Satanic Family’s House of Horrors — True Crime

Lisa Marie Fuqua
True Crime Addiction
6 min readApr 3, 2020

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The Satanists who moved from animal sacrifices to humans, lived with their corpses, tattooed his face, filed his teeth into points, and didn’t bathe.

Pazuzu Algarad mugshot | via Forsyth County Police Department

Self Proclaimed Satanist — Pazuzu Algarad

Born John Alexander Lawson in San Francisco, California, on August 12, 1978. Later moved to Clemmons, North Carolina, with his mother.

Patricia Gillespie produced a documentary about Pazuzu Algard, “The Devil You Know.”

She spoke about what she uncovered about his early life: “He told people he was from Iraq, he told people his father was some high priest. But the people who knew him as a child described him as a little off-kilter, a little emotional. Things that might indicate the beginning of a mental illness: harming animals, consuming alcohol, and drugs at a very early age.”

His mother, Cynthia Lawson, said her son’s mental health issues started when he was young. He has been diagnosed with both schizophrenia and agoraphobia, among others.

In an interview for the documentary, Cynthia said, “He wasn’t by any means an angel, but he wasn’t a bad person or a bogeyman or whatever phrases people have called him.”

It was in 2002 when he legally changed his name to Pazuzu Illah Algarad. It was his way…

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Lisa Marie Fuqua
True Crime Addiction

True Crime Writer in Las Vegas. I used to be a Web Developer in the Newsroom, now I spend my time in coffee shops researching murder.