May 20, 2025 • 27 mins
On this episode we ask , can love defeat a demon? Plus this is a true case of a demon taking possession of a person in a brief instance of a horrible crime against a child .
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word from our sponsors. But a young boy in the hospital
tonight after being chained and stabbed more than a dozen times
with a steak knife. And authorities say it was the
work of his own mother. Good evening.
I'm Jameson Euler. Wendy has the night off Tonight
we are learning more about a horrific attack that could have
(01:20):
ended a 7 year old's life. Our Jacqueline and Glaze spoke
exclusively with The Family Babysitter and joins us live
with the latest Jacqueline. Right now, investigators are
still trying to piece together why this happened.
They say 42 year old Maesa Alvarez has no criminal history.
Or history of. Mental illness and as of now,
they do not believe that alcoholor drugs cause this.
(01:44):
Earlier this afternoon I was able to speak with the family's
babysitter. She was able to give insight as
to how this mother. And son got along.
It's a home kids in this Lake Wales neighborhood would come to
to hang out. Maisa Alvarez could often be
seen sitting in this lawn chair,watching as her seven-year old
(02:04):
son played with friends. She was just a all around nice
person. Every time she came home I would
speak to her. She'd come over and talk to me
and see how my baby's doing. Marquesia Bostick babysits for
the Alvarez family. When I would come over and his
mom told him not to bother anything, he would just like
balled up or he'd even like kindof tussle with her as she tries
to take something from him. But two today morning, police
(02:25):
say Alvarez tried to take more from her son than just his toys.
She tried to take his life. Lake Wales Police say Alvarez is
cooperating and admitted to chaining up her sleeping son and
then repeatedly stabbed him witha steak knife.
It's when the boy started fighting back that Alvarez
stopped and called 911. There was not a tearful face,
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that there weren't emotions, almost a blank, a lost look on
her face by. Bostick's account?
There was nothing out of the ordinary with the family, she
says. Alvarez doted over her son and
was great at spoiling him every.Game, every toy he has.
His he has everything. Computer everything.
Bostick believes the stress of giving her son everything and
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being the best stay at home mom she could caused.
Alvarez to snap. Police, though, aren't so sure.
No one knows what goes on insideanyone home, anyone's home when
the door is shut at night. Alvarez's husband was out of
town on business when this happened.
Right now, he is in Orlando at his son's side.
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The good news is the boy is expected to survive.
As for Alvarez, she is behind bars tonight facing attempted
first degree murder and aggravated child abuse charges.
We're live tonight in Lake Wales.
Jacqueline Iglaze, ABC Action News.
Jeff. Hello my demon insiders, and
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welcome back to the demon Inside.
I'm your host, John Venom, and today we are going to be talking
about the demon inside Myesa Alvarez.
So Myesa Alvarez tied her son with the chain and stabbed him
several times. And this is one of these cases
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for me that it is kind of a demonic possession.
You have to remember this is isn't like the Exorcist movies
or you know, any of these other horror movies.
This is more of a short, small jump where this thing takes
(04:39):
over. But the mother, her love for her
son, conquers this demon and gets him out.
Before we talk about all this, let's go ahead and talk about
her. A little bit of history that I
have. I don't have much on my Issa
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because there wasn't much. Because for one, thank God the
son that she stabbed did not die.
And two, there was number follow-ups.
There was no any of this stuff because I guess the news media
figured that it wasn't that intriguing.
(05:23):
Now on the news media feed, you hear where the friend is talking
about a toy being taken away from the child.
Well, the news media probably clipped and pieced and put
together so that when the listener, like yourself heard
it, you'd be like, OK, I could see now she was taking that toy
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away from the kid. And so she was a violent person.
But no, if you continue to listen to that interview, she
says that she had bought everything and anything that the
child wanted. She was involved in school.
And we're going to get into all that right now.
But let's go ahead and talk about her past just a little
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bit. Maisa Alvarez was born in and I
believe 1970. Now, they didn't say, but I'm
kind of trying to count the years.
And she was raised in Brazil, where she worked as a teacher.
She was a college graduate and she married her husband Carlos
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Alvarez and in 2002 she and her husband moved to Lake Wales, FL
where Carlos works as an engineer at a juice processing
company. And within a couple of years
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when they got there, she got pregnant, which was the joy of
her life. The family is an average family.
They've never had any type of medical calls to the house or
police calls or mental illness. Now I'm going to give you some
(07:20):
things from some friends of theirs because I want you to
understand what kind of personality my insta had.
I'm not just going to throw out,oh, she was a killer, blah,
blah, blah. No, this was her friend
Maristella. And Maristella is a professor.
And I'm going to read and that quote.
I am friends with Maisa. I was her professor at the
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university. She is a sweet, caring person
with enormous respect for others.
She came to my house last year when she visited Brazil.
Maristella also says this, she and her family need help.
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May God guide everyone. Make no mistake, she is a person
of great character and education, a person who is very
dear to everyone who has ever known her.
Be careful when judging this human drama in Quote now her
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husband and remember this is herhusband who shares a child with
her that she stabbed and during testimony her husband said this.
He said that his wife, a collegeeducated woman with no prior
criminal history, has shown remorse for her actions.
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She is a loving, caring, giving woman.
She is a loving mother and Good Wife.
So with that being said, let's get into what happened on the
morning of September 12th, 2012.Myesa had been dealing with
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depression for some time, but her friend Kila Cara Alves wrote
to The Gazette, which is a Brazilian newspaper, saying I've
known Maisa for some time as herentire family.
I was at her house in Florida two years ago.
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I heard that she was suffering from depression.
Maisa is a friend, an exemplary mother, very polite and
affectionate with everyone. The depression was not affecting
her life. She is a loving mother now.
That's what Sheila said, her friend.
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And it goes on and on and on about people.
Everybody cannot believe that this happened.
So on the morning when my Isa woke up, she said she started to
feel nervous and she said she felt like a bad spirit had took
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control of her. She says she heard voices that
told her to kill her son. Now Myesa considered instead of
killing her son, she considered killing herself, but she
couldn't do it. I believe this is when the demon
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entered her. We've heard this before where it
seems like an out of body experience or they were watching
everything happened from afar orlike it was watching a movie and
you can't do anything about it. My Issa said she went to her
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bedroom dresser, opened it and got a 2 1/2 foot chain and a
couple of small luggage locks that they would use when they
would visit Brazil. Then she went to her kitchen and
selected 2 kitchen knives from the counter near the sink.
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She walked into her son's bedroom.
Her son, sleeping on his bed, didn't know what was going on.
He was still asleep. She began to tie his wrists with
the chain and locking his hands together, Alvarez said.
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And this is what she says, Maisasays she tied his hands with the
chains and put the lock and started to stab him with a knife
in the chest and shoulders. The seven-year old boy woke up
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and tried to defend himself by blocking the attack, and he
received defensive wounds to hisarms.
Now this is when he says what are you doing?
She immediately stopped. She was confused.
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She was not realizing what she was doing.
As soon as she stopped, she tookoff his shackles.
She put the knife in the chain down on top of the dresser and
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she called 911 immediately. She stayed on the phone with
this pastures until shortly after police had showed up with
the emergency personnel. Now the police say that when
they showed up to the one story black house, OK, first they say
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this, the investigator Troy Schultz says in those two or
three times that I saw her, there was not a tearful face.
There was no emotion, it was almost a blank lost look.
Police responded to the house where they said inside the house
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it was a well organized clean home and Marissa appeared
confused, disconnected and disoriented.
Now she says, and I quote, I don't believe what I did is
happening to me. End Quote.
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She kept asking about her son. She said that her husband had
been out of town but he was a very good husband.
Just like she kept saying that her son was a very good boy.
She told police that she didn't plan to harm her son but had
been feeling sad and bad for a while.
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She didn't know what was causingher depression.
She indicated that she had felt homesick for her native country
of Brazil. She asked the officers, now
listen to this guy. She asked the officers to help
her, she said, and they quote, Idon't want to do this again in
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quote. So officers started looking
around the house and they found the bloody blankets, the floor
and both the child and his mother were covered in blood.
And when the investigators arrived, they saw that the 2 1/2
foot chain and the knife were put on the dresser.
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I mean, they were full of blood as well, but they noticed her
demeanor. Like I said, she was calm and
emotionless throughout the wholething.
Now, Myesa told police she saw her son in pain.
Now listen to this. This is this to me is really sad
guys. Because if this demon did take
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control, this is the moment thatlove beat this demon, my Isa
told police. And I quote, I saw my son in
pain and my love for him caused me to stop and call 911.
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Now Trey Schultz, who is the investigator at the house, said
that she had a blank lost look in her eyes.
And I keep saying this, but I want to emphasize that because
whenever somebody is possessed, they have that lost look or
blank eyes. And we talked about this several
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times with several of my shows, especially the one where the
mother was trying to drive the van into the ocean.
When people saw her expression, they could only say that she
looked blank or lost. So the police arrest Maisa and
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they take her to jail. And of course, her story is
exactly what I've been telling you.
And the police still are still far away from understanding why
she did it, and she doesn't evenknow why she did it.
So the neighbors started talkingto the news media.
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And one of the neighbors, Owen Campbell, said this.
It's not supposed to happen. He said that the family would
leave him their phone number whenever they would go to
Brazil. So that way, if there was an
emergency, they could call them and let them know something was
wrong with the house or whatever.
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He also describes them as churchgoing family.
And he says this and I quote, you never know what's going on
in people's lives, but it's sad.Now, according to Troy Schultz,
the police deputy chief of Lake Wells, he says this and I quote,
it's very unusual. It's very scary to think that it
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could go from nothing to that. End Quote.
So other neighbors came forward and like the Camilla Joseph who
said he was that and I quote he says this I and the quote he was
very well taken care of to me. They were like the perfect
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family. I can't believe it.
It's crazy. In quote, other neighbors said
that the boy's mother, Maisa, was always doting on her son and
taking her son to school each morning and teaching him how to
ride a bike. According to Cynthia Campbell,
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one of the other neighbors, she said, and I quote, she must have
just lost it or something because that's not the lady I
know. In quote.
So now here's some of the good news.
And it really is good news because after the last few
episodes that we've done, jeez, some of those have been really
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hard on me. And, and this one, this one's a
little bit. It's scary and it's sad, but
here's the light side of it. So the hospital officials told
the police that the wounds were not life threatening.
As a matter of fact, they didn'teven need stitches.
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Plus, he was released from the hospital the same day, and his
dad had returned from out of town and was by his side while
he was in the hospital. So then we get into the trial of
this lady, Maisa, who everybody's trying to figure out
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why she did what she did, even she doesn't understand it.
And of course, they decided thatthey were going to do an
incentive plea and the court pretty much sentenced her to.
A year in prison, which it was already time served because she
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had been there for 13 months waiting for the trial.
Now she's out and she had a is actually on probation.
But I think that has stopped by now because, like I said, this
case happened in 2012 and we're in 2025 now.
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While Maisa was on probation, she and Carlos were still
married, but they were living under a different roof because
of the plea agreement that they had made her son.
She could have no contact with her son or any other minor for
that matter. Maisa lives in another home away
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from the boy and she's been receiving mental health
treatment and everything she is doing is trying to get her son
and her husband back. Like I said, she doesn't
understand why she did it. Her husband doesn't understand
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why he why she did it. The only problem that I have
with this, and I agree because the judge says the same thing,
is that whether or not Marissa and her husband get back
together or her and her kid are all together and they have no
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problems anymore, this is still going to affect that child for a
long time. He's probably going to need a
lot of psychiatric help because how do you get over your mother
waking you up while she tied youand then start stabbing you?
There's no way to fully recover from that.
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What I liked about this, this whole story, is that her love
for her child broke whatever little possession she had,
enough for her to stop. Now, I'm not saying that other
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people that I've talked about onthis show did not love their
children. That's not what I'm saying.
I'm saying that in this particular situation or this
particular incident, Maisa felt like she needed to protect her
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child, even from herself. She accepted all responsibility
for it. She accepted the terms of the
agreement, she accepted the probation, she accepted
everything. And still the big question
lingers of why? Why did she do this?
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I believe that this demon caughther at a moment when she was
half asleep, half awake, that Marisa didn't know what was
going on because she was still waking up.
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And then her feeling of sadness,her feeling of missing her home
country of Brazil, her husband not being there, she was
probably feeling lonely. She started to feel like
something was taking over her and possibly this thing went in
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when she was at her lowest. And when that happened, these
other voices started telling that deity or that entity or
that demon or whatever they got inside of her, these outside
demons started telling them killthe kid, kill your son, kill
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that kid. And it was that demon that went
and used her mind to know where the chains were, where the locks
were to go get the knives, and the minute that she started
stabbing them. Now here's another thing.
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None of the wounds needed stitches.
None of the wounds were life threatening.
Could this be my Isa inside fighting this demon to stop him
from killing her son to the point where this demon had no
effect other than scratches on her son with a knife?
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I believe that's a possibility. And once the kid woke up and
said, what are you doing? Because I'm sure he said mom,
somewhere in there he had to have mom, what are you doing?
I think she realized or she wokeup from this trance and that was
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it. The demon had no more effect on
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word from our sponsors. But a young boy in the hospital
tonight after being chained and stabbed more than a dozen times
with a steak knife. And authorities say it was the
work of his own mother. Good evening.
I'm Jameson Euler. Wendy has the night off Tonight
we are learning more about a horrific attack that could have
(01:20):
ended a 7 year old's life. Our Jacqueline and Glaze spoke
exclusively with The Family Babysitter and joins us live
with the latest Jacqueline. Right now, investigators are
still trying to piece together why this happened.
They say 42 year old Maesa Alvarez has no criminal history.
Or history of. Mental illness and as of now,
they do not believe that alcoholor drugs cause this.
(01:44):
Earlier this afternoon I was able to speak with the family's
babysitter. She was able to give insight as
to how this mother. And son got along.
It's a home kids in this Lake Wales neighborhood would come to
to hang out. Maisa Alvarez could often be
seen sitting in this lawn chair,watching as her seven-year old
(02:04):
son played with friends. She was just a all around nice
person. Every time she came home I would
speak to her. She'd come over and talk to me
and see how my baby's doing. Marquesia Bostick babysits for
the Alvarez family. When I would come over and his
mom told him not to bother anything, he would just like
balled up or he'd even like kindof tussle with her as she tries
to take something from him. But two today morning, police
(02:25):
say Alvarez tried to take more from her son than just his toys.
She tried to take his life. Lake Wales Police say Alvarez is
cooperating and admitted to chaining up her sleeping son and
then repeatedly stabbed him witha steak knife.
It's when the boy started fighting back that Alvarez
stopped and called 911. There was not a tearful face,
(02:48):
that there weren't emotions, almost a blank, a lost look on
her face by. Bostick's account?
There was nothing out of the ordinary with the family, she
says. Alvarez doted over her son and
was great at spoiling him every.Game, every toy he has.
His he has everything. Computer everything.
Bostick believes the stress of giving her son everything and
(03:09):
being the best stay at home mom she could caused.
Alvarez to snap. Police, though, aren't so sure.
No one knows what goes on insideanyone home, anyone's home when
the door is shut at night. Alvarez's husband was out of
town on business when this happened.
Right now, he is in Orlando at his son's side.
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The good news is the boy is expected to survive.
As for Alvarez, she is behind bars tonight facing attempted
first degree murder and aggravated child abuse charges.
We're live tonight in Lake Wales.
Jacqueline Iglaze, ABC Action News.
Jeff. Hello my demon insiders, and
(03:50):
welcome back to the demon Inside.
I'm your host, John Venom, and today we are going to be talking
about the demon inside Myesa Alvarez.
So Myesa Alvarez tied her son with the chain and stabbed him
several times. And this is one of these cases
(04:14):
for me that it is kind of a demonic possession.
You have to remember this is isn't like the Exorcist movies
or you know, any of these other horror movies.
This is more of a short, small jump where this thing takes
(04:39):
over. But the mother, her love for her
son, conquers this demon and gets him out.
Before we talk about all this, let's go ahead and talk about
her. A little bit of history that I
have. I don't have much on my Issa
(05:00):
because there wasn't much. Because for one, thank God the
son that she stabbed did not die.
And two, there was number follow-ups.
There was no any of this stuff because I guess the news media
figured that it wasn't that intriguing.
(05:23):
Now on the news media feed, you hear where the friend is talking
about a toy being taken away from the child.
Well, the news media probably clipped and pieced and put
together so that when the listener, like yourself heard
it, you'd be like, OK, I could see now she was taking that toy
(05:46):
away from the kid. And so she was a violent person.
But no, if you continue to listen to that interview, she
says that she had bought everything and anything that the
child wanted. She was involved in school.
And we're going to get into all that right now.
But let's go ahead and talk about her past just a little
(06:07):
bit. Maisa Alvarez was born in and I
believe 1970. Now, they didn't say, but I'm
kind of trying to count the years.
And she was raised in Brazil, where she worked as a teacher.
She was a college graduate and she married her husband Carlos
(06:34):
Alvarez and in 2002 she and her husband moved to Lake Wales, FL
where Carlos works as an engineer at a juice processing
company. And within a couple of years
(06:57):
when they got there, she got pregnant, which was the joy of
her life. The family is an average family.
They've never had any type of medical calls to the house or
police calls or mental illness. Now I'm going to give you some
(07:20):
things from some friends of theirs because I want you to
understand what kind of personality my insta had.
I'm not just going to throw out,oh, she was a killer, blah,
blah, blah. No, this was her friend
Maristella. And Maristella is a professor.
And I'm going to read and that quote.
I am friends with Maisa. I was her professor at the
(07:43):
university. She is a sweet, caring person
with enormous respect for others.
She came to my house last year when she visited Brazil.
Maristella also says this, she and her family need help.
(08:05):
May God guide everyone. Make no mistake, she is a person
of great character and education, a person who is very
dear to everyone who has ever known her.
Be careful when judging this human drama in Quote now her
(08:31):
husband and remember this is herhusband who shares a child with
her that she stabbed and during testimony her husband said this.
He said that his wife, a collegeeducated woman with no prior
criminal history, has shown remorse for her actions.
(08:54):
She is a loving, caring, giving woman.
She is a loving mother and Good Wife.
So with that being said, let's get into what happened on the
morning of September 12th, 2012.Myesa had been dealing with
(09:17):
depression for some time, but her friend Kila Cara Alves wrote
to The Gazette, which is a Brazilian newspaper, saying I've
known Maisa for some time as herentire family.
I was at her house in Florida two years ago.
(09:39):
I heard that she was suffering from depression.
Maisa is a friend, an exemplary mother, very polite and
affectionate with everyone. The depression was not affecting
her life. She is a loving mother now.
That's what Sheila said, her friend.
(10:01):
And it goes on and on and on about people.
Everybody cannot believe that this happened.
So on the morning when my Isa woke up, she said she started to
feel nervous and she said she felt like a bad spirit had took
(10:23):
control of her. She says she heard voices that
told her to kill her son. Now Myesa considered instead of
killing her son, she considered killing herself, but she
couldn't do it. I believe this is when the demon
(10:43):
entered her. We've heard this before where it
seems like an out of body experience or they were watching
everything happened from afar orlike it was watching a movie and
you can't do anything about it. My Issa said she went to her
(11:03):
bedroom dresser, opened it and got a 2 1/2 foot chain and a
couple of small luggage locks that they would use when they
would visit Brazil. Then she went to her kitchen and
selected 2 kitchen knives from the counter near the sink.
(11:28):
She walked into her son's bedroom.
Her son, sleeping on his bed, didn't know what was going on.
He was still asleep. She began to tie his wrists with
the chain and locking his hands together, Alvarez said.
(11:53):
And this is what she says, Maisasays she tied his hands with the
chains and put the lock and started to stab him with a knife
in the chest and shoulders. The seven-year old boy woke up
(12:14):
and tried to defend himself by blocking the attack, and he
received defensive wounds to hisarms.
Now this is when he says what are you doing?
She immediately stopped. She was confused.
(12:41):
She was not realizing what she was doing.
As soon as she stopped, she tookoff his shackles.
She put the knife in the chain down on top of the dresser and
(13:02):
she called 911 immediately. She stayed on the phone with
this pastures until shortly after police had showed up with
the emergency personnel. Now the police say that when
they showed up to the one story black house, OK, first they say
(13:25):
this, the investigator Troy Schultz says in those two or
three times that I saw her, there was not a tearful face.
There was no emotion, it was almost a blank lost look.
Police responded to the house where they said inside the house
(13:52):
it was a well organized clean home and Marissa appeared
confused, disconnected and disoriented.
Now she says, and I quote, I don't believe what I did is
happening to me. End Quote.
(14:14):
She kept asking about her son. She said that her husband had
been out of town but he was a very good husband.
Just like she kept saying that her son was a very good boy.
She told police that she didn't plan to harm her son but had
been feeling sad and bad for a while.
(14:35):
She didn't know what was causingher depression.
She indicated that she had felt homesick for her native country
of Brazil. She asked the officers, now
listen to this guy. She asked the officers to help
her, she said, and they quote, Idon't want to do this again in
(14:58):
quote. So officers started looking
around the house and they found the bloody blankets, the floor
and both the child and his mother were covered in blood.
And when the investigators arrived, they saw that the 2 1/2
foot chain and the knife were put on the dresser.
(15:21):
I mean, they were full of blood as well, but they noticed her
demeanor. Like I said, she was calm and
emotionless throughout the wholething.
Now, Myesa told police she saw her son in pain.
Now listen to this. This is this to me is really sad
guys. Because if this demon did take
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control, this is the moment thatlove beat this demon, my Isa
told police. And I quote, I saw my son in
pain and my love for him caused me to stop and call 911.
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Now Trey Schultz, who is the investigator at the house, said
that she had a blank lost look in her eyes.
And I keep saying this, but I want to emphasize that because
whenever somebody is possessed, they have that lost look or
blank eyes. And we talked about this several
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times with several of my shows, especially the one where the
mother was trying to drive the van into the ocean.
When people saw her expression, they could only say that she
looked blank or lost. So the police arrest Maisa and
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they take her to jail. And of course, her story is
exactly what I've been telling you.
And the police still are still far away from understanding why
she did it, and she doesn't evenknow why she did it.
So the neighbors started talkingto the news media.
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And one of the neighbors, Owen Campbell, said this.
It's not supposed to happen. He said that the family would
leave him their phone number whenever they would go to
Brazil. So that way, if there was an
emergency, they could call them and let them know something was
wrong with the house or whatever.
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He also describes them as churchgoing family.
And he says this and I quote, you never know what's going on
in people's lives, but it's sad.Now, according to Troy Schultz,
the police deputy chief of Lake Wells, he says this and I quote,
it's very unusual. It's very scary to think that it
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could go from nothing to that. End Quote.
So other neighbors came forward and like the Camilla Joseph who
said he was that and I quote he says this I and the quote he was
very well taken care of to me. They were like the perfect
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family. I can't believe it.
It's crazy. In quote, other neighbors said
that the boy's mother, Maisa, was always doting on her son and
taking her son to school each morning and teaching him how to
ride a bike. According to Cynthia Campbell,
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one of the other neighbors, she said, and I quote, she must have
just lost it or something because that's not the lady I
know. In quote.
So now here's some of the good news.
And it really is good news because after the last few
episodes that we've done, jeez, some of those have been really
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hard on me. And, and this one, this one's a
little bit. It's scary and it's sad, but
here's the light side of it. So the hospital officials told
the police that the wounds were not life threatening.
As a matter of fact, they didn'teven need stitches.
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Plus, he was released from the hospital the same day, and his
dad had returned from out of town and was by his side while
he was in the hospital. So then we get into the trial of
this lady, Maisa, who everybody's trying to figure out
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why she did what she did, even she doesn't understand it.
And of course, they decided thatthey were going to do an
incentive plea and the court pretty much sentenced her to.
A year in prison, which it was already time served because she
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had been there for 13 months waiting for the trial.
Now she's out and she had a is actually on probation.
But I think that has stopped by now because, like I said, this
case happened in 2012 and we're in 2025 now.
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While Maisa was on probation, she and Carlos were still
married, but they were living under a different roof because
of the plea agreement that they had made her son.
She could have no contact with her son or any other minor for
that matter. Maisa lives in another home away
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from the boy and she's been receiving mental health
treatment and everything she is doing is trying to get her son
and her husband back. Like I said, she doesn't
understand why she did it. Her husband doesn't understand
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why he why she did it. The only problem that I have
with this, and I agree because the judge says the same thing,
is that whether or not Marissa and her husband get back
together or her and her kid are all together and they have no
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problems anymore, this is still going to affect that child for a
long time. He's probably going to need a
lot of psychiatric help because how do you get over your mother
waking you up while she tied youand then start stabbing you?
There's no way to fully recover from that.
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What I liked about this, this whole story, is that her love
for her child broke whatever little possession she had,
enough for her to stop. Now, I'm not saying that other
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people that I've talked about onthis show did not love their
children. That's not what I'm saying.
I'm saying that in this particular situation or this
particular incident, Maisa felt like she needed to protect her
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child, even from herself. She accepted all responsibility
for it. She accepted the terms of the
agreement, she accepted the probation, she accepted
everything. And still the big question
lingers of why? Why did she do this?
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I believe that this demon caughther at a moment when she was
half asleep, half awake, that Marisa didn't know what was
going on because she was still waking up.
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And then her feeling of sadness,her feeling of missing her home
country of Brazil, her husband not being there, she was
probably feeling lonely. She started to feel like
something was taking over her and possibly this thing went in
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when she was at her lowest. And when that happened, these
other voices started telling that deity or that entity or
that demon or whatever they got inside of her, these outside
demons started telling them killthe kid, kill your son, kill
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that kid. And it was that demon that went
and used her mind to know where the chains were, where the locks
were to go get the knives, and the minute that she started
stabbing them. Now here's another thing.
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None of the wounds needed stitches.
None of the wounds were life threatening.
Could this be my Isa inside fighting this demon to stop him
from killing her son to the point where this demon had no
effect other than scratches on her son with a knife?
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I believe that's a possibility. And once the kid woke up and
said, what are you doing? Because I'm sure he said mom,
somewhere in there he had to have mom, what are you doing?
I think she realized or she wokeup from this trance and that was
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it. The demon had no more effect on
her. Thanks for listening guys, I'll
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