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The Stanford Murders | Four Bodies, Two Killers, & One Satanic Link

2025/4/18
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It was October 12th, 1974. Newlyweds Arliss and Bruce Perry were walking through Stanford University's prestigious campus. They were 19-year-old high school sweethearts from Bismarck, North Dakota. They were head over heels in love, and they were good Christian kids.

They went to church, said their prayers, and came from families deeply committed to their faith. So much so, that they even tried reaching out to members of so-called "Satanic cults" in hopes of converting them. But not everyone wants saving, and it's possible that one of those dark-hearted souls didn't take kindly to the offer, and followed Arliss and Bruce to California.

On the night of the 12th, around 11:30 p.m., Arliss and Bruce began arguing about the tire pressure on their car. One of the tires was deflating, and both thought the other was responsible for filling it. The argument, as insignificant as it may seem, was enough to push Arliss away. She told Bruce she wanted to be left alone to pray at Stanford Memorial Church on campus. Bruce honored her wishes and went home.

He knew Arliss wouldn't be long, and the church was only a short walk from their on-campus apartment. The on-duty church security guard that evening was ex-Stanford cop Steven Crawford. He reported seeing Arliss enter the church around 11:50. Two other people were inside, but they left as Arliss knelt to pray. At first, Arliss' late-night prayer session was a thorn in Steven's side.

Part of his closing duties involved shutting the church down and locking the doors. Obviously, he couldn't do that with worshippers still inside. Lucky for him, Arliss didn't plan on staying long. When he emerged from the security room around midnight, he saw that the church was empty. He locked all the doors and returned around 2 o'clock to check them again. Nothing was out of the ordinary. Meanwhile, Bruce began worrying at home as the clock struck 3 a.m.

He called Stanford police and told them that Arliss was missing. Officers checked the church, but everything was locked up tight, and you couldn't hear a peep, not even a church mouse. On the morning of October 13th, around 5:45 AM, Stephen Crawford arrived to open the church. To his surprise, he noticed that the west side door was ajar, as if someone had forced it open from the inside. He entered cautiously.

Perhaps some kids had broken in and trashed the place. "Hello?" he called, his voice echoing off the walls. Nobody answered back. That's when Stephen noticed blood on the floor toward the front of the church. His pace quickened. He scurried down the center aisle to find Arliss' body in the front pew. She was naked from the waist down, her jeans were laid over her torso, and an ice pick protruded from the back of her head, only the pointy part.

Police never found the handle. Arliss's neck was broken and her arms were criss-crossed over her chest, holding a three-foot candlestick almost ritualistically between her breasts. Another three-foot candlestick had been forced up her vagina. "We have a stiff in here," Crawford said when he called the sheriff's office. It was an odd choice of words, but they made sense at the time. Stanford was a city plagued by murder in the early 1970s.

Arliss was the fourth dead body since 1973, and that's only including the bodies with ties to the Stanford campus. The first was Leslie Perlov, a 21-year-old graduate who was found strangled to death in the foothills overlooking the school. The next body belonged to David Levine, a 20-year-old junior considered brilliant among his peers.

He was found stabbed to death on September 11th, 1973, after leaving his job at the Stanford Physics Lab. The third victim, 21-year-old Janet Taylor, was sexually assaulted and strangled to death. A passing milkman found her body discarded west of Interstate 280 in March of 1974. She was the daughter of Chuck Taylor, the Stanford football coach between 1951 and 1957.

Arliss Perry's case was the cherry on top. With it came wild theories about satanic cults, the son of Sam, and Ted Bundy's alleged involvement, even though the police ruled him out. Somebody was killing young kids with ties to Stanford University. Was it a coincidence? Or were these targeted attacks on one of America's most prestigious schools? It's been half a century since the killing spree,

Advancements in DNA technology have helped solve three of the murders. Meanwhile, the fourth remains ice cold. Part 1: Breeding Grounds There must have been something in the water. During the 1970s, the San Francisco Bay Area was a breeding ground for serial killers. Ed Kemper stalked and murdered female hitchhikers near Santa Cruz.

Meanwhile, the Zodiac Killer killed at least five people in isolated areas around San Francisco. Joseph DeAngelo, aka the Golden State Killer, almost got away with murdering over a dozen people until he was caught in 2018. Then there was Charles Jackson, the East Bay Slayer, who butchered at least eight victims in the Bay Area between 1975 and 1982.

Murder rates hit an all-time high between 1976 and 77, with 146 killings each year. That's nearly 300 dead bodies in a city of roughly 700,000 people. There's a reason Northern California is largely considered the birthplace of the American serial killer. The Stanford murders were only four drops in a bucket of blood. Leslie Perlov loved art and literature.

The 21-year-old worked part-time at the Stanford Law Library. She had just graduated and was excited about attending law school at the University of Pennsylvania. Her dreams of becoming a lawyer were only a few semesters away. It was February 13th, 1973. Leslie was last seen around 3 p.m., leaving the law library in Palo Alto.

On most sunny days, Leslie would walk the foothills south of the Stanford campus before returning home. Unfortunately, on this particular day, somebody was hiding in the trees, waiting for her. She was missing for three days before police finally found her car parked off Old Page Mill Road. Shortly after, police discovered her body in an isolated and densely wooded area.

She'd been strangled to death, seemingly with her own scarf. She was naked from the waist down with obvious signs of sexual assault. Her face was severely bruised, and her killer had shoved her underwear down her throat. She clawed and fought her attacker, managing to get fragments of his DNA stuck under her fingernails. Unfortunately, police would have to wait several decades for technology to catch up.

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Midnight had come and gone when David Levine, a junior at Stanford University, left his job at the campus physics lab. He walked alone through a deserted campus in the early hours of September 11th, 1973. He was a young man at the time, when young women were preyed upon. What could he possibly have to fear? He was passing by the Meyer Undergraduate Library when somebody pounced on him.

David was stabbed over a dozen times, ripping his back and organs to pieces. Police believe the attack continued from behind after David fell to the ground. They could only describe it as swift and vicious. David likely never saw his attacker. He didn't even have an opportunity to fight back. The crime scene didn't offer much regarding motive or evidence.

David's wallet was still in his back pocket, and his watch was strapped around his wrist when, according to news reports, a jogger found his body around 3:00 AM. Based on the timeline, that same jogger likely missed the attack by mere minutes.

David didn't have a single enemy on Earth. He was a smart kid with a bright future in physics. He impressed Stanford researchers so much that they hired him to work in the lab, a position typically reserved for top undergrads. Perhaps a jaded physics peer killed him out of jealousy. Early theory suggested that David's murder was tied to the racially motivated zebra murders that plagued the Bay Area between 1973 and 1974.

The killing spree involved four black men who targeted at least 15 white victims at random. They were Manuel Moore, Larry Green, Jesse Lee Cooks, and J.C. Simon. They liked to call themselves the Death Angels, and some believe they were responsible for over 70 murders in the San Francisco area. One criminology professor believes they killed more people than all the other serial killers operating during that period combined.

While Moore, Green, Cooks, and Simon were the only ones convicted of the Zebra murders, investigators believe other accomplices are still out there. Police could prove their killing spree began in October of '73, but circumstantial evidence suggests it started much sooner. That means they could have easily murdered David Levine for no other reason than the color of his skin. The connection, however, was thin.

Police only suspected the death angels due to the randomness of the attack and a witness who claimed to have seen black men in the area that night. After his pro days, Chuck returned to Stanford as a head coach until 1957. Then, between 1963 and 1971, he worked as the school's athletic director. Janet grew up in the Bay Area and had been around Stanford all her life.

She was young and in love with her boyfriend, Russell Bissonette. They lived together in La Honda, a small town about 16 miles southwest of the university. March 24th, 1974 began with a stroke of bad luck. Janet's car wouldn't start, so Russell had to drive her to work that day. He dropped her off and kissed her goodbye. He couldn't have known it would be for the last time.

After work, Janet caught a ride to her best friend Deborah's house on the Stanford campus. The girls spent the afternoon and early evening together. At which point, Janet wanted to head home as the clock struck 7:00 PM. She was worried that nobody had been by her place to feed her dogs. She wanted to get home quickly, so she decided to hitchhike instead of waiting for a ride. Deborah protested, but Janet had already made up her mind.

That night, Russell grew worried when Janet never showed up. The following day, he called Janet's friends and family, asking if anybody had seen her. Nobody had. Later that day, a milkman was driving along Sand Hill Road when he spotted some debris in the street. He stopped his truck and stepped out to investigate, only realizing that this debris was a dead body when he got close enough.

While Leslie Perlov's body was found in the foothills south of Stanford, Janet's was found in the foothills west of campus. She was barefoot, though her feet were oddly clean despite the mud. It had also been raining all night, so police found it strange that Janet's body was damp on top and dry underneath. Her clothes were torn and her underwear was missing. Her face was severely bruised and it looked like she was strangled to death with her sweater.

Police found traces of DNA on Janet's clothes, but couldn't do anything with it at the time. So, like the DNA under Leslie's fingernails, police bagged and tagged the evidence, hoping that one day, forensic technology would advance enough to identify their killer. Part 3: A Good Christian Girl Arliss Perry was born in Linton, North Dakota, on February 22, 1955.

She was the youngest of three daughters. Her parents, Marvin and Jean, were devout and strict Catholics. The family moved to the state capital of Bismarck in 1963, where Marvin and Jean founded the Bismarck Community Church. Arliss got involved when she was older, ultimately working for a Christian youth group and teaching Sunday school. Arliss lived a controlled and isolated life. When she wasn't at home, she was at school or church.

Then, everything changed when she met Bruce Perry. They were high school sweethearts, as cliche as they come. He was Stanford-bound and Arliss wanted to go with him. Unfortunately, strict Catholic tradition kept her locked up at home. If Bruce wanted her to come west, he'd have to marry her. They were only 19 when they married on August 17th, 1974. They spent their short honeymoon at a cabin owned by Arliss' parents.

Then, they were off to California, where Arliss would spend the final eight weeks of her life. They lived in Quillen Hall in Escondido Village, a dormitory for married couples and families. Bruce was a second-year pre-med student working full-time to support himself and Arliss. Arliss loved the Stanford campus, especially the Memorial Church. However, mass and prayer weren't enough to cure her loneliness.

She was alone in California and barely saw Bruce between class and work. Her letters home to North Dakota expressed as much. To distract herself, she began working as a receptionist at a nearby law firm. Suddenly, her letters changed. Arliss loved California. The weather was beautiful and life was falling into place. It ended in a flash. She and Bruce began fighting over tire pressure on the night of October 12th.

She asked for some alone time at the church, and Bruce never saw his new wife alive again. Officers flooded the scene after Stephen Crawford called to alert them about Arliss's body. They found two key pieces of hard evidence: a DNA sample from semen found on a kneeling pillow, and a palm print around one of the candles. The palm print didn't match Stephen Crawford or Bruce Perry, so both men were ruled out after further questioning.

Police didn't think Arliss's murder was related to Leslie, David, and Janet, though they couldn't know for sure. A witness claimed they saw a 25-year-old man with sandy blonde hair and a medium build entering the church around the same time Arliss did. A few days later, police learned that another man in his 20s with sandy blonde hair and an athletic build had visited Arliss at work 36 hours before the murder.

Arliss's co-workers said she and the man spoke privately for about 15 minutes. When Arliss came back, she seemed upset by the conversation. Police asked Bruce if this interaction meant anything to him, but he had no idea who this man could have been. Arliss's death finally drew the FBI into the Stanford case. They believed their killer was a young man between 17 and 22 years old.

He had a military background and likely collected trophies from his victims. All eyes returned to Stephen Crawford, among the last people to see Arliss alive. He claims she was likely inside with her killer when he locked the doors. How he didn't see or hear her is anybody's guess. A passerby later told police that they heard a noise inside the church between 12:15 and 12:30, after Stephen had locked the doors.

When this passerby stopped to investigate, the noise suddenly stopped. At this point, Crawford was their primary suspect because he had failed to do his job. He, however, passed a polygraph test and he didn't match the available evidence. Arliss may have died on his watch, but police didn't believe he killed her. Police compared the candlestick palm print to over 100 suspects, including the chapel dean. None of them matched.

Everyone inside the church that night was ruled out, all except for the one, the young man with sandy blonde hair. Unfortunately, he could have been anybody in Southern California. Rumors quickly spread after Arliss's body was sent home and buried in Bismarck. Somebody stole her temporary headstone, leading some to believe her killer followed her from Bismarck to California, or vice versa.

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Part 4: The Ultimate Evil In his book, The Ultimate Evil, author and reporter Maury Terry proposes that Arliss's death was not the work of one random killer, but a band of psychopathic devil-worshippers. He claims that a satanic cult in Bismarck followed Arliss to California to kill her. He and many others believe her body was arranged ritualistically. This theory was based on a story Bruce's parents had heard about Arliss and another girl.

According to the Perrys, Arliss and an unnamed girlfriend had crossed into the neighboring city of Mandan during the year that Bruce was away at Stanford. In Mandan, Arliss and her friend tried converting members of a satanic cult called the Process Church of the Final Judgment. Those who knew Arliss claimed it was in her nature. She was a devout Christian who believed everybody, even devil-worshippers, could be turned toward the Lord.

When Arliss was defiled in a church and her headstone stolen, her past missionary work was called into question. Perhaps she pissed off the wrong Satanists. Maury Terry was also among the first to connect the Arliss Perry case with the Son of Sam murders in New York City. When David Berkowitz was arrested in August 1977, he told police that his neighbor, Sam Carr, had a black lab, and that Sam's black lab told Berkowitz to murder people.

He ultimately pleaded guilty to killing six people between eight shootings after eluding one of the largest policeman hunts in New York history. People like Maury Terry don't believe Berkowitz was working alone. They think he was part of a satanic cult and worked in tandem with several others to wreak havoc across the country. Those others included Sam Carr's sons, John and Michael Carr.

Coincidentally, John Carr was found shot to death under suspicious circumstances in Minot, North Dakota, about 100 miles south of Bismarck. Several witnesses claim that Berkowitz and John Carr knew each other and were involved in the occult. According to Lieutenant Terry Gardner of the Ward County Sheriff's Office, John led a group of devil worshippers who once sacrificed a German shepherd and drank its blood.

According to Terry's book, German Shepherds are a recurring theme in the Son of Sam case. In October 1979, Berkowitz tied himself to Arliss Perry when he sent Lieutenant Gardner a package containing the anatomy of witchcraft by Peter Haining. In the margins, Berkowitz had left Lieutenant Gardner a personal note. It read, "Arliss Perry, hunted, stalked and slain." Followed to California, Stanford University.

Gardner called Maury Terry upon reading the note. The two had been working together on cases involving the Church of the Final Judgment, Son of Sam, and the Carr brothers. As they dug into the Arliss Perry case, they discovered that her murder on October 12th coincided with John Carr's birthday and that of Alistair Crowley, a famous English occultist.

They also learned that Santa Clara police had received anonymous newspaper clippings in the mail containing Maury Terry's articles about John Carr and the Son of Sam case. Police in California flew to New York to interview Berkowitz about the Arliss Perry murder. After several hours, they deemed him useless and moved on. It's reasonable to think that David Berkowitz learned about the Arliss Perry case and decided to mess with desperate police officers.

At a time when films like The Exorcist and The Omen terrified a predominantly Catholic America, police officers around the country were quick to blame the devil. In reality, the devil had nothing to do with it. David Berkowitz didn't order the death of Arliss Perry. Satanic stalkers from North Dakota didn't follow her across the country.

Her killer was the most obvious suspect. Unfortunately, it took 40 years and significant technological advancements to bring him to justice. Part 5: The Night Shift Stephen Crawford never changed his story. He locked up the church around midnight, came back around 2 o'clock to check the doors, and then found Arliss Perry's body in the early morning hours when he opened for the day.

He knew it was a lie and had lived with it for over 40 years. In 2018, cold case investigators reopened the Arliss Perry case. They rifled through boxes of evidence until they found a pair of pants labeled as belonging to Arliss. However, they were too large to fit her. According to Stanford Alumni Magazine, the pants were actually Bruce's. It's unclear how the mix-up occurred, but police had been testing the wrong pair since 1974.

When they tested Arliss's pants, they found a semen sample that matched Stephen Crawford's DNA. Santa Clara County Sheriff Lori Smith told reporters in 2018 that Crawford was never technically cleared. They just never had enough evidence to charge him with murder in the 1970s. Crawford was a US Air Force veteran who began working security for Stanford in 1971. Before that, he was an officer with the Stanford Police Department.

However, a new chief arrived in 1970 and reorganized the station. Roughly 75% of the cops, including Crawford, were transferred to menial security gigs. Crawford was disgruntled, to say the least. Apparently, he took that rage out on 19-year-old Arliss Perry. He left Stanford in 1976 to pursue other security work,

In 1992, his ex-wife reported him for creating a fake Stanford diploma. We're guessing he tried to use it to land himself a better paying job. That same year, police arrested Crawford while investigating a series of thefts from the 1970s. Someone had stolen several Native American artifacts, including artwork and sculptures, and about 200 rare books from Stanford's Department of Anthropology.

A 1992 article from the LA Times says, "These artifacts were displayed in Crawford's home. Police didn't think he was trying to sell them. He just liked them and wanted to keep them for himself." Another article claims an anonymous tip led police to Crawford after 20 years. Perhaps his ex-wife ratted him out for this too. It makes you wonder, what else did she know?

Crawford had been living at the Del Coronado apartment complex in San Jose, California since 1993. Neighbors said he was a quiet guy who kept to himself. He walked around with a cane and wore a cowboy hat everywhere he went. According to the building manager, Crawford lived alone and didn't have a job. He got by on social security payments and whatever cash he had in his savings. One of the maintenance workers said that Crawford's apartment was barely furnished.

His only decorations were bronze statues of Native Americans on horseback. Police began questioning Crawford again in early June 2018. He never gave them anything useful, but the DNA sample was enough to secure a search warrant for Crawford's apartment. He must have known the police were coming. On June 28, San Jose police officers knocked on Crawford's door to serve the warrant. They made verbal contact through the door and eventually had to break their way in.

When they did, they saw Crawford standing there with a handgun. Police backed away and tried reasoning with him to drop the weapon. Then, everyone at the Coronado complex heard a loud "BOOM!" When the police went back inside, they found Crawford dead on the floor of a self-inflicted gunshot wound to the head. Upon searching his apartment, police allegedly found a copy of Maurice Terry's book, "The Ultimate Evil," along with a handwritten suicide note on his desk.

According to reports, Arliss Perry was not mentioned in the note or anywhere in his apartment, and there were no signs of anything related to the occult. Jean Dykema, Arliss' 88-year-old mother, was heartbroken that Crawford wasn't caught sooner. Police had him that night. He seemed like the most obvious suspect. And yet he slipped through their fingers and remained at large for 44 years. Sadly, Arliss' father died three months before Crawford killed himself.

"He was possessed with wanting to know who killed their daughter," Jean said. "It's a shame he never learned the truth." As for Bruce Perry, he became a psychiatrist specializing in children's mental health. He has consulted as an expert witness in many high-profile cases involving traumatized kids, including the Columbine Massacre, the Oklahoma City bombing, and the Waco siege. It's unclear if he ever remarried after Arliss' murder. Part 6: The Man From Germany

After 44 years, the police finally closed the book on Arliss Perry. However, there was no trial and no further pursuit of evidence into Stephen Crawford. Because he killed himself, we'll never know why Stephen allegedly murdered and sexually assaulted Arliss that night.

Investigators couldn't question him further about the deaths of Leslie Perloff, Janet Taylor, and David Levine. The same team that tracked down Crawford turned their attention to DNA evidence in the Leslie Perloff case. They used a new method called forensic genetic genealogy, which allows law enforcement to compare crime scene DNA to samples submitted by the public.

It's the same method police used to capture James DeAngelo Jr. aka the Golden State Killer and Brian Koberger, the Idaho student slayer. Coincidentally, the DNA sample identified another former Stanford employee, 74-year-old John Getrue. In the 1970s, he worked as a campus lab tech.

To confirm their suspicions, police compared DNA found under Leslie's fingernails to DNA from John's discarded coffee cup. It was a match, and John was arrested 11 days later. Immediately, he became the primary suspect in the Janet Taylor murder as well. John Getrue was born in August 1944 in Newark, Ohio. His father was in the Army, and the job required the Getrue family to move between different military bases worldwide.

In the 1960s, John's father transferred to a base in West Germany. He spent his teenage years at a special high school for American kids whose parents were in the service. On June 8th, 1963, 18-year-old John took out 15-year-old Maggie Williams to a school dance. From there, the young couple went to a baseball field, where John tried to have sex with Maggie. She resisted, and John proceeded to assault, beat, and rape her.

Maggie suffered a severe head injury and died in the hospital shortly after. Many witnesses saw John and Maggie leave the dance together that night. He denied killing her, but was ultimately found guilty in 1964. However, under German law at the time, John was only sentenced to 10 years in prison. Upon his release six years later, he expressed sorry and apologized to Maggie's family.

However, that didn't change the fact that John had deeply repressed sexual fantasies. John returned to the US and settled in Reno, Nevada. He got married, and the couple moved to Palo Alto, California, where they stayed from 1971 to 1975.

During that time, John worked on the Stanford University campus. He also joined the Boy Scouts of America as a counselor, but was accused and convicted of sexually abusing a 17-year-old girl in 1975. This would have been after the deaths of Janet Taylor and Leslie Perloff. In hindsight, this 17-year-old victim was lucky to be alive. John remarried in 1978.

According to reports, John's first wife left him after she caught him molesting their daughter at a family party. She went on to claim that John had been raping the girl since she was five years old. He moved to Ohio, where he and his new wife had two children. On November 20th, 2018, police arrested John for the murder of Leslie Perloff. In May 2019, he was charged with murdering Janet Taylor after DNA tests linked him to the crime.

Finally, in 2021, John was convicted of Janet's murder and ultimately pleaded guilty to Leslie's in 2023. He was given life sentences in both cases, but those sentences wouldn't last very long. John's health was failing during the Leslie Perloff trial. He was transferred to a prison hospital, where he died in September 2023. He assaulted, raped, and murdered three innocent girls.

He wasn't a devil worshipper, nor did he have anything to do with the occult. He was a predator with violent sexual fantasies. And for it, John Getrue only spent 11 total years behind bars. As of 2025, the only unsolved Stanford murder is that of David Levine. Nobody has ever been arrested, nor has anybody ever come forward as a witness to the crime.

Cold case investigators remain optimistic, as new advances in DNA technology may soon identify a third suspect. They have no reason to believe Steven Crawford or John Getrue randomly killed David that night. They don't think David Berkowitz, the Carr brothers, or the Devil did it either.

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