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Tuesday February 3, 2009
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Witchcraft:
Lawrence Harris, 26, who had an interest in witchcraft, told police his two stepdaughters had died when a spell he cast to protect their teenage brother reversed itself, killing them. His attorneys attempted to prove he was legally insane.
But after two weeks of testimony, jurors took only a couple of hours Thursday to find Harris guilty of two counts of first-degree murder.
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Friday January 23, 2009
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Witchcraft:
Police testified they took black and white candles from Harris’ home last January, along with bells, a necklace, and several books on Witchcraft.
The knife Police found in a master bedroom closet tested positive for Alysha Suing’s blood and Larry Harris’ fingerprints.
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Sunday January 18, 2009
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Witchcraft:
Officer Williams said Harris became more upset — hunching over, dry heaving — when firefighters brought the girls’ bodies out of the house.Officer Charlotte Gorter testified that when she asked Harris what he thought could have started the fire, he told her it might have been a consequence of a spell.
Harris said he practiced witchcraft, Gorter said, explaining that a spell might have reversed.
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Friday January 16, 2009
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Witchcraft:
After more than a year of preparation and several delays, a jury will hear from attorneys and witnesses today as the double-murder trial of Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. begins.Harris, 26, is accused of killing his young stepdaughters during some kind of ritual. He has pleaded not guilty, and his lawyers will try to prove that he was legally insane when the crimes were committed.
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Tuesday January 13, 2009
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Paganism • Satanism • Witchcraft:
In the basement, officers find candles, Larry’s ritual knife, stained with DNA from one of the girls, a symbol of Baphomet, representing Satan and believed to have occult power, bells and an amulet with an inverted pentagram — all items used in rituals described in “The Satanic Bible.”Larry tells police he has a spell notebook in his and Marla’s bedroom closet. The notebook contains drawings from the book “Pagan Ways,” references found in the occult fiction book “Necronomicom” and page numbers corresponding to “The Satanic Bible,” including one specific spell.
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Thursday August 21, 2008
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Ritual Killing • Witchcraft:
Prosecutors say 26-year-old Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr., who faces two counts of first-degree murder for allegedly killing his 8- and 10-year-old stepdaughters in January, was practicing satanism and carefully planned the killings as a part of a spell or ritual from “The Satanic Bible.”Shortly after the girls’ deaths, police said Harris told them they had died during a spell that “had gone bad.”
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Saturday January 12, 2008
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Ritual Killing:
Marla Harris said Wednesday she still doesn’t know what happened Sunday at the home she shared with her husband, who is accused of killing her daughters in a ritual slaying.
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Wednesday January 9, 2008
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Ritual Killing:
Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. told police he “had been casting a spell that had gone bad, and that the spell could have had severe consequences,” according to court documents.
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Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Ritual Killing • Witchcraft:
Two young sisters who were murdered during a ritual slaying Sunday knew more about witchcraft then they should have for their age, a local pastor said. Pastor Cary Gordon of Cornerstone World Outreach said Kendra Suing, 10, and Alysha Suing, 8, bombarded a bus driver for the church with questions after a summer lesson about the sinfulness of practicing witchcraft.
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Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr. • Ritual Killing:
Their stepfather, Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr., 25, has been arrested and charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the deaths of Kendra Suing, 10, and Alysha Suing, 8.
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Most Read about Lawrence Douglas Harris Sr.
- Girls had many questions about witchcraft, pastor says
- Two dead in ritual killing: Girls, 8 and 10, stabbed, strangled; suspect says deaths a spell gone bad
- Man blames kid deaths on spell gone bad
- Court documents claim man killed step-daughters in Satanic ritual
- Questions remain in ritual slaying of two girls
- Prosecution rests in trial of man accused of killing daughters in ritual gone wrong
- Jury convicts man in 'spell gone wrong' murder of two children
- Family, jurors see pictures of young, battered victims
- Mother, community search for answers in death of two girls killed in ritual
- Trial begins for man accused of killing daughters in ritual
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