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Defense filing in Delphi murders case draws strong responses from Heathens
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The Heathen community responds to a murder trial defense in Indiana that claims the accused are Odinists and the crimes are a form of ritual sacrifice.
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The Heathen community responds to a murder trial defense in Indiana that claims the accused are Odinists and the crimes are a form of ritual sacrifice.
Follow-up: Alleged Odinist arrested by federal agents in Cedar Rapids has been charged in New YorK with interstate transmission of a threat to injure.
UNITED STATES — When two men were fatally stabbed and another injured on a Portland train in May, officials and journalists began to follow the predictable course of profiling the attacker in an effort to understand why he would resort to such actions. After a few short days, several sources began to speculate on his Heathen religious practice, more specifically on Odinism. This assumption rests squarely on Facebook posts made the attacker over the past year. On May 9, he wrote, “Hail Vinland!! Hail Victory!!”