There’s a Satanist in the Suburbs | THE DEVIL YOU KNOW (Premiere Episode)

people knew of a guy John Lawson who named himself Pazuzu he became a quote/unquote Satanist he had followers two misfits the outcasts he tried to have a word jeez and manipulate people into having sex people would come to pazoozas house because there was no rules there was always black metal blaring at ear-shattering volume news today looking for the bodies of two local men believed dude your house smells like death no is just the bodies in the basement we got a possible serial killer we executed a search warrant they didn't find anything why did all this happen how could we have let this happen [Music] [Music] this community really believe in Satan these people really believe in dark forces they're waiting for the apocalypse and they believe in a very tactile battle between the forces of good and evil between the devil and God and his angels [Music] my name is Chad Nance and I am the editor in chief of the camel City dispatch the dispatch is a local news blog I found it with my wife here in winston-salem in 2012 ever since mezuzah was arrested I've been trying to get past the rumors and the sensationalist headlines to get to the real story behind this man his crimes its victims and how this could have happened in our community what I'm finding is that the story is not just about murder it's much bigger than that [Music] no one really knows how many crimes have taken place I mean the investigations still not over there could be more victims where I kind of made an emotional connection with the story honestly is a story of Josh what often happens within the sensationalism is that we have headlines that say Satan Satan Satan and we don't understand a story like Josh Wesley and his family the guy could have been me [Music] I went through so much our lives have just been been very complicated by this and thinking about what happened and then just being part of a story that's so fantastic and dark and terrible and I think sometimes you know how did I end up in the middle of this story my name is Stacy Carter Josh and I were together for six years Josh and I met in 1999 in Olympia Washington when I was traveling out west I was 25 he was 22 so he was a little bit younger I wasn't super outgoing and being with Josh was so much fun because he knew everybody within a very short time and was much more outgoing we got a van and traveled the country he really preferred the company of people who are outside of the mainstream I loved his passion for life I loved his dedication and commitment to his sense of right Josh was beautiful I remember seeing him sleeping after I'd first met him and just thinking in the most beautiful face that ever seen so there was that to you Josh grew up in Virginia and he took horseback riding lessons and loved horses loved animals he never said no to a stray dog that was one of the things that brought us together and kept us together at that vision and that connection with horses well we bought land and our plan was to build a training center so he wanted to bring horses in for rehabilitation and so we had this dream and his vision of the farm and then when she got pregnant they settled down bought a small farm that they were gonna turn into a horse farm got screwed by a bank you know right before all the loan companies and everything started to fail and Josh's life starts going downhill there [Music] we lost the farm in 2008 and since then I've been working for other people trading work for rent but not getting paid for a dream though is shared involved having a farm and having our business and you know we trusted the banks the mortgage brokers they said oh I'm going to help you and what they really did was convinced us to do something that destroyed us he ends up with a home that he can't afford that gets foreclosed on his wife leasing because he got desperate and he started thinking about selling drugs I mean it was pretty benign stuff like weed and mushrooms but his wife didn't wanted a child around that sort of thing she still loved him she still cared about him but she handily he is the love of my life II now I think that we would have worked out our differences I felt like together we could have accomplished so much but his house was searched and raided by police he had gotten a package of psychedelic mushrooms delivered through the mail because it was sent through the mail considered a felony I was front page news in his little town that really kind of changed everything for him he lost his client soon as puff trimming business and he was searching hard but with a felony on his record nobody would give him a job so again the drug war takes out another guy once you've gotten out of jail we beat him down economically to the point that they have to turn back to crime to try to function in a society that demands a certain amount of you know economic promise if it comes home he was struggling you know for whatever reason he he ended up in the same circle as Pazuzu we would cut ourselves in each other maybe drink the blood of a bard or so human beings would pop squat and corner the dogs might eat it there is people naked like it was nothing good tongue since the mid-1990s around the western suburbs people knew of a guy called John Lawson he named himself D'Souza Pazuzu had done everything he could to make himself seem scary to the people in town he was trying to freak people out he claims sacrifice and he claimed to be able to control the weather it filed his teeth down with a dremel tool he had tattoos printed all over his face he became winston-salem's on Maskin s icon of depravity and they created the following of disaffected youth desperate for an escape [Music] Pazuzu had followers more or less i was certainly one of them we were these people who were intrigued by this free atmosphere that he built around himself I kind of look at winston-salem as sort of a black hole there's a lot of people go down it's pretty dark pass in this town myself included my legal name is Nathan Anderson I've been in and out of recovery the past couple of years but I relapsed last summer that was straight-a student all my ears growing up all through high school I had basically a full ride to Wake Forest University when I loved [Music] my entire life really has been defined by entertainment movies books television shows video games by stories and when I found drugs it was just like the next best thing the next great story I guess you know just made me feel good and I didn't have to worry about how boring or shitty the world was [Music] Pazuzu to this day is the best story he had if you will a twisted sort of charisma you know and it's the kind of charisma that's not going to appeal to everyone but certain minds are drawn in by that the misfits the outcasts crazy people people living on the edge I guess or people who wanted to live on the edge I never really considered there might be a little more to that until I started hearing these rumors and these stories about bodies and murder and stuff when I first met him we mainly just hung out and chilled around and whatnot you know maybe we did a little bit of heroin every now and again you notice the shit-ton of drinking and cut ourselves in each other you know maybe drink the blood of a bird or so you know just all around having a good time my name's David Adams I'm an old friend pazoozas I've known her for a little over a decade and people would come to physicians house because they knew it was free-range there was no rules no anything you had to abide by you could piss in his carpet you could smash a TV you could hit somebody in the head with a beer bottle you could throw a knife at his wallet just didn't matter you knock on the door and immediately you hear a shit-ton of dogs barking and then Zuzu answers the door you're greeted with this smell of just ammonia and urea it's just smells like straight urine and rotting matter you know greets you as soon as that door is opened he was crazy-looking enough you know the long bratty ass dreadlocks all his teeth filed down to a point which later come to find out he did high as hell on meth one day there was always black metal flaring and ungodly here shattering volumes there was always glass getting smashed people fighting there's just like dirt and shit like it's nasty people will get so drunk there that human beings would just pop a squat in the corner and take a crap and God knows when it would get cleaned up or the dogs might eat it or whatever you walked into his kitchen it was it's like any other kitchen until he opened up his dishwasher when he opened up his dishwasher it was filled with serious weapons there is people naked like it was nothing he tried to have orgies and trying to manipulate people into having sex and doing whatever they wanted to do you can do whatever the fuck you want nobody's pointing the finger at me nobody's judging me it was just free right you know it's like this mad place where you can act out your darkest and sickest fantasies to no judgment and actually I can see the appeal for a generation here who is having a hard time even finding a job you know the idea that you can go somewhere judgment-free with no pressure on you somebody's gonna give you drugs and let you behave however you want there's an appeal to that he loved filth like he believed it gave him like some type of weird power everything on the surface was it was ugly and it was nasty but it was fun it was cool it was you know and talked skating just like drugs [Music] it was basically like a Charles Manson of Clemens I'm Sylvia LeBeau I'm related to the situation just by being at the wrong place at the wrong time he had this thing called fiance's he had several women followers Dixie Crystal amber and he called them his fiance's that term has always stuck with me fiance's yeah and the sense of power power of fear that's where I think Pazuzu derived most of his power from Azusa would tell me all these crazy stories about you know hurting and maiming people I'd look at him and just be like okay buddy sure you did you sure do Pazuzu and I just felt like he wasn't going anywhere he's just kind of shitbag you know he's just like sat around his house all time never wanted to do anything positive no I feel like I was stuck in across her a lot of my friends my peers we're like getting off on heroin and stuff like that I just wanted to get away from just like the drugs in winston-salem and get away from the Zuzu you got my GED when I was 16 went to military [Music] it wasn't for gunner and I rock kazoos we would call him all the time on the phone he's like you killed he won and he wanted to know if I kill anyone and I rocked I've seen what the world really is like it's like in a war dude nobody's right or wrong in a war nobody's good or evil or more it's just a different side you know but Pazuzu he was highly evil he had to come up with money to pay for his probation really the only avenues left to him were selling weed and mushrooms and they look on his jacket and he's got a felony thing to go this time wandering off I heard a rumor that Josh had been murdered and buried and pazoozas backyard [Music] once you get a drug charge in America your opportunities have been removed from [Music] we have a serious problem in this nation and that had we stigmatized fellows particularly first-time felons like John you have to take away the morality and you have to take away the judgment you have to understand him as a human being and the decisions he made that led him to Pazuzu he had to come up with money to pay for his probation really the only avenues left to him were selling weed and mushrooms he was driven further and further away in society the last time I saw Josh was in July 2009 I came home one Friday and he was there and Jared so excited to see his dad you know I kind of stayed out of the way I let him hang out there at the farm that weekend I had some friends come over and we had a cookout and and Josh made us all pizzas and we all just we had a really good time we had a lot of fun he left on good terms and then after that nothing sometimes I went hear from them and I didn't have a phone number I didn't have any way to get in touch with them Jared wanted to know where his dad was I just told him that you know he'd gone away somewhere we hadn't heard from him and honestly I thought that and I thought that he wasn't contacting me because I would tell this probation officer where he was so I thought he was hiding from us Josh's probation officer kept calling me and so I assumed that they were looking for him but they weren't it's like that cliche of the kid in school who gets in trouble in fifth grade and they write on his prominent record problem child right that's what happened with Josh when he got drug charges his mom really became alarmed when he didn't call on her birthday so odd that Christmas would pass and he wouldn't contact Jared [Music] when Stacey did eventually go to the law enforcement about Josh they told her that they had found Josh's car seven months before with the keys in the ignition sitting in a parking lot and they'd never contact her about had I known I would have been suspicious is something that happened to him I would have ported him missing much earlier on you know I feel like if the cars found missing that the family of the owner should be contacted so you know that was something that I think could have been handled better they look on his jacket and he's got a felony thing to god this guy wandered off this guy's a cliche he doesn't care about his family he's off getting high somewhere you know and he's real easy to write off you know I got put a lot of police resources into that when you don't have police resources because they don't deem those people important enough to spend resources that was there hanging out and pass told me hey I got a person in my basement he starts bragging about how he had the body covered with cat litter and bleach to keep the smell down they cut off his extremities his arms his legs and his penis and they buried him in pieces north carolina's in the Bible Belt it's God's country one of the reasons that was so much hype around Pazuzu and a big part of Pazuzu Symphony at the local underworld and the myth he was able to build up around himself was a direct response to the evangelical Christian fervor his community I do believe in the devil devil preys on the weak winston-salem was full of weak people I was a preacher's daughter I was heavily involved in church doing the Lord's work when I first met Pazuzu he told me that he was the gatekeeper of Hill the first time I met them I drove amber her bubbles and Pazuzu home when I saw their front door that's when I knew something was highly wrong I didn't want to be there I wanted to leave immediately but they asked me to stay and watch a home video of theirs the video was of Pazuzu and bubbles dancing around naked bubbles lying on a bed and one seen doing an appropriate things to herself I knew the video made me nauseous it was intense Pazuzu even once shot had a knife and a bloody bandanna on his head apparently it was Joshua's bandana from what I was told by everyone that hung out with him they had trapped him in a basement and they had starved him for days and either before after they shot him they cut off his extremities his arms and his legs and his penis and they buried him in pieces Grossman was proud to tell everyone she knew that she was involved he had spoken to me on several occasions that he had killed homeless people and done a whole bunch of other people really badly shot a few people stabbed a few people there was never any proof to my knowledge of any of these things happening you know I just thought that he was trying to look cool that was there hanging out and pass told me hey I got a person in my basement okay cool whatever dude it's not my problem I was told if a person comes out of the basement don't let him go no one ever made a sound no one ever knocked on a door no one ever did anything I was told that there was a person in the basement I said sure if they come out of the basement I'll make sure they don't leave clearly thinking that the full of shit Pazuzu looked at me grabbed a very large knife it was more or less a sword but uh he said I've done something he didn't say what he had done he said you're gonna help me dig this hole or I'm gonna kill you when I first heard about the murder my father was hanging out with Crystal Matlock another female that was involved my name is Trina Billings and I was the first person to come forward to the police in the Pazuzu algorithm Matlock she invited Pazuzu and his girlfriend over and so everybody's having a good time drinking a few hours later he starts bragging about how he shot a guy six times with a shotgun and how he had the body downstairs in the basement covered with cat litter and bleach to keep the smell down and we all thought he was lying because he was drunk and we're like he's crazy [Music] the day after the party my father had left with Crystal Matlock they came back a few hours later and had Pazuzu other Cynthia with them my dad had cutoff jean shorts on he had dirt all over him and he didn't have the t-shirt on that he had that morning he had no shirt I tried to ask questions he wouldn't answer me and Cynthia just there was something going on at her house she just needed to get back right away so they left and when they left I followed behind them follow them to the house they pulled into the garage and my dad can't saw me pull up in the front and he runs across the yard to the road and just told me to get the hell out of there and the way he said it I just I listened and I left my father he didn't open up to me at first in the beginning but my best friend he did open up to her and tell her everything that happened as far as Pazuzu chopping up the body burying it in the backyard there were other people there at the time but I don't know their names it was very hard to go to the police but I thought what if that was my brother buried in somebody's backyard I would want somebody to come forward and say something [Applause] they met us at the yakan county park I was sitting in the car with a detective and he asked me names of the people that I knew that were involved so I told him Crystal Matlock was one Alan Billings my father Pazuzu Algren I've called him a caveman because that's what he looked like to me I didn't know his name at that time and what did the facade County Sheriff's Department do with that information well from what I've heard they went to pazoozas house knocked on the door straight up told him that there have been reports of murder and bodies buried in the backyard when asked if the reports were true Pazuzu said no when asked if they could search his house he said no again so the officer left now why would the police do that [Laughter] [Music] [Music] my name is Brad Stanley on average Forsyth County Sheriff's Office in the in those areas we have two maybe three homicides a year we had information previously to go to the residents through our local Crime Stoppers program where they don't have to identify themselves unfortunately just those tips are not enough many times to develop probable cause see your back of 2009 you've gotten multiple reports that a zoo zoo has killed put some on his back yard yet there was a Salem Police Department with Josh's car and with Crimestoppers tips referring to it as zoo zoo I mean it's ridiculous everybody in the community knows this guy he's absolutely he's even become an urban legend or sub urban legend and nobody's doing anything about it God put me on drugs to help Stacy when I saw him I was like oh my god his dad was murdered by this guy that I happen to know I think God put me on drugs and God put me where I was to help Stacy find out what happened to her boyfriend I was at a party with a friend I worked with and I was doing mushrooms and hula hooping and having a lot of fun there was like a liquor luge there and it was really fun and I was like 2:00 3:00 in the morning she said she had to take me home so we were driving down South Creek Parkway and we were just talking and I happen to mention Pazuzu supposedly killed this guy named Josh and she was like what her face turned shocked it was just a shock and surprise and just like I had uncovered a mystery for her and she said you need to meet my friend Stacy so we concocted the plan that I would get a voice recording of information on how Josh died or was murdered I was like I said they were very proud of what they did and what they were I went with my phone to record any information I could there were several people that spoke up on the force recording but the main voice was me I started laughing and said is it true that Azusa actually killed people and Nate looked at me and said well yeah like it was common knowledge he said yeah he had killed people I went to the sheriff's apartment with a voice recording and my personal knowledge of who was involved in the murders and told them what I knew I know I looked crazy but they didn't take anything I said seriously I [Music] traveled down the Salisbury to see Stacy [Music] we come to this farm and farm is pretty there's horses everywhere it's just like a setup for like a beautiful movie we get there and I'm meeting Stacy hi Stacy I see this boy and I'm like oh okay there's a kid here and then I see him walk in front of me and then it hit me the stab was murdered his dad is buried in the back of someone's he yard and I have this huge breakthrough story so many emotions ran through my mind when I saw him thinking oh my god his dad was murdered by this guy that I happen to know [Music] I think she feared for her life we murdered a guy we shot him in the head if you don't help us bury him we're gonna fucking slit your throat but we're gonna bury you with him you're gonna think I'm crazy but I think my son's father is buried in the guys backyard yes big Charles Manson shit with all the sensationalism surrounding the Pazuzu story up to this point what I looked and saw was Josh Wechsler and Stacy a guy who's been taken away from his mother taken away from his son all these people's lives are forever disrupted and changed he's left a hole a fellow like Josh with a felony drug conviction he just written off by society by police you know but there were people that loved him you know when I heard that he was Josh's buried in pazoozas backyard like I didn't know who he thought was there anything like they are I don't like to the police and I told him I said you're gonna you're gonna think I'm crazy but I think my son's father is buried and you know this guy's backyard and Clemens and and then turns a lobster didn't think I was crazy because he had heard rumors of that already we executed a search warrant at 2749 Nob Hill Drive in Clements North Carolina [Music] our investigators again acted on as much information as they had at that time there was no evidence that we were able to find based on the information we were told that they had gotten cadaver dogs and they had done a search of the yard and that they found nothing I really did not know what to think because I was so sure that Josh was there emphases his yard when they didn't find him I wasn't sure anymore what had happened [Music] they seal the search warrants now that's not unusual for an ongoing investigation but I'm starting to think there's something like this case that the sheriff's don't want us to know about they're being tight bit I've been reaching out to them but no one is willing to go on the wreck [Music] even though I didn't have any evidence of what had happened to Josh Jared needed some answers I told Jared that we're pretty sure that his father had died what Passover is faced with like this look of relief and it hit me that like for a child a parent dying was way easier to accept than being abandoned you know it was almost like when he thought his dad abandoned him that was harder for him to understand [Music] even with the sheriff's silence and all the unanswered questions I know there are a number of people inside of Azusa circle who know exactly what happened I started actually hanging out with the Zuzu on a regular basis I started dating this girl Dixie she was intrigued with him and his girlfriend amber or bubbles as we called her she became real close with them very fast and we started going over to his house to hang out she walked out onto their back porch with me one night and pointed out the backyard she was like she ever stop and think why the ground is so uneven out here she was basically implying that you know he had killed a lot of people or that there are a lot of the bodies buried in the backyard she actually divulged that she helped I think Ribery a body I think she feared for her life being so close to them and as I'm coming back from Iraq coming back from my deployment like Fort Lewis Washington a caller and she says impart and family well the fuck you talking about part of family like no no something happened you know this doesn't make sense like this is weird there's some Charles thank Charles Manson shit yeah I was scared for her protection her life I bought a plane ticket for like two days later you know and as soon as she got off the plane she's a different person a completely different person we're riding from the airport she tells me the whole story she tells me that amber calls her she goes to the front door she said we murdered a guy we shot him in the head if you don't help us bury him because such a thought I'm gonna bury you with him amber and her dragged the body out in the backyard and they started digging the hole tried to push him in this hole and the hole was too shallow part of his knees still sticking out of the dirt so they put a tarp over him and she took a picture of it that's how I know all this this is how I know that there was a dead body in the backyard [Music] so what the fuck do I do his aura is very intoxicating you just feel free and powerful in his presence like I keep thinking about it think about like it was that they rotted on my brain for years and years and years there's a body of the order they actually showed up this house SWAT team like battle retinol like they're ready to rock you would be hard-pressed to be inside the house and not think that the person who lived there was capable of about it's like let's kill him right now we'll get away with it they shot him in his head and he fell dead they murdered my son it's lost you

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Id: ucaViReHGJA

Length: 44min 25sec (2665 seconds)

Published: Fri Aug 16 2019

Reddit Comments

[u/TruckerTM]

Actual police footage of Algarad Clemmons' house:

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=2VtOB-rsjEY&feature=youtu.be

[u/zebra_bunker]

This was in my hometown. met the guy once many years ago. And I don't know anyone my age that's from this town who doesn't know him in some way

[u/SkydivingDonkey]

That ended without any conclusion...wtf is the rest of the story?

[u/1nkontrol]

This is so fucked up.

[u/aharral09]

Where’s the next one

[u/grimgrau]

Thanks very much for posting this, otherwise I might have never come across it. This was a very interesting and thoroughly engrossing watch and I'm looking forward to when they release the next episode.

Please do be kind enough to post the next episode as a new submission when it's released so we all don't miss it! :)