grew up in Athens, went to High School in the early 80's. First I want to reply to the person that wrote about Todd Tolbert. Todd was my husband's best friend and he was the best man at my wedding. He was also my best friend's casual boyfriend. The night Todd died was January 1 just after midnight. We had all been together at a little pool hall bringing in the New Year. We needed more beer and Todd and Will (NOT Mark) took the job of going to Caney City to get the beer. He first took my best friend home because her mom wanted her home just after midnight, and that probably saved her life. Todd and my husband were both into fast cars and Todd was coming back into Athens on highway 31 when his tie rod broke which caused him to loose control of his car. He was going fast and flew high enough to shear a telephone or electric pole midway. Will was thrown clear and survived. Todd died at the scene. We heard of the crash immediately and went to the scene which was directly across from what use to be the old Trail Drive In. (NOT MONKEY ROAD) They had a white sheet over him and he was still in the driver's seat. We were devastated as you can imagine. It fell on my husband and I to tell Todd's other best friend Rocky and to tell my best friend that had just been dropped off at home about an hour earlier. I admit that after Todd's death we did start hearing a lot of rumors about satanic rituals, but we never heard that Todd was an active part of this. In fact we visited two sites in Athens that have or had very large stone pentagrams. One was at the Country Club and we were told that a few days before Todd's death, that Todd and some of his friends were standing on each point of the pentagram, all except Todd because there was not another point, the points were all taken. And the assumption was that this was going to be bad for Todd in some way. There were a lot of rumors going on at that time. I was only 17 and it was in 1982 so I really don't remember all the rumors. For people to say he was a well known Satanist is absurd. Todd was a wonderful young man and a great friend. My husband and Rocky probably knew him better than anyone at the time and he was not known to them to be a Satanist and that is probably going to be pretty hard to hide. I have to admit that when I found these rumors on the web about Todd I was shocked and very surprised. Todd is buried between Cross Roads and Cayuga and I stop by there when I am in the area to say hi, he is buried next to another good friend Mike. I realize this is all fun for some of you, but do keep in mind that Todd died in a tragic car accident on New Year's Day just after midnight. It had nothing to do with Satan and neither did Todd.

I apologize I was wrong about the fact that Will was in the car with Todd when Todd was killed, it was indeed Mark Shaffer. The car was a red Ford Comet that Todd had built in his HS shop class. I am hearing that he never worked at the Country Club, but this is not proven yet.

Trevina

The car was actually black with gold rims.I was there the night Todd died he had asked me to ride with him and Mark to Caney City and I chose not to.Todd was in no condition to drive and I wish I would have stopped him but for those of you that knew Todd that task would have been impossible he would never give anyone his keys.What I wouldn't give to have that night over again!