CLEMMONS -- The Forsyth County Sheriff’s Office arrested two people on murder charges after discovering skeletal remains of two others in shallow graves in the back yard of the suspects’ ...

When investigators unearthed the skeletal remains of two people in their backyard, the sheriff’s office arrested Pazuzu Illah Algarad, then-35, and Amber Nicole Burch, then-24, on murder charges.

His name was connected to rumors of devil worshipping, animal sacrifice, and other unspeakable things for years in North Carolina — his girlfriend rumored to join in the heinous acts. After years of ...

In 2002, he changed his name to Pazuzu Illah Algarad, an homage to the Assyrian demon referenced in the movie The Exorcist. An Outcast In Society After his name change, Algarad aimed to ostracize ...

Algarad already was on their radar, having been charged as an accessory after the fact when he allegedly allowed the assailant in an involuntary shooting death to stay at the house in 2010.

His favourite name choice was Pazuzu Illah Algarad, a name he became known for until his death. He derived the name from a horror movie titled The Exorcist. In the movie, Pazuzu is an Assyrian demon.

Hysterias about dark cabals of devil-worshipping bad guys have cropped up all throughout American history, from the Salem Witch Trials of the 1690s to the Satanic panics of the 1980s. While most of ...

Algarad was arrested, but Winston-Salem Journal reported that he died by suicide in his cell in Raleigh’s Central Prison in 2015. There is a lot more to the story as well, with 'The Devil You Know' ...

Born John Alexander Lawson, Algarad legally changed his name to Pazuzu Illah Algarad in 2002, the Winston-Salem Journal reported at the time the bodies were discovered in his yard.