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Pazuzu Algarad was a man left to his own ideologies – As his world became more insular, his own fantasies became more real.
His home became a place without law and order, and eventualy, that notion would deliver dire consequence. Today we look at the case of Pazuzu Algarad, and his house of horror.
He was an avowed satanist who filed his teeth into sharp points and split his tongue into two and while his choice in lifestyle was far from normal, he would develope a following and all would ignore his evil past.
Todays case is a disturbing one, we’ looking into the world of Pazuzu Algarad and his filthy layer that he liked to call home.
This is the case of Pazuzu Algarad.
San fransisco, also known as golden gate city , San fransisco is known for its cool summers, varying architecture, golden gate bridge…
and of course , alcatraz,influenced by by its booming tech industry San fransisco is now the second most expensive city to live in all of the US,and whle the city has always been on the pricier of places back, back in the 70s it supposedly wasn’t so bad.
Back then , Timothy Lawson and his wife Cynthia were two of the 715,000 residents that called San fransisco their home.
The two marrid in 1971 and fast forward seven years to 1978,they introduced their first and only child to the world baby Pazuzu who at the time went only by the name of John Alexander Lawson.
John was born the 12th of August 1978, he spent two happy years here but then in 1980 he, along with his mother and his father moved to North Carolina,he joined his local elementary school but shortly into second grade, problems started rising in John’s life.
John was forced to retake a second grade after failing to meet expectations from his teachers , and arguments in the family home meant that at age of eight John’s mother and father would split up.
This would further cause issues with his education and his personal life.
It was during this time that his father moved back to california leaving both John and his mother to carry on with their lives.
At age of 12 ,Cynthia remarried to a man named John Larry James and John along with his mother Cynthia and stepfather also Called John moved in to a house on Knob Hill drive in clemens north carolina.
John’s lfie would become more troubled after this move, at the age of 13,he began to heavily drink alcohol ,sometimes getting through a 12 pack of beer a day, feeling abandonment and betrayal were common in John’s world too .
It was around this time that John made some very stark changes to his life.
In ninth grade after attempting to retake it for a second time ,he drops out of west forsyth high school,located just down the road from his home.
After dropping out ,he didn’t try to find work either,instead he swirled into the world of drugs bying, using and selling them, he also started to become increasingly interested in occult and satanism .
In 2002, he legally changed from Lawson to Pazuzu- Illah algorad.
Pazuzu -the king of demons .
Illah homage to the arabic word of ” god” .
A very sudden shift in Pazuzu’s aura was now obvious to those around him where he was once an energetic fiery ambitious and unfraid kid…
…Was now dark,uneasy and apprehensive.
In parallel to these changes Pazuzu also became agoraphobic being uneasy and scared to be around other people,essentially he became a recluse to the world and later in the same yea Cynthia and her most recent husband John would divorce, he would move out of the house leaving both Cynthia and Pazuzu to fend for themselves.
Pazuzu was already troubled young man but things would start to go downhill pretty fast from here,on top of his multiple anxieties,Pazuzu was also diagnosed with schizophrenia and severe depresssion.
He’d take medication for these Illnesses but as everything else in his life they were abused.
Drugs became Pazuzu’s only currency, satanic tattoos started to appear all over his face and body,he carved the number 666 into his skin and he braided metal into his hair.
He even stopped showering and brushing his teeth believing that filth gave them extra powers,his satanic ritual developed to newfound heights too ,on the full moon of every month his mother would go to the local pet store to by him a living rabbit, she would give the rabbit to Pazuzu who would then take the rabbit down to the local Yadkin river and eats its heart.
According to Pazuzu ,this ritual would provide him a rush like no other,nothing else in his life compared to it and although Pazuzu was agoraphobic, he did had multiple friends and multiple partners too.
His main partner went by the name of Amber Burch also known as bubbles and she would follow him religiously.
The two of them along with multiple friends of Pazuzu would routinely partake in bloodletting in local graveyards.
And self- harm while be drinking at home,all of these bizarre interests and hobbies for Pazuzu would continue to escalate as well.
He became obsessed with the famous cult leader Charles manson and through direct inspiration he created his own family.
He began to invite friends mostly women to live in his home and he referred to all of his girlfriends as his fiancees.
Crystal Matlock would join Amber as one of Pazuzu’s main girlfriends .
And the three of them began to live polyamorous life of drugs,rituals and orgies with strangers.
There lifestyle descended further into indulgent madness.
Pazuzu’s mother Cynthia who was okay to confine herself mostly to just her bedroom and ensuite bathroom,gave him tfree roam of the entire house.
He began to trash it,leaving litter and animals droppings all over the floor.
Satanic markings began to appear all over the walls and doors.
And the front door was an unwelcome sign too.with a sticker above saying
” no police are welcome”
The sign below taunted anyone who supported the law and another sticker said” evil will triumph.”
His lifestyle of drugs, alcohol and partying never ended, Pazuzu’s house became known as a place without laws or rules,somewhere to be yourself without consequence.
It was during these parties while drunk and high that Pazuzu would often bring up elaborate stories of him murdering other people,even claiming to have killed a couple prostitutes before eating parts of their bodies.
Friends of Pazuzu never took his claim seriously though or is shrugging it off believing that he was just going through a bender of alcohol and drugs in his system,but Pazuzu was always stone cold about these facts.
We’re briefly heading over to Virginia ,just north from north carolina,the year is now 2006,Josh Wetzler and his wife Stacy had both bought a small farm together to start a business in rehabilitating and training horses,the two were a young couple with compassionate vision to care for animals, they’d met a couple years prior and this business was always part of their great plans.
Josh was an admirer of animals and people,he was outgoing, caring and kind and while he did like to spend his time with the more free-spirited people, Josh was wholesome and genuine.
With great surprise one morning, stacy was found to be pregnant and without said the two had even more to look forward together,but then in mid 2007 at the start of the great recession,companies across the US started to fail and as a direct result Josh and stacy’s business lost out on the loan they had desperately been hoping for.
By 2008,the couple were several months behind their mortage repayments and so they were forced to close up, and as the business started to crumble so did their relationship,eventually they decided to take a break from each other.
Stacy moved on to another farm for some work and meanwhile Josh moved into a small trailer, and without being able to find employment or make money Josh turned to selling drugs,this was a bad move and things continued to go south for him.
Latertht year ,police would raid his trailer on an anonymous tip and as a result he was convicted on drug charges, now making it even harder of him to find honest work,this actually spiraled Josh into a world of guilt and poverty.
But Josh tried to keep positive about the situation,sure he lost his business,he’s wife and hi white vest, but he still ad a kid and a great friendship with Stacy.
The two were even thinking about rekindling things,but suddenly in july 2009 police found his vehicle abandoned in the parking lot,key’s in the ignition,the door not fully closed, window rolled down.
And since that day,he hadn’t been in any contact with Stacy or any of his friends,police failed to share details of Josh’s car to Stacy and Stacy thinking that Josh was trying to lay low from the police didn’t report him missing either and so on that not Josh Wetzler disappeared.
Three monts later ,back over the state line in Clemmons North Carolina.
A man by the name of Tommy Welsh had planned to catch up with his brother Rusty at his place on October the third.
Tommy was 31 and his brother 30, Rusty was working the day shift at his local Dominoes that day, so it meant that the two would have to catch up around dinner,perfect timign for Rusty to bring home some pizza,but when Rusty got to his apartment at around 6 pm Tommy failed to meet him.
This was unusual, Tommy was a punctual man,Rusty texted and then called Tommy,the pizza slowly turning cold,but no dice,Tommy never answered.
So as always the unstoppable sun set late that evening and it just like clockwork it rose again the next day but after a worrying night,Tommy’s silence still remained,in fact it did every day after that, because just like Josh Tommy vanished into thin air.
Back at Pazuz’s house the situation since we last spoke about him had progessed to newfound lows,through several years of drugs, parying and refraining from cleaning or Washing the place was a disgrace.
It was getting so bad in fact that the floors were now almost impossible to see and the home’s odor was reportedly the worse smell many visitors had ever experienced.
Pazuzu was still getting high, drawing on the walls with his own blood,even routinely urinating and defecating in front of his friends on his own carpet.
Hed also filed his teeth down with the dremel into sharp points and his tongue was split in two down te middle, just like a snake.
And while these things are all outrageous they technically aren’t criminal.
He was still ramblingon with his stories of killing homeless people and prostitutes too but now he was also claiming that he had a dead body down in his basement, apparently he had shot a man six times and he’d concealed the body downstairs in his basement with cat litter and bleacch.
His frends just as high as Pazuzu though shrugged it off.
But the next day one of Pazuzu’sfriend remembered the conversation and after seing several members of Pazuzu’s family acting suspicious with a shovel she decided to inform police.
It was on this day of August the 3rd 2009 that Pazuzu first appeared on the police’s radar,ms Billings met up with a detective in a local park and informed him that she had been told by a friend that Pazuzu had burried a body in the backyard, police investigated the claim by asking Pazuzu if this was true and if they could look around, he responded with “no” and “no” and that was it.
Police left with no further investigations planne.
And the next months on september the 24th an anonymous tip came in with pretty much the exact same information but surprisingly police did nothing with this.
Being uneasy with the situation the friend would eventually go back to Pazuzu with a secret audio recorder and while recording,she received verbal admission from Pazuzu and several of his friends that he had indeed killed someone.
But when this was given to police- again, nothing progressed out of this.
It was only in February 2010 after Josh seperated wife Stacy went to police after hearing rumors about Josh’s death and at this point police finally executed a search warrant on Pazuzu’s property.
Fourth time ,however still nothing,even with cadaver dogs out in the backyard no trace of human remains were ever found.
But despite these multiple visits from law enforcement over the course of two or so years, Pazuzu and his family and fiancees made no effort to tone their wild lifestyle down ,instead things would get a lot more turbulant.
In may 2010 Pazuzu choked his own mother ,she pressed charges against him but would eventually drop them later.
The first very serious incident occured on June 7, 2010 ,when a young man by the name of Josheph Chandler was found dead along the Yadkin River, he was shot in the back of the head and police would eventually link his death to Nicholas Rizzi one of Pazuzu’s friend.
Pazuzu allegedly had nothing to do with this but he would try to cover Rizzy on this one,ultimately this case would end on a 13-month charge of involuntary manslaughter for Rizzi, for Pazuzu,he would only be charged with accessory to murder with five years probation at home .
And later on in 2011 it would be Amber that would assault Cynthia this time. however , Amber would never be charge or convicted for her actions.
And Cynthia failed to pursue prosecution for any further assaults either ,stating that she was fearful of her son and his religious practices.
But finally in 2014 after all the crazy twists and turns to the story,luck run out for Pazuzu,it was late one night in october at one of his house parties that Pazuzu asked one of his oldest friends Matt Flowers to help him murder someone at a party, Matt hesitantly declined the offer and instead he descreetly told the target to get the hell out of there
And then Matt went to police the very next day loading them with his concerns and details ,Matt was actually a war veteran, and following his passive level of authority,police seemed to actually respect and listen to the guy.
It was from this new tip that police decided they would conduct a second search warrant of Pazuz’s property and unlike the first time,this one would be different.
On october the 5th 2014 authorities executed their search warrant at 2749 Knob hill drive ,Pazuzu along with his mother and everyone else in the house were temporarily vacated from the property
When police entered from the front door it was as if it was a portal to another world,the stench of filth along with the contrast and atmosphere instantly hit them,grafiti and imagery littered the walls and ceilings,satanic symbols were found everywhere.
The house was infested with flies,dead and alive and animal droppings as well as human droppings were found throughout the property,over 15 cats,several dogs,multiple snakes and other animals that Pazuzu would use to sacrifice or lived here.
In parts of the house it wasn’t even possible to see the floor,feces wascaked into the carpet, and where there wasn’t trash mold covered the walls and ceilings.
In the basement things were no better either, the place was a wreck furnitures was broken beyond recognition, and with this space being partially exposed to the outdoors things decayed a lot wuicker down here too,an area covered in chlorine and cat litter was spotted resembling the story that Pazuzu once shared while horrendously drunk.
And outside the weight of this story finally set in and therefore they had areas of interest to carefully dig.
When they did their worst fears were finally confirmed, there they found the bodies of two men.
Both of them so thoroughly exposed to the elements ,that it would take forensic team a long time just to understand what they were looking at.
In conclusion reports would later identify the two men to be Josh Wetzler and Tommy Welsh,both of them who had disappeared over five years ago were here all along, all those rumors of anonymous tips to police were correct.
The two were buried separately in their own shallow graves,as time went on details around the deaths would come to light…
the motive for why Josh was killed was never identified,Pazuzu eventually shot him in the head he then wore josh’s bloody bandana as a throphy for days afterwards, his friends and videos confirmed this.
Tommy was picked up by Amber from a gas station three months later, he then returned to Pazuzu’s house to drink a few beers, and what sat on the couch Amber shot him in the back of the head with a 22 caliber rifle,he was later buried in the backyard too.
Following the discovery of the bodies both Pazuzu and Amber were each charged with one count of murder and one count of accessory after the fact to murder,it was also learned that during the time of both murders,Pazuzu’s mother Cynthia was actually in the property and aware of what was going on.
At one point she even came out to see Pazuzu standing over Tommy’s body,she failed to report either incident to police either,instead she went back to her room and got ready for work.
And despite this ,she would avoid all charges in the future too.
And regrettably before his trial would even start Pazuzu escaped his unwanted time in the spotlight,by ending his own life.
On the 28th of October 2015 he was found dead in a cell with multiple wounds to his body.
This would leave Amber Burch to face the jury all on her own.
And after being made aware of the seriousness to a situation she entered a deal of pleading guilty to second-.degree murder, armed robbery and accessory after the fact to murder.
As a result the judge sentenced her to a maximum of 39 years behind bars, she is projected to be released in 2045.
And in June 2017, Pazuzu’s other fiance Crystal Matlock also pled guilry to conspiracy to commit accessory after the fact to second degree murder, she was sentenced to a minimum of three years and 10 months behind bars.
And so goes the disturbing story of Pazuzu Algarad, a horrifying case of negligence more than anything else.
In this case we’re once again reminded of the importance of mental health.
Pazuzu was clinically a psychotic man and he was someone who seriously needed supervised mental health treatment,but he was never quite pointed in the right direction for this .
He had schizotypal personality disorder,panic disorder, agoraphobia,alcoholic dependence and severe anxiety, and this illnessess all perpetuated a troubled mind one that eventually became obsessed with satan.
But instead of helping him with any of his issues when red flags appeared during his younger years,his mother turned a blind eye and even fed into a sick fantasy,eventually along with all her negligence the damage to Pazuzu was too much to heal.
And from early 2000s onwards as Pazuzu escalated from bad to worse to become dangerous,his friends ignored all of the red flags too, never taking any of his obvious threats seriously.
Eventually it led to the deaths of not just two but three innocent people.
Josh Wetzler,Tommy Welsh and Joseph Chandler.
Yet still police ignored multiple tips from various sources that claimed two bodies were in the backyard and even he ran into the law he was put on probation without any close supervision or proper treatment.
Wheter Pazuzu actaully had any more victims it will probably never be known but in his stories to his friends while drunk and high he did talk about killing other people.
With him dead though it is unlikely that we will ever know what his actual body counts is.
Amber was just as bad as Pazuzu but being exposed and influenced by him from very young age of 15 and Pazuzu being known to be a heavily manipulative guy there is arguments that his influence was a strong factor here.
Pazuzu’s house was demolished in 2015, this is obviously because the house was uninhabitable after years of partying and pooping on the carpets.
And today the plot of land where two men were killed is still vacant.