I've seen where Wiccans are upset about the police calling this a "Wiccan ritual killing".

Wiccans Upset over ‘Wiccan Ritual Killing’ Accusations The Wiccan community is outraged by police characterizations that a triple homicide in Florida is suspected to be a “Wiccan ritual killing,” calling it a “haunting” comparison to the now infamous West Memphis Three case. The victims in the Pensacola case last week – Voncile Smith, 77, and her two sons, Richard, 49, and John, 47 – were discovered dead in the home they shared and police publicly linked the incident to the “blue moon” and “Wiccan” rituals. In a phone interview with NBC News, Escambia County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Sgt. Andrew Hobbes called the murders, “Wiccan ritual killings,” saying, ‘The injuries to the victims, the positions of the bodies and also the person of interest right now is also a practitioner,” were contributing factors to the Sheriff Office’s determinations. In 1993, three teenagers made national headlines – and spawned documentaries – when police arrested them for the murders of three young boys from West Memphis, Arkansas. At the time, the killings were called Satanic in nature by authorities. “The comparison to the West Memphis Three case is particularly sort of haunting in this instance because (suspect) Damien Echols was practicing Wicca – he was not super serious about it,” Peg Aloi, who writes “The Witching Hour” blog, said. “He was interested in (occultist) Aleister Crowley and he had a Book of Shadows , and he wore black, you know, and all these things kind of worked together to turn this crime into a ritualistic crime, which it was not.” One of the teens received the death penalty, while the other both received life sentences for the murders But all three were later released when new DNA evidence surfaced. Seamus Mckeon, who has practiced Wicca for 14 years and is a high priest, added that most rituals in the faith need nothing more than a lock or strand of hair. “The idea that you would slit someone’s throat and let it all bleed out is just insane,” he said. As for the assertion of police that placement of the bodies indicated some type of Wiccan ritual, Mckeon strongly disagrees. “It makes absolutely no sense,” he explained. “There’s no positioning of bodies that would indicate Wicca. I don’t even know how three bodies would have been able to make a five-pointed-star.” Historically, Mckeon said, “government agencies have a tendency to lump the occult and crime together.” Some in the online Wiccan and pagan community voiced their anger at the characterization of the killings by officials, taking issue with the timing of the homicide – a few days before the symbolic blue moon. “My question is, what ‘ritual’ done a few days before a blue moon would they be attempting and why?” a user posted in a forum on PaganSpace. Another user on self-described pagan forum “The Cauldron,” disapproved of the broad strokes with which local authorities painted the entire community. “I think if [the sheriff] is going to say that the crime is a Wiccan ritual, he should be made to point out exactly which ritual it was, and where it says in any authoritative work on Wicca that such rituals are permitted,” the posting read. Source: Becky Bratu and Erin Calabrese, NBC News, August 6, 2015.

These people protesting what the deputy said are going to be very embarrassed if the killer turns out to be Wiccan.

If it is a Wiccan, the next thing they'll say is that the person wasn't representing Wicca when he killed them. I don't suppose he would be and I suppose most Wiccans are OK, but some people who get into things like Wicca have mental and emotional problems.

There are a few crazy people in every religion.

Wicca is an assembly of the human being who is identified as a Wiccan. These citizens perform black magic for the good or bad purpose. The Wiccan is the rituals for the new tradition, we can adopt the new tradition using the Wiccan rituals. We can do anything by using these rituals.

I don't understand what you mean when you say that "these citizens perform black magic for the good or bad purpose". Are you talking about whoever killed those three people, or in general? Also, how do you perform black magic for a good purpose?

Wicca is an assembly of the human being who is identified as a Wiccan. These citizens perform black magic for the good or bad purpose. The Wiccan is the rituals for the new tradition, we can adopt the new tradition using the Wiccan rituals. We can do anything by using these rituals.

I don't understand what you mean when you say that "these citizens perform black magic for the good or bad purpose". Are you talking about whoever killed those three people, or in general? Also, how do you perform black magic for a good purpose?

I agree with April. Stating that someone is a member of one religion, another, or an atheist does not make mean it's an attack on the religion as a whole, but on the person. I'm not sure why the Wiccans feel offended. They are pointing out the suspect's religion because it has something to do with the killings as a whole (positions of the body, etc.), not to attack a whole group of people. Get over it and stop being offended for every little thing!

Wicca is a group of the human being who is identified as a Wiccan. These people act upon black magic for the good or bad reason. The Wiccan is the rituals are the rituals for the strength.