On a bright and sunny June afternoon, a seven-year-old boy was left in the care of his teenage neighbour. No one knew, or would even have dreamed of suspecting, that the teenager was a Satanist. The two went out to the fields to look for rabbits. The child was never seen alive again.

In June of 1973, John Joseph Horgan was discovered, crucified, above a makeshift Satanic altar in his neighbours attic. He was only 7 years old. His 16 year old neighbour was the murderer, Lorcan Bale. Lorcan's family were part of Opus Dei, and Lorcan had a penchant for making necklaces from the skulls of rats that he'd killed.

This case was forgotten until 2011 when the book ‘The Boy in the Attic’ was published David Malone. Malone had been doing research on an unrelated case when he discovered the information about this Satanic themed murder. He also discovered that no Death Certificate had been issued. This eventually led to an inquest and the book in question.

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