Episode 214: The Murder of Mary Lou Arruda | The Devil in Massachusetts
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Episode 214: The Murder of Mary Lou Arruda | The Devil in Massachusetts

On September 8, 1978 15 year old Raynham, MA resident, Mary Lou Arruda, was kidnapped while riding her bike to her friends house on the first friday of the new school year. Could her disappearance have had something to do with the fact that she grew up in the middle of what paranormal psychologists had coined the Bridgewater Triangle? Could it have been the work of the satanic cult who practiced their rituals in the Freetown State forest, or had the devil himself rode into town? Join me as I tell John the case of Mary Lou Arruda.

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Sources:
https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/ma-supreme-judicial-court/1038292.html
https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/journal-news-independent/2016/01/26/no-tears-in-raynham-on/987501007/
https://www.silvafuneralhome.com/obituaries/joanne-arruda
https://www.enterprisenews.com/story/news/crime/2016/01/31/steve-damish-time-to-delete/32590506007/
https://lailasnews.com/international/mary-lou-arruda-death-obituary-how-james-kater-death-happened/
https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/journal-news-independent/2016/02/01/decades-later-arruda-case-looms/32587202007/
https://www.patriotledger.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/2020/10/28/enter-the-bridgewater-triangle-if/581946007/
https://law.justia.com/cases/massachusetts/supreme-court/1983/388-mass-519-2.html#:~:text=*522%20On%20November%2011%2C%201978,afternoon%20of%20September%208%2C%201978.
Articles from the Boston Globe from 1978-2002 accessed via Newspapers.com

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