The Devil You Know

The Devil You Know, a five-part docuseries by Viceland, follows John Lawson as he goes from the odd neighbour everyone avoided to the newly labelled Pazuzu Algarad, a wannabe Satanic cult leader who, in 2009, boasted of killing people and keeping dead bodies in his basement. This boast led to his arrest for murder in 2014. Two bodies were later recovered from his back garden. He was eventually found unresponsive in his cell, and his death was deemed a suicide.

Filmmaker Patricia E. Gillespie directs the series, which delves into the life of Pazuzu through the voices of journalists, investigators, some of Algarad’s associates, and the friends and family of his victims. In this series, she attempts to uncover the truth behind one of the saddest stories to rock the largely Christian town of Clemmons, North Carolina.