Killer Stories with Harvey Guillén - The Devil Made Me Do It: Demonic Possession and Murder in a Small Town

Episode Date: April 13, 2026

A small Connecticut town witnesses its first murder ever. The culprit is an unlikely, quiet teenager who swears he was not in control of his own body. His supporters, however, think they know exactly what drove the young man to kill his victim: a case of demonic possession. Sources for this episode include: The Devil in Connecticut by Ed Brittle, Ed Warren, and Lorraine WarrenLynn Darling’s reporting for The Washington Post Keep up with Killer Stories! Instagram: @killerstoriespodTikTok: @killerstoriespodX: @killerstorieshq Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

There's an old parable. A scorpion ask a frog to carry him across a river. And the frog refuses, he'll get stung. And the scorpion laughs, well, if I sting you, we'll both drown. I'm not stupid. It makes sense. So the frog agrees. And halfway across the river, the scorpion stings him.

As they both sink, the frog gasp... Why? And the scorpion says, I couldn't help it. It's my nature. It's supposed to be a story about what's inevitable. But the scorpion still made a choice. He climbed on, and when the moment came, he chose to sting. We like to think evil is simple.

Bad people do bad things. But what happens when someone commits murder and says, it wasn't me? Something else made me do it. Do we believe him? Or do we decide that everyone's responsible for their own venom? I'm Harvey Guillen, and this is Killer Stories. Brookfield, Connecticut is one of those small towns where the biggest headline in the paper is usually about the church bake sale or a new stop sign going up.

Nothing too sensational. It's been around for nearly 200 years, and in all that time, nobody's ever been murdered here, not once. Until February 16, 1981. Around 6.30 in the evening, police respond to a call at a dog kennel. When they arrive, they find a man on the floor in a pool of blood. His name is Alan Bono. He's 40 years old, and he's been stabbed more. multiple times.

He's rushed to the hospital, but he doesn't make it. The police don't have to look far for their suspect. About two miles from the kennel, they find a 19-year-old sitting on the side of the road, wearing bloody clothes. His name is Arnie Cheyenne Johnson. He goes by Cheyenne. He tells police he blacked out. He doesn't remember a thing.

But the police have enough. evidence to arrest him and take him to jail. Which would be the end of a fairly straightforward murder case, except one thing. Pretty soon, police hear things about demons and possession and forces beyond human control, things that turn this quiet town into the host of the first demonic possession murder trial in American history. But before we get to the courtroom, we need to rewind, because this case doesn't start with Cheyenne. It starts with an 11-year-old boy and a demon that just wouldn't leave him alone.

It's the summer of 1980. Cheyenne Johnson is 19 and newly engaged to a woman named Debbie Glatzel. Cheyenne had grown up as the kind of kid parents pointed to us, you gotta be more like him. You know, an example. He played Little League baseball. He sang in the church choir, voice like an angel. Once he saved up all his earnings to buy his mother a used car.

So she didn't have to walk to work anymore. Sweet kid, right? But he also has to grow up fast. When his mother gets sick, he drops out of high school to support his mom and younger siblings. Plus, Debbie has a child of her own. So by the time most kids his age are worrying about prom, Cheyenne's already a stepfather. Cheyenne and Debbie have spent the summer searching for a home of their own. And they've just found this perfect little cottage with yellow walls and green shutters.

It's right outside of Brookfield, close to Debbie's parents. It's everything they want. July 2nd is move-in day and Debbie's mother, Judy, comes over to help. She brings her three other kids, including 11-year-old David. In one of the bedrooms, there's a waterbed left behind by the old tenants. The other kids flopped down on it, giggling, but David flat out refuses. He just stands there, staring at the mattress like it personally offended him.

Debbie and Cheyenne don't think much of it. The rest of the day goes smoothly. That evening, they all have dinner at Judy's house. David then reveals what really happened in that room with the waterbed. Okay, let's talk for a second. What you're about to hear sounds impossible. Possessions, exorcism, and a demon hopping from one person to another like a game of supernatural hot potato.

And look, I don't know what actually happened in that house. None of us do. Most of what we know comes from a book written by a couple of famous paranormal investigators. Does that make them expert witnesses or unreliable narrators? Well, that depends on what you believe about the world. If demons are real, then they're the people you'd want on the case. And if they're not, well, you see where I'm going with this. It's complicated.

So here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to tell you this story. the way it's been told for over 40 years, by the people who lived through it. Sound good? Okay. Let's get back to the story. David's story.

So, David says that earlier that afternoon, he'd gone back in the room with the water bed, alone. He was standing at the foot of the mattress when he fell two hands, pushed him into the bed. He says that when he's, When he looked up, he saw an old man in a torn plaid shirt, white hair and a mustache, translucent. The man pointed at David and whispered, beware.

After that scary yet vague warning, the old guy vanished. David didn't step foot in that room for the rest of the day. He tells Debbie and Cheyenne, you guys absolutely cannot move into that house. Now, there are about a dozen ways to explain what happened to David in the room. You know, overactive imagination, stress from the day. That's pretty much what Debbie and Cheyenne say, but not Judy. She's been reading about the supernatural recently, and she thinks what David's describing sounds exactly like a ghost.

She also tells her daughter not to move in to a haunted house. Debbie and Cheyenne aren't convinced. And they move in anyway. But if you watch horror movies, you know that ignoring the kid who sees dead people doesn't usually go well. David starts seeing this ghost grandpa all the time, even when he's not at Debbie and Cheyenne's house.

Only now, the man's feet are bare. His skin looks dark and burned. It's possible David is just doubling down. Maybe he's just figured out that talking about the senile spirit, it gets him attention. But here's the thing. Davy's behavior starts to go beyond telling ghost stories.

It becomes a lot more dangerous. His family says that while he's sleeping, David twitches and thrashes, as if trying to throw something off his body. He screams and swear. Sometimes he's found pulling at his neck like invisible hands are choking him. Even worse, David gets violent.

He spits at his grandmother. He kicks her. Once, he even tries to attack her with a knife. The entire family starts taking turns, sleeping during the day so that at night they can watch David and keep each other safe. Not from the ghost, from David. The Glad Souls are scared.

They have no idea what's wrong. with their kids, so they do what any reasonable family would do. They go to the doctor. The family physician examines David and doesn't find anything particularly out of the ordinary. He has a minor learning disability and appears to be a little emotionally disturbed, but that's not exactly news. The doctor doesn't have any explanation for why he's acting this way. Here's where the story could have gone in a very different direction.

Maybe David could have gotten a second opinion or a psychiatric evaluation. Maybe the doctor could have run more tests. But that's not what happened. Instead, Judy, David's mother, makes a decision. If medicine doesn't have an answer, then maybe the problem isn't medical at all. Luckily, she's been studying the paranormal, and she knows just who to call. If you've seen the Conjuring movies, you'll know the names Ed and Lorraine Warren. By 1980, they're a paranormal power couple.

They're famous for investigating the Amityville Horror House, and they give lectures, write books, and investigate hauntings all over the East Coast. So basically, if you need Ghostbusters, who you're going to call these people? When the Warrens visit the Gladsoles home, Ed interviews David while Lorraine watches. And according to Lorraine, who says she's... clairvoyant, she sees some kind of misty form sitting next to David, and it's dark and negative. Later, David complains about invisible hands gripping his neck. Lorraine swears she sees actual red marks forming on his skin. That's when the warrants make a pretty bold claim.

David is possessed by a demon. Over the next few months, the warrants keep coming back with notebooks and tape recorders, collecting notes and hoping to catch some supernatural action. The glatzl says that the activity has escalated. Objects fall over, doors, slam, crucifixes turn upside down. There's a rotting, sulfuric smell that comes and goes. The family starts calling whatever supposedly inside David the beast. And according to their account, there's a pattern to when it shows up.

A ritual almost. First, David goes completely still. His head drops down to his chest. The room gets quiet. Then slowly his head starts to lift. And when it does, according to the chest, according to the room, family, everything about him changed. His face looks different, older. His eyes are blank, staring like he's looking through you instead of at you. Sometimes he snarls, sometimes he

laughs, and when he speaks, the family swears it's not his voice. Then the beast gets violent. One night, David launches himself at his brother, Alan, trying to claw at his face. It takes three family members to pull David off. And the whole time, according to Alan, David is laughing. Another time, Judy finds David in the kitchen holding a knife. He's just standing there, staring at it, turning it over in his hands.

When she asks him what he's doing, he doesn't answer, doesn't even look at her. Later, when the episode passes and David comes back to himself, he has no memory of it. The family starts hiding knives and scissors terrified of what might happen during his next episode. By now, the warm. The warrants have warned the police department that there's a demonic presence in town.

And I gotta say, I can't imagine what that phone call must have been like. Maybe like, okay, can you describe the suspect please? Uh-huh. Uh-huh. All right. Demon. Is that two M's or one M? Carl? The warrants also contact the local church, St. Joseph Parish. They send several priests to examine David, and according to Lorraine, they find something astonishing. David appears to be possessed by not just one, but by 43 demons.

The story goes that when the priest asked David to name all the demons, he does. All 43 of them, one by one. The priest says this case is above their pay grade. They're like, no thanks, we're going to bring the big shots. David is going to need something a little more. intense. The only way to purge him of the beast is through an exorcism. Turns out even exorcisms have paperwork. Ugh, right? The church has an approval process and it takes time. While they wait, priests are allowed to perform blessings and holy water rituals. And those rituals, they can get

Pretty wild. In some, David recites long passages from Paradise Lost, John Milton's epic poem about Adam and Eve, Temptation and the Fall of Man. According to the family, he quotes the Bible, too. Entire passages. In Latin. But here's the thing.

David has a learning disability and attend special reading classes. His vocabulary isn't strong, but somehow the warrants claim he's speaking languages he doesn't know. And spouting out complex poems, he shouldn't understand, let alone memorize. Now, I don't know about you, but that's where I start asking questions, because there are really only two possibilities here. Either David is generally possessed and speaking in tongues or children are suggestible. and he's giving adults what they want to hear.

The Warren's claim they recorded hours of this, but most of that evidence has never been made public. And look, I want to be respectful along with my healthy dose of skepticism. I wasn't in the house. I don't know what the Glad Souls experience. Clearly, it was concerning enough to bring their 11-year-old to the medical doctor and then the supernatural doctor, Even if I'm still not really sure what I believe about ghost and demons,

I can sympathize with doing anything I can to help a loved one. So can Cheyenne. He hates watching his fiance's little brother David go through all this. The rituals are pretty intense. When the priest pray over David, he screams and swears his body twitches and jerks. It's a terrifying thing to watch an 11-year-old, experience. One night, Cheyenne, the Warns, and the Glatzels are all watching as the priests perform another blessing. The Warns later recall this night and say the demonic voice coming from David is louder and more powerful than usual.

Cheyenne is fed up with whatever's taking over the boy's body, so he starts screaming at it. Leave him alone! Take me instead! Lorraine later says the room went ice cold and she saw a dark cloud passed from David to Cheyenne was it really a demon a shadow a trick of the light in a room full of terrified people

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discomfort, which includes gas, floating, rumbling, and abdominal discomfort. Okay, before we dive back in, quick reminder, everything I'm about to tell you comes from the people who lived it. Debbie, the Warrens, the family. Could anyone prove it? No. Can we verify it now? Also no. But this is the story they tell. It's November 1980, about a month after Cheyenne made a deal with the devil in David's room. David's doing better. He has fewer episodes, but Cheyenne, he's starting to unravel. As Debbie will later claim, at first, it's small things. She notices him spacing out more than usual.

He'll be sitting right next to her, but mentally, he's somewhere else entirely. His eyes look vacant. When she asks him, what's wrong? He snaps back like nothing happened, and he says, oh, he's just tired. But then it gets worse. One day, Cheyenne walks over to the window and just stands there, staring out at nothing. Debbie calls his name. Once, twice, he doesn't respond.

And then she hears coming from the back of his throat. like an animal. When he finally turns around, he's back to normal. He doesn't remember doing it. Another time they're sitting in church with Debbie's family. It's right in the middle of mass. It's quiet. And suddenly, Cheyenne stands up and shouts,

Get me out of this effing goddamn church! I get it. I did not love going to church. We all wanted to get out of church free. card, you know? But like, usually you just have to like fake a cough, you know. But I mean, taking the Lord's name in vain during the service is a one-way ticket to getting banned from the church bake sales for life. By the end of 1980, Debbie and Cheyenne have fled the rental house, you know, the one with the waterbed that started all of this trouble. It costs them money

to break the leaves, but their sanity is priceless. And then things start to look up. Debbie gets a job as a dog groomer at a kennel near her mom's house. And the gig comes with a great perk. A small apartment right there on the property. The landlord is also her new boss, Alan Bono. Within weeks, Alan, Debbie, and Cheyenne become close friends, really close. Cheyenne even starts calling in sick to his landscaping job to hang out with Alan.

Debbie's glad Cheyenne's made her new friends. but it also tells her that moving out of the rental house hasn't fixed anything. It's unlike Cheyenne to blow off work like this, he's also still spacing out, staring out of a window. And then, on a cold February morning, something happens that makes all of those strange moments suddenly feel like a warning. Debbie's in the bedroom of their new apartment when she hears Shire. in the kitchen talking to someone. She walks over to the kitchen to see who it is,

but nobody else is there. And as she gets closer, she realizes that two voices are coming out of Cheyenne's mouth at the same time. One is his normal voice, the other is deeper, harsher, like something speaking through him. As she freezes in the doorway, just listening.

And then, when Cheyenne finally turns and sees her standing there, both voices stop at once. This is February 16, 1981. By that evening, whatever's been building for months, finally breaks. On that day, Cheyenne calls in sick. Instead of staying home, he goes and visits Debbie and Alan at the kennel. He brings along his 15-year-old sister, Wanda, his 13-year-old sister Janice,

and Debbie's nine-year-old cousin, Mary. Apparently, Debbie's grooming a particularly ugly black poodle, and the kids want to see it, which is actually kind of adorable when you think about it. And Alan doesn't mind the audience. In fact, he takes the whole group out to lunch at a local bar, and this is where things go sideways. Alan orders wine. A lot of wine. He announces that he's planning to quit drinking the next weekend, so today he's going to get really drunk,

which is the kind of logic that makes perfect sense when you're already a little drunk. Cheyenne and Debbie have a little wine, but not too much, I mean, there are kids around someone has to be the adult. When they get back to the kennel, Alan cranks up the stereo. He's belligerent now. Punching his fists into his palm and Pacey and Debbie can feel trouble brewing, so she tries to herd everyone out, but Alan doesn't want that party to end.

So he forces them all upstairs to his apartment. right above the kennel. And that's when things get scary. According to Wanda, Alan is up there getting more and more aggressive. Debbie urges everyone to go back downstairs, but when they try to leave, Alan grabs a nine-year-old Mary by the arm and won't let her go.

Debbie rushes over pleading with him to Lucy in his grip. At some point, Cheyenne comes into the room and sees what's happening and yells at Alan until he finally releases Mary. But Cheyenne and Alan aren't done. They follow each other outside, still screaming. They stop on the front lawn face to face. Wanda holds onto her brother trying to pull him away. Debbie's begging them both to just stop and let it go.

And then something very strange happens. Cheyenne freezes. Wanda can't get him to move at all. He's completely unresponsive. Like he's turned to stone. Then, as Wanda and Debbie tell it, he starts to growl like an animal. Debbie and Wanda sees something flash in the air,

something shining. metallic and Cheyenne just blankly stares straight ahead. Then Alan falls backward. Blood is pulling around his body. And Cheyenne walks away. When Debbie looks down, Cheyenne's pocket knife is lying on the grass beside Alan's body. Okay. Let's just pause for a second here because I know exactly what you're thinking.

Wait, what happened? A knife just appeared out of thin air and suddenly Alan is dead? Did I miss something? You didn't. That's genuinely how vague Debbie and Wanda's statements are. The way both of them describe it, everything happened in this blur of motion and sound

and then it was over. At least that's what they say at first. It isn't until days later when Wanda signs a police statement saying, And yes, she did see Cheyenne stab Allen. As for Debbie, her account stays pretty hazy. Maybe she really did think something supernatural possessed Cheyenne during the altercation, or maybe she witnessed something so traumatic, her brain couldn't process it in the moment.

Okay, back to the scene of the crime. After Cheyenne takes off, someone in the neighborhood calls 911, and paramedics quickly arrive. Alan is rushed to a hospital, but he doesn't make it. He dies from stab wounds an hour later. Meanwhile, police tracked down Cheyenne about two miles down the road from the kennel. He's in a daze. He's taken into the station and charged with murder. His reaction to that is pretty normal.

He falls asleep. When he wakes up, half an hour later, he tells police he doesn't remember anything. His last memory is arguing with Alan at 6 p.m. Minutes before the stabbing, he says he can't remember. The day after Cheyenne's arrest, David tells his family. He had a vision. He says he saw the demon leave his body and enter. Cheyenne's, that it was the beast who stabbed Alan, not Cheyenne.

The warrants back him up. They say they warned everyone this would happen, that Cheyenne invited the demon in, and now it's taken over completely. Debbie believes him. Her family believes it. And when Cheyenne's lawyer, Martin Manella, hears about this, he makes a decision that will change legal history. He's going to argue demonic possession as a defense. This episode is brought to you by Prime.

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they're blaming something harmless, like eating an entire sleeve of Orioles, or texting your ex at 2 a.m. Not that I've done that. You're not filming this, are you? But now, Martin Manila is going to use that as a legal defense. This becomes the first. first demonic possession defense in American legal history.

There's no, not guilty by reason of the devil verdict. No, the one similar case happened in England. In one, an arson suspect was acquitted on account of alleged possession, and in another, an accused rapist got his sentence reduced. Manila's strategy depends on getting the church to testify that David was possessed and passed a demon onto Cheyenne. But the church refuses to cooperate. The priests are ordered to stay quiet.

Some even transfer to different parishes. So basically, the church ghost them. Just ironic considering you guys. The church ghosts them. You can laugh. It's okay. The cameras will catch it. So no one's going to laugh? Why don't I even try?

The trial begins on October 28, 1981. And by this point, the case is a complete media circus. Hotels are sold out and reporters are interviewing the warns daily. The courtroom is packed with people who want to see what the media has dubbed, The Devil made me do it case. Even though Cheyenne never said those words himself. Unfortunately for Cheyenne, the judge, refuses to hear Manella's possession argument.

He doesn't think it can be used as a legal defense. He calls it unprovable and confusing. Which, to be fair, if he's not wrong, he can't exactly cross-examine a demon, right? So the possession defense is out. Manila has to pivot to self-defense. The story goes, Alan attacked a nine-year-old Mary, then came after Cheyenne.

He only stabbed him to protect himself and his family. The prosecution's case is simple. Cheyenne was under the influence of something, but it wasn't a demon. It was alcohol. A bartender testifies that Cheyenne and Ellen had nearly 15 glasses of wine between them. This contradicts what Cheyenne and Debbie told police.

Then a paramedic gets on the, stand and says that he overheard Debbie on the day of the murder saying to her father, Daddy, he didn't mean to do it. You know how he gets when he's been drinking. That tells the jury alcohol was involved in the murder. To them, that explanation is much easier to believe than a demonic possession. And on November 24, Cheyenne is convicted of first degree manslaughter. He's sentenced to 10 to 20 years behind bars, he ends up

only serving five, and is released early for good behavior. While he's in prison, Cheyenne and Debbie get married. And for years, they both insist the Warrens were right, that Cheyenne was possessed, that the devil

really did make him do it. In 2007, David's older brother, Carl, sues the warrants, claiming they crafted a hoax for money and fame. He says the Glad Souls suffered for years from the media attention, especially the children, especially David. Eventually, the lawsuit is dismissed.

But years later, Carl comes forward with another theory. While sorting through his and David's parents' belongings after their death, Carl finds a note from their mother that reads, Well, the family had their medicine tonight, and everything was good. Carl believes his mother had been drugging the family with an over-the-counter sleep aid by putting it in their food, which is a pretty intense accusation to make against his mom. But according to Carl, this medication can have long-lasting effects on people. mood swings, hallucinations.

Carl suggests it's possible that David ingested enough of this stuff over the years to make him act possessed. But let's be clear, those kind of side effects are pretty rare in sleep aid medications. You know, hallucinations can happen, but only at really high levels. You're probably more likely to have dry mouth than blurred. vision, then see ghost. And the sleep medication theory doesn't really explain what happened with Cheyenne. He doesn't live with the Gladsoe family, so it's pretty unlikely he was being drugged. Well, Carl has an answer for that one too.

He says he heard rumors Debbie was having an affair with Alan. The murder was a simple case of jealous. Alice, rage. In 2023, David now in his 50s appears in the Netflix documentary, The Devil on Trial. He still believes he was possessed, but also believes the Warrens exploited his family for money. David and Carl aren't the only ones who've called the Warren's frauds. Throughout their careers, they've been accused of lying and faking their own powers for profit. But some allegations are even darker than fraud.

In 2017, a woman named Judith Penny accused Ed of sexually abusing her when she lived with the Warrens as a teenager in the 80s. No charges were ever filed. Ed denied the allegations until his death in 2006, and Lorraine supported her husband's innocence until she died in 2019. As for Cheyenne and Debbie, they maintained their version. of the events until Debbie dies in 2021. Cheyenne still alive and living in Connecticut

changes his tune. He now says he doesn't believe he was possessed. The story that defined his entire life, he walked it back. Which begs the question, did he ever believe it at all? Remember the scorpion from the beginning? When he stung the frog,

When he stung the frog, he said, I couldn't help it. It's my nature. Cheyenne Johnson stabbed Alan Booneau to death. That's not in question. But when people asked why, all he could say was, I blacked out. I don't remember. He didn't have a nature to point to. So everyone else answered for him.

Warren said, demons. The prosecutor said he was drunk. The media said, the devil made me do it. Because when someone does something unthinkable, we need an explanation. We need it to make sense. But sometimes, maybe there is no why. Maybe there's just a 19-year-old who blacked out and woke up to find he'd killed someone. And maybe the scariest thing isn't that the devil made him do it.

It's that we'll never know what did. Thanks for tuning in to Killer Stories, a Spotify podcast. New episodes release on Mondays. If you like today's story and want to learn more, we drop some of our favorite sources in the episode description. Until next time, I'm Harvey Guillain. Stay safe up there. Want to hear something spooky.

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