Scudder and Odom styled themselves as modern pagans. They flew a flag featuring a pentagram and openly embraced occult aesthetics, which quickly alienated them from their deeply religious, conservative neighbors. Rumors of devil worship and satanic rituals began to circulate throughout the valley. The Night of the Murders
The crime scene photos showed that the killers and the two accomplices had also used a "paint thinner cocktail" (toot-a-loo) with their hosts before the murders. The Property's Fate: corpsewood manor crime scene photos
The heavy Georgia air seemed to stop breathing the moment we stepped onto the trail leading to Corpsewood Manor. Even decades later, the ruins of the "Castle in the Forest" felt less like a historical site and more like a fresh wound. Scudder and Odom styled themselves as modern pagans