![]() ![]() Ahead of the trial, Minnella pled his case through the media, giving interviews to major press outlets. However, his defense attorney, 33-year-old Martin Minnella, planned to argue that the 19-year-old was not guilty by virtue of demonic possession. ![]() There was no question that Johnson killed Bono. Arne Cheyenne Johnson's "demon defense" drew worldwide attention. “Instead, everyone in the whole world converge on Brookfield." 2. "We couldn't have a simple, uncomplicated murder, oh no,” Anderson lamented. "Somebody got angry, an argument resulted." What was unusual was the media frenzy that followed. Though it was the first homicide in the town's then-193-year-old history, "It was not an unusual crime," Brookfield police chief John Anderson told The Washington Post in the fall of 1981. ![]() Their attempted exit sparked a violent confrontation between Bono and Johnson, during which Johnson fatally stabbed Bono four to five times with a 5-inch pocket knife. Lunch and listening to music led to heavy drinking on Bono’s part, so Glatzel decided it was time to get the girls (ages 9 to 15) out of there. On February 16, 1981, the couple was hanging out at home with Bono and a trio of Johnson’s young relatives. In early 1981, 19-year-old arborist Arne Cheyenne Johnson and his 26-year-old girlfriend, Debbie Glatzel, were living in an apartment above Brookfield Kennels, where she worked under their landlord, 40-year-old Alan Bono. ![]()
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