On Thursday, December 15, forty-three-year-old Beki Ikala Erikli, a well-known Turkish paranormal researcher and author of several books, was killed in Istanbul. According to the police, the woman was shot dead as she left the elevator of her office in the evening. The killer fired three bullets into the victim and fled the scene. Law enforcement officers, after examining evidence, eyewitness testimony and surveillance footage, detained the suspect on Saturday.
She turned out to be thirty-one-year-old Sinem Cock, a longtime reader and client of Ericley. Having arrested the woman, the police seized the pistol from her. Kok quickly confessed to the crime. Nevertheless, experts have already considered that the detainee, most likely, faces not a prison, but a high-security psychiatric hospital. The fact is that the killer explained her terrible act as follows: Erikli was supposedly a demon in the flesh and deserved to die.
The most famous work of the researcher of the supernatural is "Living with Angels" - a spiritual guide to self-development and search for a connection with higher powers. According to Kok's testimony, she read this book several dozen times, but did not find anything bright and promising in it. On the contrary, the future criminal began to suffer from nightmares and see the devil everywhere. It was then that she came to the conclusion that in fact the writer, they say, wants to harm her readers, covertly showing them the path not to God, but to Satan.
“I am convinced that she was not human and was trying to harm others,” said Kok. “She was a real demon, and I had to kill her to save other people. I had a wonderful life until I met Becky, went to her seminars and read her books. For many months I have not been able to sleep, I see the devil and other terrible creatures from the underworld everywhere. Someone had to stop her."
Psychiatrists believe that the perpetrator has schizophrenia. It is noteworthy that Sinem Cock repeatedly threatened Becky Erikly by phone and via e-mail, but the writer chose not to contact the police. As it seems now, such a measure would not be superfluous for her. However, the researcher of mysticism was a convinced fatalist, and therefore believed that you could not escape fate, and there was no point in worrying about your safety.