The sacraments of Satanism: Booze, dope and takeout Swiss Chalet.
But first, a shopping excursion to the mall for cotton candy and a bunch of stuff from the dollar store.
Thus girded for their ritual — a dedication of their eternal souls to Beelzebub, on the pagan holiday called Beltane — the threesome of friends who’d met through an online chat site called The Joy of Satan retired to a Barrie motel room.
The alleged pact called for Mark Dobson to kill his girlfriend and a second older woman they both called “Mom,” then commit suicide.
“We were going to go home, our souls would leave the body and go to another system, another planet or whatever. We all three agreed to do it. We planned it for a month and a half.”
On the audio tape played in a Barrie courtroom this week, Dobson adds, sadly: “It didn’t go to plan. It didn’t go the way it was supposed to work.”
That recording was made on May 3, 2012, in the hospital room where Dobson was rushed with self-inflicted wounds to his arms and throat, from which he would recover. A police officer has just taken the manacled suspect through the appalling events of the evening before in Room 129 of the TraveLodge Motel, which ended with the gruesome slaying of Mary Hepburn, 32, and 52-year-old Helen Dorrington.
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In an agreed statement of facts, the three are described as “Wiccans”; devil-worshippers describes them more bluntly. They’d developed a friendship through the Satan website after Dobson says he turned to it for help in early 2012 because he was being tormented by alien beings — spirits that were urging that he harm himself, that frequently attacked him mentally, even physically, in his bedroom at night, “sitting on my chest, grabbing me . . . something cold at the point of my penis.”
He pleaded: “Please somebody, help me. I can’t defend myself against this. What, am I supposed to go to a priest?’’
Dobson was a virgin then, he told the officer, though he and Hepburn would become lovers when she moved out to B.C. to be with him. They later relocated to a squalid apartment in Barrie and Dorrington — mother of two grown children — eventually flew to Toronto to participate in the alleged suicide pact.
“We hit it off. We all had satanic beliefs.”
Why suicide was required of them is not entirely clear in the interview. But that would be to make sense out of a haywire creed system.
“It’s not necessarily selling your soul to the devil,” said Dobson of the dedication ritual that would deliver the trio to this purported alternate dark-side galaxy planet ruled by Lucifer. “It’s saying, I’m on your side. I pledge myself to you.”
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Dobson has admitted he killed the women and also planned to kill himself because the three had a plan to travel to another galaxy.
He said he was directed by Satan.
His defense lawyer, Mitch Eisen, insists Dobson is not criminally responsible because he was mentally ill.
But a psychiatrist for the Crown, Dr. Andriy Kolchak, insisted it was Dobson’s fanatical beliefs in the teachings he studied on the Joy of Satan website that drove him to the killings.
"It's pretty bizarre stuff," Kolchak said. "But I don't believe he was delusional... It was part of his belief system."
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