The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It (2021)

The latter part of the 20th century came up with some interesting ways in which people tried to get away with murder. One was that God told them to do it, which was a late '70s legal attempt to get obviously guilty clients found insane or incompetent to avoid a death penalty. The other, made popular with the case of Arne Cheyenne Johnson in 1981, has been derisively referred to as the "Flip Wilson" defense: "The Devil made me do it." On February 16, 1981, Arne Johnson had an altercation of some sort with his landlord, Alan Bono, which led to Johnson stabbing Bono 22 times. He was found a few miles away by police with Bono's blood on him stating that he didn't mean to hurt anyone. When asked why he did it Johnson claimed to have been possessed by a demon that he had invited to exit from his girlfriend Debbie Glatzel's youngest brother David and come into him. His lawyer initially pled not guilty due to demonic possession but, when disallowed by...