by Wensley Clarkson
St. Martin’s Press, 1997
Teenagers Royce Casey, Jacob Delashmutt and Joe Fiorella–all in a band called Hatred–dragged terrified 15-year-old Elyse Pahler to a deserted area they believed was the devil’s altar, where, after being drugged, tortured and raped, she died of multiple stab wounds. For eight months Elyse’s body lay hidden in a eucalptus grove until an unexpected tip to police revealed the ghastly crime. This is the true story of the events.