Documentaries On Cults?

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   A few stories to shar⁸e about cults. In high school I was very close with a girl who was like a sister to me. She rode the school bus with the young man that was sacrificed at Menantico.  Most people who got to know him said that he studied all religions, had a great sense of humor,..although could be quiet at times.

He had a box made out of metal. On the outside of the box were carvings of Egyptian hieroglyphics.  On the inside were hallways that led through a maze. He would open the door of the box and place an animal inside. He would then slam the door piercing the animal with sharp nails located on the inside of the door. Quite like an iron maiden. 

He graduated from sacrificing hamsters to Satan to resurrecting himself from the dead. The ritual he performed was rather obscure it seems as lots of people in Vineland NJ sit around a campfire drinking and discuss where he got the idea. Supposedly if you are in a specific place at a specific time with your two closest friends...who assist you in your death...it will work. You die violently so you can be put in charge of 40 leagues of demons.  

The use of human sacrifice is older than recorded history and can be found in the Bog Burials,  but what is the origin of this ritual? Where is it written? The difficulty in this case is that his sacrifice is directly tied into Christian/Satanism in his belief that his self-sacrifice would engender the protection of Christian demons.  Like a role playing game it was strictly based on Christian demonology.  His reference to 40 leagues or 40 legions is a Judeo-Christian concept derived from the writings of medieval theologians where demons had hierarchies and legions. 

Some people claim it is written in the Satanic Bible,  but I've never read the Satanic Bible so I would not know.  Some people say that he was interested in Egyptian culture and that he studied the Egyptian book of the Dead and that he connected with the knowledge of the ritual that way. 

Others claim that he garbled a ritual from a modern book on demonology or a modern translation. One individual in particular stated: "Whatever ritual he was trying to use was so hopelessly screwed up in his mind interpretation to be more tragic and stupid than ritualistic..but he was definitely responding to something he had read and believed."

Police dug up the lake and discovered animal remains.  Charles Pangburn searched the young man's room and discovered books on Egyptian culture, witchcraft, demonology,  and the Satanic Bible..additionally he confiscated literature dealing with the young man's cult that he refused to reveal.  The two friends who assisted him in his death spent 5 years in Yardville Prison.  After their release they both continued their involvement with a cult. While they did their time in prison..Pangburn spent two years interrogating a church and a list of wealthy individuals (middle age adults) belonging to a cult.

It's possible that Pangburn may have confiscated a diary belonging to the young man which gave him reason or cause to investigate further.  In 1972 in Springfield NJ the skeleton remains of Jeannette DePalma were discovered on top of a cliff called the Devil's Tooth. Although this case was totally confusing regarding all the suspects and the letters written to the police..DePalma belonged to the Assembly Of God church . The church that was under investigation by Pangburn and his team of detectives and officers in 1971.

What kind of evidence did Pangburn have ? What would lead him to believe that a wealthy organization was behind this murder? I've always been curious about it. What could it have possibly been?

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