On Christmas day, 1929 a rural North Carolina tobacco farmer brutally murdered six of his children, his wife and then killed himself.

Introducing Deadly Secrets: The Lawson Family Murder

<p>Seduced by Satan is the tale of a man who was raised in the Christian church, but in adulthood, turned to the netherworld. His God-given golden locks shaved off, teeth filed to points and face permanently marked with homemade tattoos, he dropped out of high school to pursue an education of a different type. &nbsp;His birth name changed from the All-American "John," to that of an other-worldly demonic figure, he hid in a quaint village in central North Carolina, transforming his mother's home into a dungeon. Death would soon creep into the charming community he would come to terrorize. The bodies of his victims - kept a mere few feet from where his mother slept would prove to become his undoing. Ten years after the murders, Seduced by Satan delves into the twisted soul of a man who called himself Pazuzu.</p>

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Seduced by Satan is the tale of a man who was raised in the Christian church, but in adulthood, turned to the netherworld. His God-given golden locks shaved off, teeth filed to points and face permanently marked with homemade tattoos, he dropped out of high school to pursue an education of a different type.  His birth name changed from the All-American "John," to that of an other-worldly demonic figure, he hid in a quaint village in central North Carolina, transforming his mother's home into a dungeon. Death would soon creep into the charming community he would come to terrorize. The bodies of his victims - kept a mere few feet from where his mother slept would prove to become his undoing. Ten years after the murders, Seduced by Satan delves into the twisted soul of a man who called himself Pazuzu.

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