he's a disciple of satan. a strict vegan. and the star of a devilishly popular cooking show on the internet. tonight, unmasking the vegan black metal chef. >> announcer: from the global resources of abc news, with terry moran, cynthia mcfadden and bill weir in new york city, this is "nightline," october 19th, 2011. >> good evening, i'm cynthia mcfadden. we begin with big cats on the loose in small town america. late tonight, ohio authorities called off a hunt for the last of dozens of potentially deadly animals, apparently set free yesterday by a preserve owner in a final desperate act before he took his own life. what followed was a tense, bloody and highly surreal s suburban safari, with police officers using 911 reports as a modern way of tracking their disoriented quarry all over the country. now, they leave the last animal unaccounted for, a monkey, was only missing because he had fallen prey to a now dead tiger. here's abc's david kerley. >> reporter: who would have thought in zanesville, ohio, residents would see lions

the kids who just got out, satanic cults.n they go into satanic rituals you know the evidence is not strong. >> that should have been the tipoff right there. maybe she was there partying and the drifter guy did it, but when they did the hypothetical satanic orgy people don't do that. the satanic orgy thing -- >> whoa, whoa, people do that. >> how do you know? >> denmark chicks. >> heard it on the street. >> i want to talk about this illinois man who pled guilty to striaing to kill his wife with a puffer fish. he wanted to collect $20 million on a life insurance policy. how did he get this stuff? >> from a scientific pharmaceutical company pre continuing he was -- pretending he was a doctor. he got a fugu and sometimes i had a case where someone from columbia university died because a japanese student who tried to make his own sachame and he included the liver which is loaded with this poison, fugu. but fugu has another significance. there is a number of articles in books how fugu poisoning is what caused the hatians to imagin

. >> iranian leaders call israel the little satan. america is the big satan. the iranians believe america is a declining power and bringing the fight straight to u.s. soil. u.s. investigators foiled a plot to assassinate saudi and israeli diplomats inside washington, d.c. iranian commander say the submarines outside the coastline and long-range missiles that reach the continental u.s. they could be nuclear tipped acco according to iran's nuclear weapons. >> israel has warned the military option is on the table when it comes to iran's nuclear weapons program and polls show the american public would support a strike but the obama administration has been very cold to the idea and caution israel against it as well. >> in his new book "tehran initiative" joel rosenberg invisions a government has the iranian nuclear menace spirals out of control. erick stakelbeck, cbn new, washington. >> rosenburg visited our studios and talked about how it highlights the need for christians to pray like never before. >> the novel shows how em boldened a radical islamic regime like

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police chased wild theories of a satanic cult.d spezi began to write of a lone killer and terrible police work. >> the book, you know, to be honest really criticized their investigation very thoroughly, and it wasn't just criticism. it presented irrefutable evidence that the police were on the wrong track. >> before the book could even be released, police focused their attention on the authors. mario spezi's villa was raided, his notes confiscated and the journalist placed under arrest, though later released without charges. police surmised spezi knew so much about the killer that he just might be the killer. then preston's phone rang. >> i thought it was a joke. then they said, no, mr. preston, this is not a joke. we are coming to get you. this is obligatory. you tell us where you are. that will save everyone a lot of trouble. >> preston would find himself at the door of the prosecutor's office here in perugia where he thought he would spend a few minutes answering just a few questions. >> i had never understood how brutal, psych

satan is here." >> satan has arrived. >> jimmy: the cruise has got a big following, as well. >> cruise>> jimmy: robert patinson. >> yeah, who -- i'm not -- i try to stay current. i haven't seen all the "twilight" movies, but i didn't know he was british. so, the first time i met him, i was like, "come on, man, what the [ bleep ] are you doing?" [ laughter ] i was like, "seriously, with the british accent?" >> jimmy: "i don't get this guy. i don't get the bit." >> i'm not impressed. [ laughter ] >> jimmy: this is the fakest british accent i've ever heard! >> right! he is working this. he's not dropping it. he's been doing it all night. [ laughter ] this cat's really digging into this. >> jimmy: i love it. he's actually british and he's faking the american accent. >> i know, i know. he does a really good american accent. i hear you do a good impersonation of him. [ as patinson ] >> jimmy: "i do. but it's more like gordon ramsey than him." [ laughter ] it's awful! >> that is awful! >> jimmy: it really is awful. >> that's almost as good as his. >> jimmy: the "ides of march," please explain

police chased wild theories of a satanic cult.reston and spezi began to write of a lone killer and terrible police work. >> the book, you know, to be really criticized their investigation very thoroughly, and it wasn't just criticism. it presented irrefutable evidence that the police were on the wrong track. >> before the book could even be released, police focused their attention on the authors. mario spezi's villa was raided, his notes confiscated and the journalist placed under arrest, though later released without charges. police surmised spezi knew so much about the killer that he just might be the killer. then preston's phone rang. >> i thought it was a joke. then they said, no, mr. preston, this is not a joke. we are coming to get you. this is obligatory. you tell us where you are. that will save everyone a lot of trouble. >> preston would find himself at the door of the prosecutor's office here in perugia where he thought he would spend a few minutes answering just a few questions. >> i had never understood how brutal, psy

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to the prosecutor, it was a symbol for satan worship, and he offered posters found in willingham's room as proof. >> it was a poster of an iron bar being driven through a person's head, and there was some indication that it was some sort of a... a satanist image. >> narrator: and prosecutors called willingham's wife stacy, who reluctantly testified about the abuse. >> stacy admitted that he abused her and beat on her, and she stayed hoping that it would change, but it never did. >> you got three little girls' lives involved. they showed these kids to the jury and you hear his past, you see that, and the judge tells them to do what they need to be doing. i mean, i don't know how much more could you stack it against him, do you? >> there's plenty of people walking around in corsicana, texas, that if that happened to them today, they would get the benefit of the doubt because they had treated their family in a respectful manner and taken care of them, okay? todd willingham had not treated his family in a respected manner, and he didn't get the benefit of the doubt that some people would ha

the only thing they could come up with was it was a satanic ritual. to them it made sense. >> when was the moment you realized you were going to be pulled in by the police? >> they showed up at my door the day after the bodies were found. i mean, it was almost immediate that they started coming to me. >> and how did that make you feel? >> there's no words to even describe it. most people don't have anything in their frame of reference to compare something like that to. to know these people are coming to you because they actually believe that you are capable of murdering three children. it does something to you psychologically that you will never, ever get over. >> tell me about the relationship with you and the two other men who were accused with you. i say men. you were boying at the time. 16, 17. tell me about jessie. because he and his testimony to police very early on were the catalyst of what happened to you. >> right. >> what we've heard subsequently is he has a very low iq, 72, he is mentally retarded. >> right. >> he's not somebody who really

isn't that the genius of satan? >> wow, the genius of satan, the catholic church.ick perry ended up distancing himself from jeffress' comments on mormonism, but will perry now have to cut ties with jeffress over the catholic comments? perry now have to cut ties with jeffress over the catholic comments? bill donohue with the center of the catholic league. and he's calling for perry to make a break with the pastor. you're thoughts about these two. it seems like the word cult comes to mind quickly with this guy to his lips. >> well, the word cult obviously bespeaks a certain ignorance on the part of jeffress, which may be corrected through education. but when he basically says the catholic church is infected by satan, that's not something you're going to affect by education. that's a deep-seated visceral bigotry, and it has to be renounced by rick perry. i'm making it very clear. i don't hold perry accountable for these remarks. in fact, i was told on a good trusted source today, my friend tony perkins, who's an eminently decent evangelical, that perry had no knowledg

halloween is satan's night. the night for the devil.islamic people are going to demand foot washing at airports. el homosexuals want to destroy the church and marriage. who is weird. his sexual orien he sex with ducks. is he protected under hate crime? >> jon: first all. it's called a (bleep). [ laughter ] second of all. if the sex wit is consensual, then i would say is protected. pat guy who said showed you is tellinge it down. it would be like facebook you, tmi. th lingo for too much information. [ laughter ] anyway. the questionm why? why is pat robertson,sk!zaka, that crazy (bleep) g republican presidential derate their rhetoric. >> i believe it was lyndon johnson thataid don't these people realize if they to an extreme position lose the election. can't win. they have to stop this. it's counter productive. >> jon: not that the things you are saying are wrong or or that you're right, but let's keep it our little secret. [ laughter ] what he is telling the g.o.p. field is this: if you tell people what we honestly believe, electoral ma

halloween is satan's night. the night for the devil.islamic people are going to demand foot washing at want to destroy the church and marriage. ys really weird. his sexual orientation is likes to have sex with ducks. protected under hate crime? >> jon: first of all. it's called a tu, (bleep [ laughter ] second of all. if the sex with the duck is consensual, then i would say yes, he is protected. pat robertson, the guy who said things d you is telling republicans tone it down. it wouldbe facebook saying to you, tmi. [ laughter ] that's lingo for too much information. [ laughter ] anyway. the question becomes why? why is robertson,sk!zaka, that crazyep) guy, republican presidential candidates to moderate their rhetoric. >> i believe it was lyndon johnson that't these people realize if theyh me to extreme position i'll lose the election. they i can't win. they have to stop this. it's counter productive. >> jon: not that the things you are saying are wrong or poli crazy that you're keep it our little secret. [ laughter ] what he is telling

no, this heinous replica of satan doesn't look like a jew. dopt make a habit of supplying the motives of sin with colors of skin because it's skin deep. a student with dreams of statehood or a teenage girl driven by desperation and fear or a dentist or an apprentice of a dead soldier, who crouches in the wounds of the dead and the dying, who hurls stones at tanks and encroaching soldiers, who stands unmoved before a roiling tank, who stares with barbed eyes. the enemy is never one who kills for no reason. the enemy is never one who must be vanquished at all cost. it is not so easy to kill from the inside, a shifting corridor of blame. not so easy to trace an intricate blame of betrayals and broken treaties. the enemy is not you, the enemy is not me. the enemy is muslim, christian, atheist, hindu, jew. he is our collective face, our evolution, the devolution, the ripening of long injustices. thank you. the next poet is michael palmer. >> what of that wolf hound at full stride. what of the woman that serves as fairl guide and witness to the sno

at trial in 2009 there were lurid allegations of satanic orgies fueled by drugs in which meredith kercherto denied involvement, but were sentenced to 26 and 25 years behind bars. prosecutors, and lawyers for the kercher family, want that conviction upheld. they are asking the court to confirm the truth. and the truth, as we always said, was found in the first trial.throughout this murder appeal knox has looked pale and stressed. her parents say she can hardly sleep, anxious as she prepares to learn her fate. -----end-----cnn.script straight ahead... the fate of the health care reform law... is in the supreme court's hands. hands..."there is much more bad than good for small business in this law the key thing that has the obama administration taking it to the courts... and why some lawmakers aren't happy about the law to begin with. with.and later... a nine year old takes his parents' car on a joy ride... then crashes into a tree!where the boy's parent's were at the time of the crash.. and his current condition. ((break 3)) starting my progresso soup for lunch plan, huh. nope, just having

let's not get into satan.o early in the show, michael. >> a satan sandwich as they might say. but charisma will not be the only thing to get you over. you have to have some serious substance. i think right now he is the champion by default. he is the guy that they are choosing. because mitt romney and perry are slugging it out. the question is, can a republican party that has failed to attract many african-american people and nonwhite voters of a certain ilk be able to attract as its own candidate, an african-american man who has undoubtedly conservative values and visions, but ones that seem to be off the beaten path. i think ultimately he may not be as successful. but i wouldn't underestimate him. >> you were mentioning foreign policy. 2 a horrendous night for foreign policy. we had rick perry saying defund and disband the united nations. we had bachmann suggesting that we demand respect from iran, whatever that means. herman cain was asked to clarify his remarks about negotiating with terrorists. and here's

and what he reveals suggest this guy is both a miracle and satan all at once. words. >>> plus, they named their kid adolph hitler. should the parents lose custody of their son for a name? sunny hostin is on the case. r from a mile away... while going shoeless and metal-free in seconds. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle...and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. now this...will work. [ male announcer ] just like you, business pro. just like you. go national. go like a pro. >>> first, the father, then the mother, the parents of this man convicted of killing a connecticut mother and her two young daughters in that horrific home invasion took to the witness stand today. their testimony could mean the difference between life and death for their son. i want to bring in sunny hostin. and listening to the testimony, it has been pretty heavy. tell me about it. >> you know, it really has been. he's painted a picture of a son they adopted when he was 2 weeks old. he called him

so she didn't confess to taking part in this satanic killing or a rape or stabbing meredith kercher.e, unquote, confessed to was actually being at the apartment and hearing this scream. and if police had just taken that confession and checked it out before they released it to the public, they would have known that patrick lumumba couldn't possibly have been there because he was operating his bar at the exact time meredith kercher was killed. that's one of the reasons why patrick lumumba was immediately released when they finally checked out his story. so what did they do? they just said, okay, well, patrick -- amanda knox -- >> sorry. we're obviously having trouble connecting with drew. what was it about this case that you think has so fascinated people and so fascinated you? >> well, there are a number of things. we as a society are far more interested in the occasional allegedly evil female than we are the more run of the mill kind of domestically or sexually violent man. and it was happening in italy. a play pen for all of us. and that was fascinating. >> it's all in your book "th