significant demonic door openers. Thus, even if the voices are not commanding them to do harm to themselves or others, the source is still demonic. The evil spirits can masquerade as benevolent beings. However, the endgame is the destruction of the person.

That said, I’m not saying that every voice someone hears from beyond the natural world is demonic. I do believe God (and perhaps His angels) can speak to a person. There are many examples of God speaking directly to people in the Bible (e.g., Jonah 1:1-2; Acts 9:3–4; Luke 3:21–22). However, God would never command a person to commit evil (Jeremiah 19:5) and allow the person to actually carry it out (Genesis 22:11-12), or go against His word (the Bible). Nor would hearing God’s voice be distressing, nor would He ever berate or ridicule a person like the enemy does, as will be shown later. Again, a strong indicator that the voices are not of God is that they will never lead a person to the Bible or Jesus. Indeed, the Bible instructs us to test the spirits (1 John 4:1). It bears reiterating that we exercise discernment.

With all that said, for some people, it may be possible that hearing voices could be attributed to an “organic brain” issue. This can include neurological conditions like Parkinson’s, dementia, as well as damage from stroke or a brain tumor. Thus, hearing voices may not always come from the spiritual realm.

The Remedy for the Voices

Being involved in deliverance ministry (a ministry primarily focused on casting demons out of people), I have seen firsthand the power of Christ and His authority. If you have tried going to psychiatrists and tried drugs but deal with the voices, why not give Jesus a try?

I plead with you to turn to Christ and get prayer for deliverance if you are hearing voices.

Note: If you are suffering from hearing voices, then I am willing to pray for deliverance for you (no cost). Feel free to contact me. If this post can save a single human life, then it’s all worth it to expose it and make myself available to pray for deliverance (for free).

The News Reports are Quite Revealing

Perhaps you still don’t believe hearing voices can be a demonic issue. However, there are numerous news reports of people who heard voices telling them to commit horrific acts. According to some of the perpetrators, these voices acted like they were independent agents. Some even explicitly admitted they were possessed. How they manipulated them goes in line with what the Bible reads about evil spirits to do to people: confuse, manipulate, tempt, accuse, condemn, pressure, resist, control, harass, afflict, kill, and destroy. It should be easy to infer that something more is going on than what meets the eye.

The following news reports are quite disturbing. Reader discretion advised.

Perhaps one of the most well-known murderers in the news and on social media this year, partially, I believe, due to the murderer being a black man and the woman being a white woman. Sadly, many people have politicized the tragedy and used it to villainize black people, which is indicative of the evil hearts of people.

The perpetrator, Decarlos Brown Jr., who brutally murdered Iryna Zarutska, heard voices (though it’s not clear if the voices told him to kill):

The family of Decarlos Brown Jr., the man accused of fatally stabbing 23-year-old Ukrainian refuge Iryna Zarutska on a Charlotte, N.C., light rail train in August, says the murder suspect was previously diagnosed with schizophrenia and was “hearing voices” in his head prior to the attack.

Brown’s sister, Tracey Brown, said her brother had believed Zarutska was “reading his mind” prior to the sudden attack, according to a new CNN report.

“A person that is hearing voices in their head and believes the world is against them, they’re going to break,” Brown’s sister told CNN. “And I think that night he broke.”

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He also said something inside him controlled him. What is controlling his body, I believe, are demons:

In January, Brown reportedly made false emergency 911 calls, claiming that a “man-made material” was controlling his body and basic functions such as eating, walking and speaking.

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The following tragic case is just as blatantly demonic, perhaps even more so. It involved a high school student, Kipland Kinkel, who murdered several people, including his parents:

In the spring of 1998, Kipland Kinkel, then 15, shot and killed his mother, his father and two students at Thurston High School in Springfield, Oregon. He wounded 25 others. At the time, the country was only beginning to fear that mass shootings at schools might actually become a trend.

Kinkel heard voices in his head for the first time when he was 12 years old. He recalled getting off the school bus, walking up his driveway and hearing a male voice say, “You need to kill everyone, everyone in the world.”

Kinkel turned around, looking for someone behind him. But no one was there. He ran inside his house, but the voice followed him in, accompanied by a second. Frightened, he retrieved the rifle he had been given for his 12th birthday and held it tight, hoping it would protect him from the invisible intruders. He lay in bed, waiting for the voices to go away.

The two voices soon became three, all of them male. They had a hierarchy, and Kinkel could tell them apart. They sometimes argued with one another, and they often worked together to denigrate and manipulate Kinkel. They spoke about him as if he couldn’t hear them. Everything they said was ugly, negative and violent.

The voices terrified Kinkel. They warned him that everyone would think he was a freak if he tried to tell anyone about them. So Kinkel tried to make sense of what he was experiencing on his own. He didn’t grow up particularly religious, but he wondered if they came from God. Or maybe the devil.

Eventually, he settled on an explanation: “I believed that the Disney corporation was working in conjunction with the U.S. government, and they had planted a chip in my head and so the voices were coming from this chip,” Kinkel said during an interview.

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… During class one day, the voices became so overpowering Kinkel blurted out, “God damn this voice inside my head.” It was a modification of the Nine Inch Nails lyric he felt a connection to: “Goddamn this noise inside my head.” He was disciplined for swearing in class but was not questioned about the voices.

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Most people with schizophrenia do not commit acts of violence — in fact, people with severe mental illness are more likely to be the victims of violence than the perpetrators. But Kinkel’s voices demanded he commit terrible violence at an incredibly vulnerable time in his young life.

“Look what you’ve done, you stupid piece of s**t. You’re worthless,” one said.

“You have to kill him, shoot him,” another said, echoed by the third.

Kinkel wanted to kill himself, but the voices told him he couldn’t yet. “I know it’s really hard for people to accept and understand, but there was something very clear inside me — like suicide wasn’t an option for me until I had done this thing that they were telling me to do. And they had promised me that once I did this thing I could kill myself.”

The voices kept getting louder and louder. When they got home, Kinkel went to his room, crying. He took two guns from his room and hid them in the attic, in case his dad went looking for them.

“Get your gun, shoot him, shoot him.”

That afternoon, he picked up the rifle, walked down the stairs and saw his dad sitting at the bar.

“Kill him, shoot him. You have no choice.”

The voices had never told him he didn’t have a choice before.

Kinkel shot his dad in the back of the head, dragged the body into the bathroom and covered it with a sheet.

“Look at what you’ve done now, you stupid s**t.”

As Kinkel waited for his mom to come home, he fielded several phone calls, asking how he was doing and where his dad was. He lied each time. When Faith got home that evening, Kinkel met her in the garage.

“Kill her. Look at what you’ve done. You have no other choice.”

He told his mom he loved her, shot her twice in the back of the head, three times in the face and once in the heart. He covered her body with a sheet, too.

He stayed up all night, arguing with the voices.

“Get guns and bullets. You have no other choice. Kill everybody. Go to school and kill everybody. Look at what you’ve already done.”

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That shame, and the desire to understand how he could have done what he did, helped him eventually accept his diagnosis. “There was a sense of, ‘I did these things. I hurt these people. I killed my own parents, who I absolutely loved and who loved me and were good people. I shot and wounded completely innocent people that didn’t deserve anything bad to happen to them at all. I killed two boys who were completely innocent. And I need — I have to understand why I did this,’” Kinkel said.

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And:

While Kip was being questioned, Kip made no effort to hide that he had purchased the stolen weapon, saying, “Look, I’m gonna be square with you guys; the gun is in my locker.” Sure enough, the gun was found in Kip’s locker – and it was loaded. Both Kip and the friend who had stolen the gun were arrested, and the school suspended Kip, intending on expelling him after a hearing. After he was arrested from custody, Kip’s father came to pick him up, and spent the drive home threatening to send his son to military school. Later, Kip would claim that he hadn’t heard a word his father said – the voices in his head were too loud.

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The next morning, Kip listened to one opera recording over and over again, setting his CD player to repeat the track. He wrote a note explaining the murders of his parents, saying, “I just got two felonies on my record. My parents can’t take that. It would destroy them. The embarrassment would be too much for them. They couldn’t live with themselves.” But right after claiming that he’d killed his parents to save them from embarrassment, he wrote, “God damn these voices inside my head. I have to kill people. I don’t know why. I have no other choice.”

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Because of his history of mental illness, Kip requested a second trial, supported by two psychiatrists, who testified that he had been showing signs of schizophrenia at the time the crimes were committed. He had suffered from paranoid delusions for several years, beginning when he was around twelve years old. The delusions included an unwavering belief that the West Coast was about to be invaded by the Chinese, and that the United States government had placed a computer chip into his brain without his consent. Because of these delusions, he reported living his life in a constant state of high alert. He also reported hearing three different voices in his head, which he labeled as Voice A, B, and C. Voice B was the voice who constantly insulted Kip and told him that life wasn’t worth living – whereas Voice A was the one who commanded him to carry out violent acts, such as fatally shooting his parents. 

Despite the impact that his delusions had on his quality of life, Kip didn’t tell anybody about the voices until he was already in prison. He explained this as being due to a deep fear of being labeled as “retarded” or “abnormal”, or even being sent to an asylum. He tried to drown out the voices by carrying out intense physical activity or playing music as loud as he could, but it never really worked.

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Kipland still doesn’t know the source of the voices and why he committed the horrible acts. It seems like he has deep regret and wonders why he did it. If he ever became a Christian, perhaps God would open his eyes to what was really behind him to commit the crimes, that it was demons inside him manipulating him.

The following recent news report is another case of a man committing murder after hearing voices (though it’s not clear if the voices told him to do it):

Suspect ‘hearing voices’ brutally killed Phoenix man he didn’t know, docs say

Disturbing new details have emerged in the murder of a man who Phoenix police say was intentionally hit by a car and then stabbed to death by a man he didn’t know.

Miguel Preciado Jr., 38, is accused of killing 35-year-old Ethan Jaaziel Felix in the parking lot of an apartment complex near 16th Street and Thomas Road late last week.

Ethan’s older brother, Breon Felix, told Arizona’s Family, “It was just vicious. It was just a very vicious attack.”

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The following man said voices told him to do bad things:

Colorado prison records for Elijah Caudill – who is suspected in two murders on Denver’s 16th Street Mall – told others in 2023 and 2024 that he was hearing voices, according to documents obtained by 9NEWS Investigates.

Records obtained by 9NEWS Investigates detail two times when it was reported that Caudill was hearing voices.

A Colorado Department of Corrections record of Caudill’s history in the prison system reported an incident on May 20, 2023, in which he began yelling in a day room. Asked if he was OK, he responded “yes” – “just that the voices in his head were bothering him today,“

A Department of Corrections case manager’s Feb. 21, 2024, report of a conversation with someone who had talked to Caudill in jail reported that he was “hearing voices and refusing to take his meds.”

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He said he heard voices in his head that told him to “do bad things,” court records show.

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The following report involved a homosexual union. Homosexual sex can be a demonic door opener, but the drugs were likely also a factor in what I believe is most likely to have led to the perpetrator’s demonization:

… ‘Voices’ commanded him to kill his husband, court hears

“I was hearing voices and I killed my spouse,” he said on the recording played for Superior Court Justice Heather McArthur. “I think he’s dead.”

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The 911 call taker asked what the voices had told him. “They said he was a demon and he was going to kill me,” Malcolm explained.

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Police found several prescription pill bottles dispensed to Malcolm, including aripiprazole, used for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia. In the kitchen was a stockpot that oddly contained scissors and three knives, apparently from an empty butcher’s block on the counter.

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In the following, the demonic voices were laughing as the demons used a boy to murder someone in cold blood:

James Fairweather, 17, who has been convicted of double murder, told police voices in his head were “laughing louder and louder” as he killed one of his victims in a Colchester park.

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The enemy uses a woman to commit murder:

Hannah Bonser: profile of murderess who warned she would kill

Valentine’s Day killer Hannah Bonser had been telling people about the murderous voices in her head since she was 17.

As she got closer to the day she stabbed Casey Kearney to death with a 16 inch kitchen knife she tried repeatedly to alert the authorities, but on each occasion she was turned away.

The killer told both medical staff and mental health workers that she was “a complete psychopath” who needed to be sectioned before the “voices in her head” called on her to take someone’s life.

Three days before lunging at Casey in a Doncaster park in broad daylight she told her best friend she was “evil” and talked about stabbing an ex-boyfriend because he had made her have an abortion.

Hayley Spouse recalled: “She said that once she had stabbed him, she was going to get revenge on anybody who had upset her in her life”.

Bonser changed “unbelievably” for the worse in June last year. She had long been fascinated with Druids, but now she came to believe they were “out to get her”.

“She told me she was becoming psychotic,” said Miss Spouse. “She was terrified of crows, she thought they were evil. She thought the birds were actually flying people spying on her”.

Bonser had spent most of her life trying to resist the mental illness that would eventually engulf both her and her teenage victim.

Her own childhood had been scarred by the strict Mormon upbringing imposed upon her by her parents.

Roberta Bonser and her husband, Ronald, kept their two children isolated from other youngsters and educated them at home in a run-down council house.

Roberta, who was grossly obese, died at the age of 48 and in the years that followed Ronald became too depressed to bother with the children. He later died from heart disease.

Eventually social services took Bonser and her brother, Ben, into care and they spent their teenage years in foster homes.

“When we were kids everyone knew us as the Mormon family,” said Ben, now 33. “We went to church every week in our smartest clothes, and we were kept away from other children because my parents thought they were a bad influence.

“My mum was the light of our lives, and when she died Hannah was traumatised. She had been the one who held us together and encouraged us to be better people. After she had gone, we fell apart.

“Hannah was 12 when we went into care. I still remember the drive to our first foster home. Hannah was clutching a soft toy.”

Bonser’s insecurity turned gradually towards a catastrophic descent into mental illness.

By the age of 15 she was suffering from obsessive-compulsive disorder, sometimes spending 45 minutes in the shower and scrubbing her hands to try to get clean.

On her 17th birthday, July 30, 2002, she was diagnosed as having an emotionally unstable personality after going to Doncaster Royal Infirmary and telling staff she could hear voices.

“The voices told her to go to high places and occasionally told her to kill people,” said Dr Alexander Shubsachs, a psychiatrist called by the defence.

A month later, on August 6, 2002, she told the same GP she was suffering command hallucinations.

As a result she was admitted to St Catherine’s, a specialist mental health unit in Doncaster, and given anti-psychotic drugs.

For the next nine years she attended regular outpatient appointments and overdosed a number of times on her medication.

At some point she had her left arm tattooed with the image of a black dagger. She regarded this arm as her “evil” arm, which she also associated with her “cruel” father.

As Bonser’s grip on reality declined, so, too, did her ability to care for herself in even the most basic of ways. A world of demons and fantasies began to take over.

In September 2011, with an abortion behind her, she travelled to London to seek the non-existent “Simon of Lambeth”.

She ended up sleeping rough on the streets until eventually being sectioned by staff at University College Hospital and later returned to St Catherine’s.

Her love of martial arts had persuaded her to once buy a Samurai sword. As the date of the killing drew closer she developed a fascination for kitchen knives.

On January 7, just over a month before the stabbing, she arrived at Doncaster Royal Infirmary asking to be sectioned on the grounds that voices in her head were telling her to harm others.

An entry in her clinical notes read: “She had her bags packed and wanted to be admitted because she was a danger to herself and others.”

But staff decided there was “nothing wrong with her” and turned her away.

By the time of the killing, she had taken to sleeping with a Stanley knife under her bed and imagining she was possessed by the soul of her still-born sister.

Perhaps crucially, she also began to associate her psychotic ideas with the park where she encountered her victim.

Dr Shubsachs told the jury at Sheffield Crown Court he was convinced Bonser was a paranoid schizophrenic.

He added: “The nature of schizophrenia is that it impairs your ability to appreciate and fully understand the nature of your conduct because of the delusional ideas and hallucinations”.

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The following is a case of a woman murdering her boyfriend after hearing voices while meditating. Note that it has been exposed that meditation can open doors to demonization.

WA woman strikes boyfriend with axe, burns him believing he was ‘demon’: docs

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Following her arrest, police said the suspect claimed to have heard a voice while meditating, which she believed to be God, telling her that her boyfriend was a demon and going to kill her.

The woman claimed she feared for her life, so she entered her boyfriend’s room during the night and repeatedly struck him in the head with an axe.

The 49-year-old said she then retrieved a bottle of rubbing alcohol, poured it over the body and used a lighter from her keychain to light him on fire. She allegedly stated she saw on TV how fire was the only way to kill a demon.

Police say she later realized she had done the wrong thing and hid the axe in her room between the mattresses, which officers later recovered.

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The following news report reads that the voices tormented the man for months before he committed the evil act. The Bible reads that demons can torment people (1 Samuel 16:14–23; Luke 13:11, 16; Revelation 9:1–11):

A man charged with fatally shooting two people at a Southern California movie theater is blaming voices in his head that he said had tormented him for months, a newspaper reported Wednesday.

“The voices said my friends and family were going to be killed,” Joseph Jimenez, 20, said Wednesday in a interview at a Riverside County jail in Banning where he is being held, the Riverside Press-Enterprise reported.

He did not explain how killing people would save his loved ones.

Jimenez also gave a blow-by-blow description of the shooting but offered his condolences to the families of the victims, saying: “I wish I didn’t do it.”

Rylee Goodrich, 18, and Anthony Barajas, 19, were shot in the head while watching a movie at a nearly empty Corona, California, theater July 26. They were found by an employee after the last showing of the night.

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A man claimed the voices told him to kill his girlfriend because she was a witch. It is probably not true that she was a witch since demons are known to lie:

‘I did stab that lady’: Man says he killed girlfriend because ‘voices’ told him she was a ‘witch’: Prosecutors

A man from Maine accused of stabbing a woman to death told police he did it because he believed she was a “witch” and that “demons” told him to attack her, prosecutors said.

Robert McClure, 71, told officers he was hearing “voices in his head” on Nov. 22 when he stabbed Christine Miller, 64, multiple times inside her apartment at the senior-living River Landing Apartment complex in Topsham, authorities said.

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The following story reads that the man heard voices say horrible things about him. This is, without a doubt, demonic!

Family of Maine shooting suspect says his mental health had deteriorated rapidly

Robert Card’s sister-in-law said relatives contacted his Army Reserve unit and police after he began hearing voices.

The family of the Army reservist accused of fatally shooting more than a dozen people in Lewiston, Maine, alerted police and military officials that he was experiencing an “acute” mental health episode before the Wednesday night massacre, his sister-in-law said.

Robert Card, 40, a firearms instructor and longtime member of the Army Reserve, began to hear voices that were saying “horrible” things about him a couple of months ago when he was fitted for high-powered hearing aids, said Katie Card, who is married to his brother.

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Ethan Robert Crumbley, who was only 15 years old, opened fire, killing four students and injuring seven people, including a teacher (however, it’s not clear if the voices told him to commit the evil act):

Other texts to his mom describe a demon in the house

In addition to texts to his friend, Ethan Crumbley texted his mother about seeing demons in the house, though no evidence has been presented that he was watching horror movies then.

For example, on March 17, 2021, St. Patrick’s Day, nine months before the shooting, the shooter texted his mom a series of texts while she was riding her horse.

He wrote: “Some wierd s* just happens and now I’m scared.” “I got some videos.” “And a picture of the demon.” “It is throwing BOWLS.” “I’m not joking it f*** up the kitchen.”

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And:

The Crumbleys, who bought their son the gun he used in the shooting, face involuntary manslaughter charges as the first parents in America charged in a school shooting. Prosecutors allege they ignored a disturbed son who showed many signs of being troubled — such as texting his mom about hearing voices and seeing demons throw bowls around the house — and instead of getting him help they bought him a gun.

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Aiden Fucci, who was then 14 years old, murdered his schoolmate, Tristyn Tyne Bailey, who was 13 years old. He apparently had signs of demonization.

Aiden Fucci said, ‘Demons are going to take my soul away.’ Some said he was acting, but was he really?

‘Demons are going to take my soul’: Teen accused of stabbing girl 114 times rambles in court

At one point, he can be heard talking about demons, saying “Please don’t let the demons take my soul. The demons are going to take my soul away.”

“What’s going on,” he asks. “Why am I here? I just want to talk to my mom and dad. What’s going on? What’s going on?”

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Fucci said he heard voices in his head to kill people when angry, and had satanic drawings before he allegedly murdered her:

According to court records, investigators said Fucci had a notebook with satanic drawings and his girlfriend told investigators he would hear voices in his head that would tell him to kill people.

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And:

His girlfriend said, “Aiden told me that he had voices in his head that told him those things that told him that he was worthless and a disappointment. And I know that he struggled with self-harm sometimes. And he told me multiple times that he had hated himself and that he wanted to kill himself. He also told me that whenever he gets angry, that voice tells him to kill people. And he and he knew there was something wrong with him. I think he wanted to reach out for help.”

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It is significant to point out that having a fascination with morbid things can be a sign of demonization:

His friends told deputies Fucci “talked about death and killing all the time,” and frequently drew pictures of mutilated bodies. But they didn’t believe he would actually kill. “You don’t really take stuff like that serious coming from a teenager,” his best friend said. “He said he wanted to slit someone throat, he said it’d be satisfying. He’s talked about killing people talked about fighting people. I’ve have seen him practice stabbing motions with his knife. And I mean, you don’t really take any of this stuff as in: He’s gonna stab and kill somebody. Because he’s just a kid. We’re all just kids.” 

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As well as having “glassy” eyes:

A classmate described him as always having “glassy” eyes describing them a having “no meaning” in them. He was “the textbook definition of what you would call a numb kid. He has no feelings toward anyone, no feelings towards himself.” She added, “He is the type of person you would see as a murderer. He just doesn’t care.”

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A Japanese mother in America tragically murdered her two children because of voices:

Arizona Mother Kills Two Children With Meat Cleaver While Hearing Voices, Police Say

Speaking at a press conference later that day, Tempe Police spokesman Sgt. Steven Carbajal told reporters that Inoue had driven to a nearby police station around 7 a.m. and flagged one of their officers, saying she had been “hearing voices, telling her to kill her kids.”

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The following is another woman who murdered her child because of hearing voices:

Woman accused of killing daughter was hearing voices, left body in car for days: Documents

DARRINGTON. Wash. (KOMO) — A Washington state woman is behind bars, accused of killing her own child and reporting it to police two weeks later.

The Snohomish County Sheriff’s Office said deputies responded to the home Monday evening for a death investigation. The suspect, a 30-year-old woman, called 911 to report she had killed her child, officials said.

The woman allegedly told investigators her 5-year-old daughter had been dead since Feb. 14. Deputies contacted additional family members and determined the child was not in the care of any other relatives, officials said.

According to court documents, the woman told deputies she had been hearing voices telling her that “she is a demon, the devil, the messiah, and sometimes her ancestors speak to her.” The voices were allegedly telling the woman she needed to kill herself and her daughter so they could go to heaven.

The woman described the alleged killing to deputies, saying she stabbed her daughter with a knife while the child was in the backseat of her car.

The woman allegedly sat in the vehicle with the injured child for several minutes and did not provide any aid, according to court documents. The woman also told deputies she left the child in the backseat for “several days covered in blankets” before eventually getting a shovel and burying the body in front of her neighbor’s house.

The woman allegedly admitted to investigators to throwing away the knife and the clothes she was wearing into the dumpster, which has since been emptied.

The child’s body was recovered by investigators this week. The official cause and manner of death, as well as the child’s identity, will be released from the Snohomish County Medical Examiner’s Office.

According to court documents, the woman allegedly planned to take her own life with a knife after killing her child, but decided against it and wanted to use a gun, but she didn’t have money to purchase a firearm.

The woman called 911 herself to report her child’s death and told investigators the details during initial interviews.

The woman was arrested and booked into the Snohomish County Jail Tuesday morning for suspicion of first-degree murder. She is set to appear in court Wednesday afternoon.

KOMO is not naming the woman at this time since she has not yet been formally charged.

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Another case of a woman taking her own child’s life after hearing voices:

Police: Pennsylvania mom said she heard voices telling her to kill her 5-year-old son

LILLY, Pa. (KDKA) — A Pennsylvania woman charged with homicide said she heard voices telling her to kill her 5-year-old son, police said. 

Jennifer Bowser is accused of killing her son, Samson Bowser, on Monday, CBS affiliate WTAJ reports. 

When authorities arrived at a home on Cosey Lane in Lilly, Cambria County, for a call about a 5-year-old in cardiac arrest, they said they found a woman giving a child CPR. Court documents said the child couldn’t be revived, according to WTAJ. 

Police said they questioned Bowser, who claimed she was hearing a voice from “a machine box or mic box” that told her to smother her child so he didn’t go to “H E double hockey sticks,” WTAJ reports. She told police she was barricading herself inside her room with her son because a voice called “Kayla” told Bowser the child wasn’t hers and was trying to take him from her. 

Bowser reportedly told police the voices got “meaner and meaner,” telling her that the cops were coming and were going to shoot through the wall and kill her son if she didn’t smother him, WTAJ said, citing the criminal complaint. Bowser told police the voices said it would be better to smother her son than have him be shot.

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The following are more cases involving moms:

Woman Charged with the Murder of Her Young Daughter, Whose Death She Blamed on ‘Voices’ in her Head

Marisol Vazquez, 37, has been charged with first-degree murder for the death of her child Lucia

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Per a police report obtained by CBS News, Vazquez was initially found naked on a bed with Lucia behind her.

When paramedics tried to perform life-saving measures on the child, who was not breathing, water came out of her mouth, the report said. Police also found water and clothing in a bathtub.

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Vazquez was eventually taken to Ascension St. Mary Hospital for a mental health evaluation, and officers later arrested her there on Thursday, Jan. 2, CBS News reported.

Vazquez then allegedly confessed to suffocating Lucia with a bedsheet. She also allegedly told detectives that “the voices were in her head and that the voices told her that she needs to kill herself with her daughter in order for the devil not to eat her daughter,” the outlet added.

Vazquez also told officials that she tried to drown herself but was unable to, so she then tried to cut herself, per CBS News.

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Mum heard ‘demonic voices’ and killed son, 6, after he suffered brain tumour

Alexander Zurawski was just six years old when he was found dead at his home in Swansea, Wales, next to his mum Karolina Zurawska – who had a handsaw by her side

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A MOTHER accused of setting her one-year-old daughter on fire last year told psychiatric specialists she was coaxed to do so by “demonic voices” which had been “commanding” her to kill herself and do other “bad things”, Supreme Court jurors heard yesterday.

Dr Kirk Christie, a psychiatrist, taking the witness stand before Justice Bernard Turner, said Philipa Marshall told him and others the reason she set her daughter Philicia afire was because one of the demons told her to ignite both herself and her daughter.

Marshall, who is schizophrenic, also reported being tormented on a daily basis by those demons for the past three years, which she claimed included her being instructed to overdose on tablets and harm herself.

Dr Christie said Marshall has since reported while she still hears the demonic voices in her head, they now tell her to do “good things” as opposed to commanding her to commit suicide or other negative acts.

The witness’ testimony came during a hearing to determine whether Marshall is mentally fit to stand trial for allegedly causing her daughter’s death by means of unlawful harm.

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CT mother ‘hearing voices’ before 1-month-old son’s drowning death arrested on murder charges

According to the arrest warrant affidavit, the person who called police, who lived with Fleming and her son, told investigators she woke up around 9 a.m. and could not find them in the apartment and noticed that the front door was open. The woman claimed that Fleming was on medication and had been hearing voices that led her to believe someone was trying to harm her, the warrant affidavit said.

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The warrant affidavit said troopers noted that Fleming’s mental state appeared to be altered, as she was asked multiple times about the infant and responded, “What baby?” According to police, she did not know her own name or where she was.

“Sadie initially appeared to be extremely paranoid and panicked,” state police wrote.

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On the phone, her husband asked her what voices she heard, prosecutors said.

“She said she heard a man’s voice telling her to kill the kids and kill herself because it was her last chance,” said Sprague.

Dr. Paul Zeizel, the forensic psychologist evaluating Clancy, says she may have never told anyone she’d heard voices in the past.

“Telling you to do things that are malevolent and you believe those voices telling you that you need to follow what they say,” said Zeizel. “That’s when things go downhill.”

It’s unknown if Clancy had heard voices previously.

“It’s a very common psychotic symptom,” said Dr. Kellie Wallace. “Auditory hallucinations are one of the more frequent ones we see.”

Wallace teaches criminal justice at Lasell University and is a trained mental health therapist.

“They are not nice voices,” said Wallace. “They are not telling you that you’re a good person.”

Wallace says the voices someone can hear can be terrifying, and reinforce negative thoughts.

“If she’s hearing these commanding voices and they’re telling her that she kill herself and her children in order to save them,” said Wallace, “she may very well have succumbed in that moment.”

Prosecutors say Clancy appeared to interact normally in the days and hours leading up to the crime. Wallace says it’s possible someone can communicate and behave appropriately without letting on they may be suffering with voices in their head.

“And when those voices are commanding you to do things, it’s incredibly frightening, and the only thing to get them to stop is to do the thing,” said Wallace.

Zeizel says he’s still evaluating Clancy and assessing her mental health, and it’s too early to come up with an exact diagnosis.

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It’s worth repeating, in the following case, the mother who took the lives of her two children was on drugs, which is a huge demonic door opener:

‘Send them to heaven’: Indiana woman confesses to drowning her children, says voices told her to

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She indicated that she “ended up sending her daughter and son to heaven,” police said, causing her to drive to the jail.

Police said Medina admitted to taking a half gram of Xanax and a suboxone strip the night before, the evening of Sept. 25. She said she had also snorted three separate lines of cocaine.

Medina said the next morning started normally, with her boyfriend leaving for work and her making breakfast for the children as they watched cartoons.

However, around 2:30 p.m., Medina told officers she began hearing “voices in her head” that told her she “needed to send her children to heaven today” or else someone would come kidnap them and put them in a dark hole.

Medina, police said, admitted that while the voices began threatening to torture her and her children she went into the master bathroom and began filling the tub with water.

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Another tragic case where a mom was using drugs. It’s also worth noting that she said she blacked out and did not remember hurting her child. This is interesting. Being involved in deliverance ministry, I have seen many people black out when the demons manifest:

A Michigan mother claimed to hear voices through television before allegedly killing her 3-year-old daughter

CNN — A 22-year-old mother charged with the murder of her 3-year-old daughter claimed she heard voices from her television telling her to hurt her daughter prior to the girl’s death, according to a police report.

Justine Johnson has pleaded not guilty to one count of felony murder and one count of first-degree child abuse, according to the Iosco County, Michigan, Prosecutors’ Office. She is being held without bond. An attorney for Johnson declined to comment when reached by CNN.

According to the police report provided to CNN by prosecutors, Johnson told an official from Iosco County Child Protective Services (CPS) that the cartoon “SpongeBob SquarePants” was on TV when she heard voices through the television and that the television threatened to kill Johnson unless she hurt her daughter, Sutton Mosser.

A CPS official told police Johnson said she was going through heroin withdrawal and used cocaine the day she allegedly killed Sutton, who had turned three years old two days prior to her death, the police report says.

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The specialist told police that Johnson said she was going through opiate withdrawals and using cocaine the day her daughter was killed, according to the police report.

According to a recording of their conversation described in the police report, Johnson told the specialist that “SpongeBob SquarePants” was playing on the TV at her mother’s house. She said that the television told her “they were going to kill me” if she didn’t hurt her daughter, the police report says. Johnson also said she’d “blacked out” and did not remember having hurt Sutton.

Afterwards, Johnson said she had gone to her own home, tried to kill herself, and then was heading back to her mother’s house when the police found her, according to the police report.

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The following is a tragic case of a father taking his own son’s life because he claimed voices told him to do it:

BRANFORD, Conn. (WKRC) – A father allegedly heard voices that told him to kill his 12-year-old son with a baseball bat and attempt to do the same to his teenage daughter.

According to a police report obtained by the Stamford Advocate, officers responded to a call regarding a possible murder at a residence at around 3:55 p.m. on Thursday. The house was empty when they arrived except for the 12-year-old’s body in the basement, per the report. The child was pronounced deceased at 4:10 p.m.

Police learned that the boy’s father had fled the scene before they arrived, but they soon spotted his car on a state route and pulled him over, per the report. The father, 52-year-old Anthony Andrew Esposito Jr., reportedly refused to speak to the investigators and insisted he would only talk to an officer named “Jimmy.” When he was told he would not be able to speak with the requested officer, he reportedly started talking.

Esposito allegedly told the officers that his son had spoken to him “[disrespectfully]” and used curse words. He claimed that he heard voices (specifically those of his reportedly abusive mother and father) that told him, “Don’t let him get away with it,” referring to the child. Esposito said the voices told him, “Baseball, baseball bat,” leading to him beating his son with the weapon until he was deceased.

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A similar case is reported in the following; however, it’s not clear if the voices told him to kill:

‘I just killed my son,’ dad told Ohio dispatcher. Now he’s going to prison for life

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Matthew Ponomarenko, charged with aggravated murder in the 2021 death of his son, Jax Ponomarenko, pleaded guilty in Cuyahoga County court Thursday, Nov. 9, officials said.

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“What do you mean you just killed your son?” the dispatcher responded without hesitation. “I’m hearing voices,” Ponomarenko said.

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Beau Wilson, the 18-year-old who indiscriminately murdered 3 people in NM in a mass shooting, said he heard voices.

The 16-year-old said in some ways he was surprised by what happened, saying “I knew he was going to do something bad but I didn’t think it was going to be something like that.” But, he said, he knew the older teenager was “different.” Once, a couple of years ago at a sleepover on Halloween the 16-year-old said he awoke to hear Wilson talking to people who weren’t there. “I was really confused,” the teenager recounted. “I was like ‘are you OK?’ He was like ‘yeah.’ He said ‘these voices just keep getting to me.’” The teenager said Wilson was respectful and protective of those he liked, but had a hard time meeting new people. The two had been messaging last week about Wilson selling his Xbox, but the suspect has since deleted all of the messages. “What he did was wrong,” the teenager said. “But everyone is going to see him as the mass shooter of Farmington and I’m going to see him as Beau.” 

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AJ Freund’s mother says she saw demons, heard voices prior to 5-year-old’s murder

JoAnn Cunningham, currently serving a 35-year prison sentence for the murder of her 5-year-old son, A.J. Freund, says she suffered from postpartum psychosis and saw demons and heard voices prior to the murder.

Shaw Local News Network reported Cunningham made the claim in a court petition asking for relief.

She also said she asked a priest, a chaplain, and her husband, Andrew Freund, Sr., to perform an exorcism around the time of the boy’s murder.

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Not all murderers, of course, hear voices. Demons can cause some people to have an urge to murder. Such as the case of the following:

In an arrest report from the Reno Police Department, 17-year-old suspect Mashenka Reid reportedly called 911 and told a dispatcher “I just couldn’t resist the urge to kill somebody,” when she was asked what happened.

Reid’s father and younger brother were found dead inside an apartment on Silver Sky Parkway, while her sister was found alive when an officer kicked in a door to a locked bedroom.

The arrest report details the timeline of events surrounding the double homicide.

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The following man “felt pressure” to commit evil:

Man who stabbed three people to death in Nottingham ‘felt pressure’ from voices in his head to kill people, court hears

Psychiatrists have discussed Valdo Calocane’s mental state at Nottingham Crown Court, with the 32-year-old having suffered from paranoid schizophrenia when he killed two students and a school caretaker in June 2023.

A man who stabbed three people to death in Nottingham heard voices in his head telling him he needed to kill people otherwise something “atrocious” would happen to his family, a court heard.

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Valdo Calocane is likely to spend the rest of his life in a high-security hospital, after being sentenced for stabbing three people to death and trying to kill three others with a van.

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Calocane’s family became concerned about his mental health again in May 2021. According to his brother, he had been hearing voices, telling him his family members would die.

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Another case where it is not clear if the man heard voices telling him to commit the horrific acts, but there is no doubt that demons were working through him:

A Louisiana man who was arrested for the fatal stabbings of a woman and two children was being treated for schizophrenia and started hearing voices the day before, a relative said.

The 30-year-old Amite man was arrested on three counts of first-degree murder after the Thursday killings. Family members identified the victims as the suspect’s son, 1-year-old Hayden Madison; his sister, 40-year-old Rhonda Powell; and Powell’s son, 10-year-old Braylon Powell.

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In the following case, the perpetrator, of course, apparently didn’t hear the Holy Spirit or God, but was likely the demons masquerading as God (Cf. 2 Corinthians 11:14):

Winnipeg serial killer motivated by delusions caused by schizophrenia, U.K. forensic psychiatrist testifies

Jeremy Skibicki says he heard voices of angels, the Holy Spirit or God telling him to kill 4 women in 2022

During the 2022 police interview where Jeremy Skibicki confessed to killing four Indigenous women, he told investigators he was motivated by race and the “extreme desperate measures” he felt needed to be taken “for the survival of [his] people.”

But almost two years later, during an April forensic psychiatric assessment, just before the start of his first-degree murder trial, he told the expert hired by his lawyers that he was actually encouraged to kill the women by voices he was hearing at the time — and claimed he’d told police a different story because he’d been overtaken by an entity that could have been either God or the devil, which was speaking on his behalf.

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The following case involves the perpetrator claiming to have blacked out. As mentioned earlier, I have prayed for deliverance for some people who have completely blacked out when the demons within them manifested:

Son suffering from schizophrenia when he killed his mother found not criminally responsible

Scott de Molitor, 32, caused fatal injuries to his mother, Audra de Molitor, in 2023

Hearing voices

On May 23, Scott called 911 and told the operator that his mother was badly injured. He said he did not know what happened to her but he thought he had hurt her 

“I started hearing voices and I blacked out,” he said. 

Scott suffers from chronic treatment-resistant schizophrenia.

He will continue to be held at a secure psychiatric facility. 

The Alberta Review Board will conduct a hearing in the next 45 days to hear from Scott’s medical team for an update on his progress and treatment plan. 

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SHREVEPORT, La. (TCN) — A man is in custody on suspicion of fatally stabbing his mother, a high school teacher, while she was asleep.

According to the Caddo Parish Sheriff’s Office, on the afternoon of May 23, deputies responded to a home to a report of a possible homicide. Someone had called 911 and said, “My brother killed my mother,” KSLA-TV reports.

Responding deputies found 19-year-old Connor Lyons on the rear steps of the home. He allegedly told authorities he was hearing voices and stabbed his mother three times in the neck while she was sleeping.

Deputies cleared the home and located Lyons’ mother, identified by KSLA as 55-year-old Lara Lyons, deceased in her bed.

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It seemed that the evil spirit(s) manipulated the woman to commit the horrific act by telling her to “stand up for herself”:

A schoolteacher alleged to have stabbed her husband in the neck in a pre-planned murder later told healthcare professionals that a voice in her head told her to “stand up for herself”, a trial has heard.

Fiona Beal is accused of murdering Nicholas Billingham, her long-term partner, on November 1 2021, after penning a “chilling” confession detailing her plan to kill the 42-year-old in their Northampton home, dispose of his body and explain his disappearance to others.

The 49-year-old allegedly planned the murder in a blue notebook, in which she also previously claimed that Mr Billingham cheated on her several times and was doing so again.

She was found by officers in the bath of a lodge in Windemere in Cumbria with superficial self-inflicted wounds on March 15 2022, leaving a note for the owner with her bank card reading “This is my PIN. Don’t go in to the bathroom”, Northampton Crown Court heard on Tuesday.

After being detained under the Mental Health Act, she was arrested on suspicion of murder on March 17 and, during a psychiatric assessment, she told healthcare professionals that a voice in her head “told her to stand up for herself”, a police officer said.

Her partner’s body was found two days later.

Giving evidence during the second day of trial, Pc Josh Bromley, of Lancashire Police, said he was sitting a short distance from the psychiatric assessment when he overheard Beal make the remark.

When asked by prosecutor, Steven Perian KC, what he heard of the assessment, he said: “I heard the doctors ask a question in relation to voices in her head.

“I believe she stated that in November 2021, there was a voice in her head that told her to stand up for herself.”

Pc Bromley said he made an “assumption” that this related to a partner or ex-partner, but did not explicitly hear Beal say this.

Bodycam footage of the assessment later showed psychiatrists confirming that she heard “different voices” on “some days”, starting the previous November.

They found Beal in the bath with “sinister acoustic music” playing from a mobile phone, initially believing Beal was deceased before rousing her from what was an apparent suicide attempt. Pc Parkin said she appeared “vacant, emotional and a closed book”.

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Again, no reports that the voices told him to do what he did, but there is no doubt he was demon possessed:

Family: Michigan State gunman ‘heard voices,’ turned ‘evil and mean’ after mother’s death

LANSING, Mich. (WOOD) — The man who killed three students and injured five more at Michigan State University before taking his own life struggled with mental illness that worsened after his mother’s death, family said.

“Mental illness is a real thing. We as the McRae family apologize that this had to happen,” Anthony McRae’s uncle told Nexstar’s WOOD-TV Tuesday.

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Again, if anyone hears a voice that degrades, it’s invariably demonic:

When 14-year-old Claire Miller killed her sister, she was suffering from voices in her head that degraded her and told her to kill herself. She allegedly turned the knife she used to cause minor cuts on herself against her sister, she thought she was killing a hallucination.

The defense maintains the night Claire is accused of killing her sister, she was suffering from voices in her head that degraded her and told her to kill herself. According to Beyer, when Claire turned the knife she used to cause minor cuts on herself against her sister Helen, who had cerebral palsy, she thought she was killing the hallucination.

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The woman in the following news report, an attorney, claimed voices told her to hit pedestrians with her vehicle:

Beatrice Bijoux, 31, made her first appearance before a judge Wednesday, facing four counts of attempted murder after Stuart police say she intentionally drove her car into a group of people outside the Fresh Market Tuesday, sending one to the hospital, and then trying to run down a witness who attempted to stop her from driving away.

According to the arrest report, police found Bijoux thanks to a witness who followed her. Bijoux refused to pull over and drove to the Stuart Police Department, where the report says she got out of her car and told police, “the voices in her head had told her to kill the people.”

The report goes on to say Bijoux later told police she intentionally wanted to kill the people she struck with the car, and she also wanted to kill herself.

Police said Bijoux stated she was diagnosed in 2019 with mental health disorders, but had not seen her doctor since December. When asked if she had ever tried to hurt other people, she said no, but “could not explain why today was different,” the report said.

In court, her lawyer told the judge she has mental health issues.

Bijoux’s brother confirmed to WPBF 25 News that Bijoux is a lawyer. The Florida Bar lists her as an attorney in good standing.

The arrest report ends with this chilling statement, “Bijoux further stated that she thought about killing her 4-year-old niece today. The niece lives with Bijoux part-time.”

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The following case involves a man with a Muslim background who murdered 10 people. His family recognizes there are evil spirits behind his condition and behavior; however, Muslims don’t have the authority to cast out demons because they deny the Jesus of the Bible:

BOULDER, Colo. (AP) — Jurors on Friday began deliberating whether a mentally ill man who said he heard “killing voices” should be convicted of murder for fatally shooting 10 people at a Colorado supermarket in 2021 or be found not guilty by reason of insanity.

In closing arguments, prosecutors argued that Ahmad Alissa, who has schizophrenia, showed he was legally sane and knew the difference between right and wrong after amassing guns and ammunition to kill as many people as possible in the shooting in the college town of Boulder.

But defense lawyer Kathryn Herold told jurors that Alissa told state psychologists he heard voices that were yelling in his head, including what he described as “killing voices,” right before the shooting. The psychologists, who found Alissa sane at the time of the shooting, said he never provided details about the voices and whether they said anything specific. However, Alissa did tell them that he thought the voices might stop if he committed a mass shooting.

Several members of Alissa’s family, who immigrated to the United States from Syria, testified that starting a few years earlier he had become withdrawn and spoke less. He later began acting paranoid and showed signs of hearing voices, and his condition worsened after he got COVID-19 in late 2020, they said.

Alissa’s mother told the court that she thought her son was “sick.” His father testified that he thought Alissa could be possessed by a djin — an evil spirit — and that his condition was shameful for his family.

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The father of a mentally ill man who killed 10 people at a Colorado supermarket testified Tuesday at his murder trial that he thought his son may have been possessed by an evil spirit before the attack.

Sometime before the attack in Boulder in 2021, Moustafa Alissa recalled waking up in the middle of the night to use the bathroom and his son, Ahmad Alissa, telling him to go talk to a man who was in his room. Moustafa Alissa said they walked together to his son’s room and there was no one there.

Moustafa Alissa also said his son would sometimes talk to himself and broke a car key fob he feared was being used to track him, echoing testimony on Monday from his wife. He said he didn’t know exactly what was wrong with his son but that in his native Syria people say someone acting that way is believed to be possessed by an evil spirit, or djin.

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In the following case, the man admitted to being possessed while hearing people inside his head:

DODGEVILLE, Wis. — A jury on Thursday convicted an Iowa County man accused of beating and stabbing his mother and dog to death in 2021.

Sean Pickett, 22, was charged with one count of first-degree intentional homicide and one count of mistreatment of animals causing death. According to the criminal complaint filed against him in Iowa County court, the Avoca man told investigators he was possessed, heard “evil noises” and “blacked out” before the murder.

“There was people inside my head saying that once I kill them, that I will go rest,” Pickett allegedly told police, according to the complaint.

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The following case is where a man claimed witches told him to do it, but there were really just demons:

‘The witches told me to do it’: 23-year-old charged with murder for shooting passenger in car

PALM BEACH, Fla. — A 23-year-old is being held without bond after Palm Beach County deputies said he fired multiple shots inside a truck, killed the person he was in it with.

Kirkland Lehto, from Loxahatchee, told deputies he did it because he heard voices. He is accused of firing 10 rounds at the victim before shooting out of the window of a truck.

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When asked why, deputies said he responded, “the voices — the witches told me to do it.”

He told deputies it was his first time meeting the victim. He also told them he blacked out due to epilepsy/seizures and did not remember firing the gun.

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The following reads that the “malevolent voices” not only told a man to kill his wife but to also commit cannibalism. Very apparently demonic. It is even reported that he would have visits from a dark humanoid creature. Also note that he was involved in the occult, a huge demonic door opener:

Ansonia man who killed wife with ax while in the ‘throes of psychosis’ committed for up to 80 years

Dr. George Geysen, a clinical and forensic psychologist based out of Glastonbury, testified for Zielinski’s defense at the trial.

At the time of the crime, Geysen determined Zielinski was in the “throes of psychosis,” hearing malevolent voices spurred by his belief that his practice of the occult had gotten “sloppy.” These voices told Zielinski to kill his wife and eat her heart, Geysen said.

After he was incarcerated, Zielinski continued to have visits from a “dark, humanoid creature” that was upset at him, Geysen testified.

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In the following report, the man didn’t say the voices told him to commit murder against a couple; however, he still heard voices. Interestingly, he used drugs, such as LSD (a huge demonic door opener), and said he felt he was the Grim Reaper, and heard a voice say “I am sin… I am in control”. These are very tell-tale signs of demon possession. It seems like he has the spirit of murder or death indwelt:

Psychologist says accused face-biting killer was legally insane when he murdered couple

 Austin Harrouff, the 23-year-old Florida State University student accused of brutally killing a couple in Tequesta in 2016, was legally insane at the time of the murders.

Gregory Landrum, a psychologist hired by the state, conducted a five-hour forensic psychological evaluation on Harrouff, according to court papers. He concluded by saying that Harrouff meets the state’s criteria of legal insanity.

“It should be understood that the manifestation of Mr. Harrouff’s psychiatric illness resulted in a psychotic episode so acute that two innocent people were killed and another fatally wounded,” Landrum wrote. “Such an event is highly unusual as people with mental illness are no more likely to commit crimes than ordinary members of the public. Research, however, has shown that violence risk is increased in individuals with bipolar disorder who also engage in substance abuse.”

Harrouff is accused in the bizarre, gruesome murders of John Stevens and Michelle Mishcon at their home in Martin County near Tequesta in August 2016. He is facing two counts of first-degree murder, two counts of second-degree murder with a weapon, one count of attempted first-degree murder for attacking a neighbor who tried to intervene, and a charge of burglary of a dwelling with an assault while armed.

In his report, Landrum says Harrouff is currently being treated for schizophrenia at the Martin County Jail. Harrouff told him he had “feelings of depression and sadness at least twice a week” for short periods of time.

When asked about past drug use, Harrouff admitted that he began experimenting with drugs in college, according to Landrum’s report. He said he’s tried Vyvanse and Adderall to help him study. He also tried mushrooms, LSD and half a Molly “on one occasion only,” as well as Xanax. Harouff also reported an extended family history of “alcohol usage.”

Harrouff described having “little memory” the three days before the murders, according to the report. On Aug. 14, 2016, the day before the murders, Harrouff said while walking his dog, he felt like he was “half dog half person” and that “dog spirits” were a part of him.

While at the Duffy’s with his father the night of the murders, Harrouff said he felt as if time was standing still and like he was “the grim reaper,” according to the report. He said he didn’t remember running to his mother’s house or drinking Wesson oil, or that his mother wanted him to return to Duffy’s, at which time he had a “confrontation” with his father.

Harrouff said he was running to his father’s house “following the stars” and heard voices in his head, saying “I am sin… I am in control,” according to the report. He said he saw a figure with a white face and black clothes that scared him, then a light which he ran toward and was crying out. He remembers having a machete in his hand and stabbing her “and it was like she was covered in darkness.”

Harrouff also remembers having a machete in his mouth and biting, according to the report. He then blacked out, then the next thing he remembered was waking up in the hospital.

Given the findings and the fact there was no evidence of him using drugs at the time of the murders, Landrum believes Harrouff was “unable to distinguish right from wrong.”

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The voices told the man not only to kill another, but also himself. It is undeniable they are demons:

Affidavit: Man stabbed grandfather to death with fork because he ‘heard voices’

EL PASO, Texas (KFOX14/CBS4) — A 25-year-old El Paso man who is accused of stabbing his grandfather to death with a fork did it because he “heard voices telling him to kill someone or himself,” according to the arrest affidavit.

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Charges: Suspect says he heard voices telling him to hit Brooklyn Park man

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Rice was found inside the witness’s home, and officers noted that his behavior was erratic. According to the complaint, Rice was mumbling to himself and was incoherent, telling officers he hears things and sees lights. He admitted to hitting the victim and told officers he is “controlled by a man and the man controlled him to hit the victim with his vehicle.”

After he was arrested and brought to jail, Rice told officers he has schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. He said he is prescribed medications, but has not taken them for over a month. He said that while he was driving the car, he saw a man at a mailbox and heard voices in his head telling him to hit the man and that the man had done something bad to Rice’s mother.

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The following case involved a 21-year-old woman who claimed voices in her head began to fade after she did the deed. It seems the demons were placated by the act:

HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Fla (WFLA) – A 21-year-old woman accused of murdering her mother and stepfather heard “screaming voices in her head” then began thinking about killing her mother, according to documents released Monday afternoon by the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.

Detectives say Nicole Gene Nachtman, 21, shot and killed her mother Myriam Carey Dienes, 56, and her stepfather Robert Dienes, 67, who lived in Carrollwood Village.

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Homicide detectives responded to Florida State University where Nachtman is a student. They spoke to a witness who said that Nachtman told the witness that she drove to Florida State University campus to pay for her dorm room. While she was at the campus, she continuously heard screaming voices in her head and began thinking about killing her mother.

Nachtman allegedly told the witness she began seeing signs on campus inferring that her dreams were about to come true and traveled back to her parents’ home. Nachtman allegedly told the witness that she shot her stepfather, killing him and said that when she shot him the screaming voices in her head began to fade and she thought to herself that “she could do this.”

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Later, Nachtman told detectives she heard screaming voices in her head telling her to kill her mother.

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The following case involves a woman who was a meth user, which is a huge demonic door opener. Being a prostitute (sexual immorality) is another door that opens doors to the enemy. There is no doubt that she is heavily demonized:

A Texas woman admitted to brutally beating and stabbing the grandmother who raised her to death while having a courtroom meltdown and claims “voices” and believing her grandma was practicing “witchcraft” drove her to murder.

Tamera Laws, 28, was hysterical as she testified in her own defense in a San Antonio court Thursday for the 2020 murder of Doris Novella, 70, inside her home, according to WOAI.

“Who does that?” Laws shouted through her tears on the stand. “She’s never done anything for me to want to kill her for.”

Prosecutors allege Laws — whose attorney argues she should be found not guilty by reason of insanity — choked, stabbed, and repeatedly struck Novella with a hammer, killing her.

“Do you remember stabbing your grandmother?” prosecutors asked her.

“This is too much,” Laws replied, holding back tears.

She was able to pull herself together and said she “used her hands” and beat her with a hammer.

“I thought the energy was on me, so I was thinking to get it off, I had to beat it out,” Laws told prosecutors.

The disturbed woman then said she stabbed her “in the throat” to finally kill her grandmother.

When asked if she was in her “right mind” during the murder, Laws said “no” and said if she was, she would have never killed Novella.

“Did you know at the time what you were doing was wrong,” the prosecutor asked her.

“No,” she replied.

Laws shared that she was struggling with meth addiction and working as an escort leading up to the murder. Around this time, she claims that “voices” were telling her “people were trying” to kill her.

“I would hear voices in my head telling me that people were trying to kill me,” she said.

“I was like, I know my grandma’s trying to kill me. I was afraid that my grandma was going to do witchcraft on me.”

Laws also told the court her father was the one who told her that Novella was practicing “witchcraft” against her.

She spoke with her father twice on the phone on the night of the murders — with the first call lasting over an hour and the second lasting 42 minutes, WOAI reported.

The disturbed 28-year-old claims her father told her to kill her grandmother.

“I remember telling him, ‘Are you f–king telling me to kill my grandma right now,” Laws recalled asking her dad during one of the phone calls. “And he was like, ‘Yes,’ because he said I was protecting myself.”

“(He) told me that if I did not kill my grandma, I was going to end up chopped up and sent to him in a box by Monday,” she told the court.

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Lakeland Couple’s Murderer Labeled Schizophrenic

The psychiatrist said Marcelle Waldon’s actions showed ‘purposeful steps’ to conceal his crime

Significant psychological events: Wu said in reviewing Waldon’s psychological records, he noted several significant events, among them:

• Having psychosis and auditory hallucinations when he was 17.
• Hearing voices telling him to kill his ex-girlfriend.
• At 26, being admitted to Peace River psychiatric facility for three weeks for a psychotic break with auditory hallucinations and treated with the anti-psychotic medicine Risperdal.

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A St. Paul man who told police he had heard voices in his head telling him to kill a retired priest and then strangled the 76-year-old in a car on the shoulder of Interstate 94 last year has been acquitted of murder by reason of mental illness.

Nathan Thomas Wondra, 33, was charged with second-degree intentional murder charge in the Aug. 1, 2024, killing of Lawrence Johnson of St. Paul. Ramsey County District Judge Stephen Smith delivered his verdict in a Wednesday court document, following a stipulated evidence trial.

The trial, which was agreed upon by the prosecution and defense, included police reports, a transcript of the 911 call made by Wondra after the killing, a transcript of his interview with police and subsequent mental health evaluation reports.

According the criminal complaint:

Wondra called 911 around 12:40 p.m. and said he was having a psychotic break and had “choked out” an elderly priest in a vehicle along I-94 in St. Paul.

Wondra told dispatch that voices in his head told him to kill Johnson to save humanity and that he choked him with his arms around his neck and killed him. He said that he had not been breathing for around a half-hour.

Minnesota State Patrol troopers were sent to I-94 near Prior Avenue and found a silver Mitsubishi parked on the interstate’s shoulder. Wondra was in the front passenger seat, and Johnson was in the driver’s seat. Wondra said he had just murdered someone.

Wondra told a trooper that he had been hearing voices and having visions for the past five days. He said Johnson was taking him to the hospital when he heard voices that told him to kill him.

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In an interview with investigators, Wondra said “their relationship was entirely platonic” and that he had spent the night at Johnson’s apartment for the first time the night before and they went to Mass in the apartment chapel that morning around 9 a.m. Johnson lived at the Leo C. Byrne Residence for retired priests, which is near the University of St. Thomas.

After Mass, Wondra wanted Johnson to drive him to Regions Hospital. Wondra described having a “weak moment” and the voices in his head told him “it was his last chance to save humanity,” the complaint says. Wondra asked Johnson to pull to the side of the road.

Wondra said he strangled Johnson and that it took a long time and that Johnson suffered, the complaint says. Wondra said he first used both hands to choke Johnson, but he later put his left arm around his neck in a headlock to choke him. Wondra checked Johnson for a pulse a couple of times during the killing.

Wondra said he knew choking Johnson was wrong, but the “voices in his head told him (Johnson) needed to be a martyr for something bigger,” the complaint states.

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In the criminal complaint, he states the voices stopped after he killed Johnson — and that he told authorities that he knew choking Johnson was wrong but the voices in his head told him Johnson “needed to be a martyr for something bigger.”

Wondra told police he had been fasting to “rid his body of Satan and said it was like there was a demon inside him.”

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The following news report doesn’t explicitly state that the voices told the man to commit the horrible crime, but I wouldn’t doubt that he was told to do it:

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. —A judge in Daytona Beach is considering testimony about whether a man accused of murdering a husband and wife during Bike Week last year is competent to stand trial.

Thirty-three-year-old Jean Macean is charged with two counts of premeditated first-degree murder and faces a possible death sentence if convicted at trial.

The judge has heard all the testimony and will take some time to consider and issue a written ruling.

Three defense experts and an expert for the state testified over two days. Psychologists for the defense say Macean has schizophrenia and suffers from psychosis. A defense radiologist said Macean actually has physical abnormalities of the brain.

“I found him to be not competent to proceed,” defense psychologist Dr. Valerie McClain said.

Defense psychologists say Macean was abused as a child, struggled in school and began hearing voices when he was young and continues to hallucinate now despite antipsychotic medication. One doctor described a December jail interview with the suspect.

“People were trying to harm him, or people basically were out to get him. He talked about having magical powers and hearing voices since childhood,” McClain said.

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For the man in the following report, the demons are still tormenting him even after 25 years:

PADUCAH, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky man who killed three students and wounded five more in a school shooting 25 years ago told a parole panel on Tuesday that he is still hearing voices like the ones that told him to steal a pistol and shoot into a crowded high school lobby in 1997.
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Speaking on a videoconference from the Kentucky State Reformatory in La Grange, Carneal told the panel that at the time of the shooting, “I was hearing in my head to do certain things, but I should have known that stealing guns … was going to lead to something terrible.” He said he has been receiving therapy and taking psychiatric medications in prison but admitted that he still hears voices. As recently as a couple of days ago, he heard voices telling him to jump off the stairs.

Jones told Carneal that his inmate file lists his mental health prognosis as “poor” and says that even with mental health services, he is still experiencing paranoid thoughts with violent imagery.

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In the following news report, the perpetrator who shoved a woman in front of a subway train because “voices” told him to, seemed to have expressed remorse, knowing it was wrong:

‘Voices in head’ told homeless man to shove woman, 23, in front of New York subway train

A woman, 23, was pushed in front of an approaching subway train in New York City by a homeless man but miraculously survived with injuries to her hands, face and knees

Brazelis was taken into custody when he was recognised by passers by who alerted police. As he was being led out by officers, he told PIX11 the “voices” had told him to do it. He added: “I didn’t need to do that, it wasn’t right.”

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In the following case, a voice instructed a man to stab not only his own daughter, but also her dog:

‘Kill the devil’: Father heard voice ‘instructing’ him to fatally stab daughter and her dog

Velador was killed on April 23, 2021. Her father was hearing voices and “suffering active delusions” that instructed him to “kill the devil that he believed was inside his daughter.” He stabbed her and her dog, Max, repeatedly, killing both and was indicted days later by an Anchorage grand jury.

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The following report thankfully doesn’t involve the death of a person, but instead animals:

Arizona man is accused of killing three family pets while threatening his mother with a knife.

KPHO reports that 20-year-old Jason Sperry was taken into custody on Monday after a woman called police saying she had just returned home and her son had threatened to kill her.

Authorities said the woman told them that her son had killed all of their pets in the apartment and that he would kill her too “if she did not repent.”

Sperry reportedly then chased her out of the apartment with a knife.

When police arrived, they arrested the 20-year-old. Officers said they found a dog, a cat and a bearded dragon lizard all dead at the scene.

According to court documents, Sperry told police that he was “possessed by demons” and voices in his head said he “needed to free the animals.” He also reportedly said he killed the pets because they reminded him of his family members.

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In the following case, the voices the perpetrator heard were putting him down, another obvious indicator that he is/was demonized:

Virginia Attacker Was ‘Hearing Voices’ But Terrorism Not Ruled Out

Authorities are still not ruling out terrorism.

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Nevertheless, Farooqui was “hearing voices” in his head minutes before he allegedly attacked a man and woman at a Roanoke apartment complex, reportedly yelling “Allahu Akbar” – God is great – as he “cut the male victim’s throat” and stabbed them multiple times, according to witness accounts and newly obtained court documents.

Authorities were looking at whether Farooqui may have been trying to behead his victim, ABC News was told after the attack. But on Tuesday, a Roanoke County Police spokeswoman said her department concluded it “did not appear to be an attempt at a beheading.”

Farooqui left his home Saturday night “to clear his head,” and after parking at the apartment complex about a mile away, the voices in his head told him “that he was stupid [and] they also told him to attack someone,” according to the court documents, citing what Farooqui allegedly later told police.

“He doesn’t know who [his victims] are or why he attacked them,” said an affidavit filed by police as part of the court documents.

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A woman buys a knife to attack a random mother inside the restroom at Macy’s because a voice told her to:

MIDTOWN, Manhattan (WABC) — New details have been revealed about the criminal history the woman who allegedly stabbed a tourist from California in a Macy’s bathroom as the victim was changing her 10-month-old daughter.

Kerri Aherne, 43, was ordered to be held without bail after appearing in court Friday night.

Authorities say the suspect was discharged from a Manhattan psychiatric ward the morning of the attack, where she had been for over a year.

The incident happened Thursday afternoon, just before 3 p.m. at the flagship store during the heart of the holiday shopping season.

Prosecutors said Aherne entered the Macy’s bathroom on the 7th floor and stabbed the victim, causing the baby to fall from the changing table to the floor. The baby was not injured.

The victim managed to subdue Aherne, with the help of the baby’s father, who was then held by store security.

The 38-year-old victim, who was visiting from California, was stabbed in the back and slashed in the arm and was taken to the hospital, where she was said to be stable.

The victim’s partner told Eyewitness News on Friday night that she is resting and getting better.

The victim and the child’s father work for the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department.

Aherne told authorities that voices in her head told her to kill someone or she would be killed, so she purchased a knife from Macy’s and stabbed the mother while she was changing her baby’s diaper.

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The following case involves a man who heard voices telling him to harm himself. The man cut off his penis. Evil spirits desire for people to mutilate their bodies (Mark 5:2-5):

Man Throws His Penis Out of Car While Fleeing Police, Says He Cut It Off to Save World

Gilbert said that he severed his own penis because he had been instructed to do so by voices coming from the radio, according to officers, as reported by local media.The voices, he explained, told him he needed to do so in order to save the world.

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Was the following tragedy the result of suicide? It seems so. It was reported that no foul play was involved. If it were the case, it was suicide; it’s apparent demons were behind it:

Runner Arielle Valdes heard ‘demon voices’ before she failed to return from jog: police

Florida jogger Arielle Valdes told her family she was hearing “demon voices” before she left home on her final run last week, new documents revealed.

Valdes, 21, was found dead in the Caloosahatchee River in North Fort Myers on Monday — five days after she was first reported missing when she failed to return home from an evening jog.

There was no evidence of foul play, the sheriff’s office told The Post in a statement.

“Our hearts remain with Arielle’s family and loved ones as they navigate the coming days during this time of grief,” the office added.

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The following report doesn’t involve murder or harming someone, but it had to be included in this post since the voices commanded the person to burn a church, of all things. Note that the voices threatened the person, typical of the evil nature of demons. It’s not a stretch to infer that demons were behind the voices:

Police arrested the 27-year-old suspect in Tuesday’s fire at the vacant church in downtown Portland after she walked into the Multnomah County Detention Center on Wednesday and allegedly confessed that imaginary voices commanded her to start the blaze, court records show.

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She told arson detectives she planned to start the fire either Monday or Tuesday when voices in her head threatened to “mutilate” her if she didn’t burn down the church, which emerged as a good target because it was abandoned, court records show.

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Suspect in old Portland Korean Church fire claims voices told them to start 3-alarm blaze

The suspect reportedly told police they heard voices in their head saying they would “mutilate” Storer if they didn’t burn the church down.

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Addendum

Statistics on Hearing Voices

How common is hearing voices? According to a study called Voluntary control of auditory hallucinations: phenomenology to therapeutic implications, it reads:

Epidemiological studies suggest that 7–15% of the general population hears voices, at times regularly, and only 20% of those who experience psychotic experiences (including AVH) go on to develop a psychotic disorder.

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The following studies show how hearing command voices is highly correlated with violent behavior, strengthening the case that it is demonic.

In the following clinical sample, Behavioral management of command hallucinations to harm in schizophrenia, looked at the prevalence of command hallucinations in people with schizophrenia and persistent auditory hallucinations who were attending a course on managing their symptoms:

Command hallucinations are relatively common among psychiatric patients with reports of prevalence rates among adult psychiatric patients ranging from 18-89% with a median of 53%. Prevalence rates for “dangerous or harmful” command hallucinations range from 7-70% with a median of 48% (Shawyer, Mackinnon, Farnall, Tauer, & Copolov, 2003). Compliance with command hallucinations is a serious social concern. While reports are variable, one study of hospitalized psychiatric patients with psychoses found the majority of those who heard command hallucinations had complied with them during the past month. Specifically, 90% of patients complied with harmless commands, 92% with commands to harm self, and 67% with commands to harm others, resulting in an overall compliance rate of 84% (Kasper, Rogers, & Adams, 1996).

… harm command hallucinations are prevalent and of serious social concern as they can be associated with suicide and violence towards others. The characteristics of people who hear harm command hallucinations and whether a course that teaches behavioral management strategies for coping with voices is effective with command hallucinations has not been reported.

At baseline, 100% of participants who heard harm command hallucinations reported that their voices were critical of them, 81% reported that their voices commented on what they were doing, 59% heard sounds other than voices…

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The following study, The Role of Verbal Auditory Hallucinations in Influencing and Retrospectively Predicting Physical Harm Prevalence in Early Psychosis, reads:

It was found that 32.2% of EI patients had an actual incident of physical harm in their case notes that was causally linked to hearing voices. The most common type of physical harm was neglect. In terms of cognitive phenomenological binary correlations that retrospectively predicted physical harm in the case notes, patients were 20 and 7 times more likely to have harmed themselves if they heard self-harm commands (i.e., directions to harm themselves physically) and perceived the voice as omnipotent, respectively. Patients were 6 times more likely to have harmed someone else if they heard violent commands.

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Another report, Auditory Hallucinations: A Phenomenological Study, gives insight and statistics about people who hear voices:

Results: In study 82% patients had schizophrenia. More than one third patients heard voices continuously, in more than two-third patients voices were coming from outside head only, had no control over them, and had same loudness as one’s own voice. One third patients had AVH (Auditory Verbal Hallucinations) with all negative content, 19% had AVH commanding nature.

Patients reported continuous hearing of voices (47%), coming outside head only (73%), of same loudness as his/her own (70%). 53% had 100% conviction that voices solely due to external causes. Patients reported all voices content was negative and unpleasant (35%), command to harm self or others (19%), majority of voices were distressing (23%), extremely distressing (intensity of distress), felt the worst he/she could possibly feel (12%), causes severe disruption of life so that hospitalization was usually necessary (37%). Nine percent patients reported that voices caused complete disruption of daily life, requiring hospitalization. The patients were unable to maintain any daily activities and social relationship, self-care also severely disrupted. 71% admitted that they had no control over their voices.

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If you don’t know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior, you can receive Him into your heart, and He can deliver you from darkness and sin and have your name written in His Book of Life.

If you are sincere, you can say this simple prayer to the Father (it doesn’t have to be word-for-word):

“God, I recognize that I have not lived my life for You up until now. I have been living for myself and that is wrong. Please forgive me of all of my sins just as I forgive others. I need You in my life; I want You in my life. I acknowledge the completed work of Your only begotten Son Jesus Christ in giving His life for me on the cross, I believe in my heart Jesus is Lord and was raised from the dead and I long to receive the forgiveness you have made freely available to me through this sacrifice. Come into my life now, Lord. Take up residence in my heart and be my king, my Lord, and my Savior. From this day forward, I will no longer be controlled by sin, or the desire to please myself, but I will follow You all the days of my life. Those days are in Your hands. I ask this in the Lord and GOD Jesus’ precious and holy name. Amen.”