Queen Havoc and Her Murder Cult - Episode 4: Evil Ever After

Episode Date: June 13, 2023

As Luke gets closer to the inner circle, Mikeila Valentine’s doubts about EPD begin driving her away from the group. She tries to free herself from Cecilia’s grasp – putting her life in peril. Detective Suzette Knoetze brings her expertise on The Occult to the murder cases, but quickly becomes wary of the other investigators who insist the murders are ceremonial. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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with detective Ben Boison, who took us on a tour of Kruger's store. And that's, uh, 150 meters from Sicily's flat. Ben's wife, Kristell, and our fellow producer, Germain joined us. There were high-end suburbs with nice homes perched on hills that kind of reminded me of LA. Some areas looked more suburban, some more rural,

and far more flat. While other neighborhoods looked dilapidated under resource. Forgotten. So yeah, this area now is the worst crime area in Krooghersdorp. We ended our tour at the home of EPD's next victim. The housing complex stood on a single lane road with a field across the street. Not much was visible from outside the walls. Like most of the homes in Kruger's store, it was protected by tall, imposing white walls. So then it's a gated community,

yeah, which is wild because that gated is huge and this is a pretty privatized area. So, I mean, someone had to help Miranda and Marcel to be able to get in here. As we looked around, we were reminded that Ben Boyzen is a popular guy around these parts. Well, place any ice. Well, great. I can eat a car and track.

Okay, the lady's staying in the house and we can go inside. And just like that, the security gates parted and we were welcomed in by Anna Marie, the woman who now lives there. We got a tour of the home. It looked just like many of the condos that I visited as a kid in the suburbs of Chicago.

It felt familiar, safe. But then, knowing what had happened within those walls, gravity set in. I suddenly couldn't stop thinking about the blood that was shed right here in the room where I stood. Chills ran down my spine as Ben described the crime scene. The beating, the headboard, the wall, and the roof was full of blood. She mentioned there were scratch marks on the door.

In the kitchen, there were deep grooves in the corner of one of the old wood indoors leading to the backyard, one that required a skeleton key. Anna Marie spoke in Afrikaans, Kristell and Jameen translated. What she's saying is that the neighbors actually informed it seems that those mocks might be from when he locked her into the house. So there's still mocks that were made from that time on the door. From School of Humans and Ihar Podcasts, this is Queen Havoc and her murder cult. I'm your host, Kurt Kupichek.

Episode 4. Evil Ever After Being in the house was eerie, but it was nothing compared to being in Miranda's presence. When I left the prison, I was relieved to find Jamein waiting for me by the car. I was so shaken up, it was one of the most intense situations I've ever experienced. We can call up the search party, push, and ride! Looking very, very frazzled, so I'm really keen to see what is going to come from this. We're heading back to the hotel now, we'll see you soon. Are you okay? Oh yeah, okay. Wow, that was...

Yeah, let's just stand outside and say, okay. Wow, hearing that again brings you back to how rocked I was. I didn't even have words to articulate my thoughts. It's something I thought I was prepared for. I've been working on this story for a couple of years and I knew I needed to be brave to walk into that prison. But actually, the hardest part was walking out, sitting down with that kind of evil. That stays with you.

Here's the person we're calling Luke, who has spent some time around Miranda in the group. He refers to her by her profession, the teacher. If you look at the teacher, she didn't have a good life. She struggled a whole lot. She's also got a lot of hurt and she wants belonging somewhere. And the children got raised without a father. So it's the perfect, you will sit up to manipulate and gain someone for your eye to entage. Like Ria, Miranda was made vulnerable by her faith,

by her upbringing and I suppose she was the victim in her story. Here's journalist Maritska Kotser. Marinda, she's got two sisters. I got to know the odds. I made the grandmother. They, you know what? They are these very conservative ladies and they don't swear, and they don't have hair out of place, and they are so soft.

Maybe a bit too focused on propriety, and maybe why Miranda often felt at a place, but to her it was slow death. And now she was trying to live for something greater than herself, acting in God's name, just like she'd been raised to. But in doing so, she became a monster. She'll kill Marcel and she'll kill Lix, if they go against Cecilia, she will kill, and that's the bloody sad part of this old story. That choice haunts me, her betrayal of her own kids, the corruption of their innocence,

for what? For her own satisfaction of her psychopathology? When I spoke to her, she actually brought this up, totally impromptu. I studied psychology. My father was a psychologist. I know I'm not the psychopath. I still have a conscience about things, you know. But then she said this in almost the same breath. Every time after I kill someone, it's like, relief.

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Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. Dr. the ability to do something that is anti-social. What do you do if your mother or the mother you've been given to actively goes against society with Craven hostility? Journalist Yana Marx writes in her book that Marcel coped with her strange existence by

working extremely hard at school, getting straight A's. And Miranda was so compromised that she sent her high-achieving daughter to live with Cecilia. She was 13 when she moved in with Cecilia. She was literally told to live with Cecilia, baby, sit for Cecilia's kids, clean up for Cecilia, do everything so shit, this was really an abandoned kid. LaRue, on the other hand, used drugs as a way to escape. He tried running away a few times, but then he would quickly return.

Didn't take him long to learn he had nowhere else to go. No one to help him. And out there on his own, his choices only became more grim. The ruin Marcel were kept from their father by their mother Miranda. They were told, your dad does not want to see you. But that's not to say her kids didn't have any male role models in their life. No, for a father replacement, the kids had Zach Valentine. Talk about toxic. The Rue looked up to him while Marcel took to Mikaela, but Mikaela

was becoming desperate to get away from her husband. To get away from Cecilia, Miranda, all of them, even the kids. The horror of the murders had not left her. She could not forget what they did. When she realized that her husband was now killing people, she started writing poems from the Bible verses on this wall. Michaela had been so isolated by EPD, she didn't know where else to turn. She felt like she was losing her grip.

As her sanity started to unravel, she leaned harder into her faith. A personal favorite Bible quote of Mikaela's, fear not, prime with thee. The God of Mikaela's faith would never condone senses killing. A book she read on spirituality back that up. She decided, no, I'm reading this book, Fruit of Life. And in that book, she came to realize God will never ask you to murder anybody. She knew she needed a flee from Cecilia and electus per deas.

Even if escaping meant she'd have to leave the cult without her husband. First, she had to muster the courage to confront Zack. Ever since he'd killed Pastor Reginald Bendixson, things had to muster the courage to confront Zack. Ever since he'd killed past a Reginald Bendixon, things had been weird between them. Zack was changing into someone she didn't recognize. Michaela was also stressed about the couple's finances. Zack was spending heavily on Cecilia's medical bills and pulling big chunks from their savings

to support her alleged overseas orphanage. Soon, he was handing over far more money than they earned. When Michaela finally told her husband that she wanted to leave EPD, Zach listened. Then he calmly suggested they pray on it. Weeks passed. Michaela found a mother and she said,

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became impossible to ignore, she started indirectly crying out for help. Once, Michaela mentioned to one coworker that she needed to take some time off, her reason, so she could help her friends build carbops. This person was later questioned by Susette about why she never reported that alarming information. She said she spoke to a husband and a husband say this is just unbelievable.

Just don't go to the police that you're going to think you're crazy. So often in stories like this, we wonder, why didn't anyone say anything? Sound the alarm, ask for help. People feel like it's not their place. And who would believe them? Michaela's stories about Cecilia's prayer group were so outlandish. How could they possibly be true? Like many others in this story,

Michaela's coworker chose to stay silent. Cut to October 2012. By then, Cecilia had figured out that Michaela was a flight risk and posed a threat to all of them. Michaela knew way too much. If she went to the police, that would be the end. Cecilia and Miranda began feeding Zach lies about his wife. Here's Luke.

She has absolutely a mastermind. She knows how to manipulate people. She lied about MacGyla. She provoked Zaka Gaineset. It was about this time that Cecilia turned her manipulation full tilt to seduce Zack. Here's journalist Yana Marx. We came to lie that he had understanding that he was married to the wrong woman,

Mikaila. That Celia was actually destined to be his wife. She started to bring a psychological game with him. But she's a very dangerous person. On Wednesday, October 3rd, 2012, almost two months after Reginald Bendixson was killed, Michaela mustered up the courage to confront her spiritual master and tell her that she was leaving, E.P.D. When she arrived at Cassana Flats, Michaela was escorted into Cecilia's bedroom. The door was closed behind her.

Marcel waited out in the living room. One on one's was Cecilia were rare and unpredictable and could create tension within the group. Silence, minutes passed. But then, the door to Cecilia's room opened. Mikaela emerged. She was light, ebbelin, free. Mikaela set her goodbyes to Miranda, to LaRue, and to her surrogate baby sister, Marcell.

I would guess that some part of her wish she could take Marcell away with her. Then Mikaela exited Cassana flats for the last time, excited for her future. She was in a good place at that stage, checking everybody away. You know, say, I don't want my Renemma life anymore, I don't want Cecilia my life anymore. And she told her husband, you must decide. it's me or Cecilia. The next morning, October 4th, Mikaela wakes up next to Zach. They open their eyes. It's a normal day, like any other.

It's Thursday. The day she'd usually take care of Cecilia. But today, she's her own woman. She tends to herself instead. She makes coffee for her and Zach before he leaves for his office at Discovery Life Insurance. Cecilia told Zach, they must give her sleeping tablets in a coffee. While Michaela's back is turned, Zach drops two sleeping pills into a morning coffee and watches them dissolve.

Suddenly drowsy, Michaela says she'll probably go back to bed. Zach says goodbye and leaves for work. Just to heads up, this next part is quite upsetting. If you or someone with you is a sensitive listener, you might want to skip ahead by a minute or two. Makala isn't in bed long before Miranda comes through their front door, armed with a hammer and a set of knives.

Her daughter Marcel follows obediently. Miranda creeps into the bedroom, hammer in hand. She stands over the sleeping Makala. Miranda creeps into the bedroom, hammer in hand. She stands over the sleeping Mikaela. Marina came in. Marina is with a hammer on the head. Marcel stands frozen in the doorway, watching as her mother is about to murder her only friend. When I spoke to Miranda in prison, she chillingly described to me what happened next.

I have this thing in my head that I have to eat her to incapacitate her because she's young and then I open her eyes and she was all dragged. Michaela wasn't fully asleep. She awake, actually, and then she looked at Miranda and then Miranda told her, Makala, you now need to start the prayer because now I'm going to kill you. And then she closed the eyes and she started praying out loud. And she prayed. And I let the prey until she finished and then I stabbed her.

Marcel nearly fainted. She catches herself and leans on the doorframe for support. Her mother seems to forget that she's even there. Miranda uses a crude knife on Makayla, one made for skinning fish. Without looking back, Miranda shouts, where are you, to her daughter? Marcel is still holding herself off with the doorframe, frozen. She knows she'll be in trouble with Cecilia if she doesn't honor her instructions. Theor animates her limbs.

Marcel approaches Michaela. Her friend's eyes are glazed over. Blood is everywhere. As the life leaks from her body, Michaela's prayers fall weekly from her lips. Marcel stands over Michaela. She looks down at her. She feels the menace of the knife in her hand,

and her mother's hot stare. Then Marcel surprises herself. She stabs Michaela in the knife in her hand and her mother's hot stare. Then Marcel surprises herself. She stabs McAle in the abdomen on her left side. Marcel only stabbed the ones. With her knife stuck inside McAle's body, Marcel lies. She tells her mother, it won't go in. My knife is not sharp enough. That's okay, says Miranda.

Her mother reassures her. I'm almost through. Marcel pulls out the knife. She stuck in the side of her only ally. She looks at the blood on the blade, the praying stops. Michaela's lips stop moving. Now she can hear her mother breathing heavily over Michaela's fatal silence. Marcel stares at the beads of sweat on her mother's brow, her blood speckled face. The male is a male. The male is a male. The male is a male. The male is a male. The male is a male. The male is a male.

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The male is a male. The male is a male. The male is a male. The male is a male. The male is a male. The male is a male. The male is a male. Before they leave, Marcel helps her mother pull the d'Ve over Michaela. Miranda adds an electric blanket. She switches it on. Cecilia had told her followers that the time of death is difficult to determine if a body is exposed to extreme heat. They take Michaela's phone, pocket her wedding ring, use the blood-coded hammer

to batter Michaela's tablet to pieces so it can't be tracked. They aim to make it look like a home invasion and robbery. After they leave the scene, mother and daughter scatter all of these items and the murder weapons, dropping them from their car window at various points on their drive back to Cassana flats. EPD gathered together and were reminded of the price of defying Cecilia. Here's journalist Muritska Coats here. Mikaila was always the example, you know? Remember what happened to Mikaela. The threat of reprisal for defying Cecilia was now a promise to the group, Zach proved

that he would sacrifice his wife to their queen, and Miranda seemed even more compelled to be the best, the favorite, the most committed, no matter what the cost. I suffered from acne into my 30s. I had tried everything from pills and creams to painful treatments and nothing seemed to work. Then a friend told me about skin laundry. She'd been getting their laser facials and said they were effective and did not require any downtime.

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See terms and conditions at UNnes.co. At 3.30pm, Zach Valentine returns home. He's not alone. The person that was supposed to sell the house, he might show it at the air ride before we met the gate. He's with a real estate agent named Estelle. In order for his alibi to be airtight, someone has to be there when he discovers his wife's body.

Zach had arranged to meet Estelle at his house after work, so she could take some photos. Estelle later testified that she waited at the front door with her colleague while Zach went and greet his wife. The realtor noticed an ash tray had been knocked under the ground. There was ash all over the carpet. The house smelled of cigarette smoke, alcohol, and men's yoder. Something's not right, she whispered to her assistant. Then they heard Zach shouting from the other room.

It was dark in the room and he came out and he said to the woman, please come, come look, I think my wife is dead. When a stale gets to the bedroom, she can't tell what's happening. Not until she switches on the light. When she does, she sees someone under the covers of the bed. And there's blood everywhere, like everywhere. Zack doesn't touch his wife's dead body. He just stands there.

A stale yells to her assistant to call the police. She pulls Zach gently away from the side of his dead wife. Is she really dead? Zach asks. Once he's out of the bedroom, a stale goes back to the bedside to check. To be sure. There was a lot of blood, everything was blood, she was mutilated. Bakeda is gone, A stell says.

Zach walks to the fridge, he chugs an entire carton of fruit juice. A stell watches him. Then she grabs two cups, thinking some water would be good for her and her colleague. But her hands are trembling so much she drops the glasses. They shatter against the tile floor. And then the woman asks him, are you not going to find somebody? Zack doesn't answer. Instead he wonders aloud where the cats are. She said find your parents and find the police.

Okay, he found these parents and she found the police because he didn Je ziet de police. Je ziet deze wereld en je ziet de police, omdat hij niet de wereld niet ziet. Je neemt geen tafel met deze wereld. Dan moet je het voor me opgeven. Ik heb mijn kats geweest. En ze hebben een kats in de ogen. Open de door en de kats gaan uit. En dan je wacht uit en je wint te stond.

Nog naar de woon. Smoking is het echt. When you walked outside and you went to stand next to this wall, smoking a cigarette. It's phone rings. It's his father. A still listens to Zach pleads with his father to come to the house. A still is relieved that Zach has someone to talk to. Someone who can be there with him. The three of them wait in the living room for what to Estelle feels like hours.

Zach inquires if the potential buyers are still coming this afternoon. Will you still be able to sell the house? He asks. No, I've cancelled the appointment. Estelle responds. His wife's body is lying lifeless in the next room, growing colder by the minute. It's all Estelle can think about, but Zach wants to know if the house will sell. Maybe he's in shock, but still tells herself.

Zacholene's forward, face in hands, he says, I didn't want to trick my wife. A stale pretends not to have heard that. She gets up and steps outside. She can hear the sirens that are to her relief now approaching. The police take control of the crime scene. They hustle everyone outside and begin taking statements and document the murder with photographs. Michaela's parents arrive in hysterics.

A grief counselor speaks with Michaela's parents, but they're interrupted when the counselor hears laughter at the murder scene. She turns in his stunned when she sees it Zach and his parents. They were standing next to him at the wall, and they were laughing. Zach and his parents are introduced to the grief and trauma counselor. The family makes it known that they are children of God and they don't need to speak with anybody.

The grief counselor notes that Zach's eyes are dry. grief and trauma counselor. The family makes it known that they are children of God and they don't need to speak with anybody. The grief counts their notes that Zack's eyes are dry. Zack complains aloud that all this is taking so long. The realtor, Estelle, attempts to compassionately explain to him that the police have to photograph the house from every angle. Oh, so you get some photos, just not the ones you wanted. Zachs arcastically says to an astounded still. Around 11pm that night, the police finally let the families back into the house. Michaela's mother pulled Zach aside.

She wants to know, was Michaela a Satanist? Zacka sure is her that her daughter was not. The police find assassination kits next to the couple's bed. Each member of EPD has their own kit. It contains gloves, a ski mask, cable ties, knives, strangling wire, and a handgun. This discovery alone should have alerted the detectives that something illegal was going on.

People don't typically have strangling wire in their bedside tables, but for whatever reason, the police decide to overlook the matching his and hers assassination kits. Before leaving the murder scene, the trauma counselor approaches Zach one last time. Nearly everyone else is left. She asks Zach if he has a friend to stay with, or if he's going to stay with his parents. And he said, now he's going to sleep there. So he turned that mattress that was full of blood

he turned around and he slept in the same bed that his wife was killed. Unbelievable, no way. Unbelievable. That night, after flipping the mattress, Zach puts a clean set of sheets on the bed. I can't believe a boba. stricken when he heard the news of Michaela's murder. He's the officer who brought in all the members of EPD, but didn't have enough to convict them. But he did have ample evidence to apply for a search warrant that would have covered Zach and Michaela's house.

We started to compile evidence, we submitted the statement to a prosecutor, and we approached him, we told him of the application, and he told us to give him the document, and he needed a few days to apply his mind. Those few days were a few too many. Unfortunately, two days after we gave him the document, we received the call that Michaela was, unfortunately, she was murdered.

Hearing this blew my mind, how devastating. This is one of the critical errors that may have caused the life of Mikaela and the lives of seven others. Unfortunately, for reasons that defy explanation, the police remained distracted by the swirl of coincidence and fears of an occult connection. Enter Detective Susette Canote. The facts was right in front of them, but their attention was drawn to sensation, and we can't investigate like that. After the news of Michaela's murder broke, Rhea Grunovald finally came to terms with

the ugly truth she'd been trying to dodge. Cecilia was in fact capable of mass murder. She had to be behind it all. The threats, the bombings, the murders, everything. I interviewed Rhea, but she at some stage because obviously of being a very scared of Celia. She ran off and didn't want to talk to the police anymore. Meanwhile, with one less member, the walls of the VPD came down just enough to let Luke our infiltrator in for real this time. But first, he needed to be just as guilty as the rest of them. to be just as guilty as the rest of them.

We spoke about killing Riasa Joshua. Joshua will never know how close he was to death so many times. Fortunately for Joshua, Luke wasn't a killer. But then one of the witnesses that was part of the group at some stage. They brought him to me. And he was asked to help with this conspiracy of murder and that was with Rias Son. Detectives Susette officially took over the murder investigations, which coincided perfectly with Luke's plans to turn EPD in. Things were heating up at Cassana Flats. And Luke's loyalty to Cecilia officially became a matter of life or death.

You know we met you all the time. And it was my turn. On the next episode of Queen Havoc. When we went to search the apartment we had a warrant, I went into Cecilia's room. I started asking her some questions about their Colton, she couldn't answer me. They know if they're gonna do something now, the spotlight is on them and that's why they stop with the gillings and stuff.

I had to run for my life, I was almost murdered today. Queen Havik and her murder Colton is a production of School of Humans and I Heart Podcasts. Queen Havik is hosted and created by me, Kurt Kubicek, produced and written by Jennifer Tachini, Julia Kriskow, and Kurt Kubicek. Lead producer is Julia Kriskow. Story editor is Zaryn Burnett. Senior producer is Amelia Brock. Production manager is Daisy Church.

Original music composed by Claire Campbell, editing, sound design, and scoring by Jesse Nicewanger. Associate producers are Dashin Moodley and Jameen Kracher, additional producing by Ben Melman, fact-checking by Dennis Webster. Recording engineers are Graham Gibson, Clay Hillenberg,

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