commentary by Patrick H. Moore & Others
The “evil Gods” are alive and well in Clemmons, North Carolina. And since every high priest of evil needs at least one acolyte, our Ungodly Man of the Day, a 35-year-old curiosity who goes by the name of Pazuzu Illah Algarad, has two loyal female retainers: Amber Nicole Burch, 24, and Krystal Nicole Matlock, 28.
Naturally, our man Pazuzu, who appears to be the sort of cannibal-murderer who prefers to dispose of the skeletons of his murder victims in his own back yard rather than dumping them in secluded nether regions, lives just off Peace Haven Road. How he worked this one out is anybody’s guess, but facts are facts.
Like last month’s prize model for peculiarity, Caius Veiovis, Pazuzu has also adopted a flashy pseudonym. His real name is the far more pedestrian John Lawson.
Now I want to make things perfectly clear and I do not want to come across as a complete ass. There is absolutely nothing wrong with a young man adopting a “look at me” persona in an attempt to draw attention to oneself. I did it myself when I was one of the “young dudes” and it is not something I regret or am ashamed of. Rather, I think, it’s just part of growing up for insecure souls who feel the need to be noticed and are not sure how to accomplish that without putting on a bit of the Dr. Strange.
This behavior pattern, however, becomes highly problematic when it leads to serious crime, which, if the jury got it right, is what happened in the case of the Horned-Man Veiovis,. If the allegations are correct, such is also the case with the majestic Pazuzu, whose name reportedly comes from the mythological king of the demons of the wind.
Pazuzu is currently charged with one count of murder and one count of accessory after the fact to murder.
Two people whose skeletal remains were found buried in a Clemmons backyard Sunday were killed in 2009, Forsyth County deputies allege in court documents obtained by WXII Tuesday.
The remains were found in the 2700 block of Knob Hill Drive off Peace Haven Road. No names have been released, though warrants identified one of the bodies as a male.
Pazuzu Illah Algarad, 35, of Clemmons; Amber Nicole Burch, 24, of Clemmons; and Krystal Nicole Matlock, 28, of Winston-Salem, have been arrested so far in the ongoing investigation.
Like Pazuzu, Ms. Burch, who apprently lived with him at the address on Knob Hill Drive, faces one count of murder and one count of accessory after the fact to murder. Both of them are being held without bond in the Forsyth County Detention Center.
The deputies allege that Pazuzzu killed one of the victims sometime after June 1, 2009, and Ms. Burch helped him bury the body in July of that year. They also allege that the third defendant, Ms. Matlock, also helped Pazuzu perform the burial.
With a name like Pazuzu and with two acolytes standing by, the burial should have been performed with pomp and circumstance, but based on the fact the bodies were found buried in shallow graves, this may not be the case.
Pazuzuz’s charge of accessory after the fact to murder stems from the fact that he allegedly helped Ms. Burch dispose of the body of a victim she had murdered in early October of 2009, the second of the two bodies recovered in the twin shallow graves in Pazuzu’s backyard.
The remains of both bodies have been transported to Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center for further evaluation and, hopefully, positive identification.
It appears that the act of murder, like most if not all all bad habits, can be habit-forming, and based on Pazuzu’s example, it appears that acting as an accessory after the fact can also be addictive. In 2010, almost precisely a year after the first of the 2009 murders, he was again charged with accessory after the fact in connection with the shooting death of Joseph Emmrick Chandler, also of Clemmons, a legally blind man, whose body was found on June 7, 2010, at the Yadkin River Access at Donnaha Park.
In the Chandler case, Pazuzu got off rather easily, receiving a 5-year split sentence that included probation.
Digging up dead bodies and scouring property can be time-consuming and according to neighbors, the investigation of Knob Hill Road began on Sunday morning and SBI tents were still erected on the property on Tuesday morning.
Unsurprisingly, there had long been rumors to the effect that Pazuzu may have buried corpses in his backward. Sebastian Murdoch of Huffington Post writes:
Bianca Heath claimed she lived with Algarad for a month in 2005, and that he had spoken of the bones in his back yard.
“Paz told everyone,” Heath told The Huffington Post. “But I never believed him. I’m sure no one else believed him either. He laughed about the skeletal remains when telling the story on why he did what he did.”
According to Ms. Bianca, Pazuzu laughingly informed her that he had picked up two prostitutes at two separate locations, after which he killed and ate them before burning the leftovers in a fire pit prior to burying the skeletons.
“I never once saw the skeleton bodies, I honestly thought he was lying, now I’m not sure what to believe,” Heath said.
An anonymous post on an online message board dated 2012 states:
“He has bragged to other members of my family about sick things he has done and told them he has killed other people and has buried other bodies.”
Like anyone dedicated to self-promotion (which at this point includes a large percentage of social media conscious Americans), Pazuzu has/had what he no doubts considers a very cool Facebook page featuring “a large collection of pictures featuring demonic creatures and upside down crosses.”
In her interview, Ms. Heath described Pazuzu as a worshipper of “evil gods.”
Although eye-catching murderers such as Pazuzu certainly have at least a modicum of entertainment value (assuming he is guilty of the charges), it is sobering to think that he is apparently just one of a huge number of twisted young men capable of taking life in a most cavalier fashion.
On Monday morning, in response to the “wannabe Dexter” post about Steven Miles, who murdered and dismembered his 17-year-old girlfriend, retired parole officer Stephen Daniels wrote:
As a retired high risk parole agent, I had the opportunity to interview and/or research files of nearly 200 convicted murderers.
First, there are many youth who are teetering on the brink of killing. They are inundated with violent images, and with other stimuli, such as drugs, games, etc, have a difficult time sorting out the noise of violence that surrounds them. (Not) all kids who are involved with violent images become killers, but it is simply one more ingredient in the stew.
Second, I think it is time to define the serial killer mentality qualitatively, not by quantity of victims. I would imagine this young boy in the “Dexter” story fits many of the serial killer red flags.
What is striking to me about Pazuzu’s “serial killer style” (and with one murder to his credit and two accessory after the fact allegations, he certainly seems to more or less fall into the general serial killer category) is the utter casualness with which he approaches his craft, telling his pals and lovers about his foul deeds as if they are mere trifles rather than the brutal taking of lives.
This is some scary stuff: to take someone life is arguably the most serious of crimes, but to take life and laugh about it, as if it was just good jovial fun, is a quintessentially disturbing phenomenon.