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1929 Benny Evangelista occult murders...
1929 Benny Evangelista occult murders...
Item # 719570
July 05, 1929
THE NEW YORK TIMES, July 5, 1929
* The Evangelista Occult Murders
* Black magic sinister crime
Page 2 has a one column heading: "Man Held In Slaying Of Six In Detroit" with subhead. (see images)
Complete with all 36 pages, light toning at the margins, a little irregular along the spine, nice condition.
AI notes: On July 3, 1929, Detroit police discovered one of the city’s most shocking crimes when they found Benedict “Benny” Evangelista, a 43-year-old Italian immigrant and self-styled mystic, decapitated at his desk, while his wife Santina and their four young children lay hacked to death in their beds; Evangelista, who had gained notoriety in the local Italian community as an occult healer, fortune-teller, and author of a bizarre unpublished manuscript titled The Oldest History of the World, Discovered by Occult Science, was rumored to have enemies among dissatisfied clients, rivals in the folk-healing trade, and possibly within Detroit’s criminal underworld, leading to speculation that the massacre was an act of revenge or a ritualistic killing; though police questioned numerous suspects and the sensational case drew national headlines highlighting the “occult murders,” no one was ever convicted, and the crime remains one of Detroit’s most infamous unsolved mysteries.
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