Olivia Newton John Must Die

Lake Arthur sits in Jefferson Davis Parish in south-western Louisiana, an hour and forty minutes from Baton Rouge, almost three hours from New Orleans and close to the Texas line. It is rice and timber country, a town of about 2,700 people where the main waves of settlement came in the 1890s, many of them from Iowa. A sawmill was established in 1840, Gustave Laurenz opened the first store in 1854, the first rice mill came in 1876, a post office opened in 1878 and the town was incorporated in 1903, the year before the Southern Pacific Railroad arrived. In 1983 it became the setting for a case that the hosts call one of the strangest they have covered.

the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He said that at the age of seven three things happened to him: he suffered third-degree burns on his legs, he got married, and he became God. Only the burns could be verified, and they stayed visible enough that investigators later used them to identify him. By sixteen he was seeing psychiatrists and was thought to be a paranoid schizophrenic. His parents took him to a mental hospital in Galveston for examination at sixteen and had him committed to the Central State Hospital at Pineville at eighteen. He was committed several times, saw doctors on and off, and would not stay on medication. this part of the story is covered for now

By 1983, aged 28, he was living in a trailer behind his parents' house, near the dog pens, and was not allowed inside the main house without permission. His obsession was Olivia Newton-John. He wrote to her in Malibu saying that voices had told him she was a muse trapped under Lake Arthur, and that he would rescue her. When no reply came he travelled to California and appeared at her home five times over a few months, always turned away by security guards. She later said that she was so frightened, after receiving a photograph of herself with the eyes scratched out, that she moved from Malibu to her parents' home in Australia. A list found in his trailer, headed the ten commandments, named relatives he wanted to kill alongside Olivia Newton-John and Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor.

On the morning of July 17, 1983, Perry walked into the unlocked house of two cousins at Louisiana Street in Lake Charles. Randy Perry, nineteen and a diabetic, was asleep on the couch. Perry shot him in the left eye with a shotgun at close range. He then went into the bedroom and shot Brian LeBlanc, twenty-two, in the head. He walked two houses down to his parents' home, broke a window and climbed in. A teenage neighbour saw him but was frightened away when he sneered at her. Inside, he put on music, gathered guns and set a chair facing the car port door. His parents, Grace and Chester Perry, both forty-nine, had been at a four-day retreat at Hot Wells and were due home that afternoon. They arrived with their two-year-old grandson, Anthony Bonnon, whose mother was in a mental facility and whose father worked offshore. Perry opened fire with two pistols, hitting all three. details of the account remain covered until revealed Chester hid behind a television set; during a struggle he broke one shotgun apart, but Perry shot him with another. He then found the toddler and shot him in the face, and shot him again to be sure. He took three thousand dollars from his father's billfold and money from his mother's strong box, loaded the car and left in his father's 1980 Oldsmobile Regency, throwing luggage and two guns into a canal a few miles away.

No one found the bodies for two days. Neighbours had heard bangs but assumed hunting. On July 19 Brian's stepfather, Ernest Ashford, went to the cousins' house, pushed the loose front door open and found Randy on the couch and Brian face down on the bed. Police then went two doors down, saw the broken window, and found the second scene. The house was not sealed: a Jennings city marshal and his nine- or ten-year-old son were among those shown through. Nine guns were recovered. Perry was already gone. He had arrived in Washington, D.C. on July 18 and checked into the Annex Hotel, paying 19 dollars a day and later 547 dollars 50 cents for 25 days in advance. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it He had 1,100 dollars and a hotel key on him, and his room held seven televisions, six of them newly bought, with Olivia written across the screens in red. He waived extradition and was identified by the burn scars on his leg.

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the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now A fingerprint expert testified that none of 34 pieces of evidence matched his prints, and the defence argued there was no proof he had used the weapons. details of the account remain covered until revealed

What followed was a long fight over medication. 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 Asked about the toddler, he said the child had hit him, and that once you hit him he cuts you off, but a cigarette would put you back ten per cent. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now