The Devil's Work

"I love you and I'm going to bed", were the last words Elyse Pahler ever said to her parents.

Little did she know that she was about to begin a waking nightmare that would end in her grisly murder.

Later that night, Elyse slipped out of her parents' house for a bit of forbidden fun.

She never suspected that three local boys - two of whom took the school bus with her - were outside in the dark waiting to perform a human sacrifice in the name of Satan.

Prosecutors say the three boys dragged a terrified Elyse to a deserted area they believed was the devil's alter, where, after being drugged, tortured and raped, she died of multiple stab wounds.

For eight months, Elyse's body lay hidden in a eucalyptus grove until an unexpected tip to police revealed the ghastly crime. "The Devil's Work" is an unthinkable tragedy, a horrifying voyage into the deepest evil imaginable.