In the Name of Satan

The true crime story of the 1995 case of Elyse Pahler, a California girl murdered by a teen death metal band as a human sacrifice to Satan.

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.