Written and directed by Chris Holt, the documentary will feature interviews with Are Johnson himself as well as others involved with the case. Ed and Lorrain Warren deemed Johnson possessed, giving is lawyer a unique argument.Ī new Netflix documentary, T he Devil On Trialwill delve into what led up to the case, the crime, and the reported possession. He and his landlord, Alan Bono, got in a fight that ended with Bono dead. In the months leading up to the murder, the brother of Arne’s girlfriend was reportedly possessed and in February of 1981 the entity took over Johnson.
You may remember Johnson’s story thanks to 2021’s The Conjuring: The Devil Made Me Do It, but the story is very much based in reality. But what made his case unique? It was the first case to be heard in a modern court of murder by possession.
On November 24, 1981, Arne Cheyenne Johnson was found guilty of first-degree manslaughter. Did the devil really make him do it? That’s the question people have been wondering for decades.
