Newspaper Acrhives - Late 80's
Decatur Daily - 1987 -
By Johnathan Braggs
Three teenagers came into the Decatur police station telling of devil worshiping last night. The three teens , who's names are kept secret , reported of a group of ten to twenty people having a meeting on Kano Road southwest of downtown Hartselle. Kano road is a secluded area of over 250 acres of woods and pasture land. The place is a hot spot for these so called "satanist" who supposively killed a young teenage girl from Dothan Ga., police officals in Dothan say they have no missing people at this time. But don't think it's a lie says Jine Nane of Hartselle. "It's going on , I live up on the mountain by Kano road and they are down there. On a cloudless moon bright night you can look out by second story window and see them down there with candles walking the woods , it's very easy that the girl they killed was a runaway from someplace else that they happened to pick up in Dothan , she could be been from anywhere.", Nane said. This could all be but in all seriouness...here in Hartselle and Decatur? The bible belt of the state? Never say never.
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Joey Gunn was found dead in his home late last night. He'd shot himself in the head. There was a letter saying he'd done it for Satan. He is the third one to lose his life in the psat week on the same account. Could this town be facing a mass sucicide? Is this as real as the Mexico slayings we've heard so much about? To sum things up Christy Webb put it best , "We need to get help for our kids , it's all too real..." Webb said at the Church of Christ kids meeting last week. There will be another meeting to deal with this issue this Sunday at the West Catholic church on 3rd street. A mothers message "Please Come"....
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