ShortHand: Do Red Rooms Really Exist?
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Since the mid-90s, school playgrounds, chatrooms, and office watercoolers have been abuzz with rumours of ‘Red Rooms’: secret online spaces where you can pay to watch victims being assaulted, tortured, and even murdered.
But do they exist? Are there really corners of the internet streaming real, brutal violence 24/7? This is the ShortHand.
In 1981, nineteen-year-old Arne Cheyenne Johnson stabbed his landlord to death – but claimed he wasn’t guilty. Why?Because he was possessed by the literal Devil.
With a wild alibi starring a possessed tween, budget exorcisms and even a cameo from America’s most notorious spooky grifters Ed and Lorraine Warren, Satan was going on trial...
But would a judge believe that the horned guy himself was roaming small-town Connecticut in the early eighties?
Find out as we explore the case that shocked a nation – and almost changed US law forever.
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