Murder: True Crime Stories - SOLVED: Arlis Perry 2

Episode Date: May 21, 2026

In Part 2 of Murder: True Crime Stories, Carter Roy follows the 44-year investigation into the 1974 murder of 19-year-old Arlis Perry at Stanford University's Memorial Church. Serial killer David Berkowitz's cryptic claims of a nationwide satanic cult network kept the case alive for decades. But it was a mislabeled piece of evidence and advances in DNA technology that finally revealed the truth. Head over to our Murder True Crime Stories YouTube channel to WATCH our video episodes: https://www.youtube.com/@MurderTrueCrimeStories If you’re new here, don’t forget to follow Murder True Crime Stories to never miss a case! For Ad-free listening and early access to episodes, subscribe to Crime House+ on Apple Podcasts. Murder True Crime Stories is a Crime House Original Podcast, powered by PAVE Studios 🎧 Need More to Binge?  Listen to other Crime House Originals Clues, Crimes Of…, Serial Killers & Murderous Minds, Crime House 24/7, and more wherever you get your podcasts! Follow me on Social Instagram: @Crimehouse TikTok: @Crimehouse Facebook: @crimehousestudios YouTube: @murdertruecrimestories To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hi, listeners, it's Carter Roy. Before we get into today's episode of Murder True Crime Stories, I want to tell you about another show I think you'll love, Hidden History with Dr. Harini Bot. Every Monday, Dr. Bot goes where history gets mysterious. Vanished civilizations, doomsday prophecies, paranormal phenomena, and events that science still can't fully explain. Dr. Bot treats these moments like open case files.

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But for a journalist or a detective, finding answers and solving a case can become a lifelong pursuit. That's how investigative reporter, Mori Terry, felt about the murder of 19-year-old Arles Perry on October 12, 1974. That night, Arliss was brutally murdered while praying at the church on Stanford University's campus. Because of the way her body was posed, many people, including Terry, believed a satanic cult was behind Arles' death. But for Terry, devil worship was just the tip of the iceberg. Eventually, he developed a wide-ranging theory that linked Arles' murder to the murder. to the Manson family and the son of Sam serial killer David Berkowitz. Terry spent decades trying to convince the world that he'd stumbled on one of the biggest stories

in U.S. history, and it turned out he was right in a lot of ways. People's lives are like a story. There's a beginning, a middle, and an end. But you don't always know which part you're on. Sometimes the final check. The chapter arrives far too soon, and we don't always get to know the real ending. I'm Carter Roy, and this is Murder, True Crime Stories, a crime house original powered by Pave Studios. New episodes come out every Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday, with Friday's episodes covering the cases that deserve a deeper look.

Thank you for being part of the crimehouse community. Please rate, review, and follow the show. and for ad-free access to every episode, subscribe to Crime House Plus on Apple Podcasts. This is the second of two episodes on the 1974 murder of 19-year-old Arliss Perry in Stanford, California. Please note, this episode contains descriptions of sexual violence and murder. Please listen with care. Last time, we got to know Arliss and her husband, Bruce, After getting married in 1974, the young couple moved to Stanford University where Bruce was studying pre-med.

Two months later, on October 12, Arliss was found brutally murdered at the campus church. Today, we'll dive headfirst into the rumors that Arles was killed as part of a satanic ritual. The gossip kicked into high gear when an infamous serial killer known as the son of Sam claimed to have information about, Arles' death. Even then, the answers were just out of reach. They stayed that way until 2018, when a new discovery finally cracked the case for good. All that and more coming up. On October 13, 1974, a security guard found the body of 19-year-old Arles Perry in the Stanford Memorial Church on the university's campus. She had been stabbed with an ice pick, violated with an altar candle, and posed under a cross for maximum shock value. The strongest evidence at the scene

was a partial palm print lifted from the two-foot-long candle. Arles' new husband, 19-year-old Bruce, was suspect number one, but forensics quickly determined the print didn't belong to him. The same went for the security guard, 28-year-old Stephen Crawford. Both of them passed polygraph tests, and the police officially eliminated them as potential culprits. The only real clue was testimony from a witness. They reported seeing a man with sandy colored hair enter the church with Arles about 20 minutes before she died. Detectives and initially spent some time trying to find the mystery man, but they eventually decided that the murder was a random attack. They believed a local sex criminal stumbled upon Arles at the church that

night and targeted her by coincidence. She was in the wrong place at the wrong time. For months after the crime, police combed through their records searching for a repeat offender whose psychological profile matched the murderer. They endlessly grilled incoming prisoners for leads, hoping to find someone who knew something about Arles' killer. None of it led anywhere. And by the time the year came to a close, the authorities were already out of ideas. But back in Arles' home state of North Dakota, a very different theory was emerging. A few months after Arlis was killed, her parents learned there were rumors that a satanic cult was behind their daughter's murder. And the 19-year-old was a devout Christian and a passionate missionary.

Before she moved to Stanford, she and a friend reportedly tried to convert a group of local Satanists to Christianity. As sensational as that sounded, the rumors did have the Ring of Truth. Arliss's friend said she would have jumped at the chance to spread the gospel to a cult, and the fact that she was killed in church, then posed in such a disturbing way, suggested there was a religious motivation at the heart of the crime. But detectives back in Stanford weren't convinced. They were positive. Her murder was sexually motivated, not demonic.

Besides, they didn't have. have the budget to conduct a full-scale investigation in a town that was 1700 miles away. They did ask the local police in North Dakota to interview the church youth group Arles was a part of, but when no one could substantiate the rumors with hard evidence, and they dismissed the satanic angle as empty gossip. By the end of 1975, 14 months after the murder, Arles Perry's case was completely cold. Bruce continued his studies at Stanford, working toward a future he could no longer imagine without his wife.

Meanwhile, Arles' family was left adrift. Her father took the loss especially hard over the next few years. He called the Stanford police repeatedly desperate to hear how the investigation was progressing. Sadly, detectives never had anything to tell him until 1979, five years after Arles was killed, when everything changed. That October, an incarcerated serial killer named David Berkowitz sent a cryptic message to police in North Dakota. Without saying why, he mailed them a book called The Anatomy of Witchcraft. Inside, he had underlined several passages, and at the bottom of one of the pages, he'd scribbled a handwritten note that read,

quote, Arliss Perry, hunted, stalked, and slain, followed to California, Stanford University. That one tiny comment scrawled in the margins, single-hand. revived Arles' case. At the time, David Berkowitz was one of the nation's most notorious serial killers and the object of several major conspiracy theories. Born in 1953, he served in the U.S. Army at age 18 in 1974, the same year Arles Perry was killed. Berkowitz was honorably discharged from the military. Less than a year later, he'd tried to commit his first murder on Christmas Eve, 1975. The 23-year-old stalked two women on the streets of New York City.

He eventually cornered his victims and stabbed them repeatedly with a hunting knife before fleeing the scene. Both women were rushed to the hospital, where they spent the next week recovering from their injuries. And miraculously, they survived the attacks. but David Berkowitz was just getting started. Seven months later in July of 1976, he hunted down two more young women, 18-year-old Donna Lauria and 19-year-old Jody Valenti. As Jody exited a car,

she spotted Berkowitz heading toward her, carrying a paper bag in one hand. Just based on the way he was walking, Jody could tell something was off. She called out to him, but before she could finish her sentence, Berkowitz pulled a 44 caliber pistol from his bag, crouched down, and fired three times. Jody was killed instantly.

The second bullet grazed Donna's thigh and the third missed completely. Donna survived the attack, but could only provide a basic physical description of the shoot. to police. For the second time, at least one of his targets made it out alive, but Berkowitz managed to escape without anyone getting a good look at him, which meant he was free to try again. He launched his third attack after just a few months of lying low. On October 23, 1976, Berkowitz shot a 20-year-old man and an 18-year-old woman as they sat in a parked car in Queens, New York. The man was hit in the head.

He needed major surgery to replace the shattered portion of his skull with a metal plate but survived. Luckily, his friend was unharmed. Unfortunately, neither of them saw the would-be killer. Berkowitz fled into the knights once again. By this point, the press had dubbed him the 44 caliber killer, and the people of New York were terrified of becoming his next victim. And that fear only grew as the months passed. Between November, 1976, and April 1977, Berkowitz shot seven more people, mostly young women and girls. four were killed while others were left with lifelong injuries.

Local law enforcement was under a ton of pressure to catch the killer, and in April of 1977, after his latest attack, the bad publicity got even worse when Berkowitz sent a message to the captain of the NYPD. In the letter, which was riddled with spelling errors, he claimed to be the son of Sam. as well as the demon Beelzebub, he blamed his father for ordering him to kill, threatened the authorities, and swore to continue murdering young women. Based on the initial message, the cops had no idea who Sam actually was,

but psychologists were able to put together a profile of the shooter. They described him as a paranoid schizophrenic who believed he was. was possessed by a demon. These theories laid the groundwork for rumors that the son of Sam was a Satanist and that his murders were some kind of demonic sacrifice. And the only thing scarier than a serial killer on the loose was one who worked for the devil. As paranoia gripped the city, New Yorkers looked for ways to keep themselves safe. Because all the victims had long, dark hair, women started cutting their locks short and dying them blonde.

None of it prevented further attacks. Between May and July of 1977, Berkowitz shot four more people. One victim died, another was blinded, and the final two survived with minor injuries. Then, in August, a young woman named Cecilia. Julia Davis was walking her dog when she noticed a man watching her from across the street. He was holding something in his hand, and though she couldn't make out what it was, she was spooked. She immediately turned and ran down the street as Berkowitz shot at her. He missed completely, and Cecilia reported the incident to the police. She also told them that the shooter

was standing next to a car that had recently gotten a parking ticket. The authorities were able to search through their records and investigate every vehicle that was ticketed that night. That was how they found David Berkowitz. On August 10, 1977, they arrested the 24-year-old outside of his apartment. It only took about half an hour in the interrogation room for him to confess to the shootings. The taunting letters about his father led some detectives to believe he was working with a group of accomplices, maybe even a satanic cult. But when Berkowitz finally explained who

Sam actually was, everyone was left scratching their heads. Think about some of the cases that defined true crime in America. Ted Bundy, Jeffrey Dahmer, the kidnapping of Elizabeth the smart, the Karen retrial. Some crime cases are so shocking, they don't just make headlines they forever change a country. I'm Katie Rang, host of America's most infamous crimes. Each week, I take on one of the most notorious criminal cases, whether it's unfolding now or etched into American history, revealing not just what happened, but how it forever changed their society.

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Nicknamed the son of Sam, because of the unhinged messages he sent to police, Berkowitz was also suspected of being connected to a satanic cult. After his arrest, Berkowitz told officers that the mysterious Sam in his letters was actually his neighbor's dog. He claimed the black lab was possessed by a demon and telepathically urged him to kill young women. After his confession, Berkowitz was sent to a psychiatric hospital. The doctors who analyzed him had mixed opinions. He was initially diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia, but later experts determined he was legally sane and competent to stand trial. After more than a year of treatment in February of 1979, Berkowitz announced that his tales of demonic possession were all made up.

He acknowledged that the claims were a creation of his own mind impacted by his mental illness. But in court, he refused to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. He was sentenced to 25 years to life in prison for each of his six murders. Months later, his story changed again. In the wake of his sentencing, several different Christian priests and missionaries reached out to Berkowitz to try to convert him. One of these was a 41-year-old woman named Lee Chase. a self-proclaimed expert in demonology.

Over the course of 1979, Berkowitz came to consider her a confidant, and on October 15th, he told her that he used to be a member of a satanic cult. He claimed he had been sworn to secrecy and that he was afraid to give details for fear of being blackmail. He also hinted that the cult was behind the unsolved murder of Arles Perry in 1974. Though Berkowitz and Arles Perry had both been linked to the occult, and that was the first time anyone had publicly connected the two cases. And just days after his admission, Berkowitz sent the police in Arles' home state a book on witchcraft.

In the margins, he scribbled that infamous note, implying that he knew who was behind her murder. The authorities didn't respond to his package immediately, so ten days later, Berkowitz wrote a more in-depth confession. In it, he claimed to have information about a countrywide network of satanic cults that brainwashed their members. and once again, he cited the murder of Arliss Perry as evidence. He also took back his previous confession, insisting he was just a patsy in the son of Sam murders, while he admitted to committing some of the shootings. He now said his accomplices were responsible for the others. Apparently, the cult he was in had ordered him to take sole responsibility for the crimes.

These letters eventually reached a New York reporter named Mori Terry. Well, not everyone was taking Berkowitz's claim seriously, but Terry believed he was telling the truth. So he decided to launch his own unofficial investigation. Two months later, Terry convinced the police to get more directly involved. On December 4, 1979, detectives asked, 26-year-old Berkowitz about his latest claims in prison. As usual, the serial killer was cagey about the specifics,

but he said he knew for sure who had killed Arles Perry and that he'd met the murderer at a cult meeting in New York. The only thing he would say was that the key to solving the crime lay at a college in Arles' hometown of Bismarck, North Dakota. After that round of questioning, the police were more intrigued than ever. The detective who spoke to Berkowitz found him to be evasive, but friendly and sincere. He was genuinely interested in helping to solve the Arles Perry case, even though it seemed like it didn't have anything to do with him.

The problem was Berkowitz refused to say anything else. The police looked into the junior college that Arles'iard. attended before moving to Stanford and found no signs of any cult activity. Eventually, they decided Berkowitz had nothing to offer the case. Either he was suffering from delusions connected to his mental illness, or he was deliberately playing games, messing with them for his own amusement. A year later, in late 1980,

journalist Mori Terry was one of the few people still taking Berkowitz's stories seriously, and he believed the police had misinterpreted Berkowitz's statements. Terry thought Berkowitz was referring to a tiny school called Mary College in the same area, not Bismarck College. Students there spread rumors that there was a secret cult on campus that met in the woods and sacrificed dogs in arcane rituals. And the more Terry investigated,

the deeper the rabbit hole went. Soon, he got in contact with an unnamed source who was closer to Berkowitz than almost anyone. This person finally revealed the son of Sam's motivation for solving the Arles Perry case. According to the source, Berkowitz was part of a massive satanic cult network with divisions all over the U.S.

The son of Sam belonged to the New York chapter, but the group was headquartered in Los Angeles and had once been connected to the notorious Manson family. The mystery man at the center of it all was called Manson the second. Allegedly, Arles Perry got on the bad side of the Colts North Dakota chapter after she and a friend tried to convert them to Christianity. From there, the North Dakota Satanists essentially put out a hit on her. The kingpin, Manson II, supposedly arranged Arliss's murder at Stanford in response. He was the key to the entire network.

The same unnamed source insisted Manson II had also committed several Son of Sam shootings, then decided to pin them all on David Berkowitz. From there, it all came full circle. The real reason Berkowitz wanted to solve Arles Perry's murder was that he blamed Manson II for making him a fall guy. Clearly, all of this had the ring of a conspiracy theory. As Terry put it, if his source was telling the truth, it would make the son of Sam case one of the most significant criminal story of all time.

That was a big if. But Terry truly thought he was on to something huge. Based on his discussions with Berkowitz, it seemed like the son of Sam knew details about Arliss's murder that had never been made public. For example, he knew the exact spot where Arles was stabbed with an ice pick, a detail that Terry said had been withheld by police. He was also aware that she'd tried to convert a group of Satanists,

something that only the people in Arliss's hometown had ever heard about. And it was more than just a baseless rumor. A coffee shop owner in a neighboring North Dakota town told Terry that he had to ban several members of a cult from recruiting teenagers at his business. Terry tracked down a former member who claimed, well, it wasn't satanic, but a fringe religious group focused on mysticism. and astrology. Terry wasn't sure whether that was true, but his interviews were enough to convince him he was on the right track. Just a few questions remained. Most importantly, Terry still had no idea whom Manson the second really was. But beyond that, he also questioned the killer's

motive. So far, Berkowitz had implied that Arliss was targeted. because she was a good Christian and a passionate missionary. While that was possible, it seemed a little flimsy. Like the police before him, Terry couldn't find anyone with firsthand knowledge of the attempted conversion. Arles supposedly confronted the cultists along with her friend, but no one knew who that friend actually was. Still, Terry believed he was closing.

in on Manson II. He was about to break the biggest story the country had ever heard. Turned out, he was ahead of the curve. In just a few years, secret satanic cults would become one of the biggest stories in America. But Arles Perry was just one of their alleged victims. In the suburbs of D.C., a woman fails to show. show up for work and is found brutally murdered.

I wonder which emergency. We just walked in the door and there's blood in the foyer. For the next two decades, the case remained unsolved until new technology allowed investigators to do what had once been impossible. A new series from ABC Audio in 2020, blood and water. Listen now, wherever you get your podcasts. Six years after Arles Perry was killed in Stanford, California. her case had gone cold.

But investigative journalist Mori Terry thought he was on the verge of solving her murder and uncovering a conspiracy that linked Arliss to everyone from the Manson family to David Berkowitz. Terry believed Arles was murdered by a satanic cult that had secret chapters all over the United States. She had allegedly gotten on the bad side of the North Dakota Division after attempting to convert its members to Christianity. But according to Terry, the cult was most powerful on the West Coast. Terry believed that chapter was connected to Charles Manson and run by a mysterious man he called Manson the Second.

Manson II was allegedly responsible for organizing the hit on Arles after she moved to Stanford. He was also active in New York, where he reportedly recruited David Berkowitz into the fold a year later in 1975. According to Terry, the son of Sam shootings were committed by multiple people. David Berkowitz was one perpetrator, while Manson the second was another. Berkowitz was simply the Patsy, and the person the cult used as a fall guy for everyone else. As unlikely as all of this sounded, these kind of conspiracy theories were common in the U.S. during the 1980s and 90s.

Rumors that satanic cults were abducting children, meeting in secret to perform bizarre rituals, and engaging in human sacrifice created widespread public fear. Some cases led to real prosecutions and even convictions based on dubious. evidence. This phenomenon was later dubbed the satanic panic, and Mori Terry's theories about Arles Perry's murder fit right in. When he told members of law enforcement about his beliefs, some of them thought he was on to something, but as the years passed, no one was able to find enough evidence to build a solid case. Manson II was never found, and there wasn't any hard

evidence connecting Arlis to a secret cabal of Satanists, and even though David Berkowitz continued to claim he knew the identity of her killer, he refused to talk. Years passed without any progress. In 1987, Terry published a book about his theories called The Ultimate Evil. By that point, several firsthand accounts of alleged satanic ritual abuse had already become bestsellers in the U.S. Terry hoped to bring awareness to what he believed was one of the biggest stories in history. He spent the rest of his life trying to reopen the son of Sam Case and expose the nationwide network of satanic cults. Ultimately, there wasn't much evidence to support his grandest claims. In the years since his book was published,

several infamous cases of satanic abuse have been discredited. The moral panic of the era passed, replaced by a new generation of conspiracy theories born on the internet. Through it all, Arles Perry's case remained unsolved. But she was never completely forgotten. And in June of 2016, 42 years after her death, the police received their first new tip in decades. That month, a new witness contacted the authorities to report what he'd seen at Stanford back in 1974.

A 65-year-old man named Brian McCracken said he walked past the memorial church just moments before Arles was murdered on October 12th. As he strolled by the building, he heard someone playing the flute inside. Intrigued by the sound, he opened the front door and peeked in. That's when he saw a scene that would haunt him. At the front of the altar, a thin white man wearing an afro wig was playing a large silver flute. a naked woman who looked a lot like Arles Perry was lying next to him surrounded by candles. Brian claimed he entered the church and even walked down the aisle. The floutist glared at him but never said a word.

Since the nude woman looked comfortable and unharmed, Brian turned around and left. then Brian somehow forgot about the bizarre incident for years. It wasn't until 2011, 37 years later, that it all came back to him. He looked up Arliss's case on the internet and identified the man he believed to be the floutist by combing through old pictures of the Stanford marching band. From there, he reached out to the cops. The authorities found his story. even harder to swallow than Mori Terry's satanic conspiracy.

Still, they agreed to follow up and interview the musician, but after questioning the man, they announced that he wasn't considered a person of interest. The incident seemed to be a red herring, another strange footnote in the 42-year-old investigation. But Brian McCracken's story may have actually led to real results. Around the time that he contacted police, detectives in Santa Clara County started going through boxes of old evidence in Arliss's case.

They spent weeks coming through newspaper articles and photographs looking for anything they might have missed over the years. That's when the lead detective, Rick Alonis, noticed that someone had made a mistake when cataloging the evidence all those years back. A pair of Arles's pants that were found at the scene were mislabeled as her husbands and vice versa. That meant that previous forensic tests were all run on the wrong pair of pants. In the four decades since her murder, DNA analysis had come a long way. So in 2016, Lieutenant Alonis ordered a new round of testing on the pants.

The results were shocking. Experts found clear traces of semen belonging to Stephen Crawford, the security guard who found Arles' body. Back in 1974, Stephen was one of the police's strongest suspects, but the only hard evidence they had at the time was a partial palm-reveillance. print lifted from an altar candle. After he passed a polygraph and experts determined the print didn't match his hand, Stephen was eliminated as a possibility. Of course, DNA analysis was much stronger evidence than a palm print. With a single forensic test, it seemed like the cold case

squad had cracked a 42-year-old mystery. Even so, building a case and securing a conviction for such an old crime is tricky. And by that point, Stephen Crawford was 70. Detectives wanted to be 100% sure they were correct before they accused such an elderly man of murder and risked ruining his life. So for the next two years, they continued working behind the scenes. And by the summer of 2018, they had only informed. Stephen that he was a person of interest, but privately, investigators were sure they'd found the culprit. They believed their original theory was correct. The killer was sexually motivated, not a Satanist.

And they speculated that he'd posed Arliss's body to deflect suspicion away from him. and now, after all these years, she would finally get justice. On the morning of June 28th, detectives arrived at Stephen's apartment in San Jose, California. When they pounded on the 72-year-old's door and announced that they had a search warrant, he asked for a few minutes to get dressed. A few silent moments. passed. Eventually, officers decided he was stalling and used the landlord's key to enter the small apartment. From the front door, they could see Steven sitting on his bed holding a gun.

The 72-year-old died by suicide before the cops could react. In the closet, police found the jacket from Mori Terry's book, The Ultimate Evil. Next to the bed, there was a suicide note signed and dated two years earlier back in 2016. The message didn't address the murder directly, but officers believed he chose to end his own life because he knew they were closing in on him. Stephen's death marked a somewhat unsatisfying end to Arles' case, but it did give her family some closure. By then her husband, Bruce, was 61 and a successful doctor. Her mother, Jean, was 88 years old. She told a newspaper that she was heartbroken that Stephen wasn't

captured sooner. Her husband Marvin had passed away just three months earlier. Arliss's murder had taken a severe toll on him over the years. Jean wished he had been around to learn that their daughter's killer was found. With all the rumors, satanic conspiracies, and sensational publicity surrounding the case, Arles Perry was sometimes lost in her own story. The shocking circumstances of her murder ended up serving as a distraction. just like Stephen Crawford hoped. On the other hand, those same details also kept the case alive.

If it wasn't for conspiracy theories about satanic cults and the bizarre story about the floutest, investigators might have never followed up on the case four decades later. Sometimes resolution comes in a way no one expects. And now, after 44 years of mystery, Arliss Perry can finally rest in peace. Thanks so much for listening. I'm Carter Roy, and this is Murder True Crime Stories. Come back next time for the story of a new murder and all the people it affected.

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