Man Tries to Perform Exorcism, Instead Allegedly Murders His Mother [View all]

Apr 27, 9:00 AM EDT

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Joe Wilkins

Don't try this at home.



When it comes to battling demons trapped inside your loved ones, maybe it's best to leave it to the professionals.

Take that from Alexander Valdez, a 23-year-old man accused of murdering his mother in a botched DIY exorcism in Fort Worth, Texas last week.

Police rolled up to Valdez' house a little after midnight last Friday, tipped off about a "satanic ritual" which he allegedly recorded and sent to his friends on Snapchat. When officers knocked on his front door, a nonchalant Valdez emerged, coated in blood and clutching a bible.

"It was an exorcism," he told police calmly, before allegedly adding — contradictively? — that "I was doing witchcraft to kill my mom."

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Sam Kestenbaum is a writer who embedded with Greg Locke, an infamous "Demon Slayer" in Tennessee. In a lengthy exposé on the resurgence of demonology for Harper's Magazine, Kestenbaum notes that Locke has used his sensationalist platform to tout vaccine skepticism, accuse Democratic politicians of being demons, and stoke claims that the 2020 election was stolen — topics which gel a little too well with those already prone to conspiracy hysterics.

More:
https://futurism.com/neoscope/exorcism-murder-mother

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