“True Detective” Was Inspired by This Extremely Disturbing Case [VIDEO] - town of Ponchatoula, Louisiana involved Satanic rituals, child abuse, and animal sacrifices

“True Detective” Was Inspired by This Extremely Disturbing Case [VIDEO] 
October 2, 2014 By Ben Lester

While Robert W. Chambers’s novel The King in Yellow directly inspired Nic Pizzolatto’s first critically acclaimed season of True Detective, it was not the only source material used for the show. Ten years ago, a notorious case plagued the town of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, that involved Satanic rituals, child abuse, and animal sacrifices.

In an attempt to connect the dots between one of the most gruesome crimes ever committed and HBO’s buzzing anthology series, VICE traveled down to Louisiana and met with the real-life Rust and Marty in the first episode of The Real.

The episode synopsis reads as follows:

Ten years ago, the town of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, was traumatized when a local church’s secret Satan worship, ritualized child molestation, and animal sacrifices came to light. Rust Cohle may be a fictional character, and time may not really be a flat circle, but that sounds an awful lot like the events of the first season of HBO’s hit True Detective. In this episode of our brand-new series The Real, we went down to Ponchatoula to meet Stuart Murphy and Tom Tedder, two law enforcement officials who helped put these terrible, true events in Ponchatoula’s rearview mirror.
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The Real and Disturbing Story That Inspired ‘True Detective’ (Documentary) Thu 2 Oct 2014
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