 In 1978, the missing Reverend Harry Neil Snelling's body was found by a Canadian tourist.In November 1981, the body of Jillian Matthews, a homeless individual with schizophrenia, was discovered; she had been raped and strangled.In their 1987 book "The Demonic Connection", authors Toyne Newton, Charles Walker and Alan Brown claimed that the woods were used for rituals by a Satanic cult calling itself "the Friends of Hecate".