Turd Boy: Satanic Killer

Clemmons is a village in Forsyth County, north-central North Carolina, about fifteen minutes from Winston-Salem. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The episode's story, however, concerns a household on the edge of the village that became notorious across the state.

John Alexander Lawson was born on 8 December 1978 in San Francisco. His family moved to North Carolina when he was about two. this part of the story is covered for now The couple divorced officially in 1990. Lawson was a happy, athletic child who played football and Little League baseball, but in his early teens he changed. details of the account remain covered until revealed His mother took him to a psychiatrist, and his records from the time noted severe agoraphobia and schizophrenia. He left school in the ninth grade at fourteen, having already repeated the second grade, and was known as a poor student who skipped classes and was verbally disrespectful to teachers. He later claimed never to have failed a grade.

By 1998, when he was twenty, his mother had moved out and left him the house. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now He drank heavily from the age of thirteen, by his own account at least a twelve-pack of beer a day and later about eighteen beers a day, and he said he drank to stop the shakes. He filed his teeth to points, forked his tongue, covered his face in tattoos and carved an inverted cross into his forehead. He described himself as a Satanist and claimed to follow a Sumerian religion that mixed devil worship with Islam and required a monthly animal sacrifice during the black moon. His idol was Charles Manson. He was agoraphobic and rarely left the house, which filled with rubbish, animal carcasses, excrement, satanic graffiti and blood.

He gathered around him a group of homeless people and drug addicts whom he called his misfits and outcasts. Followers were allowed to do anything in the house: take heroin and cocaine, drink, cut themselves and each other, smear blood on the walls and have sex with him. He bathed once a year and said he never brushed his teeth.

details of the account remain covered until revealed Friends said she changed completely: she filed her teeth, stopped showering, shaved off her eyebrows, got homemade tattoos including a swastika and adopted his beliefs. She became pregnant and miscarried, which she attributed to stress.

Joshua Wetzler was thirty-seven, six foot one and heavy-set. He had a five-year-old son and had recently lost custody; his electricity and water had been cut off, his landlord had evicted him and he was on probation. His former fiancee, Stacey Carter, described him as a peace-loving hippie who had been on a downward spiral with depression and drugs but always kept in contact with his son. He was last seen in mid-June 2009. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it this part of the story is covered for now

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A Crime Stoppers tip on 24 September 2009 said a man called Tuzuzu had shot someone and buried him in the backyard. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it On 23 February 2010 Foster obtained a search warrant. Police, the State Bureau of Investigation and the Davie County Sheriff's Office searched the house and yard, using cadaver dogs, but found no physical evidence of a homicide and no specific place to dig. this part of the story is covered for now

Two other men from the Clemmons area had gone missing between June 2009 and June 2010: Tommy Dean Welch and Joshua Wetzler. A third, Joseph Emerick Chandler, was found dead in a river in Yadkin County with a single gunshot wound to the head from a .22. Chandler had attended a party at a man's home in Clemmons on the Sunday before; a videotape showed him with the same man at a convenience store, and there was no evidence of a struggle. 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

In 2014 a detective interviewed Daniel Pilcher about an unrelated matter. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it On 26 September 2014 a Crime Stoppers report from Matthew Flowers said his ex-wife, Dixie Ross, had helped bury a body at the house. this part of the story is covered for now He said Dixie told him the hole was too shallow, that the body protruded, and that they broke the victim's arms and legs with shovels to make him fit before covering him with a tarp.

Dixie Ross was interviewed and gave a detailed account. 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 Ross was taken to the backyard, shown a body under a black tarp and told to help dig before sunrise. 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 Afterwards they washed the shovels in the over-chlorinated pool and covered the body with a tarp weighted with objects. details of the account remain covered until revealed

On 22 August 2014 police searched the property again, past a sign on the front door warning law enforcement not to enter. At 11 a.m. they found two bodies in shallow graves in the backyard, less than a mile from Tommy Welch's apartment. One was Welch and the other was Wetzler. The autopsies showed Wetzler had been shot three times in the head and four times around the torso, and Welch once in the back of the head. the rest of this account is covered until you choose to reveal it The house, owned by Cynthia Lawson and her ex-husband Johnny Larry James, was declared unfit for human habitation. It was foreclosed on, and on 25 April 2015 it was demolished to cheers from neighbours.

this part of the story is covered for now At 3 a.m. on 29 October 2015 he was found unresponsive in his cell with a wound to his left arm and was pronounced dead at 4.20 a.m. The autopsy said he died from severe blood loss from a cut to the brachial artery at the inside of his left elbow, with superficial wounds to his chest, arm and scalp and rib fractures from attempts to revive him. The death was ruled suicide, though the report did not say what he used. 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