The our bodies have been discovered Friday, and native police have famous that the date the murders occurred coincides with a blue moon, which happen occasionally.
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The three victims – 77-year-old Voncile Smith and her sons, 49-year-old Richard Thomas Smith and 47-year-old John William Smith – came from a “very reclusive family”, the sheriff said. Morgan said that their “person of interest has some ties to a faith or religion that is indicative of that”.
A mother and her two adult sons were the reported victims of what is suspected to have been a ritualistic killing on July 28 in Florida.
The Pensacola News Journal reports that Escambia County Sheriff’s Office Sheriff David Morgan said all three died of blunt force trauma after being hit with a claw hammer and that all three had their throats slit.
Sheriff David Morgan says triple homicide may have been related to Witchcraft and a blue moon. The three bodies were discovered by deputies conducting a welfare check at their home on Deerfield Drive. The Smith family had a safe containing $7,000 in their home, but the suspect didn’t take anything of value in the aftermath of the crime, they said.
Though Hobbes, like Morgan, mentioned that the police have a “person of interest” in mind who they think might have committed the murders, no arrests have so far been made.
As of Tuesday afternoon, investigators had spoken to an individual of curiosity, in accordance with the, and they’re described as a white male. Richard Thomas Smith, a Department of Homeland Security employee, was also shot in the head.
Morgan, according to the Daily Mail, mentioned that “There are different factions of [witchcraft]”. “While it doesn’t bother me to release that particular thing, we most assuredly do not want to defame or demean any particular practice, if you will”.
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A “blue” moon is what it’s called when there are two full moons in the same calendar month.
