Local authorities yesterday questioned several members of the new, and ever growing local cult group Ego Shovel, in connection with the disappearance of University of Mississippi student Purity Knight. Knight was last seen in March before she mysteriously disappeared. Authorities fear that she was kidnapped and subsequently murdered.
Detectives say that Purity was seen with known cult members in the months prior to her disappearance, and was reportedly to have frequented nocturnal events held by the cult at a place outside of Oxford known as Cooter's Farm. Although the suspects were released, authorities have not ruled out cult involvement in the crime.
Last year, Purity Knight's sister, Valerie, was brutally murdered in Oxford. That crime was solved and there was no connection to the cult in regard to her slaying.