“It started with a girl.

Kathy Herold was murdered in the mid-eighties at a place called Snakeland, an abandoned grain elevator and popular party spot for Kenmore West students. The old grain elevators were about smoking weed, getting drunk and partying. Herold’s murder was never solved, but there were leads to some kind of alleged Satanic cult operating there, as reported by The Buffalo News. Later that year, John Justice of Kenmore West stabbed his mother, brother and father to death. Then, after a failed suicide attempt, drove the family car through a stoplight and smashed into Wayne Haun’s vehicle, killing Haun. The next year, three other students committed suicide. And research two decades later by writer Jason Gusmann and artist Aaron O’Brian uncovered even more cases of murder, suicide and accidental death around the time of Herold’s murder in the ‘quaint’ community of Kenmore, NY.” – Benjamin Joe, “Punks, Satan, Dope & Murder“, 1120 Press

Graphic Novel. Out of Print. Background materials and comic art available on site.

Podcast. All episodes available for download on site. (Kathy Herold, L; John Justice, R)

Historic Materials. Period news articles, photographs, and a finalized timeline of the various events that made up the main period of 1985-1988 covered by the podcast. Available on site.