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Amber Burch, are both now charged with murder.

Ever since Pazuzu was arrested,

I've been trying to get past the rumors and the

sensationalist headlines to get to the real story

behind this man, his crimes, his victims,

and how this could have happened in our community.

For those five years that Josh was missing,

Jared did not receive any social security money.

It seems like the police just didn't do their job,

and maybe if we could prove that we could get back

some of the money that Jared is entitled to.

There's the search warrants from 2014,

and then we found out that the search warrants were sealed.

There is something in those search warrants that

law enforcement didn't want out.

28‐year‐old Krystal Matlock has been charged with

accessory after the fact.

Documents state she assisted Algarad with concealing an

unidentified male body between June and August of 2009.

Doctor actually diagnosed him with

Schizotypal Personality Disorder.

The guy's clinically psychotic.

Pazuzu Algarad was found unresponsive in his cell

at Central Prison at approximately 3 am

on the morning of October 28.

The authorities say it's a suicide,

but they don't know exactly how he killed himself.

And the prison system goes on and

suffers zero repercussions.

I'm going to get drugs.

Lots of drugs.

Then I'll feel better about everything and

it doesn't really matter what I've done.

I look up and it's midnight, and my son is

standing there in the door.

And, his face looks swollen and he's sweaty,

eyes are bugged out, and they're bloodshot.

That's not your kid.

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What's become of our America?

From the police, to the justice system,

to social services and in our communities in general,

you know, it seems to me there's an entire class of people

in this country that are being ignored.

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In writing these articles about Pazuzu,

our hope was that we could find the answers to some of these,

you know, pressing questions that were going on in the case,

especially for the victims, for people like Stacey.

With lack of access and reliable intel,

I wouldn t even do that.

Perhaps we built her hopes up a little bit and

perhaps we did Stacey a disservice.

Was there any more I could have done?

I feel like I did everything I could, but did I really?

And maybe not. I probably fell short.

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The case is done.

Krystal Matlock is being let out.

The prosecutors and defense attorneys are

almost starting to pack up.

And it was lunch time,

and I was ready to go eat my leftovers that

my wife put in my little lunch box for the day,

and Amanda Martin stood up...

♪

I saw Amanda out of the corner of my eye.

It's almost like double Dutch.

It's like, you know, how do I, how do I jump in?

♪

I'm very often the unexpected visitor to a court room.

She said she wanted to raise the question of whether

these search warrants could now be unsealed.

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So, we had these two layers of problem here.

You had a, a sealing order that ran counter to

the North Carolina Public Records Law,

and counter to the cases interpreting

the first amendment.

Usually a search warrant is sealed either to

protect the integrity of an investigation, or,

to ensure the fair trial of any defendants who are charged.

What was it that was in the search warrants that

needed to continue to be sealed? We didn't know.

AMANDA: That the laws of public records are there for

very good reasons, and the interest in that is

never stronger than when we're talking about oversight,

if you will, of law enforcement.

(siren)

These are people who walk around with guns;

they arrest people; they search people's homes.

I mean, they have more power than you can imagine,

and so, I'm not saying they shouldn't have that power,

but I always feel that the tradeoff for that is that

we should be able to see how it gets exercised.

At that point with Matlock being the final defendant,

I saw no reason to keep them secret any longer

because the investigation was concluded.

Everyone had been brought to justice.

♪

Take the kids to school, and you come home and

you turn on the computer, and there's, you know,

a story in the Winston‐Salem Journal, Mike Hewlett's

been able to get these search warrants shaken loose.

And then it's that, it's that case that's been

in the back of your mind talking to you.

And I almost clicked on 'em that first time and

kind of hovered over the PDFs.

Then, you know, I go back to the article a few more times

over the next couple days...

Sitting around by yourself thinking,

is it like an addiction?

You know, as journalism is,

it's a nasty business and it's an awful addiction.

And the highs you get from it will never,

never make up for the lows and yet you keep doing it,

you keep doing it over and over again.

Finally, I clicked on that PDF...

And I opened up these search warrants and I read 'em.

♪

I have never seen a single document come across my desk

in my life that was as egregious and that was as

raw an example of signals have been missed,

bad jobs have been done, people have been hurt.

♪

Five years; that's how long it was from when

Josh Wetzler was murdered until the bodies were

found in Pazuzu's backyard.

The search warrants proved that this case could have

been solved within weeks of Josh's disappearance.

Where before we only had rumors,

now I got hard facts.

And I'm diving back into the Pazuzu story for one last piece.

My hope is I can get this community some answers.

I can find out why this happened in our hometown.

Out in these boonies, driving in the dark in

Forsyth County out beyond where the street lights are,

looking for Miss Terina Billings' house to speak to the

first person that made contact with law enforcement,

and that was Miss Terina Billings who reported

that her father had helped bury someone,

possibly Joshua Wetzler.

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I want to put a face to the name and see if there's any

legit reason why the Sheriff's Department decided

the witness statement wasn't credible enough

to take seriously.

‐ Hi, Terina Billings? ‐ Yes.

‐ All right, nice to meet you. ‐ Nice to meet you.

Why would your father be hanging out with someone

like 40‐something‐year‐old... whatever the hell that was?

He had just recently been through a divorce and

started hanging out with Krystal Matlock,

and I think they were kind of dating...

‐ Oh, I'm sorry. ‐ Yeah, so...

He did whatever she wanted. I remember...

He came in that night and he came in and

sat down on the end of the couch,

and he was being really weird, not really saying anything.

And I remember he, like he had his hands like this,

and he went like this, like he was smelling his hands,

and I was like, "What is wrong with you?

What are you doing?"

And he asked me have I ever smelled death?

I see you, I come in tonight ‐ you have a nice home,

you're nice people, you have an 8‐year‐old.

Doing your thing.

Is that the same person I would have met

if I'm a police officer in 2009?

It's been 9 years.

Yeah, except I was pregnant at that time.

Clearly not, you know, suffering from the effects

of any kind of drug habit, or...

‐ Nothing like that? ‐ (laughs) No.

‐ Did you go to college? ‐ I did.

You have an education, job, career.

Yeah.

And, how did they treat you when you went in there?

It was kind of really quick. It was only about 15 minutes

that I was there speaking with them.

They didn't really seem like they cared.

They just jotted down

parts of what I said and called it a day.

I kind of forgot about all this, so...

Until years later when it popped up on the news and

I was like, ah, I tried to tell 'em,

but they didn't listen.

I don't even like that my father was involved in it.

Sorry. But, um...

Like, when this did happen and I, like,

found out about it when everybody was arrested,

I was‐‐ I kind of‐‐ I was happy my dad had passed away

'cause I knew he would be in prison right now for it, and...

He wouldn't make it.

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I met a very together young woman.

I met a young woman who is trying pretty hard to be the

best that she can be and is raising a child,

and I met a young woman was is very serious and

who was very, very credible.

I see no upside for her on going to law enforcement

back then and telling them what her father had told her.

She exposes her father to legal ramifications;

she exposes her relationship with her father to,

that could destroy that 'cause now she's done this,

and she possibly exposed herself to physical danger

because who knows what those people over on Knob Hill

were gonna do because no one seemed to be

laying a finger on 'em.

♪

With each shot I took, like I just wished that

it would be the one that killed me.

♪

I just felt like dark.

I just felt like dark.

Well, the night when I was sitting in the parking lot,

I just felt like dark.

I didn't even feel like a person anymore.

I felt like there was no light in my life.

I guess I ended up doing, what, like,

two grams within like an hour.

♪

With each shot I took, like, I just wished that...

It would be the one that killed me.

So, I figured...

It was time to be done.

When I went... I, like,

procrastinated for like the entire hour,

but like the last fifteen minutes, I just‐‐

He just asked what I'd been doing, and I was just like,

"Well, I've been working on your Christmas present."

So, I slapped a picture

on the glass 'cause we were between glass,

and I slapped a little abstract baby picture...

This one, my little baby (laughs)

He's kinda slow sometimes. Let him figure it out.

It took him probably like five minutes and

he was just like, "Are you serious?"

I was like, "Yeah, I'm dead serious."

And he's like, "We're gonna have a baby?"

I was like, "Yeah... Gonna have a baby."

May 17th, I went to detox,

and I woke up at 7 o'clock in the morning

with a doctor in my face telling me I was pregnant.

Five weeks pregnant. (laughs)

♪

Two weeks after Pazuzu murders Josh Wetzler,

Terina Billings goes to the police to tell them

what her father told her about a murder.

Now, you know, in my opinion,

the unsealed warrants make it seem like what the

Sheriff's Department did may have actually made things worse.

Now, I decided to take the documents to an

old buddy of mine who's a retired detective.

He was actually on the force for 30 years and

his perspective in this case is gonna be critical.

Application for search warrant.

On August the 4th, Foster goes to the location

and actually talks to Pazuzu.

He just says he went there and at some point,

the detective did tell him that he'd received information

from several individuals that Pazuzu had shot and

killed someone in his basement and

buried the body in the backyard.

I don't know that I would have told all that right then.

Mhm?

I would've found some other reason.

I'd 'a wanted to get in the house or walk through the yard.

I'd want to make some observations because

if he says, "I don't know what you're talking about.

Get off my property and stay off," then,

you're shot in the foot.

I would 'a probably just come up with something.

Somebody says you're growing weed in the backyard and...

that way, then maybe he would have said,

you know, especially if that's not true, he's gonna say,

"I ain't growing no weed back there. You can go look."

That's what I want.

I want him to give me that access so that I'm looking

for these other things, like a body or a mound of dirt,

freshly dug hole or something.

So, you know, and they can lie to him.

I would probably take a look,

continue to gather information from sources,

and then at some other time, once I was just about ready

to get a search warrant or had the search warrant,

then I might would have gone out there

before executing the search warrant and said,

"Now guess what your neighbors are‐‐ or people are saying?"

Next is‐‐

So you got February 9, 2010.

You got the two Crime Stoppers tips that came in.

So, right here is a missed opportunity.

Yes, sir.

And then also on that date...

Looks like the detective spoke with Stacey Carter.

Are you telling me‐‐ Wait, wait, wait...

That on the same day that I went and reported Josh

missing and told them that he was buried

in Pazuzu's yard ‐ on the same day ‐

they had reports about Tommy's murder?

The police department did. The police department did.

I had no idea!

I still thought they were gonna think I was crazy.

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Oh my God. I want to throw up.

Like... Nobody told me this.

‐ I know. ‐ I had no idea.

This makes me nauseous.

I had never heard of Pazuzu until February,

and that's when I went to the police.

And, nobody ever told me that they had already

received reports of this happening.

I just feel like the whole case was just botched

over and over again.

Since when do you just be like,

"Oh, hey, did you kill somebody?"

"Nope. I didn't do it." "Okay, cool."

Like, that's not how it works, right?

Then, February the 23rd, based on all of this information

that he applies for and is given a search warrant.

So, they do that search and they find nothing.

Right.

♪

This is the interesting part: "Lieutenant Foster consulted

North Carolina State University

about potentially utilizing their equipment to

assist with the search.

Dr. Oliver's crew was currently about to begin

another project and their services could not be

retained until at least two weeks.

It is noteworthy to mention that Dr. Oliver had

mentioned to Lieutenant Foster the cadaver dogs

may or may not be able to detect a buried body

with the given circumstances.

The Forsyth County Sheriff's Office,

as an agency, decided that this investigation

cannot wait to the above stated time and

decided to proceed with cadaver dogs."

The irony. They couldn't wait two weeks,

so we had to wait five years.

♪

On November the 8th, 2011,

Cynthia James came to the Sheriff,

Forsyth County Sheriff's Office and

requested to speak with a detective about a murder that

occurred at her residence, 2749 Knob Hill Drive.

Cynthia told Detective Amons that she heard a gunshot and

went to the area where she heard the gunshot and

observed Amber holding the rifle and the Tommy subject

slumped over on the couch.

And wouldn't that get your‐‐ I mean, even if you've

done a search there and you came up goose egg,

somebody tells me that a murder took place ‐

somebody's mom tells me.

And they didn't do anything?

And... Is there a reason?

So, I asked that question. We know that Pazuzu was

convicted of assaulting his mother and we also know that

Amber Burch was convicted of assaulting his mother,

in two different incidents.

Amber Burch had been arrested that previous night,

November 7, 2011, for domestic assault,

and she was at the jail.

"Cynthia thought the information she gave us

would be enough to charge Amber with murder and became

upset when we told her we still needed additional evidence."

Since you're the owner of the house,

would you allow us to search the house?

‐ Yes. ‐ And she said no.

Okay, what did they do with that information?

It looks like they didn't do anything with the information.

Nothing! I mean, that's negligence.

It's got to be. I mean...

Or they just didn't care.

♪

So, I contacted Cynthia to see if she would speak to me,

and really did not think that she would,

but she did.

‐ Hi. ‐ Hello, hi.

When he killed Josh, what was that?

That was a dark side.

♪

As soon as the Sheriff's Department discovered bodies

in her backyard, Pazuzu's mother Cynthia,

she'd been something of cipher.

She's managed to stay out of the papers and

nobody's been able to figure out where she was.

She won't talk about the murders;

she won't talk about her son assaulting her;

she won't talk about anything.

You know, now, Tim Wooten helped me track her down,

and like so many of other people close to Pazuzu though

she really didn't want to talk to me.

I had an idea though that she might talk

to Ms. Stacey Carter.

♪

So, I contacted Cynthia to see if she would speak to me,

and really did not think that she would,

but she did agree to meet me.

So, my intention in going and seeing her was

not so much to, to shame her, or blame her, or...

or to get mad.

I just want to know the whole story.

(knocks)

(rainfall)

(creaking door)

‐ Hi. ‐ Oh, hi.

‐ Stacey. ‐ Stacey, nice to meet you.

Nice to meet you.

♪ (clock chime) ♪

‐ How's your son? ‐ He's good.

Yeah, he's... He's 13 now, so...

Yeah. Growing up fast.

They, they do. They‐‐ Once they hit teenagers,

it's like, where does the time go?

Yeah, um...

People keep asking me, like, "What was Josh doing there?"

And I was, I just, I didn't know.

I didn't know they were friends.

I had never heard of Paz until, you know, well after that.

Right.

So, I was curious, you know, about why he was there,

and you know, especially like what their relationship was.

They were just friends, as far as I knew.

Liked the same music...

And I think Josh, we had just a little grill and

I think he cooked, grilled.

That definitely sounds like Josh, grilling and music, yeah.

‐ Yeah, yes. ‐ Yeah.

And Josh would come over and sometimes...

John would say, well, "You know,

he don't have anywhere to stay tonight," or

they've turned his heat off or something...

Yeah.

And, "Can he sleep on the couch?"

So, I didn't have a problem with it 'cause I,

I enjoyed John having friends.

‐ Yeah. ‐ And people coming over.

But when he killed Josh, what was that?

I mean was that, that was a dark side. Like, that was‐‐

That was something‐‐ That was the dark side and

that was something that came out of him that

I don't know where it came from.

♪

I really honestly think that he just didn't know

what he was doing.

♪

Ah, best I can recall when the incident happened,

I was getting ready for work and I just hear all this noise,

sounded like firecrackers and it was in July, so,

you know, I thought, it could be firecrackers.

So, I came out of my room and John...

He was not himself. He was on drugs, or...

Alcohol, or both probably.

And I didn't even know that he owned a gun.

And, I don't know; he didn't even know what he was doing.

He did not know what he was doing.

Why do you think he did it?

Were they fighting about something?

No, it was just all so quick, and...

I'm trying to take care of John and here's Josh

lying on the floor, and I gotta protect my son and

I'm freaking out and I don't know what to do,

and I had to get out of the house and he's got this gun,

so I thought he could shoot me.

Had he threatened you before?

No. No, I mean, you know,

all parents have arguments and don't agree.

So, then, how about after that? I mean...

I didn't know what to do. I just‐‐

Did you know what they'd done with him?

Yes. John was just so...

freaked out after he became coherent that I guess

he didn't know what else to do but to bury him.

And I want people, other people, to know that,

yes, John had some mental problems,

but he was wasn't a bad guy.

♪

They diagnosed him as being agoraphobic,

Schizophrenic, psychotic.

And, that's when, you know, I started getting help for him.

But to continue with the psychiatrists and so forth

takes a lot of money.

♪

It just, it's hard to match this person who's your son

that you love so much and did so much for,

and how you saw him with the view that the

rest of the world has, you know?

You gotta remember the good things.

Yeah.

Yeah, and I block out any of the bad things, you know.

He, he wasn't by any means...

an angel, but he sure wasn't a bad person or

a boogeyman or whatever...

phrases people have called him.

I know you've got a long way to go back home.

I just wanted to thank you again for coming, and...

‐ Thank you. ‐ Hug.

You know, my perception of Cynthia is that she's somebody

who's very disconnected and kind of shut down.

I feel like at some point she was being terrorized,

and she didn't want to admit it that she was afraid of her son.

I don't know... Do I forgive Cynthia?

Um... Yes and no.

I have compassion for Cynthia and I'm sympathetic towards her.

As a community, we've gotta be prepared to reach into

that darkness and help somebody out.

It's a failure on society that she wasn't able to

reach out and have help coming at her from all directions.

However, you know,

she did some things that were unforgivable.

I mean, she saw Josh die.

And, she... let it be covered up.

It could have stopped there.

I think it's hard to imagine, you know,

your own child doing something like that, you know.

♪

This is John, my baby. He was about 12.

Looks a little bit like me, don't you think?

This is the day he was born, chubby little guy.

And here's my little warrior again.

I think her heart is, is broken,

irreparably broken.

I mean, I don't think she's got a happy ending.

♪ (ticking clock) ♪

And here's one of his teddy bears...

♪ (music box) ♪

...That we put in the crib with him.

(laughs)

♪

I just want to have good memories of my son.

♪

And when I called and I said,

"Look, my son went out last night and he didn't come back."

And they told me, you know, to go look in the ditch.

And it's like... It's just another dead one gone.

Another dead black one gone.

♪

The way I see it, there are real consequences resulted

from the poor police work revealed in that search warrant.

But perhaps the most tragic thing about it is,

it's possible that the murder of Joseph Chandler ‐

who we still really don't even know that much about ‐

could have been avoided.

♪

By the time they find Joseph Chandler down by the

Yadkin River, there's two guys that have been

in that backyard for almost a year.

There were multiple opportunities.

Law enforcement could have interdicted here and

probably saved her son's life.

He never has to even meet these people.

Adding insult to injury, the crime that took

her son's life was all but dismissed

by the justice system. I mean, look at it:

Rizzi was given 16 months' time served.

Pazuzu was let loose on probation.

I'd like to meet with Ms. Chandler to find out

why she thinks that she and her son were

so easily dismissed by the system.

And when I called and I said,

"Look, my son is 30 years old, and he... he's...

He went out last night and he didn't come back."

They told me to look in the ditch.

I told them I'm going out there to look for my son,

and they told me, you know, to go look in the ditch.

And it's like...

He's just another dead one gone;

that's the way I see it.

And when you say, "dead one"?

Another dead black one gone. (laughs)

It was about 12:30 when they came down the hill

in their little black car. (laughs)

And they said, "Ms. Chandler, we found your son,"

you know, and I just...

Fell down on the floor.

♪

I got in here and I screamed and I cried,

and I just threw myself in the shower,

said, "Lord, you gotta help me.

Humble me. Take the hate out of my heart."

I wanted to kill the people that hurt my son.

And it took me almost...

5, 6 years to be where I'm at right now.

How did law enforcement, and then,

even the DA's office and folks treat you

up through the trial, the arrest and all that?

They were always,

"We'll call you when we're gonna have the trial."

That's all I ever heard.

I'm still lost in the dark about a whole lot of stuff.

Have you ever seen the search warrants?

Do you mind if I show you?

♪

I'm having a little panic attack.

When my heart starts pumping real hard...

it's hard to breathe.

So, the more you keep talking,

it just hash up a lot of stuff and it's like...

(sighs)

I knew it was a lot of wrongdoings everywhere.

I just couldn't pinpoint; I had nobody to help me.

I had no voice.

So, who killed Joseph? Him or Nicholas?

I don't know.

And the judge, one of the quotes from the judge is,

"Why in the middle of the night would you be out

target practicing or messing with a rifle?

It's still a mystery to me."

It wasn't a mystery when you take a black...

man at, out to Yadkin River.

You don't know him, he don't know you;

that wasn't a target practice for the water.

That was a target practice for my son.

As a young boy growing up, he didn't fit in.

Children was always hitting him and calling him names,

and he just felt out of place;

that's what his whole life was about.

Somebody was always jumping on him,

so when he became a teenager he met other people and,

you know, then the bad boys came.

♪

My son was 30 years old.

I saw great potential and I saw him going places.

He joined culinary school.

He was trying to get his life together.

One of the things that kind of keeps coming back to me

with this is the notion of parenthood.

And as, during this whole process my children have

gotten older, and I'm starting to go through

stuff with my kids. You feel...

one of them, you know, just kind of slipping away and

hanging out, doing with people you shouldn't be

hanging out with, the same kind of people that ended up

over there at Knob Hill, at Pazuzu's house.

My son's headed right there.

I feel you. My heart is going out to you.

I really don't know what to say right now,

is that you gotta be strong. Spend more time with him.

Yeah.

Do more father and son things with your son.

Yes, ma'am. Thank you.

Okay. You're welcome. You're gonna be fine.

‐ Thanks for the time. ‐ You're gonna be fine.

You're gonna be fine. You take control.

Don't feed into the people out there.

I won't. And, please take care of yourself.

Oh, I'm doing that. But you're gonna be fine.

Take hold of your son, honey. I wish I had one more.

♪

I used to fantasize about, like, you know,

getting a crew together with guns and

going over and killing Pazuzu ourselves.

You could have saved two lives.

I've always been a coward.

♪

In a lot of ways, when I got locked up, um...

It was a relief.

I needed to be locked up, honestly, to get clean.

♪

I got out of prison. I've been clean 6 months.

On and off heroin for nine years.

♪

I've been busy as hell, ah...

Just, you know, going to doctors,

psychiatrists, substance abuse group meetings.

The one major goal that I really have is just being a father.

♪

I want to be a good father.

When they told me I was pregnant,

I kind of went through like a 3 or 4‐day shock where

I realized, like, wow, yeah, I'm really gonna have to

give this up, and not just give it up for like a little while.

I have to give it up for like the rest of my life.

♪

I don't know, my, my feelings towards Jenna

are complicated. I still love her deeply.

Me and Nate are still in love.

It's just complicated.

♪

We're going to see if maybe we can become a family,

like, an actual like living together,

mommy, daddy, baby family.

Or, if we're gonna have to be an alternative family and

maybe live separately and co‐parent.

♪

Okay, so, your due date is January 1st,

which makes you 30 weeks and 6 days today, okay.

All right, you see that little flutter right there?

‐ Mhm. ‐ That's baby's heartbeat.

(heartbeat)

He's awake.

All right, I'm just gonna jiggle him up, okay.

(laughs)

When you press on him does he usually move?

Ah, yeah. Or jiggle him around, or... (laughs)

We're gonna have to get him to move, okay.

JANET: From your medicine...

I feel guilty.

I take Subutex now, which is a

mono‐ingredient, shall we say,

of Suboxone, ah, for pregnant women.

It's just missing the ingredient that harms a fetus.

Unfortunately, the baby will‐‐ Well, it's highly possible

that the baby will go through withdrawals.

A lot of babies are able to come out and be detoxed and

not really go through anything very harsh

except for maybe some shaking.

I don't know if I believe this,

but I kind of have to believe it,

is it's probably not going to be that bad.

♪

In the search warrants, it mentions Nate Anderson,

that he was hanging around the house at the

time of these murders.

But they also say that he claims he wasn't aware of

what was going on around him.

Now consider all the rumors that were flying around at

the time and that he was part of Pazuzu's inner circle...

I gotta be honest with you, I find that hard to believe.

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I don't think I wanted to know what they were doing.

I do remember there was one point where

I used to fantasize about, like, you know,

getting a crew together with guns and going over and

killing Pazuzu ourselves and I‐‐

You could have saved two lives.

(sighs)

I mean, 'cause let me tell you,

Matt Flowers went to ‐ in person ‐

Forsyth County Sheriff's Department...

Yeah.

What's different between you and Matt Flowers?

What makes you guys different guys?

You're kind of raised in the same kind of place.

I've always been a coward.

You know, that maybe I could have helped,

you know, avert another life being taken.

So, does the story matter?

Is it something that needs to be forgotten and

let's just all move on, or is it something we need to ‐

maybe not dwell on ‐ but we need to,

we need to face it, deal with it,

and understand it?

Anything that gets swept under the rug is still there.

I always need to keep that darkness in the rearview mirror,

so I can look and remind myself that it's there

and that it's, you know, I'm, I'm still only one choice away

from reverting right back there.

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And I told the detective, "If you guys don't do

anything about it, I'm gonna kill Pazuzu."

He's like, "I'll be right back," and then he came back

with a really big file.

♪

Maybe the most disturbing thing that the

search warrants show ‐ in my opinion ‐

is that time and again it seems that people told the police

what Pazuzu was doing, and for one reason or another,

they didn't manage to stop him for 5 years.

It finally took his own buddy, Matt Flowers,

to get them to act.

I mean, I'd love to know what it was that

Matt said to them that finally lit a fire under 'em and

got 'em to take real action.

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‐ Where you going to school? ‐ Forsyth Tech.

Oh, right on.

I got my associates knocked out.

And then I want to go to Winston‐Salem State and

get a Bachelor's.

What do you want to take over there?

Criminal justice. More than likely.

What do you want to do with criminal justice?

‐ PI. ‐ Right on.

Yeah, that'd be cool.

The time you were interviewed down at the

Sheriff's Office, how were you treated then?

‐ How did they... ‐ They treated me well.

Did they seem to be taking you seriously?

Oh, yeah. I mean, 'cause I went in there

with a really serious attitude also, you know.

Yeah, and told 'em.

I didn't feel like they were doing anything.

I didn't feel like they were doing shit.

Did you challenge the officer and ask him‐‐

I did, totally did. I was taking‐‐

I was going to take it into my own hands

and really, really do something.

And I told the detective you know, everything,

I was like, "Here's the house. Here's the yard.

Here's the pool. That's where I believe the body's at."

I was like, "If you guys don't do anything about it,

I'm gonna kill Pazuzu."

Three days later they had, they had‐‐

‐ It's over. ‐ It was completely over.

I think it's how serious I was about it.

‐ Really? ‐ Yeah.

I even told 'em, I was like, "If I go do this,

I'll come back here and I'll, I'll turn myself in,

but I want you to know that this has happened,"

you know what I mean?

I can believe you'd do it. I can believe you have

enough sense of right and wrong to do it,

but should it be that's what it takes?

Law enforcement could have done more than what they did.

100%.

You're the guy who steps out and does something.

Is this a matter of, you know, heroism?

Because you stepped forward and, you know,

put the finger‐‐ Put your name to it.

Yeah, but I try to keep that‐‐

I don't really like the name hero, you know what I mean.

I feel like I'd be a bad person if I didn't

do something about it.

I just didn't want anyone else getting hurt;

that's pretty much what it boils down to.

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One of the things that I found out sort of reading

the search warrant was that Matt Flowers

was the reason why they ‐

Josh and Tommy ‐ were found.

I think that we can take this as a learning opportunity.

He is really the hero of the story in so many ways.

So, I got a tattoo of St. Michael slaying Lucifer.

We did this when Pazuzu, like,

pretty much went down.

We're gonna put the death date,

when he passed away, which is October 28, 2015.

(tattoo machine buzzing)

All right, man, check it out.

Fuck yeah. Hardcore.

♪

(laughs)

I don't want Josh's death to be in vain.

I want something to come out of it.

I'm cofounding a non‐profit called Happy Roots

with a goal to reach out to at‐risk youth and

people in the community that need help.

All kids in costumes, please come on down.

So, you can look at the story and you can say,

"Well, the government failed or society failed,"

but that's not really helpful.

The solution to this is in community efforts,

building community and creating opportunities,

and making sure that the individuals that are

falling through the cracks, don't.

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♪ (birds chirping) ♪

Oh!

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(dog barking)

Hi.

Good boy. Good boy.

(laughs)

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(typing)

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(typing)

So what's the ending here?

Old Pazuzu is dead and he took Josh Wetzler,

Tommy Dean Welch, and Joseph Chandler with him.

End of the day, it was no big conspiracy,

no demonic evil to blame.

Just broken people slipping through the cracks of a

broken system in anytown America,

but that's our America.

Those cracks are in our sidewalk and

it's our job to fix 'em.

♪

The dead are gone, but those of us who are still around...

We got work to do.

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