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SLAUGHTER’s Dana Strum says a murderer once turned himself in after being wracked with guilt when he heard the song “Fly To The Angels”.
The hard-to-believe tale emerged from an interview the bassist and singer Mark Slaughter did with fellow American, DJ and radio presenter Eddie Trunk, on Sirius XM. The power ballad reached no.15 on the Billboard charts in 1990.
“Turns out a guy killed not one but two teenage girls in the Midwest,” Strum said on the Faction Talk station.
“This is ’90. He kills the girls, he dumps the bodies, he’s driving down the road, he turns the radio on and the lyric that he hears is ‘driving down this lonely, lonely road, I got this feeling’…
“And the guy turns himself in, drives to the police station and turns himself in and they said ‘look, why are you telling us what’s going on and is this even true’ and he said ‘because I heard this song and I know I need to turn myself in … I’ll show you where I did this’.”
Mark Slaughter then added: “(He said) ‘and I can’t get it out of my head’. It almost haunted him so much .. you know you get songs in your head? That’s what he said: ‘I need to not hear that song’.
“It drove him to admit … a double homicide.”
The television show Inside Edition is preparing a report on the incident and have interviewed the band, the pair said.
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