

All, that is, but one man.ĭominick Cazale was the priest who heard Parr’s confession. But when Parr went to the gallows, all agreed that justice had been served evil had been put to rest. Some whispered that Parr’s crime was just the latest in a series of murders attributed to Maryland’s infamous Blair Witch. The particulars of Rustin Parr’s crime made the case even more horrifying: the ritual nature of the killings, the strange symbols carved into the children’s bodies, Parr’s revelation that voices in his head told him to commit his foul deeds. It was the most shocking crime imaginable: the kidnapping and brutal murder of seven innocent children.

The night before he was hanged, he told his priest an entirely different story. In May 1941, a hermit named Rustin Parr told police he murdered seven children in Burkittsville, Maryland.
