Voodoo Panties
Ex-Boyfriend Creates Voodoo Shrine
By Daniel Muniz

In New York City, Pierre Carrenard was an emotional wreck after his girlfriend, Francois MacDaly, broke up with him. Francois continued to rebuff nearly all of Carrenard’s attempts to get back together which made this obsessed lover even more despondent and desperate.

Then the upset ex-boyfriend resorted to voodoo in an effort to restore their relationship.

He constructed a voodoo shrine consisting of Francois’s underwear. Carrenard felt that his ex-girlfriend’s panties were not only intimate souvenirs of their broken bond as well as being some of her own most private personal items, but he also felt that they possessed mystical powers that could be harnessed to serve his ultimate aims. Using an altar of her undergarments, he concocted a spell to enchant his beloved. He had hoped that by the means of voodoo, the magic of her panties would captivate his former lover so that she would once again be smitten with him.

Apparently his ex-girlfriend’s underwear was not powerful enough. Not only did the magic of her panties fail, Francois was more adamant than ever in staying away from her ex-lover.

Carrenard was distraught and emotionally devastated but he always felt that Francois’s mother, Esperance Labidou, had also played too big of a role in their relationship. He thought that Labidou exercised far too much influence and control over her own daughter. Consequently, he believed that her constant interference resulted in their breakup as well as in preventing any future reconciliation.

So when the voodoo shrine of panties and its subsequent magical spell didn’t work, Carrenard decided that he would personally take matters into his own hands instead of relying on the supernatural. And by extracting revenge on Labidou, the ex-boyfriend felt that he would be able to remove the biggest obstacle of maternal meddling because the mother would no longer be around.

In a sinister letter he wrote to Francois, it said:

After hatching his dark plan, Carrenard called up his ex-girlfriend’s mother at her workplace to harass and threaten her.

When Labidou went home, Carrenard entered her basement apartment and brutally stabbed her 25 times in which she immediately died. He also killed a little Chihuahua which had tried to protect her during the vicious attack. Labidou’s teenage cousin who had also lived there interrupted the crime. He slashed her face.

Afterwards, Carrenard then fled to Florida.

But like the voodoo altar of panties and its worthless spell, this too failed. Francois MacDaly did not fall back in love with her ex-boyfriend. She did not want to resume their relationship and now more than ever, she would definitely not listen to anything else that this miscreant had to say; having your mother slashed to death has that kind of effect.

Instead, Pierre Carrenard got a prison sentence of 25 years to life for the murder of Esperance Labidou, two years for stabbing the dog to death, and one year for slashing the 16 year old cousin.

But overall, this weirdo is nuts. There is nothing wrong with being weird but there is something very wrong when you are using your weirdness to cause physical harm to someone else. And yes, one man’s myth is another man’s religion. I can accept that assertion but I cannot respect a religion that uses manipulation and mind control as in the case of voodoo. And yes, there are people who claim that there is white (good) magic and black (bad) magic but nevertheless, many of its adherents make no such distinction when practicing voodoo.

However, Carrenard’s magic won’t help him now. He is sitting in prison where he belongs.

Although this incident is bizarre, it vividly demonstrates how obsessed certain people can be when it comes to exercising power and control in a relationship. And while it may be easy for people to say that Francois MacDaly should have left Carrenard long before he became fixated with her or least before he acquired a collection of her panties, nutcases like him are impossible to deal with because of how unpredictable they are.

And I wonder how any woman would react if she ever discovered that an ex-boyfriend created a voodoo shrine out of her panties and used it to cast a spell on her. I actually saw one such comment about a possible reaction for this incident:

Perhaps that is how a lot of women would see it.

Even so, it is tragic that law enforcement and our court system can only do so much until something bad happens and it really doesn’t matter if the weirdo is already doing something strange. And sadly, when such an event does occur, if the assailant is determined enough to kill their victim right on the spot, then more often than not it will be too late for the police to stop it in time.

Anti-stalking and harassment laws in most states across the country have substantially improved from being non-existent to at least having law enforcement take you seriously about it. But this situation was different. The ex-boyfriend never intended to physically harm his ex-girlfriend but rather, he wanted to hurt her emotionally by killing her mother. So by even having the police involved, it wouldn’t have helped much because the target was the mother. The teenage cousin was also just an innocent bystander during Carrenard’s rampage.

Unfortunately, many crimes of passion simply cannot be stopped because most of them are done on impulse or out of rage. In addition, the world also has plenty of very confused people who have a warped sense of reality in that they actually believe that they are doing the right thing. In Carrenard’s letter, he really thought that by eliminating Francois MacDaly’s mother, that both of them would then live happily ever after.

So with this twisted individual in prison, our legal system worked and justice was served. It doesn’t take away from the pain and suffering that he inflicted but this incident does illustrate that we all live in a world that has plenty of disoriented unbalanced people who do not have a good grasp of reality.

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