Trial of Arne Cheyenne Johnson

And in October of 1980, the Warrens contacted Brookfield police to warn them that the situation was becoming very dangerous.

During one of the rituals, according to the family and to the Warrens, Arnie Johnson shouted at the entity to leave the child alone.

and to take him on instead.

Now, the oldest Glatzel brother, Carl Glatzel, so this is the little boy who was supposedly possessed.

And he was just five days short of his 41st birthday when what goes down goes down.

That goes down on Monday, February 16th.

What happens is Arnie Johnson, the boyfriend, Debbie's boyfriend, called in sick to his job.

And he spent the day at the kennels with Debbie, his sister, Wanda, and Debbie's nine-year-old cousin, Mary.

in 1976 they showed up at a house in amityville new york where a family called the lutzes claimed a demonic presence had driven them out in 28 days the warrens arrived with a tv news crew in tow in 1977 they crossed the ocean for the enfield poltergeist case in london which became the conjuring 2.

And in 1981, they were at the center of an actual murder trial after a Connecticut man named Arne Johnson stabbed a man named Alan Bono to death.

The Warrens backed Johnson's defense, which was that a demon made him do it.

The judge refused to allow it, and Johnson was convicted of manslaughter.

And in July of 1980, she finds a house to rent with her boyfriend in Newton, Connecticut.

His name is Arne Johnson, and he's 19 at the time.

So she's, like, a little bit of a cougar.

Wait, how old is she, 26?

At one of these home exorcisms, something happens that will be very relevant to our later trial.

During these exorcisms, the family is often there helping to restrain David, talking to him.

At some point, Arne Johnson, the 19-year-old boyfriend of Debbie, his sister, puts a crucifix on David's head.

Obviously, it sizzles.

Um, again, this will be one if anyone's a fan of the horror films, 'cause it was recently turned into a really awful Conjuring world movie.

But in 1981, a kid called Arne Johnson stabs his friend to death in what appears to be an open-and-shut case of a fight over a girl.

So he'd been out with his friends.

They'd been drinking.

But what's interesting is what had happened in his life a couple of years previously, because he had been involved in a really strange series of events.

His then, his girlfriend, who was the same girl that he'd been dating when he commits the murder, was called Debbie Glatzel, and her little brother was allegedly possessed by the devil.

And so Arne Johnson, the Glatzels, um, so, so the little boy's family, contact Ed and Lorraine Warren, the Warrens, and they have literally just finished investigating Amityville, weirdly.

And they go and meet this little boy, and they agree that this little boy is clearly possessed.

extremely terrible things while reportedly possessed, right?

Yeah, like when I talked about the Arnie Johnson case.

Yeah, that's what I'm saying, where you have what seems like a pretty normal dude...

So I know we haven't talked about Anna Eklund.

For more than 40 years, the only people vouching for the story have been the people telling it.

And then, in the middle of it all, Arne Johnson lost his patience.

He was 19, engaged to Debbie, working as an arborist, and he'd watched this go on for months.

One night that autumn, during one of the rites on David, he challenged whatever he believed was in the room.

He said he'd subpoena the priests who'd worked on David.

Lorraine Warren took it even further.

She publicly said that Arne Johnson had been possessed at the moment he killed Alan Bono.

A claim like that was bound to draw headlines, especially because of what had happened leading up to it.