Inside the chilling Satanic obsession of the parents of baby boy who lay dead for months in a grubby Adelaide motel room with incense masking the smell: ‘Dark Lord’

Disturbing new posts by the parents of a baby boy found dead for months in a fly-infested motel room reveal a dark obsession with Satanic forces and missing children.

Yue Ning Lieu, 42, also known as Linda Lieu, and her partner Benjamin Nicholas Houghton, 40, were arrested on Saturday after police discovered the baby’s decomposing body at Adelaide’s Tollgate Motel in Glen Osmond.

The couple have been charged with criminal neglect and concealing human remains after the infant’s body was reportedly found hidden beneath blankets, with incense allegedly burning nearby to disguise the smell.

Houghton also faces an additional charge of hindering police.

The pair had been living at the budget motel since arriving in South Australia from interstate at the beginning of the year, with police revealing they had no contact with state authorities during that time.

In the weeks before the discovery, Lieu had been posting online frequently – up to 20 times a day – about aliens, mind control and forces she believed were targeting her. 

But the baby’s father also had a long history of publishing disturbing material under the username Benjamin.Houghton666, which included repeated references to the Devil. 

Houghton shared several posts insisting secret agents were stealing children, and in another post, he referred to himself as the ‘Dark Lord’ and declared: ‘Hail Satan.’ 

One post quoted from the Book of Revelation about Satan and flashed up pictures of celebrities and politicians before asking: ‘Figured out who Satan’s people are yet?’ 

It also featured sickening images of dogs being butchered over a disturbing soundtrack of screams, squeals and grunts.

Among his final posts was a video claiming 11 children had been reported missing in North Dakota in the US over just 17 days. 

The clip featured photographs of three of the children alleged to be missing, set against a song from the ABC children’s programme Play School. 

As the children’s faces appeared on screen, the lyrics played: ‘I’m so hungry, so hungry, very, very hungry, I want something I can munch.’

Other uploads were dominated by claims that he was being watched, that his electronic devices had been hacked and that unknown people were spying on him. 

He referred to Lieu as his wife, although neither appeared to have shared any photographs together, her pregnancy or the birth of their baby boy on social media.

In one post, Houghton hinted at a possible rift with his relatives, claiming he had been ‘born in the wrong family’.

His wife also regularly uploaded photographs of herself appealing for cash donations to continue producing her online content of increasingly bizarre conspiracy theories.

On Tuesday the Daily Mail revealed that Lieu had previously disappeared with another young child, prompting a police investigation amid fears for their welfare.

Five years earlier, the then 36-year-old disappeared with her two-year-old daughter triggering a police investigation.

The pair were last seen by family at a home in Riverwood, in Sydney’s south, on May 11, 2021, before worried relatives reported them missing to Campsie Police three days later.

Police issued a public appeal for information urging anyone who had seen them to come forward.

Then, eight days after she disappeared, almost 300km away Lieu walked alone into a Canberra police station.

Following further inquiries, officers eventually tracked down her daughter at a relative’s home in Victoria.

It remains unclear why Lieu disappeared with the toddler or what circumstances prompted her family to raise the alarm.

The Daily Mail has confirmed the daughter, now seven, was not at the motel when police found the remains of her baby brother and had not traveled to South Australia with her mother.

Lieu, who describes herself online as a registered traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, also operated a blog called Health in Lieu, where she published lengthy posts about government surveillance and mind control.

‘I am not here to be politically correct. I’m unapologetically Australian,’ Lieu wrote. 

‘I’m blunt, and I’m direct. I also hold very strong opinions, I didn’t give up my life in the corporate world to hide behind another ‘professional’ façade. So if you can handle that, please read on.’

Her last post in April 2025 titled ‘Help Me in My Fight Against Tyranny’ accused governments of using ‘mind control’ to ‘enslave us’.

The couple appeared before the Adelaide Magistrates Court on Monday via a bedside hearing while they undergo medical treatment following their arrest.

They did not apply for bail and were remanded in custody until May 3, 2027.

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