The Devil Come To Earth

Apache Junction sits in Maricopa County in south central Arizona, a southern suburb of Phoenix about forty minutes from downtown, beside the Superstition Mountains and the road out to Apache Lake. James says the murder itself happened in the desert away from the town proper, at the Burnt Corral campground on Apache Lake, but Apache Junction is the nearest populated place. In February 1987 the campground was remote, barren desert, cold at night and a long walk from anywhere.

this part of the story is covered for now He was raised in a middle-class family in northern California, the oldest of four boys; his father was an engineer for a technology firm and his mother a quality control inspector in Silicon Valley. He quit high school in his senior year and joined the army, training as a military policeman, but in July 1975 the army gave him an honourable discharge after learning of a juvenile record: four months in a youth facility for burglary and joyriding. In custody he joined a young offshoot of the Aryan Brotherhood. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it That October he climbed over a fence at the Soledad correctional training facility and escaped. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed They had less than five hundred dollars. Three days before reaching Apache Lake they stopped at the Orange Peel campground and stole food and liquor. On 2 February 1987 they arrived at Burnt Corral. That night they met Larry Pritchard, a forty-six-year-old drifter from Florida who was heavily built, physically disabled and camping in the next site. They invited him over for dinner. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it At about nine o'clock, as everyone sat around the campfire, he walked up to Pritchard, put a .38 revolver in his ear and fired. He then stabbed him through the throat to make sure. The camp host, Marquise Boltz, heard the shot and came over, but in the dark he saw no body and simply issued a citation for discharging a firearm. this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed

At a neighbouring campsite were Richard Brogue, twenty-six, and Tracy Lynn Andrews, nineteen, visiting from Chicago. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed When Tracy asked to stop to urinate he cut the tape from her feet, took her into the woods and raped her. Back at the truck he hog-tied Richard to the front bumper, laid Tracy beside him and raped her twice more, forcing oral sex between the rapes. He threatened to kill Richard; Tracy talked him out of it, and he threw Richard still bound into the woods. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it They drove through the night with the children. At one stop he shot the puppy dead, then told Tracy that was what would happen to her if she ran. On El Oso Mine Road he raped her again, hurting her badly, and after the truck ran out of gas he raped her once more in the woods.

Richard freed himself, made his way back to Burnt Corral and reported the kidnapping to a Department of Public Safety officer. this part of the story is covered for now She walked barefoot for twenty-five hours before motorists picked her up near Punkin Center and took her to the sheriff's office. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The police found the EMT badge and the .38 buried in the sand. this part of the story is covered for now

The blue pickup belonged to David Hersell, twenty-four, a friend of the couple. details of the account remain covered until revealed They searched the back roads along Highway 50 from Sacramento to Placerville for Hersell's body. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it

this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed Richard and Tracy both testified. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

details of the account remain covered until revealed He had barricaded his cell with a mattress and threatened staff with a shank; officers subdued him with a fire hose at 150 pounds of pressure and brought him to court strapped to a wheelchair, naked but for a blanket, bleeding from a cut on his forehead. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now In 1994 a television film, Terror in the Night, was made about the case. details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it His last meal was fried okra, four buns with lots of butter, salt and two slices of banana bread; his last words were 'Go Raiders.'

this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now details of the account remain covered until revealed the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it After that his behaviour calmed; he had no disciplinary violations after 2001 and had a girlfriend, a nurse named Amy Young, who visited weekly.