The Firefly Chronicles

Larry Harris claimed a spell that went horribly wrong killed two of his daughters. Ten year-old Kendra and her eight year-old sister, Alysha were found dead on the 2^nd floor of their Sioux City, Iowa home. Firefighters discovered their bodies while responding to a fire call Sunday afternoon. Investigators ruled the fire suspicious. According to police, the girls had been strangled and stabbed prior to the fire.

Their 24 year-old father is now charged with 2 counts of first degree murder. According to the area’s newspapers, no one bought the “witchcraft killed my kids” excuse. The head of a Sioux City area Wiccan Church commented, “Being part of a spell that had gone wrong…doesn’t make sense, I don’t know what the man’s religion was, if it turns out he was a Wiccan, then I would say, as a Wiccan, throw the book at him.” A judge will inevitably decide if this is witchcraft or trickery.

It is unclear which religion Harris followed. KMEG reported that his wife respected his beliefs, but asked him not to practice in the house. He was apparently doing a spell to help her third child to stay out of trouble.