A Canadian murder trial caught my eye last year, when police described how a "spirit entity" spoke through the main suspect during questioning.
Police in British Columbia found the body of Richard Falardeau in a suitcase in the attic of a home in Surrey. Ernest Allan Hosack, 40, was charged with second-degree murder in connection with Falardeau's death.
The details of the case were both gristly and bizarre.
Falardeau, 54, met Hosack at a coffee shop in Surrey in June 2008 and invited him to share the attic apartment he was renting. Falardeau was described as "a stocky man with scruffy, greyish white hair and a thick French accent".
He lived in the stuffy attic apartment for nearly 10 months before his brother reported him missing in the summer of 2008, bringing officers from a missing-persons unit to Falardeau's home to look for him on a hot August morning.
What they found was horrific. Clouds of flies swarmed in the sweltering attic and, when they ventured deeper inside, they uncovered Falardeau's headless torso stuffed inside a suitcase in a closet. His thumbs, anus, scrotum and testes were found in plastic bags in the refrigerator freezer. His skull, with some hair and part of the spine still attached, was found three months later, in tall, marshy grass in a hollow nearby.
But when police asked Hosack where he put Falardeau's head, they said their reply came from "an entity" purporting to be Hosack's long-dead grandfather. This spirit told them the head could be found "In the Y next to the Z. Next to Zion. You don't want to go."
A spokesman described the 12-hour police interview as "chock-a-block" full of delusions. Hosack spoke of nuclear cutting wire, more efficient ways to wage war, light-speed engines and other machines he claimed to have designed. He believed "crack-heads" were stealing his ideas, which would later turn up on TV.
Hosack talked to the police about "dead souls", angels waiting to be released, and how Falardeau fell into darkness "because he was looking at something that wasn't his to behold."
Toward the end of the interview, Hosack spoke of "The Entity". Speaking in a voice claiming to be that of his dead grandpa, Hosack told police Falardeau's thumbs and genitals were put in the freezer. This was "hold-back" information - known only to the police - and confirmed Hosack's guilt.
The voice told police Falardeau's thumbs, genitals and head were "sent to different places in hell to be torn apart". The thumbs were removed, he explained, so Falardeau "won't be able to meddle in anything."
Hosack's grandpa voice said Falardeau died "faster than he ever thought possible" and that his grandson saw him "snap his head like a twig".
He said he "appropriated" Falardeau's soul and then "scattered" it. "You would call it murder," he told the police.
Is it just me, or does this all sound terrifyingly similar to ideas explored in David Lynch's chilling soap-opera pastiche "Twin Peaks". Killer BOB anyone?
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