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In the Name of Satan [Mass Market Paperback]

Wensley Clarkson (Author)
2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)


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St. Martin's True Crime Library February 15, 1998
A lovely teenage girl's final goodbye...

"I love you and I'm going to bed," were the last words Elyse Pahler ever said to her parents. But she would never dream again, for the pretty blond 15-year-old was about to begin a walking nightmare that would end in her grisly stabbing murder.

Three depraved schoolboys' deadly fantasies...

Later that night Elyse slipped out of her parent's house for a bit of forbidden fun. She never suspected that three local boys - two of whom rode the school bus with her - were outside in the dark waiting...waiting to perform a human sacrifice - in the name of Satan.

An unspeakable atrocity that stunned a nation...

The DA claims that teenagers Royce Casey, Jacob Delashmutt, and Joe Fiorella - all in a band called Hatred - believed they had found the ultimate offering to make to the Prince of Darkness. They would sacrifice an innocent young girl, a virgin. Prosecutors say the three boys dragged a terrified Elyse to a deserted area they believed was the devil's altar, where, after being drugged, and attacked, she died of multiple stab wounds.

For eight months Elyse's body lay hidden in a eucalyptus grove until an unexpected tip to police revealed the ghastly crime. In The Name of Satan is an unthinkable American tragedy, a horrifying voyage into deepest evil imaginable.


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About the Author

Wensley Clarkson has written twenty books - which have sold in more than a dozen countries worldwide - including the tabloid newspaper expose Dog Eat Dog, biographies of Hollywood stars John Travolta and Quentin Tarantino, plus ten best-selling true crime books including Doctors of Death, Whatever Mother Says, Deadly Seduction, and Slave Girls.

Product Details

  • Mass Market Paperback: 240 pages
  • Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime Classics (February 15, 1998)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0312963890
  • ISBN-13: 978-0312963897
  • Product Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.2 x 0.8 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 4.2 ounces
  • Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (17 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,165,701 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, July 7, 2000
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Crystal J. Morton (El Paso, TX (United States)) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In the Name of Satan (Mass Market Paperback)
I'm afraid I have to agree with the majority this time... I'm a true-crime buff, and I found this book to be somewhere between 'mediocre' and 'disappointing'. While the story was interesting, it was not very well written, and it was definitely lacking in depth. The reader is left wondering what really happened the night of the murder, because the killing itself is barely touched upon. Also, I did not get any sense of "getting to know" the characters -- not any of them. The last third of the book was downright boring, and the reader is left with many questions. I wouldn't recommend this book.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars Majority Rules With Thumbs Down For This Book, September 16, 2006
This review is from: In the Name of Satan (Mass Market Paperback)
While reading this true crime book, I couldn't decide if I was reading about an actual crime or being given a textbook lesson on satanism and how teens become involved in the occult.

Information about the crime itself was interesting, but provided little detail about what actually occured. Readers were given a summarized account of what occured on the night of Elyse Pahler's murder. The rest of the book was devoted to the deceased's friends and their thoughts; the teenager murderers legal wranglings; and in depth information about the occult. I found the latter two accounts to be extremely repeatitive and boring.

Lastly, why was this book written before Royce Casey's sentenced was issued? The one defendant who stood to be punished the harshest despite that he solved an unsolvable crime for police. Guess I'll have to search Google for that information.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars " In the Name of Mercy!!!!!", August 7, 2001
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I have never written a review before but I feel like it is my civic duty in this case, so no one else will buy this book. I agree with the rest of the reviews. It is a story that had alot of potential but it was unorganized, poorly written and extremely repetitive, did I mention poorly written? I am a true crime buff too, and the only crime here was that I bought this book and wasted hours of my life that I will never get back. ...
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Nothing much happened in Arroyo Grande until Wednesday, March 31, 1886, when bloodshed and violence came to this sleepy little backwater with a vengeance. Read the first page
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death metal music, satanic beliefs, death metal band, alleged killers, eucalyptus grove, mind experts, three suspects, three defendants
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Arroyo Grande, Elyse Pahler, Joe Fiorella, San Luis Obispo, Royce Casey, Jacob Delashmutt, Travis Williams, David Pahler, Shannon Plotner, Angel Katyryni, Lisanne Pahler, Betsy Leo, Pismo Beach, Superior Court, Wensley Clarkson, Burger King, Elyse Walter, Joseph Fiorella, Judge Michael Duffy, River's Edge, Robert Dyer, Sheriff Ed Williams, Dave Hurst, Doug Odom, Judge Duffy
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