"Scientology Made Me Do It"
Double Murderer Blames Scientology For Making Him Kill Kenneth Wayne Thompson claims that his belief in the Scientology religion ultimately led to the pre-meditated killing of his sister-in-law and her boyfriend. A devoted Scientologist used a very novel and unusual defence for him murdering two innocent people in cold blood in Arizona. Peter Wayne Thompson made 24 hours plus drive from his home in Missouri to Arizona to carry out the cold and calculated murders in which he bludgeoned two people to death using a hatchet and a knife, then set the house on fire to try to hide the evidence. The killer used the novel defence claiming that his actions were quite rational if understood through the lens of Scientology. Thompson believed that he needed to "rescue" a child because his spiritual well=being was at risk. The child concerned, a boy was Thompson's wife's nephew, fortunately, he nor his sister were present at the house in Arizona when the gruesome murders took