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Step inside one of the most disturbing true crime stories of modern America. The Devil You Know (2019) is a chilling Viceland documentary series that investigates the life of Pazuzu Algarad, a self-proclaimed Satanist from North Carolina whose shocking crimes stunned the nation.
This five-part docuseries follows journalist Chad Nance as he uncovers the dark secrets behind Algarad’s cult-like influence, the murders linked to his home, and the devastating impact on the local community.
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The rise of Pazuzu Algarad from eccentric neighbor to feared cult leader
The horrifying discovery of human remains in his backyard
The psychological and social forces that enabled his reign of terror
The tragic consequences for victims, families, and investigators
If you’re fascinated by true crime, cults, and psychological documentaries, this series will leave you questioning how evil can hide in plain sight.
🔔 Subscribe for more gripping true crime documentaries and stories that reveal the darkest corners of human behavior.
This five-part docuseries follows journalist Chad Nance as he uncovers the dark secrets behind Algarad’s cult-like influence, the murders linked to his home, and the devastating impact on the local community.
👉 Watch now to explore:
The rise of Pazuzu Algarad from eccentric neighbor to feared cult leader
The horrifying discovery of human remains in his backyard
The psychological and social forces that enabled his reign of terror
The tragic consequences for victims, families, and investigators
If you’re fascinated by true crime, cults, and psychological documentaries, this series will leave you questioning how evil can hide in plain sight.
🔔 Subscribe for more gripping true crime documentaries and stories that reveal the darkest corners of human behavior.
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00:00Around Winston-Salem Suburbs, people knew of a guy, John Lawson, who named himself Pazuzu.
00:08Jared wanted to know where his dad was. I just told him that, you know, he'd gone away somewhere. We hadn't heard from him.
00:14I went to the sheriff's apartment with a voice recording and told them what I knew.
00:18I said, you're going to think I'm crazy, but I think my son's father is buried in, you know, this guy's backyard.
00:24We executed a search warrant, but at that time there was no evidence that we were able to find.
00:31So she calls me and she's not part of the family now. It's like Charles Manson shit, you know, and she said we murdered a guy.
00:37We shot him in the head. This is how I know that there's a dead body in the backyard.
00:54Tobacco capital of the world, Winston-Salem.
01:11For Winston-Salem, the old southern city which is the thriving center of trade and industry when the nation was born,
01:18Winston-Salem is home to these men, Americans who have their roots deep in tradition and are a vital part of the progress of the nation.
01:27Yes, Winston-Salem, with a face to the future, is a good place in which to live.
01:35After human remains were found buried in Pazusa's backyard, the news was mostly clickbait headlines about devil worship and animal sacrifice, but I still had so many questions.
02:01Everybody knew this guy was into some scary stuff, so how was it he was able to get away with murder for more than five years?
02:07There were a lot of rumors flying around, but the more I learned, the more I realized his ability to get away with this had less to do with satanic powers and everything to do with where he was from.
02:20Clemens, North Carolina is in the southwest part of Forsyth County.
02:32It would be what may be considered a bedroom community.
02:36There's two major thoroughfares from Winston-Salem to Clemens and back.
02:41It would be considered a suburb of the larger city of Winston-Salem, which is the predominant larger city of Forsyth County.
02:49If you're looking for the ugly truth, the underbelly, the black root of corrupted culture, where you do go are places like the exurbs and the suburbs, where the economy has been hit especially hard.
03:13It used to be you could go to work here and straight out of high school and be able to afford a quote unquote American dream.
03:23Jobs that those folks can get are no longer here.
03:27There's no opportunity.
03:29And what do you do when you despair?
03:31You party like a monster.
03:33You know, you throw down.
03:34You create drama around yourself.
03:37Right now in Winston-Salem, there's like a couple of generations in there.
03:41They tell you I'm bored.
03:42Look at these guys Facebook pages.
03:44I'm bored.
03:45What up?
03:46Anybody doing anything?
03:47This kind of boredom and malaise is kind of laid over the place.
03:52You had unemployed youth kind of drifting around with no direction and kind of no real purpose.
03:57There's not a whole lot to do in this town.
04:09The best way I could find to enjoy myself to kill the boredom and, you know, just the pain that I didn't even realize was there was.
04:26Drugs.
04:30When I found heroin.
04:31It really was always an escape.
04:33But it quickly becomes a requirement.
04:39You know, it's all encompassing.
04:43My mom needs her iPad back and I kind of pawned it the other day.
04:48So I'm trying to get the money together to get that out.
04:51You know, A, just to do the right thing and get it back to her.
04:54But B, to avoid her calling the cops.
04:57And, um, also we're just, you know, trying to get money for a fix.
05:07Azuzu provided an escape from the hopelessness and aimlessness in these kids' lives.
05:13He made them all vulnerable to the worst parts of themselves.
05:16And then he harnessed that energy and kind of used it to create a following.
05:20His aura is very intoxicating.
05:25You just feel free and powerful in his presence.
05:29There's something spiritually different about that place and about him.
05:46He controlled by subtle manipulation.
05:53Y'all worship law and order.
05:55I'm going to be an anarchist.
05:57Y'all want to dress all preppy and the way that everybody else does.
06:02Well, I'm going to take it to the other extreme.
06:05I file my teeth down to points and, you know, get tattoos all over my face.
06:12In a way, the guy's a lunatic genius.
06:17Clemens is a place in Winston-Salem where everyone goes to church.
06:32Everyone identifies with the church.
06:34So he became the devil.
06:36He became a quote-unquote Satanist.
06:40Even the name Pazuzu, I mean, come on, it's the name of the demon and the exorcist.
06:44What is the biggest, scariest thing?
06:47It's Satan.
06:48It's the devil.
06:49El Diablo.
06:50The fallen one.
06:51Lucifer.
06:52Pazuzu.
06:53I mean, these people believe in this stuff.
06:55Lawson trolled pop culture and kind of came up with this persona.
06:59It's a little mixture of Manson.
07:02Throw in a little Anton LaVey.
07:04A little 1980s heavy metal, you know, 666 type stuff.
07:08And there you go.
07:09And then when 9-11 came, he put on a jihadi mask.
07:13It was as if he was trying to be what people are afraid of.
07:16You know, it made him powerful.
07:18And it seems like there were some young women who were particularly susceptible to his persona.
07:23Pazuzu dated a lot of girls and he apparently had sex with a lot more.
07:32I think the majority of his power came from the same place, the same reason that we were all there.
07:41That little bit of darkness that we all kind of gravitated towards.
07:51All of his women are very young and a lot of them are going through terrible times.
07:57Amber Birch is the best example.
07:59You know, I mean, here's a girl who was just out of high school.
08:02She hooks up with Pazuzu.
08:04And a few short months later, she's helping her disposable body.
08:07But why?
08:09What was it about Pazuzu that these women would sacrifice their futures for him?
08:14He was the daddy she never had.
08:17The daddy that she had been looking for.
08:21My name is Katie Wagner Davis.
08:24And I met Amber in high school.
08:27We were the best friends.
08:29In no time, I saw my best friend do a complete and total 180.
08:35One day she's star bubbles.
08:37The next day she's not showering and shaving all of her eyebrows off.
08:44And filing her teeth down to points so that she could bite into these animals.
08:50And I just, no.
08:57Whenever I first really started hearing about Pazuzu, we got a few phone calls from her.
09:02Telling me that, you know, she really likes this guy.
09:04He's really cool.
09:05He's a Satanist.
09:08She would talk about these rituals, I guess.
09:11Pazuzu would kill an animal and drink the blood.
09:16I know that they would cut each other open and drink each other's blood.
09:29She made it so exciting.
09:30You know, hey, I'm going to come pick you up.
09:31We're going to come up here.
09:32And I want you to meet Pazuzu.
09:34I want your opinion on him.
09:36I was like, okay.
09:37Well, that's cool.
09:39Um, we get up there and everything was fine until I walked onto the front porch.
09:46The stench just, it was like a smack to the face.
09:50It was so strong.
09:52The first thing I ever said to Pazuzu when I met him was, dude, your house smells like
09:59death.
10:00And he kind of laughed, oh yeah, it's just the body's in the basement.
10:07This sucks.
10:20Come on.
10:21I don't think Dixie would have gotten herself involved in murder if it wasn't for Pazuzu or
10:24Amber.
10:25I think the murderer turned her into a different person.
10:28There we go.
10:29A good note.
10:42Crazy thing is, after she told me the story, I went to the police and filed an anonymous
10:49report.
10:54I wrote it all out.
10:55Everything about Pazuzu, everything about Amber, I left her name out of it, though.
11:00You know, I didn't put in there that she helped bury this body.
11:03But in detail, I put every single thing, where the body was buried, everything.
11:19I found out about the search because Pazuzu called me.
11:22They actually showed up to his house, SWAT team, like battle rattle, like they're ready
11:27to rock.
11:28You know what I mean?
11:29Pazuzu told me they knocked on the door.
11:31He looks out at the peephole and there's dudes with like flak vests and machine guns
11:36and shit, you know.
11:37They go into the house, they're searching, they're not finding shit.
11:39How incompetent is that?
11:40CSI, Miami bullshit.
11:41Garbage, dude.
11:42Nothing happened.
11:43Come on.
11:44They said that the devil worship will kill on the full moon.
11:49And my son lit a cigarette.
11:51And before he can light it, they shot him in his head and he fell dead.
11:57So the police searched Pazuzu's house and they don't find anything.
12:12But instead of dialing it back, the behavior inside the house of Nob Hill becomes increasingly
12:29more violent.
12:30When we pulled the rap sheets, what you can see from there is that in May 2010, Pazuzu
12:37is arrested for choking his mom.
12:40Then a little bit over a year later in September of 2011, Amber is arrested for pushing, choking
12:45and slapping Cynthia.
12:46Then in November of 2011, Amber's arrested for slapping Pazuzu.
12:51And clearly this place is becoming a powder keg and it's about to blow.
13:00We responded to the residence on Nob Hill Drive, whereby the information was learned from witnesses
13:11and the quote victim that he had assaulted his mother.
13:15And I think that was by strangling or choking her.
13:19And so he was charged, but subsequently I think his mother did not continue with the prosecution
13:26effort of that.
13:28Right after Pazuzu is let off of the assault on his mama, he went right back into the house
13:33and then he starts recruiting other people to join in on his violence.
13:37I do not believe it was an accident.
13:46He was chosen to be killed that night.
13:52My name is Shilia Chandler.
14:05I'm the mother of Joseph Chandler.
14:07Joseph is just a kind hearted person.
14:11He meets no strangers.
14:21He was walking and when he, I guess when he got to the store, I don't know how the conversation
14:26started off with those two.
14:28Nicholas and the devil worshiper.
14:38I don't know why he got in that car with them.
14:43They said that the devil worshiper killed on the full moon.
14:48And when they drove him to Yakin River, they said the devil worshiper sat on the lake while
14:57Nicholas pulled out the shotgun and it jammed.
15:01And he went back to the car and got a gun.
15:11And my son lit a cigarette and before he can light it, they shot him in his head and he fell dead.
15:18I said, why didn't they call the police if it was an accident?
15:25I call it.
15:26They murdered my son.
15:31They did it intentionally.
15:38I just don't understand.
15:43I wanted to go to Pazuzu's plea, but they told me it was not necessary for me to be there.
16:08I didn't have to be there.
16:11I said, what?
16:13And that was it.
16:15We'll give you a transcript and that's it.
16:20The way they kept dragging it on and said, we're not going to have his trial today.
16:25His lawyer haven't got here yet.
16:28They just kept giving me the run around.
16:30And at the end of it all, they didn't tell me nothing about his trial.
16:35They just told me I didn't have to be there.
16:37That was it.
16:39I was uninvited.
16:40Yes, I was.
16:42He said your name correctly.
16:43He's an old guy.
16:44He says, what does that mean?
16:45Is that for me?
16:46It's just now.
16:47What does it mean?
16:48Say it's for me.
16:49Do you hear me?
16:51Yes.
16:52So what I'm looking at here is the psych evaluation from 2010
17:21for Pazuzu I. Algorod that was made during the Chandler case
17:26when he was held in as an accessory for that.
17:29He was ordered to go to Dorothea Dixon, Raleigh.
17:44And I mean, this very clearly states that this kid has had a long history
17:47of real mental illness and psychotic symptoms.
17:49He's been hospitalized several times already by the time all of this unfolded,
17:54going all the way back to his childhood.
17:57We're talking about a guy who went into his psychologist interview smelling like poop
18:04and apparently hadn't bathed in over a year at that point.
18:08He talks about the fact that at some point he had used something to sharpen his teeth.
18:18Yeah, Mr. Algorod reported that he was unemployed at the time of the alleged offense
18:21and has not worked in several years receiving SSI disability
18:24because of his problems being nervous and paranoid when outside of his house.
18:27He describes being part of a Sumerian religion,
18:32which he admits that he made up that he and his wife are the only practitioners
18:37he needs to get out to do an animal sacrifice
18:39so he doesn't feel further anxiety, I guess.
18:42His mother, Cynthia, tells the psychiatrist that she's afraid he might kill himself
18:48if he's not allowed to perform this animal sacrifice.
18:51I mean, this definitely paints a picture of a very sick guy.
18:54And the doctors are actually diagnosing him with schizotypal personality disorder,
18:57which basically means the guy is clinically psychotic.
19:01I mean, it was clear to everyone that this was an individual
19:03who needed serious, supervised mental health treatment.
19:06You're under the influence of many drugs right now?
19:14I'm on medication.
19:17And you're pleading guilty to assess your actual fact
19:20and voluntary manslaughter,
19:22and the state's going to dismiss another felony for corrupting justice.
19:27Is that correct?
19:30Yes.
19:36So the guy walks out of the courtroom in Forsyth County
19:39with basically a slap on the wrist into the community
19:42where me and my children live.
19:43So this guy is now out here roaming around where we live,
19:46and we know all this stuff about him
19:47from the fact that he's murdered and tortured animals,
19:49he's admitted to being a chronic drug and alcohol abuser,
19:52and he's admitted to multiple levels of mental illness
19:54that's barely going treated,
19:56and he's assaulted his mother and choked her to the point where she passes out,
20:00but we're going to let him out the door.
20:01We're going to open the doors and let him back out into society
20:03because it's clear that the only way to fix this
20:05is let him into the community.
20:06Jenna Woodring, smiling,
20:11even laughing in the back seat of a patrol car
20:14just hours after the accident.
20:16Were you in an accident this morning?
20:17No, sir.
20:25After Pazuzu's sentence is suspended
20:27for his involvement in the deaths of Joseph Chandler,
20:30which basically means he gets time served in a warning,
20:33things around his house seem to calm down.
20:34But meanwhile, there are a whole bunch of other kids in this town
20:37that were struggling.
20:38They're down on life,
20:39unemployed,
20:41aimless,
20:41and they're getting addicted to drugs.
20:43And I mean,
20:43they're not chopping up people
20:45and putting them in the backyard,
20:45but they're definitely causing harm to themselves
20:48and to other people,
20:49and no one is really doing anything about it.
20:51Jenna Woodring, smiling,
21:02even laughing in the back seat of a patrol car
21:04just hours after the accident.
21:07Were you in an accident this morning?
21:08No, sir.
21:09Scott Curtis had nothing to say today
21:11as he left the Mecklenburg County Courthouse.
21:13He had just come face-to-face
21:15with 26-year-old Jenna Woodring
21:17for the first time.
21:19She hit him in July of 2012
21:20as he was riding his bike
21:22on Brown Greer Road in Charlotte
21:24and then kept going.
21:25She didn't remember the crash then
21:27and still does it now.
21:29Woodring's attorney says
21:30she's bipolar
21:31and suffers from borderline personality disorder.
21:33I disassociated and got in my car
21:39and hit a guy on a bicycle
21:40and almost killed him.
21:43He's now a paraplegic with brain damage.
21:45So I have seven years total of probation
21:51and if I violate by doing anything illegal,
21:57I get sent to prison for five to seven years.
22:01So I can't go out and do the illegal activities
22:04that me and Nate are doing
22:06to get the money.
22:21Please continue to hold.
22:23Oh, thank you.
22:25Thanks.
22:26Welcome to our life.
22:31How can I help you?
22:35I was actually calling.
22:36I recently applied for food stamps
22:39and had to go through a wish appointment
22:41because of the drug felony I have.
22:45And I did that last Wednesday
22:48at about 12 o'clock
22:49and I still haven't gotten any food stamps
22:51on my card.
22:51I was wondering if there was any way
22:52I could figure that out.
22:53You just have to wait for her to process it.
22:58Hi.
22:59How's it going?
23:04I still don't have my food stamps on my card.
23:07We don't have any food.
23:09No, we have pistachio-thin addictives.
23:14Additives.
23:16They're crackers.
23:17Yeah, and they didn't cut any yards or anything?
23:19No, well, it's been raining this past week
23:21so he wasn't able to do that.
23:23He does have a few job leads, though,
23:25that he's waiting on a phone call for.
23:27No, okay.
23:28I mean, I'll get you some money.
23:31Bye-bye.
23:37All right.
23:39So, it'll probably be at least 50 bucks.
23:43I go to rehab.
23:51Me and Nate meet.
23:52And after we got out of rehab,
23:55well, I got kicked out,
23:56but I gave him my phone number.
23:58And when he left, he called me
24:00and we ended up hooking up.
24:03Part of the reason that I need a partner in crime,
24:07I guess, was because Nate does all the dirty work.
24:10Like, I'm on really good terms with my PO,
24:13and I didn't want to screw that up.
24:15And if I do screw up,
24:17I go to prison for five years,
24:19five to seven years, technically.
24:24The system's really just broken.
24:27You have Pazuzu and his posse committing crimes
24:30that seriously affect everyone around them,
24:32but they're just right back out on the streets.
24:33But non-violent crimes,
24:35like having a bag of pot or mushrooms in your pocket,
24:38those lead to felony convictions.
24:39It fills up prisons and totally ruins lives.
24:42I mean, we have got to get our priorities straight.
24:47He takes a fire poker,
24:48and he sticks it in, like, meat.
24:51And he pulls the meat back,
24:52and he's like, and he bit it.
24:55It's like, Satan protects me.
24:57I haven't been back here in a long time.
25:14This is the property that Josh and I bought.
25:19Our idea was to have a horse farm here.
25:23Josh and I live...
25:25There's a house right here.
25:27You can see the roof of it from here.
25:32The bank foreclosed on it,
25:33so another family's living there now.
25:40Being out here,
25:41it brings back memories,
25:43and some of them are so beautiful.
25:45And, you know, I think of friends
25:47and parties we had out here
25:49and our life and the horses.
25:54I still feel close to Josh,
25:55and, you know, sometimes I'll still have dreams
25:57that we're together.
25:59I think everything continues.
26:01You know, we have memories of things,
26:03but that's part of life,
26:04and that's part of reality,
26:05and that's part of who we are.
26:08For a long time, we were Josh and Stacy.
26:10So, for when I'm here, yeah,
26:17I'm sort of feeling that part.
26:26When I was a kid,
26:27I had this recurring dream,
26:29and it tormented me.
26:31I would go down into some passageway
26:37to this place underneath the house,
26:40and there was something,
26:44I guess evil is a good word
26:46to describe what's happening there,
26:47and people were getting, like, taken in,
26:51and even a kid that I knew, you know,
26:54was pulled in,
26:55and awful things were happening,
26:58and it was terrifying.
27:10And I would go upstairs,
27:13and I would try to tell my parents about it,
27:17what was going on,
27:17and they didn't listen.
27:19I just kept trying to tell people,
27:21and nobody would listen to me.
27:25I never understood that dream
27:27when I was a kid,
27:28but now I think I get it.
27:43I can't get any pinch harmonic over the other.
27:51When I got back to Winston,
28:00I was talking to my friend,
28:01and he told me
28:02if whatever I said about Pazuzu
28:04really had happened,
28:05if I didn't do something about it,
28:06it was just as bad as him.
28:09I keep thinking about it,
28:10thinking about it,
28:11thinking about it.
28:12Like, it was sat there
28:12rotting on my brain
28:13for years and years and years.
28:16Long time, you know,
28:17that there's a body in the art.
28:19I was like, maybe there's really not.
28:20Like, this is bullshit.
28:22And it put, like, this drive in me
28:23to really do something about it.
28:28About every two or three weeks,
28:30I would just go hang out with Pazuzu,
28:32like, check to make sure
28:33he wasn't harming anybody.
28:36In fact, I went to his house,
28:38and he's drunk, right?
28:42We're sitting by the fireplace,
28:43and he takes a fire poker,
28:45and he's looking at me.
28:46He knows at this time
28:47that I turned him in.
28:48He said, you know what?
28:50He's like, I know you turned me in,
28:52but you're my brother.
28:53He's like, just know this.
28:54I can never be caught.
28:56He takes a fire poker,
28:57and he puts it behind the firewood,
29:00and he sticks it in, like, meat.
29:03And he pulls the meat back,
29:05and he's like, and he bit it.
29:08He's like, Satan protects me.
29:09For all I know, that was a dead rabbit
29:13that he killed,
29:14or a piece of human flesh that he ate.
29:16I don't know.
29:18I mean, he was really fast and clever.
29:20He can manipulate someone.
29:22I mean, I'm not saying that's good, clever, you know?
29:23He talked about how he believed he was a demon,
29:27and he had, like, power, mind, control,
29:29or whatever of her people.
29:30He tried to push people into killing people.
29:33I think Pazuzu wanted killing to be, like,
29:36some initiation,
29:37but most people aren't murderers.
29:41There's this, like, really jacked dude in his house.
29:44Like, this guy was cut.
29:45It was his mom, Pazuzu,
29:48and this dude I've never met before.
29:51Pazuzu is, like, talking shit to his mom, you know?
29:53And the guy didn't like it.
29:54He's like, you know,
29:54you're not gonna talk to your mom like this.
29:56He's, like, acting all wild, like, oh, oh, oh.
29:58But then he brings me.
29:59He's like, yo, yo, come here, come here, come here, come here.
30:03I go in the kitchen with him,
30:04and his words changed.
30:05He's just like,
30:08yo, dude, let's kill this guy.
30:11He's like, let's kill him right now.
30:13You know, we'll get away with it.
30:16He really wanted me to kill this guy.
30:19He wanted me to do it.
30:20He didn't want to do it.
30:21He wanted me to do it.
30:26I grabbed his hair,
30:27and I slammed his head off the cabinet, you know?
30:30You know, like, I'm not doing this.
30:33We ran out of beer and cigarettes,
30:34and, you know, Paz is broke.
30:36So I was like, hey, man, let's go, like, let's go buy.
30:38Let's go get some cigarettes.
30:39We'll get some alcohol for Pazuzu.
30:40You know, we need some alcohol.
30:41Told the guy, I was like, look,
30:42you need to listen to me clearly.
30:43He told me he wants me to murder you.
30:44I'm just letting you know the truth.
30:47And I took him out to eat at Red Lobster,
30:48got him whatever he wanted to eat.
30:50I haven't seen him since.
30:51Five years had gone by
30:59before I went and spoke to a detective in person.
31:04The detectives had this huge file on them.
31:06They had all this information.
31:07They had to have known there was bodies in their yard.
31:13Once I came forward and let them know, like,
31:15yo, I'm a soldier,
31:16they took that.
31:17I was like, oh, shit,
31:17like, we need to actually do something about it.
31:24I can never be called.
31:26Pazuzu said that,
31:28and then he said he can never be knocked out.
31:30Two things.
31:32I knocked him the out,
31:34and the detectives called him.
31:38Is that stench just coming from the house?
31:42That smell?
31:42Oh, God almighty.
31:46I've seen my fair share of dead people,
32:15but nobody ever thought anything like that
32:19would happen here.
32:22My name is Sean Reed.
32:23I was a sergeant over crime scene investigations
32:25at the Versailles County Sheriff's Office.
32:31When I set foot on that property,
32:34I just knew it was going to be a long day.
32:39Is that stench just coming from the house?
32:42What's that smell?
32:43What's that smell?
32:44Watch your step.
32:56Damn, that cat jumped over.
32:59I scared the shit out.
33:01It's right in front of the picnic table.
33:03There was a fire pit in the backyard.
33:08We had gotten some information
33:10that that might be a probable place to start,
33:15and there was disturbances there,
33:18and so that's where the team started to dig.
33:21By mid-afternoon, they had located a skeleton.
33:34It looked like they had just dug a shallow grave
33:37and just folded them up into it.
33:39I know it sounds harsh,
33:42but we actually took a bucket
33:44and put his skull in a bucket
33:48to make sure that it didn't get broken
33:54or anything during transport.
33:56If it hadn't have been for a skull being there,
34:03you know, he definitely didn't look human.
34:14There near the corner of the house
34:16was another area that was focused on.
34:19We eventually found that body as well.
34:25It was just a mound of skeleton flesh and clothing.
34:42New at 5, we are following a developing story out of Clemens.
34:45The investigation continues
34:46after a pair of bodies were found
34:48buried in a backyard of a Clemens home.
34:51The skeletal remains have been taken
34:53to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center
34:55and have yet to be identified.
35:02It's not a normal practice
35:04to find deceased people in shallow graves
35:09in the backyard of neighborhoods.
35:12We all were stunned.
35:1435-year-old Pazuzu Algorod
35:35and a woman who calls herself his wife,
35:3824-year-old Amber Birch,
35:40are both now charged with murder.
35:41Somebody texted me,
35:46hey, the FBI's over at Pazuzu's house.
35:48I was like, wait a minute,
35:49like, how the f*** do you know that?
35:51You know, I'm paranoid at that point.
35:53Like, how do you know this?
35:54How do you know the cops are over at the house?
35:55How do you know that they called them?
35:57And they're like, turn on the news.
35:5828-year-old Crystal Matlock has been charged
36:01with accessory after the fact.
36:03Documents state she assisted Algorod
36:05with concealing an unidentified male body
36:08between June and August of 2009.
36:11The Forsyth County Medical Examiner's Office
36:13does not know when they will identify those remains.
36:17It's not just Amber who got caught up in all this.
36:20There was also another so-called fiancée.
36:23She somehow got roped into participating
36:24in this murder as well.
36:27It's still an active scene here
36:29in this quiet Clemens neighborhood.
36:30And as you can see,
36:32the Forsyth County Sheriff's Office and SBI
36:34is still searching the property.
36:37The skeletal remains of two individuals
36:40were found buried in shallow graves,
36:422749 Knob Hill Drive.
36:45When Pazuzzi got busted,
36:47I didn't know that there was two people in the yard.
36:49I thought there was only one.
36:51Now I know Pazuzzi killed like 10 or 15 people.
36:53He definitely killed more than they got.
36:57They went back and searched the backyard.
36:59And the thing that will piss you off
37:01and keep you up at night
37:01is they didn't just find one body.
37:03They found two bodies.
37:06So now we don't just get a guy
37:07who's kind of killed somebody on an impulse.
37:09We got a possible serial killer.
37:15There's nothing that could prepare you
37:17for what you saw inside Pazuzzi's house.
37:21You would be hard-pressed to not think
37:24that the person who lived there
37:25was capable of about anything.
37:27Well, it's a story from right here in the Piedmont
37:39that's actually making headlines around the world.
37:41The story of skeletal remains found in Clemens
37:44have neighbors stunned.
37:48There were all kinds of rumors.
37:52The crazy guy who lived there
37:54sacrificed rabbits
37:56and what a weird place it was.
38:01But there's nothing that could prepare you
38:04for what you saw inside Pazuzzi's house.
38:11All right, let's do it.
38:16Jesus Christ.
38:17Sir, did you?
38:18I see you scared me.
38:21Yeah, that's definitely an outfit for human habitat.
38:27OK.
38:27The filth had a smell.
38:32It was at the house.
38:38It was so filthy and nasty.
38:42No draining.
38:44It's kind of surreal.
38:49All right, let's get those rooms back there.
38:53Is that thing dead?
38:55No, it's a lot.
38:56Going down the hallway,
38:59there's a bathroom on the right-hand side.
39:06Just up from that was Pazuzzi's room.
39:16The room that we referred to as the altar room,
39:19it was so putrid.
39:22We literally had to get the fire department out there.
39:30We wore hazmat gear and Scott Airpacks
39:34into that room.
39:36Boy, this guy had a bad case of whatever he's got.
39:46There was also his mother who lived there.
39:49Cynthia's room may not have been the neatest and cleanest room in Forsyth County, but compared
40:01to the rest of the house, it was immaculate.
40:05It was so hard to try to describe what it was like.
40:18This is not normal.
40:21You would be hard-pressed to be inside the house and not think that the person who lived there
40:30was capable of about anything.
40:32I actually need to find some air.
40:38I mean, it's well, well, well past condemning.
40:48Two families finally know what happened to their loved ones, gone without answers for five years.
40:56The skeletal remains found in a Clemens backyard have been identified as Josh Wetzler and Tommy Welch.
41:03Tommy Dean Welch is a working-class guy in Winston-Salem, semi-employed, semi-educated, struggling, but spends time with his family.
41:25He was walking to meet his brother, and somewhere he encounters John Lawson and Amber Birch.
41:33And it's that fast that Tommy Welch's life, and the life of all those around him, changed forever.
41:48When I heard that they had found Josh, I was crying just tears of relief and joy that he was out of there.
41:58You know, it was like the most evil, dark place you could imagine, and he was out.
42:03He thought he'd been found.
42:06But it's not over at all.
42:09It doesn't feel over.
42:11And in fact, it just really, a lot of questions were created from that rather than answered.
42:18The news media goes into overdrive with the gore and the constant commentary about evil and Satan and all the rest.
42:28That's just entertainment.
42:29The gruesome details do not begin to answer the real questions.
42:33How can law enforcement in our community let something like this go on?
42:36How did we let this go on?
42:40Clemens is a wonderful place to grow up.
42:43You're surrounded by church, you're surrounded by family, everyone's a conservative Christian, everybody votes the same way, they eat the same stuff.
42:52But while they go about their business, these ugly things, these tough things are all bubbling under the surface.
42:58And a guy like Pazuzu or Algorod, he becomes a local myth, maybe a local joke, but nobody really pays attention to it.
43:09Nobody realizes how serious it is until it's too late.
43:13Algorod's tongue was split like a snake, moving in different directions.
43:19He picked up two prostitutes at two separate locations before he killed and ate them.
43:25When Johnny was eight years old, she put her in a mental hospital.
43:29The one that needs to be there is that woman, the mama.
43:32I think his mother ruined his life.
43:34Jenna's parents let us move in with them and gives us a lot more money to get high.
43:41I don't want to quit.
43:43We end up having to do dirtbag research because none of the authorities are taught.
43:48And then we found out that the search warrants were sealed.
43:51There was something in those search warrants that law enforcement didn't want out.
43:55That's what the whole neighborhood wants.
43:56We just want the house gone.
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