One of the most famous cases of a Ouija board murder involved Dorothea Irene Turley who was convicted of assault and intent to murder her husband Ernest in the White Mountains of Arizona. Initially, her daughter had confessed to the crime. However, it soon came out that Dorothea and Mattie had been contacted by a spirit on a Ouija board who instructed the daughter to kill her father. Dorothea said that the board “could not be denied”, so, days later, while Dorothea and her son were in town, Mattie shot her father twice in the back while he was carrying a milk pail. Although she immediately regretted what she’d done and ran for help, Ernest died weeks later. The daughter was eventually paroled, and Dorothea’s conviction was reversed by the state Supreme Court, but the two never reconciled, unsurprisingly.