On a cool night in June of 1994, four young people from Tacoma, Washington, were playing a game that involved mystical creatures, fantasy and magic. The next night, two of them were dead. The victims were 25-year-old Michael Johnston and 19-year-old Rochelle Robinson. Detectives soon discovered that Michael and Rochelle had been lovers. Authorities believed the motive for the double murder was jealousy over the affair. Others believed the couple was lured by a charismatic killer into the dangerous world of the occult.

Michael Johnston's body was found near Rochelle's car less than six hours after they left the card game. His throat had been cut and he had been shot once in the head at point blank range. Rochelle's body was found later that day on a remote road five miles from where Michael's body had been found. She had been stabbed repeatedly, and her throat was slashed to the bone. Police believe that sometime after 1:00 AM, Michael and Rochelle parked their car on a quiet road near a popular shooting range called the Tacoma Sportsman's Club. They were alone … for a while.

Fred Reinicke was a Detective for the Pierce County Sheriff's Department at the time of their murder:

"They were forced to dress hastily, Rochelle Robinson had Michael Johnston's t-shirt on, inside out, when her body was found, and they were removed from her vehicle, probably at gunpoint."

Primary clue: Box used to cover body

According to Detective Reinicke, forensic evidence suggested that Michael was handcuffed, then forced to kneel near the front of Rochelle's car:

"Law enforcement believes that Michael Johnston was a passive victim. That the real target was Rochelle Robinson. There were several, knife pricks in her neck, which would indicate to me that somebody held a knife to her throat, to force her to accompany him."

Detective Reinicke concluded that the killer then drove Rochelle to the isolated road and brutally murdered her. He believed it was a crime of passion.

Kevin McMitchell was a friend of Rochelle's and recalled how, in the months leading up to her murder, she was terrified that someone was following her:

"Rochelle felt that she was being stalked by a guy that came into her work, approximately three or four months before they found her. She felt that… he'd followed her home several times, that he'd come to her work and stared at her until she left work."

Unfortunately, the stalker's identity was unknown and after a year, the official investigation began to wind down. To keep the inquiry alive, Michael Johnston's wife Janet hired a private investigator, Jim Wright. Jim Wright played it by the book and the first person he questioned was Janet Johnston. According to Janet, Wright wanted to know if she was aware of Michael's extra-marital affair:

"He and Rochelle were seeing each other. I don't know how long it had been going on, I don't know if they were going to stop soon or if he was going to leave me, or what… we don't know any of that."

Janet passed a polygraph test and Wright dismissed her from any involvement in her husband's murder. However, he did discover that Michael loved the world of fantasy games, black magic, and the occult. Wright believed that this passion put Michael and Rochelle on a collision course with their killer:

"Because of the nature of this crime, we believe that people who were involved in possible occult-type activities could be the kind of people that would commit this type of a murder."

But more than a year had passed since the murders. Every way he turned, Jim Wright found the trail stone cold. Clearly, this was an investigation that demanded an unorthodox approach. Wright then turned to Nancy Myer, a well known psychic who had helped police on more than 300 homicides:

"It was very hard on Jim, because I said, you will not tell me anything, because it has no validity if you tell me things ahead of time. I don't want someone else's theories. Because to me, if you're going to work psychically and work purely, you should not pre-read. You should go out there and work it cold."

Without revealing his destination, Jim took Nancy to the road near the Sportsman's Club where Michael had been murdered. She was inundated with visions and had a completely different story of what happened that night. According to Nancy, Michael and the murderer knew each other from their involvement in black magic:

"I would not be able to agree with the theory that would have Michael as an innocent you know, bystander, not the object of this killing. To me, from what I can sense, it's the other way around. Michael was the actual object."

As Nancy saw the crime, Michael and Rochelle were parked on the isolated road. She believed that the killer, a man in his late thirties, and two young accomplices crept up on the unsuspecting lovers:

"They seem to be accusing him of, of violating some kind of regulations, it almost felt like a cult type of situation."

According to Nancy, the killer then stabbed Rochelle and, along with his two accomplices, proceeded to drive Michael to the Sportsman's Club. Myer claimed that her crime scene impressions were so vivid, that she was able to envision all three assailants. The authorities, however, are unmoved by Nancy's visions, or theories that the double murder was linked to the occult. They remain convinced that the killer will be found among Rochelle Robinson's friends or acquaintances. Meanwhile, Rochelle's mother, Lynn Robinson, must wait for a resolution:

"It's a horrible, horrible feeling. You just keep going around and around and around. It's almost like a merry go round, and some days you just want to say let me off! And you can't. You'll never, never get off of it."