In the journal, Parr is convicted and sentenced to death. Honestly the journal was probably the only interesting thing to read. Receives ex-priests journal/diary about his time being a priest where Parr lived. Reporter (“protagonist”) tries to interview the now burned ex-priest who knew Rustin Parr, the man who confessed to killing the kids, before he dies. But before that happened, ex-priest and wife were perfectly fine until they went back to Maryland. HEAVILY SPOILED.Įx-priest allegedly had set his house on fire with his wife strapped to a chair (the wife was losing her sanity and started drawing the witch symbols all over the house after repeated dreams of their dead daughter).

The book description grabs you but when you get to actually reading it, you get nothing but filler. The words that passed between the two men remained a mystery. What Parr told Cazale that night was a shockingly different account of what happened to those seven children. He heard Rustin, a man who before the killings was generally acknowledged as the gentlest of souls, talk about the bodies found in his basement, and about Kyle Brody, the eleven-year-old sole “survivor” of the killings. All, that is, but one man.ĭominick Cazale was the priest who heard Parr’s confession.

But when Parr went to the gallows, all agreed that justice had been served evil had been put to rest. Some whispered that Parr’s crime was just the latest in a series of murders attributed to Maryland’s infamous Blair Witch. The particulars of Rustin Parr’s crime made the case even more the ritual nature of the killings, the strange symbols carved into the children’s bodies, Parr’s revelation that voices in his head told him to commit his foul deeds.

It was the most shocking crime the kidnapping and brutal murder of seven innocent children.

The night before he was hanged, he told his priest an entirely different story. In May 1941, a hermit named Rustin Parr told police he murdered seven children in Burkittsville, Maryland.

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