Ritual Killings: Part I

Ritual Killings
Part II: The second half of the 20th century: 
‘heart man’ murders 

• Introduction and caution

• Ritual Killings and Liberian Politics

• President William Tolbert and Ritual Killings 

  • Important changes at the top of the True Whig Party: was Tolbert ‘revolutionary’?  

  • A new Vice President 

  • A wave of ritual killings 

  • The preacher-President’s crusade against
    a sinful world

• The Maryland Ritual Murders

  • Caution

  • Maryland County 1977

  • Liberia's most notorious ritual killing case

  • The ritualistic murder of Moses Tweh

  • Allen Yancy expelled from the House of Representatives

  • The First Harper Trial

  • The Supreme Court of Liberia

  • The Final Verdict: Death by Hanging

  • The hanging

  • After the hanging

  • Sources and references

• The Sinoe Ritualistic Murder Case 

  • The Victim: Princelet Hilton Teah

  • 'Big shots' arrested

  • The trial

  • Sources
    

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