THE DEVIL'S WORK. A True Story of Human Sacrifice, Devil Worship and Murder

Paperback. On the night of July 22, 1995, 'I love you and I'm going to bed,' were the last words Elyse Pahler ever said to her parents, little did she know that she was about to begin a walking nightmare that would end in her grisly stabbing murder. Later than night, Elyse slipped out of her parents' house for a bit of forbidden fun. She never suspected that three local boys, (Joseph Fiorell, Jacob Delashmutt and Royce Casey) - two of whom rode the school bus with her - were outside in the dark waiting...waiting to perform a human sacrifice - in the name of Satan. Prosecutors say the three boys dragged a terrified Elyse to a deserted area they believed was the devil's altar, where, after being drugged, tortured and raped, she died of multiple stab wounds. For 8 months Elyse's body lay hidden in a eucalyptus grove until an unexpected tip to police revealed the ghastly crime. Illus. 216pp. mass market p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F.