was stevie. and i hit the ground screaming, god, no. >> almost immediately, word spread that these murders were the work of the devil. >> that was the first thing that everybody started saying, that it was a ritualistic killing, satanic killing. i overheard people saying that they'd been trying to let the police know there's been groups of teenagers out there practicing satanic rituals and things like that. >> satanic killing? an idea not so farfetched for the time. this is a community steeped in religion. a church is never far away. and it was a time before the goth look or the notion of a romantic teenage vampire became fashionable. and this was a crime so horrendous it was easy to believe it was committed by a monster. when you're hearing all of this, what's going through your mind? >> exactly the same thing, that that's what happened. that the devil actually come and