Boy whose case inspired The Exorcist is named by US magazine

The boy, previously known as Roland Doe, underwent exorcisms in Cottage City, Maryland, and St Louis, Missouri, in 1949 Ronald Edwin Hunkeler died last year, a month before his 86th birthday, after suffering a stroke at home in Marriottsville, Maryland. Photograph: AF archive/Alamy The boy whose case inspired the portrayal of a demon-possessed child in the 1973 horror movie classic The Exorcist has been named. The US magazine the Skeptical Inquirer named the then 14-year-old boy, previously know

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