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For occult crimes from 1988 to 1900 click here: http://usminc.org/crime3.html Here is a list of crimes that have been well documented listed by year in no particular order. The list starts at 1900, which I made the cut off point, and will go on into the present day. The list includes Wiccans, Voodooists, Santerios, Abqas, Crowleyites, a Theosophist, "Gnostic Alchemists", and of course, lots of Satanists (sorry, but Satanists seem to commit most of the occult crimes. Go figure). Plenty of occult crimes get little media coverage. I've listed a couple here that I personally know of, but that haven't got any airtime air time at all and only got mentioned in the local papers. Plenty of things happen that never get covered, I'm sure. In Miami for instance, finding Santeria items (used in trying to cast spells on judges)at the Dade County Courthouse...like parts of animals (chickens in particular), roots, herbs, candles, stones, etc., are so common place, they are not even considered news worthy anymore. This list is by no means a list of every occult crime committed by occultists since 1900...and it's not meant to say that all occultists are criminals. Most aren't. Occult
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Type Ctrl+f then enter search words in the box that pops up. There's also a second page (link at bottom). Or you can just scroll down and browse (best way). *******************
2011
NOV.
Milwaukee, WI
Two
Satanists were arrested for the ritual
stabbing of a man during a "Satanic Sex Ritual" that, according to the
victim, "got out of hand". The two women — Rebecca Chandler, 22,
and Raven Larrabee, 20 — were arrested on 11-10-2011 and held on
$150,000 bond and a $100,000 bond, respectively. According
to a search warrant affidavit posted on The Smoking Gun website, the
18-year-old victim, Ruben Vati, met Chandler online and traveled
by bus from Phoenix to Milwaukee to meet her. When he arrived,
the young man told police, he was bound and stabbed for two days. he
suffered over 300 stab wounds in all, but incredibly managed to survive
the ordeal. Vati suffered stab wounds when the consensual sex "got out
of hand," (now that's an understatement!) the affidavit said. Vati enjoyed the sex at first, but not the hundreds of stabs in his arms, neck, face, back and legs that followed, apparently. Police followed the trail of blood to the apartment after Vati called 911 from a nearby intersection."I think you are here looking for me," Chandler reportedly told the police. He later posted about the incident on Facebook, but only managed one word: "stitches".The affidavit also says police found a book titled "The Necromantic Ritual Workbook" by Leilah Wendell which promises to enable a reader to “share consiousness with the Angel of Death", and an "Intro to Sigilborne Spirits." , among other occult books. They also found a purportedly humorous book titled "A Werewolf's Guide To Life", because, hey, even would-be Satanic human sacrificers have a sense of humor, ya know. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Huffington Post, AP, The Smoking Gun) *******************
2011
SEPT. Pheonix, AZ – On 9-7-11, 33 people in all were
indicted for prostitution at a New Age “healing center”. Phoenix
Goddess Temple looks like a New Age resort, with hallways painted
an earthy copper shade and adorned with statues, fountains, and
paintings by Sedona artist Paul LaWrence Curtis . The
“temple” claims to offer “touch therapy” which usually involves the
“shamans” touching the genitals of the clients or “sacred sex” while
New Age music plays over a boom box and stick incense is burned. Some
forms of “therapy” involve spanking, and the “temple” even claimed to
work with sexual abuse victims. Women at the temple used aliases like
Magdalena, Shakti, and Devima. One alleged male prostitute who
describes himself as a “shaman”, worked exclusively with overweight
women. He called himself, a “spiritual warrior” and saw the
police raid as a form of “religious persecution”. Prostitution wasn't the only problem. Licensed psychologists were concerned about the hack psychology techniques the “temple” used, saying they could actually do more harm than good. Licensed sex therapists are certified by the American Association of Sexuality Educators, Counselors, and Therapists , but no one at Phoenix Goddess Temple is certified or even has any formal training in Psychology. Diane Genco is founder of the AZ Center for Change in Phoenix and a licensed professional counselor who specializes in treating sexual abuse and trauma. She says a licensed therapist would "lose their license in a heartbeat" for touching a patient's genitals, and before a patient can begin to deal with the physical aspects of trauma, a lot of mental and behavioral things need to be addressed. The goddesses practice techniques that include genital touching for a "religious offering" of money that generally ranges from $204 to $650. Psychologist Genco says part of her practice does involve helping clients "re-learn how to be sexual without trauma being triggered," but "I can't even imagine any kind of therapy that involves touching a victim," she says. "It should never involve directly touching a patient in a sexual way. That is exploitation." Practitioners at the temple did not receive "payments" but accepted "donation only." That could give them some defense, James Hays, assistant city attorney for Phoenix says, "But if it's really a donation, then I should be able to go in there and say, 'I don't feel like giving a donation. Give me the services for free,' and then if there's no services — that's not a donation. It's like a forced gratuity." But Phoenix Goddess Temple is "really just a business modeled as something they're not, so they can get money," Hays says. "It happens all the time." Even though PGT advertisements go in the adult sections of local newspapers, Phoenix Goddess Temple founder Tracy Elise says the temple is not a brothel but rather, a “church”, and the services offered are religious rituals to enrich people's lives. We'll see if a jury buys it. There's a history of “sacred sex temples” throughout the world and about a dozen modern versions in the United States. In the past two years, at least three of them have been raided on suspicion of prostitution. Namastae! ( Phoenix New Times, Associated Press) *******************
2011
AUG Murphy, NC - Wiccan High Priest Waco “White Wolf” Tohausen was
convicted of the rape of a 5 year old child and selling of child
pornography. He was sentenced to 3 years in prison and must register as
a sex offender upon release. On 04/14/2010, Tohausen, then 37 years
old, was arrested by the Cherokee County Sheriff’s Department in
Murphy, NC. The crimes, which were committed back in 2007, where only
indicted on December 21, 2009. At the time, Tohausen was associated with a Wiccan Group known as the Temple of the Crystalline Star and the Lustration of the Ancestors (they need a more pretenstious name, huh?). The group removed his "clergy” status and tried to distance themselves from Tohausen when his arrest was made public. Tohausen was said to have been involved in the Neopagan/Wiccan community for many years. Had he been a Roman Catholic priest, you probably would have heard it on the national news of every network for weeks to come. (U.S. Marshall Service, WKRC) *******************
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2011 AUG Three men convicted of murdering three
Cub Scouts in what police determined was a "Satanic Crime" were
released from prison after serving 18 years. The defendants,
known by their supporters as the West Memphis 3, agreed to a legal
maneuver that lets them maintain their innocence while acknowledging
prosecutors have enough evidence against them."I am innocent of these charges but I am entering an Alford guilty plea," Echols (who had a history of mental illness and hospitilizations for it previous to his convivtion) told the judge. Baldwin and Miskelley also reasserted their innocence.The three were credited with time served, and Echols is being freed from Arkansas' death row. They were placed on 10 years' probation and if they re-offend they could be sent back to prison for 21 years, Prosecutor Scott Ellington said. "I believe that it would be practically impossible after 18 years to put on a proper trial in this case," Ellington said. Indeed, no doubt evidence has been lost, contaiminaited, or accidentally destroyed, and witnesses may not remember all the details nearly two decades after the crime. As for persuing the "real" killers, "I believe this case is closed and there are no other individuals involved," Ellington said. The case drew the attention of celebrities such as a member of the rock band Pearl Jam, The Dixie Chicks, and Johnny Depp who sympathized witht the convicts, and sought to prove them innocent. They and other celebrities helped fund a legal team that worked to win the three a new trial. No less than two "documentaries" slanted to make the trio completely appear innocent aired on HBO. The May 5, 1993, killings were particularly gruesome. Steve Branch, Christopher Byers and Michael Moore were found nude, and hogtied, and rumors of Satanism roiled the community in the weeks following their deaths. Branch and Moore drowned in about 2 feet of water; Byers bled to death and his genitals were mutilated and partially removed. Police had few leads until receiving a tip that Echols had been seen mud-covered the night the boys disappeared. The big break came when Misskelley unexpectedly confessed and implicated Baldwin and Echols in the killings. "Then they tied them up, tied their hands up," Misskelley said in the statement to police, parts of which were tape-recorded. After describing sodomizing and other violence, he went on: "And I saw it and turned around and looked, and then I took off running. I went home, then they called me and asked me, 'How come I didn't stay? I told them, I just couldn't.'" Prior to his arrest, Echols enjoyed playing the role of the neighborhood boogeyman (by scaring younger children) and usually dressed in black and displayed sharpened fingernails. After his arrest, he was described in the press as a "Satanist". But Echols insisted several times he was actually a Wiccan. Born Michael Wayne Hutchison, he later changed his name to Damien (the name of the anti-Christ in the horor movie The Omen)in his teens after being adopted by the Echols family. Echols briefly joined a local Roman Catholic church. Of course, some Satanists have been known to attend Roman Catholic Churches solely to obtain communion wafers and holy water to desecrate in Black Masses. Many occultists, such as Voodooists and Santerios, have no problem combining Roman Catholicism with the occult. Prosecutors describe the triple murder as a ritual slaying. Echols seemed to combine Wicca and Satanism in his belief system, which certainly isn't unheard of among teen solitary Wiccans. A notebook of Echols contained the "upright" pentagram of Wicca surrounded by upside down crosses. Probably the most incredible claim made by a witness for the prosecution was that Echols and his girlfriend had planned to have a baby and offer it as a human sacrifice, giving fuel to the urban legends (?) about Satanic "breeders". Misskelley later recanted, and defense lawyers said the then 17-year-old got several parts of the story incorrect. An autopsy said there was no definite evidence of sexual assault. Miskelley had said the older boys abducted the Scouts in the morning, when they had actually been in school all day. Misskelley was tried separately, convicted of first- and second-degree murder, and sentenced to life in prison plus 40 years. He refused to testify against the others and his confession was not admitted into evidence. Defense lawyers for Echols and Baldwin alleged juror misconduct, saying they heard about the Misskelley confession anyway. Attorneys also said there wasn't enough physical evidence linking the three to the crime scene. The Arkansas Supreme Court upheld Echols' conviction and death sentence in 1996, saying there was still enough other evidence to sustain it. Last fall, the Arkansas Supreme Court ordered a new hearing for the three and asked a judge to consider allegations of juror misconduct and whether new DNA science could aid the men or uphold the convictions. In upholding Echols' conviction in 1996, the state Supreme Court noted that two people testified Echols bragged about the killings, an eyewitness put Echols at the scene, fibers similar to the boys' clothing were found in Echols' home, a knife was found in a pond behind Baldwin's home, Echols' interest in the occult and his telling police that he understood the boys had been mutilated even before officers had released such details. But then again...OJ Simpson and Casey Anthony were found innocent too. (AP, USA Today, March 21, 1994, Raising Hell-Newton) *******************
2011
JAN San Joaquin Valley, CA Satanist Stanton Zaharoff LaVey, 33,
and his girlfriend Mishael Nicely (a.k.a, Sharon Hate), 24, were
arrested on suspicion of
assaulting a 19-year-old they knew on Wednesday 1/19/2011, the Tulare
County Sheriff’s Department reported. Authorities said the girl went
with the couple to their home, where they smoked marijuana together.
The girl told authorities that the couple would not let her leave. She
was tackled and bound with tape at her hands and across her mouth, she
reported. The couple sexually assaulted her and forced her to watch
pornography, she reported. She was allowed to leave at 3 a.m. Thursday,
she told authorities. A few days later, the girl decided not to press
charges, and LaVey and Nicely were not prosecuted. LaVey is no
stranger to the police. In an interview with Bizarre online magazine in
2005, LaVey admitted to being in and out of jail most of his life and
even spending his 21st birthday behind bars. The Alien Elite
indeed!(Visalia Times-Delta) *******************
2011
JAN Sungai Bakap, Malaysia - A teacher at an Islamic school in
Malaysia's northern state of Penang was detained for allegedly
molesting a 14-year-old girl during a ritual to rid the young
victim of a spell,
a Malaysian newspaper reported on 01-11-11. The suspect, who is in his
40s, told the girl she was the victim of a spell cast upon her and
urged her to go to his house to undergo a cleansing ritual, the Star
newspaper said, citing police. The suspect was accused of fondling the
girl while she took a bath Sunday. Police detained the man later that
day after the girl and her mother lodged a police report. The man was
later released on bail. Islam was born
out of Arabian tribal Pagan religions, and in many countries Muslims
live in fear of sorcery and "the evil eye". Belief in magic spells and use of
talismans is
quite common in the Islamic world.
(Star Online)*******************
2011
JAN TUCSON, AZ Jared
Loughner, described by friends
as "a pot smoking loner who was down on religion" , shot Blue Dog
Democrat Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, and a Judge appointed by
President Bush, and fatally killed a 9 year old girl. A total of 5
people were killed and 14 people were wounded. High school classmate
Grant Wiens, 22, said Loughner seemed to be "floating through life" and
"doing his own thing." "Sometimes religion was brought up or drugs. He
smoked pot, I don't know how regularly. And he wasn't too keen on
religion, from what I could tell," Wiens said. Lynda Sorenson said she
took a math class with Loughner last summer at Pima Community College's
Northwest campus and told the Arizona Daily Star he was "obviously very
disturbed." "He disrupted class frequently with nonsensical outbursts,"
she said.  Loughner
left a rambling message on Youtube (under the name
Classitup10) about "Conscious Dreaming". Conscious Dreaming is a form
of supposedly stimulating mental hallucinations with the imagination,
and with practice supposedly being able to cross over into a imaginary
world of a dream while still conscious. Apparently it was through these
occult practices that Loughner decided the government was trying to use
"mind control" on the masses, as well as introduce a "new currency". On
the following Monday, it was reported that Loughner had erected a
"SATANIC Altar"
in his back yard sometime prior to the shootings.
A photograh appeared on the Internet, prompting his family to
remove the altar to discourage more onlookers. Among the books Loughner
listed on Youtube as his favorites included
The Communist Manifesto, Mien Kampf,
and the Siddartha (a novel about
Bhudda). Despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, many in the
media mis-identified Loughner as a "member of the Tea Party". The
chicken or the egg question is, did Loughner's occult practices
contribute to his mental illness, or is it just another case of a
mentally unstable person being attracted to the occult?
(Yahoo
News, Youtube, Daily News online)*******************
2010
– Salt Lake City, UT Tantra practitioner Janae Thorne-Bird of Heartsong
Healing Center in Salt Lake City was jailed on prostitution charges. In
2009, three goddess temples in Seattle — all run by Elise's former
student, Rainbow Love — were raided on suspicion of being brothels.
Love was charged with three counts of promoting prostitution and
attempting to promote prostitution. Love claims authorities violated
her civil rights; Thorne-Bird claims freedom of religion — a tricky
defense, Hays says. "The intersection between government regulation and
religious expression is very complicated," Hays says. "I can't think of
a case here where someone claims to offer sexual favors as part of
their spiritual expression. It would be an interesting case, but I
don't think it would work well for the church. The sex would be
ancillary . . . you can do all your religious things without selling
sex acts." *******************
2010
DEC Burmingham, AL 20 year old Satanist and self proclaimed
"Vampire" Francis Brown was charged with assault for using a
fork
or spoon to burn the letter "V" into the forehead of a 17-year-old,
police said. The victim claims he was tricked by Brown, who
invited him to play a game, Detective Mike Hooks reportedly told the
Gadsden Times. The teen was tied up, beaten, branded with the "V" and
burned with cigarettes, according to Hooks. "Vamp," as he was known,
fled after the victim sought treatment and was caught when he showed up
for court on unrelated charges, according to Sergeant Wayne Keener of
the police department in Gadsden, where the incident allegedly
occurred. "We went to the residence where he had lived. It was filled
with satanic symbols on the wall. It was some kind of cult," said
Keener. Also found was a book on witchcraft stolen from the local
library, police said. The police department has condemned the house.
(Reuters)*******************
DEC 2010 PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti – At least 45 people have been killed across Haiti due to accusations they are using "black magic" to spread cholera, the director of a VOODOO association said on 12-24-10. Most of the killings are occurring in the southern coastal town of Jeremie, where people are being lynched, set on fire and attacked with machetes, said Max Beauvoir, a Voodoo priest. But he said killings also have been reported in Cap Haitien and the Central Plateau. Local police did not return calls seeking comment on Beauvior's numbers on Christmas Eve, though The Associated Press reported in early December that national police spokesman Frantz Lerebours said machete-wielding mobs had killed a dozen people accused of practicing witchcraft to spread cholera. Roughly half of the 9.6 million people who live in Haiti practice Voodoo, which is African Paganism that sometimes incorprates Roman Catholic imagery (Mesopaganism). (Yahoo News) *******************
July 2010 Pheonix, AZ Amber Niklaus , aged 7, was recused by police from a pair of Romanians who claim to be Gypsies as well as "PSYCHICS" who didn't see it coming. Police said the girl had been kept out of school, could not read, and spoke Romanian and English. The pair had forged documents giving the little girl another name to conceal her identity. Police raided "Centro Cosmico Palm" which offers Tarot readings, psychic readings, palm readings, and also "healings". The couple's residence was in back of the building. The couple's names have not been released by the police who are continuing the investigation. Amber was abducted before she was even 1 year old by a juvenile aunt, who is an aquaintance of the psychics. Police identifiied Amber from a footprint on her birth certificiate. (AP) *******************
April
2010 ALBAQUERQUE, N.M.
Wiccan Angela Sanford killed a man as a human sacrifice according to
New Mexico aithorities. A detective reviewing Sanford's cell phone said
the victim's phone number was actually programmed under the word
"sacrifice." Sanford is accused of killing 52-year-old Joel Leyba last month with a knife, after inviting him to join her in a Wiccan "celebration of spring". She claims Leyba tried to rape her near a popular hiking trail east of Albuquerque, and that she stabbed him in self-defense. But authorities have previously said that Sanford stabbed Leyba at least a dozen times with a ceremonial dagger (an athame), and that her account of the killing just doesn't add up. A Bernalillo County grand jury indicted the 30-year-old Sanford on 4-7-2010. While Wiccans decry human sacrifice, and such an instance is certanly very rare, it is not unheard of. Gerald Gardner claimed his coven sacrificed 3 elderly members in a pathetic attempt to use "magic" against the Germans during WWII (as though somehow the 50 million people who died weren't enough). And Wiccan traditionhead Roy Bowers, a.k.a., Robert Cochrane comitted suicide by injesting Bella Donna leaves on the Summer Soltice of 1966 as a self-sacrifice. (CBS/AP) *******************
2010 March, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa A Zululand man was jailed for 20 years by the Pietermaritzburg High Court on 3-24-10 for helping to murder a friend's sister for her body parts to be ultmiate used in Voodoo type rituals. Mathenjwa Mangomezulu, 45, father of five, earlier confessed to the murder. He said he and his friend Mcwecwe Mngomezulu killed Mcwecwe's 75-year-old sister Nongoziba by twisting her neck. They then cut out her tongue, oesophagus and eyes. They threw her body over a cliff, where it was found a few days later. Mcwecwe intended selling his sister's body parts to a witchdoctor (or "Shaman" to be politically correct) for R5000. Mathenjwa, who had never been to school, said he was paid R600 for his role in the murder, committed in December last year. Judge Kate Pillay found substantial and compelling circumstances for him so that she did not have to impose the prescribed life in jail sentence, so he'll probably be out in a few years to sell some other victim's body parts. Yes, wouldn't all socieities be better of they embraced Paganism and Shamanism? (IOL News for South Africa) *******************
March
2010 Otawa, Canada Wiccan Johnathan T. Pinney, 25, was arrested on
3-15-10 for misdemeanor complaints of trespass and disorderly conduct.
The charges stem from the accusation by a man that Pinney refused to
leave his rural property, yelled, threatened to beat up a 14-year-old
boy, and "got in the face" of the man, according to court records.
Pinney bit an Ottawa police officer Jan. 13, 2006, while a patient in
the mental health unit at Ottawa Regional Hospital. His trial was
delayed until May 2008, because of concerns about Pinney's mental
fitness. In that period he was in custody and was eventually found fit
for trial. During the five-day-long trial, Pinney defended himself
without an attorney and wore makeup that made him look like Chicago
television horror film host Svengoolie. Pinney also wore unusual
clothes and said he practiced magic, adhered to the Wicca religion,
cast spells and quote "embraced evil". Blessed be! (AP)*******************
2010 Feb Los Angeles, CA New Age guru James Arthur Ray was arrested for 3 counts of manslaughter for the deaths of his followers during a "sweat lodge" ceremony. Ray is the author of "Harmonic Wealth", "The Science of Success", and "The Seven Laws of True Wealth" and made several appearances on the Today show. Ray was the darling of celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey and was best known for his New Age DVD "The Secret", in which he makes claims that we can get whatever we can imagine and that all our pain and suffering is caused by negative thinking...the same lie promoted by Unity, Science of Mind, Christian Science,Rev. Ike, and others. New Agers are facinated with Native American "shamanism", and often try to re-create these Pagan ceremonies. Ray ran private courses in "self improvement and spirituality" on his remote camp in Sedona, Arizona. Sedona has become a hot spot for New Agers. During the course of a 10-8-2009 retreat he organized a program called "spiritual warrior" and brought very hot rocks inside a tent where more than fifty people were put to test for enduring the pain and the heat. The attendees had paid up to $10,000 a person to participate in the retreat. They had fasted for 36 hours during a "vision quest" exercise before the next day's sweat lodge. During this vision quest, participants were left alone in the Arizona desert with a sleeping bag, although Ray offered them Peruvian ponchos for an additional $250. One follower said Ray even conducted a game where he "played God". During this Pagan Native American (shamanism) "sweat lodge" ceremony, some followers complained of the heat and asked to leave. Within an hour of entering the sweat lodge, people began vomiting, gasping for air and collapsing. Upon hearing their pleas to be allowed to leave, Ray instead chided them for their weakness while safely outside, and challenged them to face their fears. 2 people died during the ceremony in the heat and darkness, a thrid person was taken to the hospital and died a few days later. A site owner reported she learned after the event that participants went two days without water before entering the lodge. This is not the first time followers have been injured at one of Ray's shindigs. In another 2005 sweat lodge ceremony, EMS responded to a 911 call because of a participant who had fallen unconcious during the activity. In 2005 a woman shattered her hand during one of Ray's "martial arts" seminars while attempting to shatter a board, instead shattering several bones in her hand. In 2006 during another "spiritual warrior" retreat, a man recieved an arrow in the eyebrow while trying to resist it being pushed against his throat in a demonstration of mind powers. Also in 2009, during a seminar where the attendees dressed as homeless people, one woman fell to her death. Astonishingly, instead of apologizing and trying to help the people he has harmed, Ray was marketing himself in recent weeks at free seminars, trying to drum up more business! Let's see him visualize a pardon. There's really nothing mystical about a sweat lodge...it's just superstition. It's too bad in a civilized country like the USA so mnay people go for the ridiculous and dangerous...and at a premium price. (Yahoo News, Wikipedia) *******************
2010
Jan. Korangi, Karachi, Pakistan A couple was charged by police for the
sacrifice of one of their children and the attempted sacrifice of
another. Police raided a home in Southern Pakistan thought to be
housing terrorists when instead they discovered the couple residing
there had killed their infant daughter, named Fazeelat, and
buried her under the dirt floor. Police noticed the smell of rtting
flesh and saw the lose dirt on the floor, and discovered the baby's
body. Police say their other daughter, Maryam, aged 3 was found tied hand and foot in a semi-concious state surrounded by burning candles, with the mother close by. Police also discovered books on black magic in the home. The killer, Nadim and his wife said ill-wishers had put them under a black magic spell, police told the BBC. To ward off the spell, they had contacted a "pir" - or faith healer - in the north-western city of Dera Ismail Khan, and were following his instructions. Nadim had told police that "evil forces" wanted to take Fazeelat away. A doctor who carried out a post mortem at Karachi's Jinnah hospital said she had been dead for about four days. A spokesman for the police said he believed the couple would have killed their other daughter as well. Belief in magic spells and use of talismans is quite common in the Islamic world. (BBC) *******************
2010
January Devon, UK Police believe a bizarre outbreak
of
horse mane weaving may be the work of a cult of pagans
practising
"white magic". Nearly 20 animals have been singled out for the unwanted
and bizarre treatment over the past three months in Hemyock, Culmstock
and Clayhidon, the Culm Valley and Exeter. Officers initially believed
the horses were being marked for theft by organised criminals but none
of them disappeared. Now they think white witches who practise "knot
magick" are using the horses to help them cast spells. The strange
practice has broken out in fields in Devon and parts of Dorset and
Somerset. Excuse me, but is this the 21st century A.D. or
B.C.?
(THISISWESTERNMORNINGNEWS.CO.UK 1-13-2010)*******************
2010 Feb Seatle, WA According to court documents, self proclaimed Wiccan Eric Christensen, 40, has told police that when he found out his girlfriend, 35-year-old Sherry Harlan, was talking to another man, he forced her to take a Wiccan blood oath, making her promise she'd end all contact. Christensen says he found a text message from the guy on Harlan's phone shortly thereafter, a transgression that he alleges made her a "'warlock,' literally an "oath breaker". Two days later, investigators found her burned-out car with partial human remains inside. The rest of Harlan's remains were found later, when an accomplice of Christensen's led police to a number of shallow graves around Snohomish County. While practicing the Craft of The Wise, Christensen managed to rack up prior convictions for assault, sexual abuse and domestic violence. He currently faces charges of first-degree murder. *******************
Dec. 2009 BRASILIA, Brazil – The stepfather of a 2-year-old boy along with two others were arrested after the toddler was found with 42 needles in his body (some reports have it around 50). Some needles were as long as two inches. "We think it could have only been by penetration because we found needles in the lung, the left leg and in different parts of the thorax. It couldn't have been by ingestion," the attending physician said.The stepfather has confessed to jabbing them into the toddler as part of a Santeria-like ritual, Brazilian police said on 12-17-09. Roberto Carlos Magalhaes told detectives that a woman who went into a trance would "command him to stick the needles in the boy's body," police inspector Helder Fernandes Santana said in a telephone interview with The Associated Press.In Brazil, Santeria is called Macumba, and is very similar to the Santeria practiced in Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Miami. A black magic version, known as Quimbanda or Zarabanda, is also practiced in Brazil. The boy's father, Gessivaldo Alves, told the newspaper A Tarde that he believed his son could have been a victim of a black magic ritual. Alves reportedly said he visited the home where the boy was living and found unspecified items that could be used for black magic. The child, meanwhile, was airlifted to a major hospital in northeastern Brazil because two of the needles are close to his heart, but it was not immediately clear when doctors might be able to remove them.(AP) *******************
2009 Sept.
Orangeville,
CA Poice
arrested a 15 y.o. girl who says she worships Satan for setting a
church on fire in Orangevale, California near Sacramento. The Church of
Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints blaze damaged some church pews. Some
50 people were inside at the time. The name of the girl was withheld by
authorities because she was a minor.(AP) *******************
2009
August Anadarko, OK
- On 8-23-09
Residents of the small town of Anadarko (65 miles from Oklahoma City)
were horrified after the grizly discovery of the mutilated body
of Rev. Carol Daniels, 61, in what appeared to be a staged in
a "crucifix"
position. Professor
Brent
Turvey, criminal profiler and
crimonologist
working on the case, said "It could have been deliberate. They’re in a
church; they put her in this position, perhaps a defiant way of saying,
‘Screw you and your God. Look how your God didn’t help you.’" The
killer had stripped Daniel's body nude and took the clothing with him.
The killer also took time to spray a chemical over the crime scene to
eliminate DNA evidence. Investigators said they are haunted by the
methodical nature of the killing of the woman inside the Christ Holy
Sanctified Church, once an old grocery store that sits on the edge of a
predominantly black neighborhood. Rev. Daniels, who died as a martyr
for Christ, was a graduate of the University of Central Oklahoma in
Edmond and a mother. Investigators have ruled out the possibility the
act was done by a serial killer. Investigators have not ruled out the
possibility the act was an occult related crime. The killer or killers
still remain at large. Anyone with information should contact the
Anadarko Police Department at (405) 247-2411. (NewsOK)*******************
2009 June
Bridgeport, CT
— Police in
Connecticut have confirmed that a skull found in a bloody basement
where they believe sacrificial rituals were performed is a human skull.
Bridgeport Detective Keith Bryant says the medical examiner's office
made the determination. Now there is an anthropological review to try
to determine the sex and age of the person and when he or she died.
Bryant says a headless body was found in Bridgeport about a decade ago,
but it's not clear if there is a connection to the skull found during a
drug raid Tuesday. Five people were charged with drug and gun crimes.
Police believe Santeria or some kind of voodoo religion was practiced
there. They also found Satanic writings and a beheaded chicken with its
blood draining into a bowl. (The Connecticut Post)*******************
2009 June
Queens NY A
29-year-old
Haitian immigrant and practioner of Voodoo has been accused of trying
to drive evil spirits out of her 6-year-old daughter by setting her on
fire. Prosecutors say Marie Lauradin poured an accelerant over her
daughter during a Haitian practice known as Loa and made her stand
naked in a ring of fire, engulfing her in flames.Queens District
Attorney Richard Brown says Lauradin and the girl's grandmother washed
her and put her to bed despite life-threatening burns over 25 percent
of her body. He says another relative found her the next day. Lauradin
was ordered held on $50,000 bail at a Thursday arraignment on assault
and child endangerment charges related to the Feb. 4 incident. Defense
attorney Jeff Cohen says she denies the allegations. The grandmother
faces a later arraignment. The girl went into foster care. (USA Today
6-19-09) *******************
2009
March Palm Harbor,
FL Palm
Harbor University baseball coach Jeremy Albrecht was suspended after
his team participated in the sacrifice of a snake to improve the team's
performance. According to second baseman Zach Sobel."We were on a
losing streak and Coach said we were snake-bitten," Sobel said, "So we
just kind of went with it." Albrecht, 34, was relieved of his duties
while the Sheriff's Office investigates allegations that he was
involved in the incident, Pinellas County schools spokeswoman Andrea
Zahn said. Sobel, a senior, said the players fed the snake a rat to
make it more docile, killed the snake with a shovel and buried it on
the pitcher's mound, and that Albrecht was not present. Sobel would not
say which players bought the snake or killed it, but no one objected.
Unremorseful for the sacrifice, Zobel said "It's unfortunate because
our coach could lose his job over this and he shouldn't. We don't
deserve this". *******************
2009
March-Nation of
Gambia In the
Muslim nation of Gambia 1,000 people were rounded up and
forced
to drink hallucinogens in a "witch-hunting campaign" that is
terrorizing the tiny West African nation according to Amnesty
International. Authorities began inviting "witch doctors," (Shamans)
who combat witches, to come from nearby Guinea soon after the death
earlier this year of the president's aunt. Jammeh "reportedly believes
that witchcraft was used in her death," the London-based rights group
said. Victims are being "forced to drink unknown substances that cause
them to hallucinate and behave erratically," the rights group said in a
statement. "Many are then forced to confess to being a witch. In some
cases, they are also severely beaten, almost to the point of death."
Hundreds fled to neighboring Senegal after their villages were
attacked, Amnesty said. In 2007, Jammeh declared he had discovered a
cure for AIDS and began treating patients inside the presidential
palace, using herbs and incantations (in other words, witchcraft). His
dictatorial regime has cracked down harshly on critics, especially the
press. On March 8, authorities arrested Halifa Sallah, who has written
about the "witch doctors" for the main opposition newspaper, Foroyya.
Sallah, who was a presidential candidate in 2006, has since been
charged with sedition and spying, Amnesty said. (Ruters)*******************
2009
February Indian
River Co. FL A
bag containing headless animals and pocket change found outside the
Indian River County Sheriff's Office was apparently someone's attempt
to place a curse on the Sheriff's employees, according to
investigators. IRCSO reported that someone found a black bag
outside the office on the morning of Friday February 13.
Inside
the bag were a white baby goat and a brown chicken, both decapitated.
Deputies found a quarter, a nickel and four pennies on the goat's
belly. Tags with numbers and the date Nov. 11, 1996 were
found on
the ears of the goat's severed head, according to the police report.
(Tampa Tribune)*******************
Jan. 2009
Mordovia,
Russia The leader
of a Satanist sect in Russia's Republic of Mordovia that included more
than 60 members has been arrested and the group shut down,
investigators announced. According to the Federal Investigative
Committee's reports, the cult leader, whose name has not been released,
is a 24-year-old medical student from Belarus. He was arrested on
Saturday on charges of organizing an illegal group that infringes on
the rights of an individual. He faces a sentence of up to two years if
convicted.Investigators said the members rented a house where they
"conducted cult ceremonies, including illegal acts of alcoholic binge
drinking, sexual practices and antisocial behavior." "During the probe,
investigators confiscated a large amount of cult and Satanic
literature, documents of a religious character in Latin, as well as the
organization's charter and member list," the report read. (RIA Novosti)*******************
Jan.
2009 Lagos, Nigeria
Police in
Nigeria are holding a goat on suspicion of attempted armed robbery
(really, no kid-ding). Vigilantes took the black and white
beast
to the police saying it was an armed robber who had used black magic to
transform himself into a goat to escape arrest after trying to steal a
Mazda 323. "The group of vigilante men came to report that while they
were on patrol they saw some hoodlums attempting to rob a car. They
pursued them. However one of them escaped while the other turned into a
goat," Kwara state police spokesman Tunde Mohammed told Reuters by
telephone. "We cannot confirm the story, but the goat is in our
custody. We cannot base our information on something mystical. It is
something that has to be proved scientifically, that a human being
turned into a goat," he said (Right, and since the cops over there
don't believe in such things, the reason the police are still holding
the goat is...?) (Reuters)*******************
2008 OCT.
Lake County,
FL Antonio
Orsillo, owner of Big Oak Italian Restaurant & Pizza, was
arrested
shortly after Midnight on Friday night and was released on $50,000 bond
on Saturday afternoon according to the court records. Orsillo, 49, had
attepmted to hire a hit man to kill a former employee allegedly for
sleeping with his wife. Orsillo told the hitman he wanted the victim
decapitated with a Brazilian machete that Orsillo would supply and he
wanted it returned with the man's blood on it. He also asked for a jar
of the victim's blood as well. Orsillo apparently wanted the jar of
blood for use in Santeria type rituals. According to the officer's
report Orsillo had previously sacrificed six goats and used their blood
to in a ritual. Orsillo paid $1,000 to the hitman as a down
payment toward a $3,000 fee to have his target killed Saturday. Orsillo
had agreed to pay the remainder of the money on Halloween. (Florida
Times Union, Police Records)*******************
JULY 2008
San Antonio TX
29 year old
Kethan Beschorner, A 365 pound 6'4'' Satanist was arrested after
murdering his girlfriend, Michelle LaGue, 44. Beschorner said demons
had been "nagging him to kill somebody", so he chose LaGue because
people might connect her death to another man she was going to testify
against in the 2005 murders known as the "Taco Land slayings". The
sacrifice took place on 7-4-08 after the pair had been drinking and
smoking pot, and she refused to have sex with him. They fought briefly
before he grabbed a knife and began stabbing her, police said. The body
of LaGue was found July 7 inside her apartment in the 1000 block of
West Russell. She had been slashed and nearly decapitated. Like
manySatanists who get arrested, Beschorner told police that he recently
became a believer in Jesus Christ in jail after having worshiped Satan.
Well, I'd say the Satanist thing isn't working for him, so he might as
well try Christ. Couldn't hurt at this point. (San Antonio News)*******************
2008
DECEMBER, CARY, NC Four
teenagers were charged with Eagle Scout Matthew Silliman's death. The
teens "foretold his future" using tarot cards, then proceeded to beat
him on the head with a hammer, bound him with zip ties, and suffocated
him with duct tape, according to search warrants. A defense attorney
for one of the self confessed slayers said "She's not a bad person,"
I'd hate to see his idea of a bad person, in that case. The warrants
also said investigators seized "medications commonly used for animals
to plan the murder and read the deceased his fortune using tarot cards
just prior to his death." The four "friends" of the Eagle Scout -- Drew
Shaw, 16, Ryan Hare, 18, and Aadil Khan, 17, of Apex and Allegra
Dahlquist, 17, of Cary -- confessed to the crime and each face one
count each of murder. Hare and Shaw are also charged with one count of
conspiracy to commit murder.Matthew Silliman, 18, was given a memorial
service at Peace Presbyterian Church in Cary Monday afternoon,
12-8-08.(The News & Observer of Raleigh)*******************
2008
NOV. San Juan, TX
San Juan
police are asking the public for help finding two "Brujares" who
scammed a man out of approximately $1,000 dollars using the old "cursed
money" scam.One of them told a 79-year-old man that she could tell something was wrong and that she knew he had lot of money. To prove her alleged psychic power, she asked for him for a white t-shirt and an egg. "She blessed him with an egg and smashed the egg inside a shirt where a bone and a hair was produced," said San Juan police spokesman Rolando Garcia. The elderly man allegedly interpreted that as a sign of bad luck and handed over approximately $1,000. The Brujares took the cash, began to wrap it in the shirt and a handkerchief and made one more request. "In the process of blessing the money, they ended up doing a switcharoo," Garcia said "They had him pick a leaf off a tree. That's where he gave the back to the suspects." They took the leaf and gave it to him with a handkerchief and what he thought was his money. The woman said if he kept it under his pillow for two weeks he would obtain good luck and be blessed. But the man's daughter was suspicious and had her father open the handkerchief. That's when they discovered it was full of newspaper clippings instead of his money. The egg scam happened when the two women drove up to Juan Rodriguez's home on the 100 block of West Alfredo Street in San Juan.Police said the alleged fortune teller is described as a Hispanic female in her late 30's to early 40's, with hazel eyes, thick brows and brown hair.The driver was also Hispanic, in her late 40's to 50's. Both were wearing floral skirts.Police believe they might be traveling in a white truck with partial Texas plates X-X-7.If you have any information, call San Juan Crime Stoppers at (956) 283-TIPS. (KGBT 4 News) *******************
2008
SEPTEMBER, CHIBOTE,
ZAMBIA Copperbelt police commanding officer, Antoneil Mutentwa
confirmed the arrest and detention of a Satanist who murdered his
two-year old son using a knife. "Yes, I must confirm that a man
claiming to be a Satanist was arrested and detained at Kalulushi police
station for allegedly murdering his own son using a knife on Sunday.
The man, who is a resident of Chibote Township in Kalulushi, arrived
home and told his wife to go and buy candles and when the wife left, he
took a knife and cut the throat of his two-year old son. When the wife
got back from buying the candle, she found the son in a pool of blood
and his husband also had blood on his hands. The wife reported the
matter to the neighbours who took him to Chibuluma police post before
being taken to Kalulushi police station where he is detained," Mr
Mutentwa said. (Times of Zambia 9-2-08)*******************
2008
SEPTEMBER WESTERN
RUSSIA A cult
of teenagers Satanists were arrested by authorities for sacrificing and
then eating their victim's remains in a "cannibal feast". Ksneia
Kuzetsova, Alexander Vornov, Anton Makovkin, and leader Nikolia
Ogolobyak were all arrested for the homocides of four russian
teenagers. Teachers of the accused told detectives that most had been
moody at school and were of lower than average intelligence and were
all described as "Goths". The victims were Anya Gorokhova, Varya
Kuzmina, Olga Pukhova, and Andrei Sorokin. Each victim was stabbed 666
times before being roasted in a bonfire, according to police. The teen
victims had been missing for months, when police discovered the remains
in a charred pit in a wooded area. Above the pit was an upside down
cross with a rat crucified on it. Victim Sorokin's father later told
police "My son said he had Satanists among friends. I wasn't scared. I
thought 'Well, let him spend his time sitting around a
cemetery--there's not much harm in that, is there?" Leader Ogolobyak
later told police he became a Satanist because God didn't make him
rich, but "things improved when he prayed to the Devil". So...if you
can't be wealthy, settle for cannibalism and murder? [UK Daily Mail]*******************
2008
JULY LEBANON,
IN - A coven
of Wiccans were warned that being in Oak Hill Cemetary (a central
Indiana cemetery about 20 miles northwest of Indianapolis) after posted
visiting hours constitutes trespassing. No charges were filed, police
said . The would be witches were illegally performing a ceremony to
"give thanks for a recent run of good luck". The ceremony involved the
use of candles, incense and driving swords into the ground during the
full moon. The incident came to police attention after a Wiccan,
Katherine Gunther, 36, of Lebanon, pierced her left foot with a sword
while performing ...ironically enough...a good luck ritual. You can
write
your own joke here. Hospitals automatically contact police anytime
there is a stabbing, shooting or evidence of assault. Gunther said she
was aiming to put the sword in the ground, but hit her foot instead.
Gunther immediately pulled the sword out of her foot, and the rest of
the coven took her to Witham Memorial Hospital, where she was kept a
couple days for treatment. I guess her luck ran out. "It wasn't the
first time I performed the ritual, but it was the first time I put a
sword through my foot," she said. If Wiccans want to stop being
mistaken for Satanists, then they need to stop performing spells in
graveyards. Geeze. (AP 7-22-08)*******************
2008 July
Durham, NC On
7-3-08 Three
people have been arrested in Durham County, N.C., in a series of
alleged Satanic rituals involving violence, police say. Police said the
most recent arrest was of Diana Palmer, the vice chairwoman of the
Durham County Democratic Party, who was allegedly linked to the
suspected rituals including a rape, ABC News said Thursday. Palmer's
attorney, Bill Thomas, denied an earlier police report that his client
attempted to remove items from the home where the crimes
occurred.Suspect Joseph Craig, 25, was arrested last week and accused
of kidnapping and beating a man, along with raping a woman as part of
the alleged Satanic rituals.Craig's wife Joy Johnson, a former Durham
County Democratic Party vice chairwoman, was also arrested and charged
with allegedly assisting in the rape and assault.ABC News said both
victims had met the couple on the Internet and voluntarily went to
their home when the crimes occurred sometime between January and June.
(AP)*******************
2008,
Portage County,
Ohio July
Jennifer E. Sobczak, 28 y.o., & alleged follower of Voodoo, was
sentenced to six months imprisonment by the Portage County Common Pleas
Court on a fifth-degree felony charge of assaulting a corrections
officer at the Portage County Jail. According to facts presented in
court, Sobczak was incarcerated at the Portage County jail on July 11,
2007 when corrections officers attempted to put her into a holding
cell. Defense attorney Troy Reeves said Sobczak refused to enter the
particular cell, No. 41, because of , quote,"bad voodoo" believing it
would be bad luck because a previous inmate who had been housed in that
cell had experienced a death in the family. "She didn't want 41. She
wanted 42. She didn't want to be in there," Reeves said.She then
scuffled with corrections officers. One of the officers suffered a
sprained finger during the altercation. Sobczak is well-known to
Portage County law enforcement, having been arrested as many as 80
times in the last five years. (AP) *******************
2008
July Deltona,
Florida A voodoo
doll found in the front yard of a Deltona commissioner with her picture
glued on the head and pins in the body has led to extra security for
city leaders. The 6-inch doll was found earlier this month in the front
yard of Commissioner Zenaida Denizac's home. According to the Orlando
Sentinel, the Volusia County Sheriff's office has ramped up patrols
near the homes of elected officials, hoping the extra patrols will
deter any further harassment. "My first thought was somebody wants to
destroy me,” Denizac said. “I don't know a lot about these things, but
because of all the pins, I assume someone wants me
destroyed."
Deltona is a few miles from Cassadaga, the last of two spiritualist
camps in the U.S. The tiny village of psychics and occult bookstores is
a magnet for occult wierdos of all kinds (I even saw Shirley McClaine
there once). Anyone with any information should call the Volusia County
Sheriff's Department @ (386) 860-7030 (AP)*******************
2008
Kitakyushu, Japan On June 27,
police at Kitakyushu City's Kokura Minami branch arrested Maki
Sakaguchi, 29, on suspicion of violating the anti-stalking law. Yukan
Fuji (on June 28) reported the police acted on complaints that
Sakaguchi had stalked her ex-boyfriend, frantically pleading him to
return to her, and had also made repeated threatening telephone calls
to his new lady friend. The case took an interesting turn when the
authorities searched Sakaguchi's residence and turned up a "noroi no
wara ningyo," a straw doll used in Japan since ancient times for the
purpose of "voodoo-type curses". The doll was tacked to a board bearing
the name of Sakaguchi's female rival; a pair of 5-inch nails had been
driven into the torso. Not only didn't it work, but she landed in jail!
(AP)*******************
2008
May 1st, White
Plains, N.Y. — A
rather homley 51-year-old man who claimed to practice Voodoohas
admitted telling underage girls that if they refused to have sex with
him terrible things would happen to them and their families. Hector
Aviles of Yonkers pleaded guilty 5-1-08 (appropriately enough, the day
after the occult holiday of "May Eve") to second- and third-degree
rape, said Janet DiFiore, the Westchester district attorney. Aviles
could be sentenced to up to 15 years in prison. DiFiore said that at
various times in 2006, Aviles told three girls, ages 16 and 14, that he
could help them with such problems as boys and parents if they engaged
in a sexual "ritual" with him. He warned that if they backed out, he
would make bad things happen to them and their relatives. The district
attorney said that when he was arrested, Aviles confessed to police he
practiced Voodoo. (New Yok Times)*******************
2008
March Port St. Lucie, Florida, A
man was arrested after threatening his wife with Voodoo death, and a
gun. The woman is a recent immigrant from Haiti, and as such feared the
Voodoo threat far more than she feared the firearm threat. Police
spokesman Robert Vega says 34-year-old Nerlet Bellot was arrested on
charges of domestic battery, hindering communication with law
enforcement and domestic assault. Bellot is accused of punching his
wife in the stomach and her head. Vega says the wife also believes in
voodoo and feels her husband can put a curse on her family. (AP)*******************
2008
June Lusaka,
Zambia Police
in Lusaka have arrested a Zambian conman and Satanist claiming to be a
South African accountant by the name of Ricardo de Klerk, police
spokesperson, Bonny Kapeso has said. The conman earlier stole media
headlines when he claimed that he was a Satanist who had been sent to
kill a Reformed Church of Zambia (RCZ) pastor in Lusaka. At the time
the man was arrested, he was claiming that his names were Ricardo de
Klerk and that he was an accountant from South Africa. Before the man's
arrest, members of the RCZ had started mobilising resources to help the
man travel back to South Africa after he confessed having failed to
kill the pastor. The whole thing might have just been a way to scam
Christians out of money, still a Satanic act. (AP)*******************
2007
Seattle WA Samara
Spann, 30, was
sentenced to 23 years under a plea deal for the slaying of her 6 y.o.
daughter Kyeimah on Dec. 31-2004 or Jan. 1-2005. Prosecutors say she
killed her daughter because she believed she was possessed and "would
not stay in bed and kept interrupting" a telephone conversation.
Relatives of Spann say she was involved in "Voodoo rituals" and had
consulted someone described as "being heavily into the occult" shortly
before the slayings. Spann's father, Gary Spann, told The
Sacramento Bee in 2005 his daughter routinely called the girl a "devil
child" and also belonged to a bizzare cult that worshipped the late
rapper Tupac Shakur as the reincarnation of the 16th century political
philosopher Machiavelli. Yes, really. Subsequent investigation showed
the little girl had been subjected to extensive abuse and had been
removed from her mother's care three times in California, only to be
returned each time. (KING 5 News, Sacremento Bee)*******************
2007 Dec. Cortland, OH Andrew Culver, 18, was arrested after
a
leader of the Church of Satan turned over to the FBI an e-mail the high
school student had written to the sect in which he threatened to kill
his grandparents, authorities said. According to Bazetta Township
Police Chief Charles Sayers Culver told police the e-mail detailing his
intention to kill his grandparents and steal their money and car was "a
joke". But police discovered Culver had access to an arsenal of weapons
and wanted to "kill in the name of our unholy lord Satan." "To send an
e-mail making specific threats, to sign your name, that to me is not a
joke," Sayers said. Culver sent the message to Peter Gilmore, the high
priest of the New York City-based Church of Satan, Chief Sayers said.
Gilmore alerted the FBI, which notified local police.
(AP) *******************
2007
Tel Aviv, Israel In January six
youths who had formed a Satanic cult, ranging in age from 12 to 15, and
living and attend high school in the South Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam
were arressted for acts of Vandalism, including burning Torah scrolls.
The teens admitted to burning the Isareli flag, and told police that
they had used an abandoned house as their base of operations. Youth
crimes investigators also believe that their mezuzah bonfire caused a
subsequent building fire. The youths were released morning to house
arrest. All six of the suspects are new immigrants from the former
Soviet states. Russia and other former Soviet Bloc countries have seen
a dramatic jump in the numbers of people calling themselves Satanists
in recent years. (The Jerusalem Post)*******************
2007
Denver, CO On
12-9-2007
24-year-old Matthew Murray killed five people, and injured several
others in a rampage that spanned 70 miles, from a missionary training
center that expelled Murray to Colorado Springs' New Life Church, a
symbol of the Pentecostal and charismatic Christianity he so despised.
He was killed by a volunteer female security guard as he entered the
church. Somehow, a child of a prominent doctor, someone who was home
schooled in a comfortable Denver suburb, evolved from would-be
Christian missionary to a killer trying to rain Columbine down on the
Christian world. After Murray rejected religion, he became fixated on
people and groups that explore the dark side of spirituality, obsessing
over the Satanic lyrics of Swedish metal bands, and doing other odd
things. Murray attended events held by the Denver-based occult group Ad
Astra Oasis during the last two years, but was turned down when he
sought to become a member of the group. His involvement with them ended
in October, supposedly. (AP) *******************
2007
Trecynon, Wales
Satanist Geraint
Evans, 24, recieved "indeifnite detainment" for the murder of Father
Paul Bennett on 3-14-07 on the grounds of St Fagan’s Anglican Church.
Father Bennett, 59, died as a martry for Christ. He married & a
father-of-two, was attacked yards from the church in front of his wife.
In a gloating voice Evans told Mrs. Bennett ‘I stabbed him through the
heart, I stabbed him through the eye. You have to forgive me now’,” As
well as regularly smoking cannabis, Evans inhaled lighter fluid on a
daily basis. He was a subscriber and contributor to satanic websites
using the pseudonym Jack Blade where he declared: “I am Satan.” At the
time Evans was living in his mother’s flat which overlooks the vicarage
where Father Bennett, who was profoundly deaf, lived with his family.
Bennet was a popular vicar, who had three churches under his
stewardship, was described as being at the “very centre of his
community”. Evans was initially charged with murder, but his plea of
manslaughter was accepted after three doctors presented reports to the
court confirming Evans was a deluded paranoid schizophrenic.
Satanists...The Alien Elite! (BBC News)*******************
2007
Novi
Banovci, Serbia On
9-2-07 police recovered beheaded bodies of Vasilije Trbovic, 26, and
his five-year-old nephew, L.O., from the Danube River near Novi Banovci
in Vojvodina. Police arrested suspect Danijel Jakupek who later
confessed to the crimes.“The murders were not committed for the sake of
the murder, rather they are typical of a cult-inspired ritual.
Everything we found in the suspect’s house points to that conclusion,”
Chief Inspector Zoran Lukovic said. Upon searching his house , police
found an improvised satanist altar in the basement, while certain
pieces of furniture were painted over in Satanistcolors, red and black,
as well as occult literature. Asked how it was possible that no one
noticed the suspect’s strange behavior, Lukovic said that people in
Serbia “are usually poorly informed of cults and sects.” He called for
the ministries of health and religion to join in the campaign to fight
dangerous cults operating in Serbia. (Blic Online in English)*******************
2007
Mzuzu ,
Malawi Police
broke up a teen Satanic cult into vampirism. After practicing with the
girls for some months, one girl revealed her involvement to the clergy
following her the cult's request that she kill her father. Police in
Mzuzu arrested two girls for coercing a 14 year-old student into the
Satanic cult According to police, the girl confessed that she
was
sucking people’s blood and she frequently used to travel with her many
friends for meetings where their “queen” is, at a location by the
Indian Ocean. The police said the two girls will be charged with
conduct likely to cause breach of peace and will be taken to court.(ENI
News)*******************
2007
Nizhny Tagil, Russia In August at
the city cemetery was
vandalized by a Satanists who destroyed around 35 tomb stones
and
put the crosses back in the ground upside down. Police
arrested 2
men, & believe that are more people involved. A 20 y.o. man,
arrested & confessed that he was guilty in this crime, and
during a
search of his house police found occult & satanic literature.
The
young man calls himself a Satanist and says that he destroyed the tombs
because he hates "all the things connected with
Christianity".
(Interfax)*******************
2007
Dallas, TX Police discovered a
"nganga" (a cauldron used
in Palo Mayombe) containing a human skull. The three-legged iron vessel
was wrapped in black and red cloth also contained animal bones, chicken
feathers, a machete and an 18-inch statue of a man, carved from dark
wood. The identity of the skull's victim has not been identified. The
week before the discovery of the cauldron, the bodies of a murdered
couple turned up across the river a few hundred yards away from the
"nganga", although police say it's "just a coincidence". Palo
Mayombe is a religion similar to Santeria. (AP)*******************
2007
Phoenix, AZ Loren
Williamson, 33, was booked into the Fourth Avenue Jail on four counts
of sexual conduct with a minor and three counts of child molestation.
Police said the abuse started when the victim was 6 years old and
continued until authorities recently got a tip.Officers said Williamson
was involved with the Wiccan religion and may have used its
"mystical traditions" as a way to spark the interest of young girls.
Officers said they are not immediately aware of any other victims, but
it appears that there could be more who have not yet come forward.
People with information related to the case should contact the
department's Crimes Against Children Unit at 602-534-3200 or Silent
Witness at 480-WITNESS.(AP)*******************
2007
Zimbabwe A witchdoctor, or to be
PC,
"Traditional Pagan healer and shaman" Rotina Mavhunga claimed in April
that she had discovered deposits of refined gasoline seeping from rocks
near a spiritual shrine in the Chinhoyi district, 60 miles northwest of
Harare. The shaman told her followers the fuel could last hundreds of
years and was "a gift from ancestral spirits who saw their children
suffering because of the shortages of fuel," according to a government
spokesperson. Top politicians, Security Minister Didymus Mutasa,
Defense Minister Sydney Sekeramayi and Home Affairs Minister Kembo
Mohadi, in charge of police, went to the district to investigate the
claims — a sign that the government took them seriously. But the scam
was busted before it even got off the ground, and police
arrested
50 followers of Mavhunga. The tribal healer/shaman herself was last
reported still on the run. (ZWNews)*******************
2007 New
York, NY In May, self proclaimed Satanists Danielle Wilbur,
John
and William Santiorello, and Dan Trassers were all charged with
aggravated harassment and commiting a hate crime for the defacing of a
Baptist Church. The would be Anton LaVeys spray painted their MySpace
handles and Satanic graffitti all over the church. Police were easily
able to apprehend them after identifying them on MySpace. (AP)*******************
2007
Balitmore, Maryland "Native American psychic" Grace Uwanawich struck a
plea deal with a Maryland court, to recieve a reduced sentence of 18
mos. in jail. The deal includes nearly $257,000 in
restitution to
four former clients. Authorities say Uwanawich, 63, defrauded
vulnerable middle-aged women by persuading them to hand over tens of
thousands of dollars to crush devastating curses. One woman was a
57-year-old Poolesville Chineese woman who, over the course of a year,
gave Uwanawich more than $160,000 in cash and property. The woman was
told she and her family had a curse that dated to the building of the
Great Wall of China. After wiping out the Poolesville woman's bank
accounts, maxing out her credit cards and tricking her into buying a
Mercedes Benz she never got to drive, Uwanawich stopped giving the
woman appointments."This is beyond fortunetelling for entertainment
purposes," Montgomery Assistant State's Attorney Carol Crawford said.
She compared Uwanawich to a "leech" who drained her victims' wealth by
terrorizing them with the prospect of spells and then becoming their
only source of solace. Court records show she was also arrested in
Chester County, Pa., and later in Philadelphia during the 1990s in
connection with similar scams. (AP) *******************
2007
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Next time
someone whines on an internet blog about "religious persecution"
against would-be-witches in the U.S.A., just remember this story: In
Oct.Saudi Arabia’s religious police, known as Mutawas, have arrested a
domestic worker accused of having put a spell on her employer, the
Al-Madina newspaper reported. Witchcraft is a capital offence
in
Saudi Arabia, where Sharia law is strictly applied.The Mutawas,
discovered “talismans and products of charlatanism” in a search of the
maid’s quarters in the eastern city of Damman. The arrest of the maid,
whose nationality was not revealed (but probably from Indonesia or Sri
Lanka), followed a complaint by the wife of the employer who she said
had been “bewitched by the maid”. The woman said she suspected her
husband had been put under a spell because he fiercely defended the
maid from criticism every time she neglected her work. A more logical
explanation is the employer and maid were having a tryst, which would
explain why he doesn't care if she cleans the house or not, and the
"spell" doesn't seem to affet the wife. The paper said the maid,
“admitted she took refuge in sorcery so as to make her employers like
her”...but of course Arab newspapers aren't well known for their truth
telling ability. Everyone reading this, please pray for this girl that
her life is spared, and complian to the Saudi embassy. (Al Madina Press)*******************
2007
Lake
City, Idaho Wiccans
and Satanists learn to overcome their differences and work together! A
self proclaimed Satanist and a self proclaimed Wiccan were arrested for
the burning of a Seventh-Day Adventist School library. Damage to the
library was estimated at $30,000. Rathdrum resident Jason Howry, 20,
and Athol resident Jacqueline Smith, 16, were charged Tuesday and
booked into the Kootenai County Jail on charges of first-degree arson,
police said. Maybe Wicca made her feel all grown up. It should, because
Smith was charged as an adult. Smith told detectives she practiced the
Wiccan religion and that Howry proclaimed he was a "Satan worshipper."
I wonder if they said "So Mote It Be!" or "Hail Satan!" when they got
done burning that awful, intolerant library that was persecuting them?
(spokesmanreview.com)*******************
2007
Santa Maria, CA In July Wiccan
couple Sean
and Rachelle Pelino face six felony counts each, including several
charges of lewd and lascivious acts with a minor. Police said the
couple used the Wiccareligion to lure a 15-year-old girl into sex.
Investigators say the suspects were using Wiccan rituals and drugs,
including marijuana (use of which is mentioned in the Gardnerian Book
of Shadows as part of the 8-fold path), to seduce the teen. Lieutenant
Kendall Greene of the Santa Maria Police Department said the encounters
"...involved threesomes between husband, wife and victim. Sometimes
individual, one on one," sex was involved as well. Blessed Be! (KSBY 6
Action News ksby.com)*******************
2007
Belgrade,
Serbia A man was
arrested 9-1-07 on suspicion that he killed a 5-year-old boy and his
uncle and dismembered them in a Satanic ritual, Serbian police said.
The suspect, identified only as "Danijel J.", 27 y.o. , is accused of
cutting off the victims heads, arms and legs in Novi Banovci,
a
village just north of Belgrade, before he dumped their bodies into the
Danube River, a police statement said. Zoran Lukovic, a police
inspector involved in the investigation, told reporters a search of
Danijel’s flat in the village showed he possessed “Satanic literature”
including a manual on how to dismember a human body and that he
belonged to "an unidentified religious sect". Lukovic, the police
inspector, said that police discovered “a room with an altar” at
Danijel’s home where he performed Satanic rites. Serbia’s Interior
Minister Dragan Jocic said ritual killings are on the rise in
Serbia.(Beta News Agency)*******************
2007
Miami, FL In Sept.,Satanist
Lazaro
Galindo, 26, was convicted of brutally killing a romantic rival and
then butchering him. Galindo, who represented himself during his trial,
told the Miami court he was "God" and that he would unite the Catholic
and Satanic religions. In a confession nearly 40 pages long, the
26-year-old detailed how he stabbed and beat Argelio Gonzalez and then
spent two days inside his caravan home dismembering the man. Calling
the murder "appalling" and "gruesome," Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Peter
Adrien ordered Galindo serve a life sentence, virtually guaranteeing he
will die in prison. Galindo is serving a 45 year sentence for molesting
a 13-year-old. His life term will start after that sentence
concludes.(AP)*******************
2007
Tokyo, Japan In Oct. Police
arrested a total 23
members of a Shinto sect in central Japan in connection with
the
slaying of a fellow member Motoko Okuno, 63, who was beaten to death in
Sept. Okuno was killed as punishment for failing to carry out religious
rites. Kigenkai, founded in 1970, is based on Japan’s indigenous Pagan
goddess cenetered Shinto religion and sells purified water the sect
claims can cure diseases. It has about 400 members in branches across
Japan, according to Japanese media. (gulf-daily-news.com)*******************
2007
Saudi,
Arabia On-11-03-07 Arab Muslim officials executed an Egyptian man
convicted of "sorcery", desecrating the Koran and adultery, the
country's official news agency said. Mustafa Ibrahim had been accused
by another foreign resident of practicing magic in order to separate
him from his wife and said evidence had been found in his home,
including books on black magic, a candle with an incantation "to summon
devils" and "foul-smelling herbs". "He confessed to adultery with a
woman and desecrating the Koran by placing it in the bathroom," the
agency said. Islam...the religion of peace and tolerance!
(Al-Jazirah) *******************
2007
Portland, OR A transsexual
internet psychic
named David Wayne French charged clients $145-$265 an hour for a
variety of different services, including travel to other
planets<snicker>, "dimensionality", astral projection,
"ET or
Angel Walk-ins", third eye mastery, kundalini (sex yoga),
"transmutaion", and ironically "mastery of glands". In May, he murdered
his gay lover of 5 years, 51 y.o. Frank Johnson. French leapt from a 3
story window as police were entering the apartment, to avoid capture.
French also goes by the alias Zalia Crizta or simply "Z". Since he can
pass as a man or woman, it makes his capture more difficult. His case
was profiled on America’s Most Wanted, and anyone with
information should call 1-800-crime-tv. (America's
Most
Wanted)*******************
2007
Papua,New Guinea Officials report
Pagan shamanisitc beliefs
are causing people to committ murder. Tribesmen resort to old
ways and rituals to 'ward off evil spirits',including the murder and
torture of those believed to be witches. Suspected witches – mostly
women but including some men and even children – have been subjected to
horrific torture before being hanged or thrown off cliffs. A growing
Aids crisis and the collapse of health services have sapped villagers'
faith in Western medicine and prompted a return to ancestral beliefs.
Barely educated villagers living in remote mountain valleys are blaming
the increasing number of A.I.D.S. deaths not on promiscuity but on
black magic. "We're seeing a big rise in witchcraft cases. We hear of a
killing almost every week," said Hermann Spingler, a German Lutheran
pastor who heads the Melanesian Institute, a cultural study centre in
Goroka. "They take the law into their own hands and torture people to
make them 'confess'. They drag women on ropes behind vehicles, burn
them with hot wire, chop off hands, fingers. People have been buried
alive." (telegraph.co.uk) *******************
2007
Leeds, England Satanist Gary
Dover
Afflick, 41, A sex offender & drug dealer who went on
the run
after he was released from prison was arrested in Leeds in March. The
Fagin-style gang leader was convicted for a string of offences in 1997
at Bristol Crown Court. He was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Afflick
selected rootless youngsters, usually aged between 9 and 14, and
offered them shelter in "squats and flats". He gave them drugs,
lectured them about Satanism, and kept them in line with a regime of
beatings and sexual assaults.(Reuters)*******************
2007
Salvador, Brazil Rosanita
Nery dos Santos, 47, chopped her husband in over 100 pieces, boned the
body parts with a knife, fried the body parts, and then kept the
remains under the stairway in the couple's home. Police think she may
have eaten some of the body parts. According to Bernadete de Souza
Soares, 63, the victim's aunt and a witness in court, Rosanita and José
Raimundo used to fight a lot over her habit of going to
candomblé
(an African religion like Santeria) worship services. Soares told
jurors that the husband once dragged Rosanita out of the candomblé
church during a service. "He went in and broke everything," said
Soares. "After that, the mãe-de-santo (afro-Brazilian priestess) said
that he would pay dearly for that and that he wouldn't live more than
one year. The priestess also asked Rosa to deliver his heart to her and
that's why she dismembered him." Santos was convicted of the
crime and recieved 19 years in prison. (brazzilmag.com)*******************
2007
Waukesha,
WI Wiccan Brenna K. Barney, 42, was arrested after neighbors complained
to police the woman was yelling witch chants around a bonfire. Police
discovered High Priestess Barney in her underwear wearing headphones
dancing around the fire which included rubber car mats and a cooler.
The responding officer tried to get her attention by shining a
flashlight on her but she continued yelling her chants. At one point
she poured lighter fluid on the fire, which was 10-feet from her
residence, the officer said. When the officer was able to get the
woman's attention she still refused to cooperate. Capt. Mike Babe said
Brenna K. Barney of Waukesha told police they were infringing on her
religious beliefs since she was performing a ritual under the new moon.
She continued to be belligerent and the officer could smell alcohol on
the woman's breath. Four officers responded to the scene and were able
to take the woman into custody. She was first taken to Waukesha
Memorial Hospital where she continued to yell and swear at officers and
hospital staff. After she was medically cleared, she was taken to jail.
(AP)*******************
2007
Portsmouth, England
Debbie King, Arch Druidess of the
Insular Order of Druids, was arrested at Fareham Magistrates Court for
carrying a five-inch blade. 'It would have the same status as a
crucifix to Christians. It represents truth, honour, justice and
protection. I was told if I signed a disclaimer and gave up the athame
I would just be given a caution, but I had to stand my ground.",
apparently not understaning weapons can't be brought to court. Miss
King, 44, said she had the "Druid kit" for a television interview later
in the day, and didn't know if she would have time to return home and
collect her belongings after supporting a family member in court.
"Athame" is actually a Wiccan term, coined by Gerald Gardner, and has
no connection to ancient Druidism. "King Arthur Pendragon", Battle
Chieftain of the Council of British Druid Orders
<snicker>, is
vowing to fight for Miss King's right to carry her knife. King Arthur,
who was cleared at court in 1996 for carrying his broadsword, said: 'If
it goes to court, I'll defend it to the hilt. I think it's
ridiculous..." Some would find grown people calling themselves "Druids"
and getting themselves arested all the time for stupid things
ridiculous too.(Reuters)*******************
2006
Jan. The Hague,
Netherlands Police
across Europe and in New York arrested 20 people suspected of smuggling
young girls out of Nigeria and forcing them to work as prostitutes
after intimidating them in voodoo rituals, Dutch prosecutors said.
Acting on requests from Dutch authorities, police in New York; Madrid,
Spain; Antwerp, Belgium; and the central British city of Coventry also
arrested five Nigerian suspects. A South Yorkshire man, Gilbert Ektor,
31, of Canklow Road, Rotherham was accused of helping mastermind an
international sex trafficking operation has failed in his fight to
prevent extradition to Holland.A sixth Nigerian was arrested last week
in Dublin, Ireland. The young girls were pressured under the
intimidation of voodoo and were forced to swear an oath to a voodoo
priest to pay back a so-called debt. Thirteen of the suspects were
arrested in a series of coordinated raids in citiesacross the
Netherlands, the national prosecutor’s office said in a statement.
Police also found 10 illegal immigrants, who were turned over to the
immigration service. (Reuters)*******************
2006
Melbourne, Austrailia First
Druids
allow the Romans to invade Britain, now this. A 50 year oldDruid High
Priestess, whose full name is just “Morgan”, was refused
admittance to Cushion Lounge night club. Later she filed charges that
the bar had discrimated against her based on her religion (couldn’t see
that one coming, could you?). In October, the Victorian Civil and
Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) decided the nightclub (which was a
hotpsot for 20 somethings to hang out) had actually refused
her
admittance because she was “too old”, but did agree that had sexually
discriminated against her by telling her she “needed a good [BLEEP]”.
The woman claimed she had gone to the club to retrieve her 16 year old
son, an underage drinker, off to a good start in life
already.
The 3 security guards were ordered to complete a two-hour course in
“equal opportunity”. The judge gave Morgan the chance to seek
$2000 from the guards and the bar by nominating someone else to receive
it. She previously told the tribunal that as a druid she was unable to
accept compensation, according to a news report. Trust me, all the
attention she got WAS the compensation! (theaustralian.news.com.au)*******************
2006
Younkers, NY On 6-6-06,
Black spray paint was used to write 666 on the three steps leading up
to the main entrance of St. Joseph's Catholic seminary. Just above the
number was painted “REIGN IN BLOOD.” A large pentagram, believed to be
a symbol of the devil, was painted in thick black lines in front of the
main door, just where Pope John Paul II stood when he visited the
seminary on Oct. 6, 1995. Two columns in front of the entrace were
defaced on front and back. Upside-down crosses were painted on their
fronts, facing the grounds. On the back of the left column, facing the
seminary doors, the vandal or vandals wrote “BETTER TO REIGN IN HELL.”
And on the second, “THAN TO SERVE IN HEAVEN.” The famous line comes
from Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” A statue of Jesus in front of the
seminary was also vandalized. Upside-down crosses and a pentagram were
painted on the base. “It’s laid out in a very deliberate fashion, and
the spelling is perfect, so I don’t think it was kids, at least not
young kids,” .(AP)*******************
2006
Bogota, Colombia
Authorities suspect a Satanic cult is responsible for slitting the
throats of six members of the same family in Colombia. The Associated
Press reported one of the victims was a child. Authorities were
suspicious about there being six victims, adding to their belief that
there was a ritualistic aspect to the crime.The murders took place on
June 6, 2006, or 06-06-06. Jorge Gomez, a human rights official in the
town of Barrancabermeja, Santander Province, tells the Associated
Press, "It seems to have been related to today's date." Police detained
a suspect in the murder. (AP)2006 *******************
Milford,
Conn. Police have arrested
two Stratford women accusing them of scamming a woman out of $145,000
through some bizarre rituals including drinking rooster blood. Maria
dos Santos, 52, and her daughter, Shirley Iannucci, 30, were arrested
by police Tuesday on charges of first-degree larceny and conspiracy.
Police said the two women had become friendly with the alleged victim
who was going through a divorce last year. According to court
documents, the alleged victim feared for her life after dos Santos told
her that "God was going to kill her." The city woman called police in
January, the day after dos Santos performed a Santeria ritual in her
West River Street home that included drinking blood from a dead
rooster, according to the arrest warrant affidavit. Dos Santos
persuaded the victim to let her handle all of her financial affairs
while the divorce was pending, according to court documents.(CBS
NEWS)*******************
2006
Wixom City, Mich In May, Druid
John Jordan Anderson was
arrested for the murder of Wiccan Natsha Miller, 19. Anderson,
described by Miller's close friends as "creepy," according to court
documents, had dated the 19-year-old known as "Tasha" until they broke
up around Thanksgiving 2005. Her nude body was discovered by hikers
along the banks of the floating in the Huron river on Powers Beach in
the Proud Lake State Recreation Area. Funeral services were held for
the young woman just eight days before her 20th birthday. During an
11-hour police questioning, Anderson slipped in and out of an English
accent, discussed druid beliefs, and talked of his love of fantasy and
science fiction novels. Anderson said he had been driving a friend
around at the time of the murder. The friend denied it, saying Anderson
only told him that "something bad happened" and he would talk to him
about it later. Eventually he confessed to strangling her
with a
2-foot-long orange ribbon he often used to tie up his ponytail or wear
on his arm, said Detective Scott Tarasiewicz of the Milford Police
Department. During his admission, Anderson told police he had recently
embarked on a religious comparative study and decided to become a
Druid, based on druidism's focus on "the earth's natural elements" (and
they also practiced ritual human sacrifice, go figure). Anderson told
police Miller was a Wiccan, or white witch, and said that, because of
his beliefs and hers, he had to dispose of the body by earth, water or
fire after he killed her to return her to the natural elements, Walton
said. Trial began in June 2007. Anderson kept a blog on his web site
with postings titled "Miss Murder," "Angry Again" and "Blood Poetry,"
which prosecutors plan to show the jury. Despite Anderson's
lengthy confession, a judge ruled the jury won't hear some of the
statements he made to police regarding his druid beliefs.(The Oakland
Press News)*******************
2006
Fort Lauderdale, FL A human skull
found in a woman's
luggage at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is likely an
object used in a voodoo ritual, the Broward 2006 Ft Lauderdale, Florida
Myrlene Severe, 30 y.o., was on Lynx Air International Flight 203 from
Haiti to Fort Lauderdale when she was arrested when cusoms found a
human head with "organic matter" inside of her checked baggage . "It
still had teeth, hair and bits of skin and lots of dirt," said Barbara
Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in
Miami.The medical examiner said the skull was a man's who probably died
within the last year or so. It appears the skull was dug up from a
grave. Officials found it in a bag with various fruit and vegetable
leaves, a nail and some stones.Severe told authorities "she had
obtained the package, which contained the human head, from a male in
Haiti for ... use as a part of her Voodoobeliefs. Severe also stated
that the purpose of the package was to ward off evil spirits,"
According to ICE agent Erick Hernandez. She faces a maximum of 15 years
in prison if convicted on all charges, according to the U.S. Attorney's
Office for the Southern District of Florida. (WFLA News)*******************
2006
Midland
Park,NJ Behind the storefront advertising tarot-card readings and a
glimpse into the future, police say, a woman claiming to be a psychic
bilked a client out of nearly $24,000 over two years. The psychic was
sentenced to 2 to 10 years in prison.(AP)2006 New Orleans Zachary
Bowen, 28, strangled and dismembered Adriane "Addie" Hall, 30, on Oct.
5. Eleven days later, Bowen jumped to his death from a hotel roof with
a suicide note in his pocket telling police about the killing. Police
found Hall's charred head in a pot, her arms and legs in the oven and
her torso in the refrigerator. The couple lived in an apartment that
was above a "Voodoo Temple and Cultural Center". Police claim there's
no concrete evidence the slaying had anything to do with Voodoo, even
though many New Orleans residents, who have been exposed to Voodoo all
their lives, have their doubts. (KATC News katc.com )*******************
2006
Queens, NY
Three Queens fortunetellers were arrested in June after they tried to
charge undercover investigators for services including exorcism and
rekindling a past romantic relationship, the authorities said. You
would think they could have seen it coming. The fortunetellers, who
operated out of apartments or storefronts on 30th Avenue in Astoria,
face charges including fortunetelling, which is illegal unless patrons
are told that such services are "for entertainment purposes". One of
the fortunetellers, Sabrina Martell, 42, told a female investigator
that her problems stretched back to something her mother had eaten
while pregnant (sounds like Scientology), prosecutors said. Ms. Martell
charged the investigator $1,100 for those and other services (naw, too
cheap for Scientology), prosecutors said. The other women arrested were
identified as Dorothy Miller, 53, and Rose Miller, 73. They are not
related. (New York Daily News)*******************
2006
Kenner LA Lecia "Sister
Jackson" Urich, a Kenner palm reader and "psychic" received a
suspended sentence of one year (plus one year's probabtion)in July for
trying to scam a Slidell businesswoman out of $5,000 in 2004. The judge
also fined Urich $250 plus court costs and warned her to refrain from
fraudulent activity. Urich/Jackson, who had pleaded guilty,had told the
woman that a ritual that involved burying the money would help lift a
deadly curse. Several other theft charges followed after other victims
came forward to describe similar schemes, including an 87-year-old
Kenner woman who said Urich swindled her out of $37,000. Kenner police
said Urich told four customers that their enemies had put curses on
them and offered to dispel the hexes for a total of $7,100, which she
said she would bury in a church or cemetery. (KATC News katc.com )2006
Moscow, Russia In Nov., Two Satanists were arrested in connection with
the murder of a 50-year-old unemployed in the town of Pavlovsky Posad
near Moscow - a student of the Polygraph Institute, aged 21, and a
packager at a Moscow firm, aged 18. As they walked around the town in
the early hours of November 19, 2006, clad in black, they wanted “to
sense the smell of blood”, as the suspects themselves put it, the press
service said.Their first victim was a cat they strangled, burnt and
hanged on a tree.They proceeded to attack a passerby they mistook for a
homeless.“They beat him up and cut him with a knife, striving to stab him in the heart 13 times,” according to Interfax News Service. (Interfax) 2006 Monrovia, Liberia A Liberian woman has been arrested after dumping her 2-year-old child in a well. The 39-year-old woman, who claims to be a witch, said she dumped her son in the well as a gift to members of a witch cult to which she belonged. The child was saved from drowning by neighbors. The woman said she and other cult members had eaten other members' children over the years and that it was now her turn to sacrifice her child. ("DPA," September 4, 2006) *******************
2006
Port Huron, MI woman who claimed she was a psychic was sentenced
Tuesday to 23 months to 10 years in prison after admitting in January
she defrauded at least one client of $45,000. (AP)2006 Rome, Italy
Police are investigating whether the killing of four members of a
family from southern Italy was carried out by a relative who believed
he had done a deal with the devil. The chief suspect in the quadruple
homicide is Claudio Tomaino, 28, the nephew of the slain family’s
father. Nine bullets were fired in all, most to the victims’ heads. The youngest victim was the 18-year-old daughter, Maria, who sang in the local church choir. Police are investigating a Satanic oath which Tomaino was said to have written before the killings. “Tomaino wrote that he had a deal with Satan to sell him his soul if Satan assured him he would make him rich and make sure he wasn’t sent to jail for killing his uncle Camillo and the rest of the family,” Salvatore Curcio, lead prosecutor in the southern city of Catanzaro, told a news conference. Curcio added forensic tests had proved the “contract” was signed by Tomaino in his own blood. (khaleejtimes.com) *******************
2005
Odessa, Ukraine In
June, Diana Semenuha, 29, A self described practioner of black magic
and "vampire" was arrested in the Ukraine after luring street children
into her home for their blood. Semenuha believed that drinking blood
could fend off a muscle-wasting condition. She kept the children
intoxicated on drugs and alcohol and bled them regularly, selling the
surplus to other black magic practitioners. Semenuha's arrest exposed
an occult network in the city. Many claimed to have been taught by
Semenuha and said that she would cut herself and let them drink her
blood. When that weakened them, she dumped them back on the streets and
lured replacements with the promise of a place to sleep and a hot meal.
Police raided Semenuha's apartment in the Black Sea port of Odessa after a tip-off. Olga Buravceva, a police spokesman, said: "The apartment was painted black, with all the windows covered with thick black cloth to stop natural light coming in. The only light came from black candles, and there was a heavy, sickening odour of some sort of incense in the air." Detectives found seven drugged children strapped to beds and benches, and a large, black knife and silver goblet engraved with Satanic symbols. "The arrested woman told us that she was helping people, who wanted to cast an evil spell on their rivals or enemies. She became known in the society of black magicians. We found the 'witch diploma' in her apartment, which she received from Red Dragon magic order in the beginning of the last year."(Interfax) *******************
2005 Friday
Harbor, WA
On "Samhain"
(Oct. 31st) A 25 y.o. Satanist Robert Wilson, known as
"Reverend"
described as "a former card-carrying member of the Church of Satan",
allegedly conducted 'rituals' at which bare-breasted girls as young as
13 were "fondled and groped" by adult males, according to several
witnesses who spoke to the San Juan Free Press. According to several of
the participants, the scenario included two bare-breasted underage
girls on the floor being "groped and fondled" by adult males. They were
being watched by six or seven adults and underage teenagers, all of
them naked from the waist up. Everyone was consuming alcohol. At one point the 'Reverend' threw water on the people present, "spoke in a strange language" , and one underage participant got a cut on her ear that required six stitches later that night at the medical center. The event was not a one-time occurance, either. The accused "Reverend" fled San Juan County after the Sheriff's Office filed a report on the case to the prosecutor, and is still at large. (San Juan Free Press) *******************
2005
Guwahati,India In
February, a
Pagan Hindu mob lynched a tribal couple for allegedly
practisingwitchcraft and then carried the two severed heads around as
trophies in a brutal incident in Assam near Guwahati,India. A police
spokesman Saturday said the mob killed the Bodo tribal couple of Alengi
Bazar village in western Assam's Kokrajhar district. A senior police
said that "...the incident was influenced by beliefs that [they] were
practising sorcery and black magic,". Hinduism is the oldest Pagan
religion on the planet, and is chock full of superstitons about
sorcery, demons, and black magic. (South Asia News)*******************
2005 San
Bernadino, CA A
high-school
student who practices Wiccan beliefs says his rights have been violated
after being suspended this week for wearing lipstick and makeup. "If I
can't wear makeup, then the girls or the staff can't wear makeup
either," [ and you
can imagine him saying "so there big stupid heads, nyah, nyah, nyah!"] a very
mature 16-year-old James Herndon told the San Bernadino Sun, believing
his "constitutional right to free expression" is being violated. He says the cosmetics help him "express his neopagan religious beliefs in the supernatural", which he shares with his mother [and probably her make-up too], Valerie Wallace, a Wiccanpriestess."After my divorce from his father, he became very depressed, and wearing the makeup makes him feel good," Wallace said. The ACLU decided to take the case to court. Since Wicca is a make-it-up-as-you-go-along occult religion, anything can have religious signifcance. Do you think if I delcared that Bill Gates is diriminating against me because my Wiccan beliefs say he should give me $ 1 Billion and he won't, that I'd have a case? (AP) *******************
2005
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan
A 16
y.o.girland 27-year-old - holding hands jumped down from a roof of a
12-story building in the Vostok neighbourhood on 8 August. Two more
people committed suicide in the same way and in the same place on 12
July. Police officers found Satanic literature at the site in both
cases. A witness said, "This notebook was about Satan. The last page
said that we must sacrifice ourselves for Satan, there was their
signature and the date. First, they threw the notebook down and after
that they jumped here from the roof." Neighbors of the girls confirmed
they were into Satanism, and even sported Satanic tattoos. Another
neighbor claimed the girls all belonged to a sect of 14 members, led by
a young man. (Kyrgyz Independent Bishkek Television)*******************
2005 Paris,
France In
March Paris
police officials announced an alarming increase in grave desecrations,
apparently related to Satanism.Vandals left satanic symbols such as
inverse crosses, pentagrams and demonic numbers at scenes of their
crimes. Officials noted 23 cases from January to August 2004 compared
to 18 for the whole year of 2003. Cemetery profanations have
been
especially frequent in eastern French regions such as Alsace, where the
report said Satanist groups had linked up with neo-Nazis. Swastikas and
satanic symbols have been found spray-painted on tombstones in
Christian, Jewish and Muslim cemeteries in eastern France over the past
year. (The Paris News)*******************
2005
Queens, NY 20 y.o. Daniel Romano
claims he was beaten up because he was a member of the Church of Satan.
Romano, who still lives with his mom, wears makeup, blue hair, goth
tyoe clothes and inverted crosses says he was persecuted for his
religion by two neighbor boys, with whom he's had run-ins in the past.
The Church of Satan however, denies Romano's a member. High priest of
the Manhattan-based church said, “I don’t know the guy,” said High
Priest Peter Gilmore, the church’s leader. “I can’t vouch if he is a
Satanist or not. He might be somebody that’s out for publicity. Anybody
who says he’s a Satanist, and is not a member, we don’t support,”
Gilmore added. “How can we? There’s a lot of crazy people out there.”
What? You mean a 20 y.o. with blue hair and dresses like Edward
Scisorhands just wants attention??? (AP)*******************
2005
Springfield, Ohio -
In a little
publicized case (considering the crime), a Wiccan couple was charged
with the ritualistic murder of their 13 month old infant daughter,
Jacqueline Mae Cooper. The stepfather, Daniel Duffield, 32, was charged
with murder, involuntary manslaughter, child endangering and felonious
assault involving puncturing the girl's feet and face. The girl's mother, Vanessa McGlumphy, 25, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and child endangering. Aside from a fatal neck injury, the toddler's body was also riddled with more than 40 puncture wounds, 12 broken ribs and a lacerated liver. Prosecutors believed religious tattoos on the two Wiccans matched puncture wounds on the toddler's feet. McGlumphy, in an attempt to pin all the blame on her hubby, said Duffield was of a "different religion" than she, and a "black pagan". She claimed the sacrifice was done as part of a ritual of Duffield's "religion". Surprisingly, in this intolerant "xtian" nation that hates Wiccans so much, the couple only recieved 15 years for the stepfather, and 10 years for the mother. Hardly worth the life of a baby if you ask me. (AP) *******************
2005
Denmark A
Danish Satanist
accused of having sex with and pimping his 10-year-old daughter to a
slew of men went on trial in Denmark in a case that has shocked the
Scandinavian country.The case, Denmark’s highest-profile incest and
pedophilia trial, has made headlines since the man’s arrest in August
2005. The accused, 47, a member of a Satanic cult, told police in
December he repeatedly had sex with his daughter between February and
August 2005, when the girl was aged 10 and 11. Police arrested the man
after receiving an anonymous tip. Placing advertisements in papers and
on the internet, the man is alleged to have invited men to his house in
Toender, in southwestern Denmark, to pay to have sex with his daughter.
The man pleaded guilty in court. Fourteen clients have already been convicted in recent months and sentenced to jail terms of up to six years for having sex with the girl. Prosecutors have also charged the man with physically abusing his second daughter in 2003 and 2004 when she was six and seven. The girls’ 43-year-old mother, a schizophrenic, was sentenced in December to a secure psychiatric hospital for an undetermined period for complicity to incest. The man went on trial for the crimes in 2007. If convicted the man faces a maximum 18 years in jail. (theaustralian.news.com.au) *******************
2005
Olympia, WA Wiccan
Burt
Stockstill, 33, recieved two life sentences for raping children. At the
time of the trial the District Attorney's Office said Stockstill
claimed he was a witch, made the children eat feces and raped the
youngsters as part of his brand of the Wiccan sex ritual known as "the
Great Rite". In what prosecutors called a bizarre case, Wiccan Michelle
C. Littlefield (who recieved 25 years) allowed her children, now 6 and
9, to be raped and abused by her roommate, Burt Stockstill who had
changed his name to "Eion Woodcraft" after becoming a Wiccan. The grandfather of one of the boys called Stockstill a monster who used Wicca, also called "white" witchcraft, as a catalyst to force bizarre acts on the boys. "This ritual is designed to do one thing: break down the inhibitions of all of those involved," the grandfather said. During the trial, both defendants took the stand in their own defense. Stockstill first denied practicingWicca, but then admitted to it on cross-examination. Blessed Be! (AP) *******************
2005
Chicago, IL David Rodriguez,
18, was upset when his girlfriend dumped him. He decided the best way
to win her back was with a Satanic ritual...yeah, forget all that candy
and flowers junk. Rodriguez and a 15 y.o. Satanist friend
kidnapped a 6 y.o. girl and an 8 y.o. boy outside a South Side library
and intended to carve a pentacle on the girl's chest as part of a love
spell to win back Rodriguez's girlfriend. Since they decided they only
needed the 6 y.o. girl for the ritual, they let her brother go and he
ran off and told people on the street about the kidnapping. Rodriguez
took the girl to his house then headed out to the store to get some
candles and incense for the ritual. The police busted in and got the
girl out and then they arrested Rodriguez when he came home. Luckily
the girl was unharmed. The love lorn magicians were charged with
kidnapping. Ya know, I wonder why his girlfriend dumped him in the
first place? (AP)*******************
2005
Athens, Greece Asimakis
Katsoulas,31, the
leader of a 20-member Satanic cult and convicted Satanist cult killer
has been re-arrested in Itea, Greece on charges of attempted assault
and rape of a young woman while on a 5-day leave from Malandrinos
prison. Katsoulas is serving two life sentences for the
ritual
killing of two women, including a 15-year-old girl. Call me overly
cautious, but should Satanic killers get 5 day furloughs??? They might
want to re-think that. (The Hellenic Radio (ERA): News in English,
05-03-29)*******************
2005
Papua,New Guinea Pagan Raphael
Kogun and his family
murdered a middle-aged married couple who they were convinced had
become possessed by evil spirits. In the highlands witches are known as
"sangumas" and superstitous people think witches can assume the form
not only of humans, but animals such as dogs, pigs, rats and snakes. A
surge in the illegal growing of marijuana in the emerald green valleys
has contributed to black magic paranoia, experts sa"We chopped their
heads off with an axe and a bush knife," said the 27-year-old farmer
from Goroka, in Eastern Highlands province. "I felt sorry for them but
they were witches, they deserved to die. If they were still alive they could hurt people with their magic. We buried the bodies but then the police found out and started digging them up." Two of Kogun's brothers were arrested under the Act of Sorcery incorporated into PNG's criminal code, but the case collapsed because witnesses were too afraid to testify. The number of witch killings has been estimated at 200 a year in the neighbouring province of Simbu alone, although definitive figures are impossible to come by. A report by Amnesty International in September found there was a "conspiracy of silence" surrounding the murders. Belief in evil spirits is ubiquitous throughout Papua New Guinea, where ancestor worship and animism are still practiced. (ukcoalition.org) *******************
2005
Cape
Town, South Africa A
church custodian was murdered in the dead of night and his mutilated
corpse, bearing vicious stab wounds to his head and side mimicking
those of Jesus Christ on the cross, is left in front of the altar. On
the ground, in the victim's blood, is written the word "Satun" (sic).
The Halloween slaying of 53-year-old Charles Jacobs, janitor at the
Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints in the quiet,
church-going town of Paarl, east of Cape Town, was the latest in a long
string of murders that reflect an obsession with Satanism that goes
back deep into South Africa's apartheid past.
(theaustralian.news.com)*******************
2005
Ponchatoula, LA
Authorities
arrested Daniel Edwards, a former "pastor" turned Satanist
accused of leading a church group in "cult-like" rituals involving the
sexual abuse of children and animals. Also arrested were eight other
members of the cult. Tangipahoa Parish Sheriff Daniel Edwards said
members of a Ponchatoula church carried out the practices for years as
part of a devil-worshipping ritual involving cat blood. "This is hard
to talk about and harder to believe, but some of the suspects have told
us their intention in all of this was devil worshipping," Edwards said.
"We know of one dog. That was a pet and the dog is dead now," Edwards said. The sheriff said one of the suspects had sex with that dog, and that blood from a cat was used in the cult's rituals. The dog and cat apparently were pets belonging to members of the church's congregation, he added.Edwards also said that the people involved in the cult reportedly had sex with children and animals from 1999 until the church disbanded in 2003. Edwards said the victims in the case range from toddlers to teenagers. A conviction on sex-abuse charges involving juveniles under age 12 can result in the death penalty. (AP) *******************
2005
Toronto, Canada In June, Police arrested a self-proclaimed "psychic
healer" named Alex Orbito, 66. A number of victims came forward to
report that he "treated" 600 people in his Best Western Hotel room in
Scarborough, Ontario, charging C$135 for two-minute "healing"
treatments. He claimed that he could heal any illness by removing
"negative energies" and performing psychic surgery. Orbito and an
accomplice were arrested and charged with fraud over $5,000 and
possession of proceeds of crime. (healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch)*******************
2004
Egg Harbor Township, NJ A woman found six beheaded birds while walking
along the beach on 11-4-04. The six large birds (a goose, pheasant,
chicken and other birds) were grouped in twos and all were facing in
the same direction. The New Jersey Society for the Prevention and
Cruelty to Animals is investigating. SPCA officials said they believe
the birds were killed as part of a ritualistic sacrifice.
"The
location is right where the old Hutton mansion used to be and there had
been a lot of reported devil worship and things like that going in
there," said Rich Frank. The Hutton mansion was built in the 1920s.
Heiress Barbara Hutton, who had been married to actor Cary Grant, allegedly held seances there. The mansion was torn down in 2002, but investigators said this latest animal sacrifice shows the lure of the mansion is still there. To date the case remains unsolved. SPCA investigators are asking anyone with information on the beheadings to call them at 609-927-9059. *******************
2004,
Columbia, SC-
Wiccan Richard
Legette shot and killed Chris Clark at the Lexington Green condominiums
in an argument over a woman. Prosecutors at Legette's bond hearing said
Legette is a Wiccan and that Wiccans don't believe the government of a
Christian nation can dispense justice (apparently stemming from a
comment Legette made). Legget's "fiance" said Legette is
actually
a Neopagan, NOT a Wiccan, (heavens, they wouldn't want to be one of
THOSE weirdos!) and that what he was charged with had nothing
to
do with his beliefs. Apparently Legget's magic couldn't win his
girlfriend or his freedom. (AP)*******************
2004 Milan,
Itlay A Satanist named
Andrea Volpe (age 27) who lead a rock band called "The Beasts of Satan"
was arrested along with two other band members for the murder of his
girlfriend Elizabeth Ballarin (age 18) . Police discovered Volpe was
also responsible for the murder of other band members: in 1998 of Fabio
Tollis (age 16). It was also discovered the band members belonged to a
Satanic cult called "The Beasts of Satan", the same name as the band.
Police began to link Volpe's cult to several unexplained murders and
questionable "suicides" that occured over the years in northern Milan.
Volpe's girlfriend's murder, Chiara Marino, and had occured on a Friday
the 13th during a full moon. Police also suspect the cult in other cases that were particularly baffling: two young men, at least one of them close to the alleged Satanists, both of whom worked in the Legnano cemetery and both of whom killed themselves in the past six months.Angelo Lombardo, 28, a guard at the cemetery, was the first to die. On a Sunday afternoon last December he went into the porter’s lodge at the cemetery, doused himself in petrol and set himself on fire. Visitors to the cemetery found him still in flames and writhing in agony. He was taken to hospital with 80 per cent burns but died four days later. Then, in May this year, his friend Luca Colombo, 21, a florist at the same cemetery, hanged himself from a tree in his parent’s garden. Before his death, Luca confided in friends and relatives that he was frightened. A local woman who claims to have been his girlfriend for five months told Corriere della Sera newspaper, “For the first three months he was happy, funny and very sweet. Then suddenly he changed. He wasn’t himself any more: nervous, bad tempered, always scowling … Just once he said that one day he would explain [the problem], but that moment never arrived.”He is known to have been friendly with some members of the sect, and particularly close to Nicola Sapone, the plumber who is thought to be its leader. As more evidence of the sect’s crimes emerged, people have began coming forward to denounce the police for failing to follow up satanic leads from years ago. Pasqualina Antonini, the mother of Chiara Marino, who died from stab wounds and whose remains were discovered earlier this month, has told reporters she gave police a full account of the Satanists she held responsible soon after her daughter’s disappearance more than six years ago.Volpe later plead guilty to his part in both murders of Tollis and Marino, and recieved 30 years. In 2006, Nicola Sapone, one of the leaders of the Beasts of Satan rock band, was sentenced to life behind bars for the double homicide. (telegraph.co.uk/news) *******************
2004 The
Bronx, NY A
woman was
arrested in the February death of her good friend during a
Santeriaritual that went awry when candles "accidentally" ignited a
flammable liquid and engulfed the victim in flames, police said. (AP)*******************
2004 Hialeah, Florida --
Hialeah
police arrested Pablo Fauria, 62, a Santeria priest who used his
position to sexually abuse two children. Fauria was charged with 20
counts of sexual battery and sexual abuse. Police said Fauria offered
to help the children after their parents died. But investigators
discovered Fauria had sexually abused the 12 y.o. and 13 y.o. since
2000. (AP)*******************
2004
Hopewell
NJ Hopewell
Township police think the human skull found in the Delaware River Nov.
22 may have been used in a Palo Mayombe ritual. Capt. George Meyer of
the township police said Monday that the investigation has led
authorities to believe the skull may have been a ceremonial artifact
used in cult rituals by a Palo Mayombe priest. "According to experts
we've contacted, the Palo Mayombe religion requires that such a skull
be disposed of in a river, and in a way that seems related to the
objects found with the skull," the captain said in a Hopewell Valley
News article. (AP)*******************
2004
Jenner, OH
Christian camp
counselors Jason Allen, 26, and his fiancee, Lindsay Cutshall, 22,
spread sleeping bags on the sand of a secluded cove that locals refer
to as Driftwood or Fish Head Beach. The young Ohio couple also placed a
Bible near where they slept, and where ultimately they died as martyrs
for Christ. The two had taken a vow of chastity until they were married
and slept in seperate sleeping bags. That night someone emerged from
the darkness and shot each of them once in the head. The devil drawings
on a piece of driftwood seemed to indicate a Satanic murder. A local homeless man, Jeff Winkler, claimed he drew the devil picture weeks earlier, but did not kill them. He also said he "hated Christians", but was not a Satanist. The case may have been the work of occultists. At any rate, the case is still unsolved and was featured on America's Most Wanted. Anyone with information on the murder should call the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department. (AP) *******************
2004
Pretoria, South
Africa Satanist
and Tatoo artist Robbie "Goggaman" Robbie Classen (38) recieved 60
years for multiple counts of rape, indecent assault and abduction on a
girl aged 7 at the time and her 9 and 11 year old brothers. Classen
claimed the children accusing him of sexual abuse confused him a
look-a-like...extremely unlikely considering the unique tatoos covering
his body. Classen's body was a mass of occult tattoos, including one on
his penis.The victim's mother told authorities she had known it was there because the children had told her about it before she ever met Classen. Classen sodomised the boys, made the children eat insects, even injected one of the boys with his own blood, and tried to teach the children "astral projection", among other things. The girl claimed she was tied to a cross upside down and raped. Despite Classen's claims to innocence, medical evidence corroborated the children’s claims that they had been raped and sodomised. Classen had a long list of previous convictions for drug-related crimes and had spent time in jail for robbery.(theherald.co.za) *******************
2004
Escondido,CA In
August Police
arrested a "Gypsy", Fatima Demetro, 31, who is wanted for allegedly
scamming an Illinois woman out of $80,000. Police believe she may also
have duped local residents.The self-proclaimed psychic, palm reader and
healer is known to target Latinos, police said. Demetro is accused of
befriending a mother and daughter in McHenry, Ill., who used her
services because they were down on their luck and overweight, Gaylor
said. Police say she convinced the older woman that her luck would
change if she cleansed her life savings of $80,000. The woman withdrew
the money, all in $100 bills, and gave it to Demetro. During a seance involving vegetables and live lizards, the cash was wrapped into a white handkerchief. The women were asked to stare at a candle.They were given back the handkerchief and told to place it under a bed for several days, police said. "When they open up the (handkerchief), they find cut-up newspaper," a police officer said. Demetro also is wanted in another Illinois case. She is accused of telling a client that his wife had been unfaithful and he was not the father of their unborn child, police said.The man paid her with his wedding ring and ended up killing his wife, stabbing her 80 times, police said. Anyone who believes they might have been victimized by Demetro is asked to call Escondido police at (760) 839-4972 (AP) *******************
2003
Portsmouth, England
A
26-year-old druid was arrested in for going to the hardware store while
wearing his ceremonial sword and dagger. The sword, named
Talesin
<snicker>, was confiscated by police as evidence.
Apparently he
didn't think the store owners would be afraid some clown dressed as a
wizard wearing a sword & might be scared they would be robbed
or
somethingworse. Hey, you never know when you're going to need your
sword at
ACE Hardware. Chief druid "King Arthur Pendragon", who believes he's the reincarnation of King Arthur and claims a spiritual age of 1,451 years, wearing white robes with a red lion emblazoned on the front, acted as Williams's legal adviser...and he's not a crackpot! King Arthur had been arrested several times himself since 1985 for trying to gain admittance to Stonehenge during the Summer solstice, but the charges were always dropped. England has a high tolerance for eccentrics, and the man was freed by the court. The sword could not be reached for comment. (BBC News) *******************
2003 San
Mateo,
CA Janet Adams,
41, was arrested Saturday after police say she fleeced a Half
Moon Bay teen out of $15,000 -- payment to ward off the bad fortune she
predicted. San Mateo Police Lt. Kevin Raffaelli said the 19-year-old
met Adams in December, when Adams did a psychic reading for her. Adams
got the teen's phone number, and called her asking for more money to
perform incantations to protect her and her family from harm, Raffaelli
said. `This 19-year-old was very innocent, very vulnerable,'' Alberti
said. Over several months, Adams would make predictions that the
woman's family members were about to die, and would tell her that she
needed to pay or the predictions would come true, Alberti said. The
victim had access to a parent's bank account, and also charged payments
on her credit cards, Alberti said. (AP)*******************
2003,
Tokyo, Japan
Japanese 'psychic'
Shunichi Miyazaki,55, and his group were arrested for fraud. A Japanese
man has been arrested along with eight "disciples" on suspicion of
fraud, after taking millions of yen in fees for performing exorcism
rites on the public. Most of the victims were believed to be women in
their 20s or 30s, the Daily Yomiuri said. Police said that the group
dressed in tennis clothes and carried racquets or violin cases to make
them appear more "credible" when approaching potential clients in
public places, such as train stations.The group members told
passers-by: "Your back is possessed by the spirit of a dead woman and
she has attached strings to your neck," or "the spirit of a dead man
with severed legs is cling to your waist," the Daily Yomiuri reported.
The group, led by 55-year-old Shunichi Miyazaki, is suspected of
charging more than 1,000 people between 30,000 and 1 million yen
($253-8,449) for an exorcism, the paper said. "When I was a high school
student, I nearly drowned. After the incident I came to have psychic
power. I didn't mean to cheat them and it is not a fraud," he was
quoted as saying. (The Daily Yomiuri)*******************
2003
Roanoke, VA
Satanist Terry Dale
Duncan, 30, says he tried to ‘disassemble’ his month-old son. Duncan,
who claims to be a Satanist, was convicted of attempted capital murder.
The child, identified previously as Terrence Alexander Duncan, likely
would have died if not for intervention from a Child Health Investment
Partnership nurse and a social worker who visited the Duncans after the
boy missed a doctor’s appointment. Doctors discovered the child had
suffered fractures to a leg, a shinbone and both collarbones. Bruises
covered his nose, forehead and eyes. They later discovered a wound that
appeared to be a cigarette burn at the back of his throat.(AP)*******************
2003 Des
Moines, Iowa In
Nov. Iowa
Melissa Fernandez, 20, is charged with one count of child endangerment.
Tina Kish said she was shocked by what her daughters told her about the
times they stayed with Fernandez, a family friend and baby sitter who
also lives in the Park Ridge Apartment complex on Indianola Avenue.
Kish said the girls told her that Fernandez served them alcohol, and
got one of them drunk. The girls also said Fernandez taught them things
about witchcraft, took them to an abandoned building Fernandez told
them is haunted, and allowed one girl to cut herself as part of a blood
ritual. Fernandez admitted she studies Satanism as a "religion", but
denies she practices witchcraft. Fernandez admits she's a cutter, like
many Wiccans and Satanists, it seems. "I had cut myself. I do that kind
of out of habit now. And she just kind of copied me," Fernandez said.
Fernandez also admitted to getting the kids drunk, "I had been drinking a little bit that night. And they pretty much wanted to try it, like kids always do," Fernandez said. However, she tried to explain away the Satanism part, "I can completely understand the charges for distributing alcohol to a minor, and I will fess up to that, but anything else I completely do not understand," Fernandez said. She said she simply showed the girls the movie "Practical Magic," which is about witches, and the twin's Satanism claims are just "a misunderstanding". Eeeeeeyeah. (AP) *******************
2003 North
Carolina -
Wiccan Janine
Sutphen, 57, a cellist with the Durham North Cartolina Symphony
Orchestra, became suspicioua of her husband's spending practices. She,
along with Wiccan husband William James Petrick, were part of a
polygamist marriage. Sutphen's remains turned up in North Carolina's
Falls Lake in May 2003. Her body was wrapped up in sleeping bags and a
chain was tied around her legs. The absence of apparent wounds led
police to determine the cause of death was asphyxiation. Petrick
rejected an initial plea deal to second-degree murder and fraud
charges. But just before jury selection began in July in his fraud
trial, he pleaded no contest to a single count of obtaining property by
false pretenses and admitted to being a habitual felon.Sutphen's remains turned up in North Carolina's Falls Lake in May 2003. Her body was wrapped up in sleeping bags and a chain was tied around her legs. The absence of apparent wounds led police to determine the cause of death was asphyxiation. Following an investigation of the couple's home, Petrick was charged with multiple counts of fraud related to bogus checks, including one for $47,866 alone. Petrick dismissed his defense attorney and decided to represent himself, just like Ted Bundy and other psychotic killers have done in the past. He got life in prison. From this we can conclude 1. His money spells didn't work, which is why he had to steal. 2. His magic couldn't gain him his freedom 3. Criminal types are attracted to the occult. (AP) *******************
2003 Lake
Placid,
Florida A little
publicized case occured when a man was arrested for the murder of his
wife. The two were both Satanists and made their living owning a
funeral home. One night the couple engaged in a sex game involving
drainig the blood out his wife necks with a syringe and drinking it.
The vampire "game" went to far when the bleeding got out of hand, and
the wife bled to death. He was arerested for murder. (local undrertaker)*******************
2003 North
Jersey, NJ -
Karen R.
Mitchell, 32, of Allendale has to answer charges of theft by deception
for claiming to be a psychic and bilking a client out of nearly $24,000
over two years.The client told police the scam began on her first visit
when Mitchell said she needed more time for a séance and asked her to
get more money from an automated teller machine. At one point she and
the soothsayer traveled to New York City to buy a $12,000 Tourneau
watch so they could "turn back time." The watch was among jewelry and
clothing that police say persuaded the woman to buy. In other
instances, the client was persuaded to buy clothing to dress up figures
to look like people from her past. (AP)*******************
2003
Pompano Beach,FL On
11-6-03 cops
say Jean-Marie Jean-Francois beat his girlfriend Fritz-Anna to death as
part of a well thought out plan. Jean-Francois had abused the woman
throughout their relationship. Jean-Francois was a Voodoo practitioner,
who had his own handwritten book of spells, and he was more than just a
"dabbler". Jean-Francois led a double life; on the one hand, he seemed
like a church going man, but police say nothing could mask his
obsession with voodoo, seduction and pain. Jean-Marie Jean-Francois is
still at large and could be hiding out among Florida's Hatian
community, Canada, or Haiti. Anyone with any information should call
law enforcement or 1-800-CRIME-TV. (America's Most Wanted)*******************
2003
Burton, MI - Two
girls and their
mother spent six years in constant fear, hiding from a devil worshipper
who raped the girls dozens of times while he baby-sat them. On
Halloween when the family received an anonymous “Friday the 13th”
videotape depicting two sisters being killed. Fearful that David
Lindensmith, 40, would kill them, the girls finally went to police and
detailed a horrific story of molestationthat began in 1992 when they
were 4 and 6 years old. The girls, now 14 and 16, told police
Lindensmith pointed a pistol at them and threatened to kill them if
they went to police. Genesee County Sheriff Robert J.Pickell said
Lindensmith met the girls in 1992 when he became their mother’s
boyfriend for a short time. A search of Lindensmith’s Bergin Avenue
home turned up 300 DVDs and four computer hard drives with images of
child pornography, Pickell said. Police also found satanic cult items
in his house, along with books they said he used to cast evil spells on
people. (GCSD Press Releases)*******************
2003 King's
Moutain SC
Police shut
down a home explosives lab operated by Phillip Lovelace, Jonathan
Garrett, Roger McFarland and George Adams the third, who all belonged
to a Satanic cult. The police chief says the group tested homemade
napalm and Molotov cocktails in unoccupied places in town and possibly
threw one at an Amtrak train driving through town where it bounced off.
Police also discovered occult books, and several copies of The Satanic
Bible. (NTI: Global Security Newswire)*******************
2002
Manahttan, NY Two
self-described
psychics, Sonia Merino, 50 and her daughter-in-law, Nasta Merino, 23
were arrested and charged with five counts each of mail fraud for
allegedly conning clients into paying thousands of dollars in fees to
"free them from bad karma". The pair offered psychic readings for as
little as $10 but would then tell clients that additional sessions,
ranging up to $20,000, were needed to drive away a curse or some
negative spiritual force. One client told investigators that he gave
Sonia Merino more than $518,000 in checks, a 1999 Volkswagen Beetle, a
CD player and a personal computer over a three-year period after first
going to her for a tarot card reading in 1996 after a failed romance.
He says Sonia told him he needed a series of costlier sessions including a request for $750,000 to pay a group of psychics to conduct all-night meditations on his behalf. One victim was quoted in the affidavit as saying that Sonia Merino threatened to put a curse on her when she refused to pay several thousand dollars for a series of sessions. Another told of being badgered with phone calls every few hours throughout the night. In addition to mail fraud, Sonia and her husband Steve, 44, were charged with tax fraud for allegedly underreporting $750,000 in income from 1995 through 1999. Sonia Merino also sold clients what she described as "holy water" from the Vatican but analysis showed it was Manhattan Beach tap water, authorities said. Nasta Merino was accused of selling at least one person "holy water" from Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupre, a Catholic shrine near Quebec City, Canada, which is frequented by invalids seeking miracle cures. It, too, came from a local tap. (AP) *******************
2002
Bochum,
Germany A couple
who killed a friend by stabbing him 66 times in a Satanic ritual were
jailed in Jan. Daniel Ruda, a 26-year-old former car parts salesman,
and his 23-year-old wife Manuela had confessed to the killing in their
apartment, surrounded by human skulls, cemetery lights, scalpels and
incense. The dead man, a 33-year-old colleague of Daniel Ruda's, was
found in the couple's apartment covered in knife wounds and with a
scalpel protruding from his stomach. A pentagram, the sign of the
Devil, had been carved into his chest. A judge in the western
town of Bochum sentenced Daniel to 15 years and Manuela 13 years in a
psychiatric ward. Manuela, a former high school student who said she
drifted into the "Gothic" scene after the devil contacted her when she
was 14, slept in a coffin in their apartment. The court heard how Manuela acquired a taste for vampirism during a visit to London, where she attended "bite parties" at which people voluntarily had blood sucked from their veins. She met Daniel after responding to his advertisement in a heavy metal magazine that read: "Pitch black vampire seeks princess of darkness who hates everything and everyone."They have shown no remorse, saying the devil ordered them to send him a human sacrifice because he wanted a "court jester". Daniel said he had merely been a tool of the devil. "If you run someone over with a car, you don't prosecute the car," he said at one point.(serialkillercalendar.com)2002 Tucson, AZ Jason Paul Doty, the "Aryan Satanist" who murdered Grady Towers in March 2000, was found guilty on January 18, 2002. His sentencing hearing is coming up in a few weeks. He recieved 2 life sentences. His "spiritual war to purify the white race" prompted Doty to shoot a security guard at Tohono Chul Park and brag about the sacrifice to friends. Grady Mitchell Towers, 55, was killed because Doty, 29, needed to slay a white person on March 20, 2000—the Spring Equinox—to achieve magical powers, Deputy County Attorney Teresa Godoy told jurors. Jurors heard excerpts from letters Doty wrote to friends and from an "archive" he kept of his activities. "Violence is the law, death to the dove. Behold the terror in [Towers'] eyes," Godoy read from Doty's writings. He was shot 7 times; once in the upper chest, above the left eye, in the back of the head and all other shots were to the left side of the head—two shots against the head. The Satanist Doty also remains the primary suspect in the unsolved murder of Robin Hay, a mother of two who was brutally slashed to death in March 2000 at the eegee’s restaurant at Ina and Thornydale roads where she worked. (Pima County Attorney's Office) *******************
2002
Los Angeles,
California The
company that operated a telephone psychic line that saturated the
airwaves with infomercials was brought to court by the
Federal
Trade Commisison for fraud. It seemed rather than give people a "free
reading" as promised, the company (Psychic Friends Network) was
charging folks a hefty $6.00 per minute (about as much as Sprint
charges for
a call from the USA to Vietnam). One man sued after his "free" call
cost him $300. Miss Cleo (who's real name is Youree Dell Harris), the
infomercial's star,
had seemed to lose credibility with the public after failing to predict
the terrorist attacks on the U.S.A. on 9-11-01. It also turned out the spokeswoman, "Miss Cleo", wasn't a Jamaican born psychic, but a Californian actress with a phony accent. Harris wrote a play called "For Women Only" in which she cast herself as a Jamaican woman. This characther became the basis for her psychic Cleo charachter. In 2006 Harris apparently tried to gain some publicity by "coming out" and admitting she was a lesbian. The story only recieved coverage in a few gay newspapers and was largely ignored by the mainstream press. You don't have to be psychic to figure our her acting career is over. (Court TV) *******************
2002
Leesberg, Virginia
"Dr. Robert
Schwartz, 57, was a founding member of the Virginia Biotechnology
Association, and the Executive Director of Research and Development at
Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology. In his farmhouse he was
stabbed and slashed repeatedly with a sword and an 'X' was
carved
in the back of his neck . His daughter, who identifies herself as a
Wiccan high priestess, and three of her fellow pagans have been
charged." [Globe and Mail, 5/4/02] All were part of what they called a
coven, and interested in magic, fantasy and self-mutilation. The police have no motive as to why they would have wanted to kill Schwartz, who was a single parent and said to be very close to his children. One of the Wiccan murderers, who has a history of mental illness, says he was given permission to kill Schwartz by "vampires and creatures named Ordog, Sabba and Nicodemus". Schwartz worked at Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology on DNA sequencing and pathogenic microorganisms. Despite wiccans always claiming how scientists endorse Wicca, I guarentee you one at least who wouldn't if he were still alive! (AP) *******************
2002 Prince
William
County VA Russell
John Smith a.k.a "Reverend Sorath." operated his own Satanic internet
website called "The Order of Perdition", open to Satanists &
"Left
Hand Path Pagans." "Satanismallows for indulgence in life and its
pleasures rather than abstinence, as Christianity preaches," Smith
wrote on his website. Smith’s "indulgences" included talking 12year old
girls into sex as part of a Satanic sex ritual. He was charged with
rape and forcible sodomy of a child and was eventually sentenced to 48
years in prison. After allegations surfaced that Smith, 37, had
repeatedly molested two girls, he resigned his job as a corrections
officer and was on the lam, along with his 12 y.o. daughter. Police searched Smith’s home & found a goat skull with a pentagram drawn on it, black robes, black candles, young girls’ underwear. His spells couldn’t keep him out of jail, and he became America’s Most Wanted capture #720. Russell Smith tried to evade serving hard time by attempting to slash his wrists with a piece of tin foil from a juice carton. But a judge saw right though it and sentenced him to 48 years in prison. I guess his magic doesn't work either. The Order of Perdition "excommunicated" Smith, and stated on their website : "We ...DO NOT promote or have anything to do with Child Abuse, Animal Abuse or Animal Sacrifice, Illegal Substances, or ANY Criminal Activities what so ever." But even LaVey didn’t measure up to those standards in real life according to his family! The website is gone at this writing, and the order has apparently been disbanded. Perhaps eventually they’ll get tired of apologizing and realize Satanism is for criminals and ditch it. (America's Most Wanted) *******************
2001
Moscow,Russia On
Mar 18,
Russian police arrested a self described Satanist who confessed to
sacrificing four people in a basement in ritual Satanic slayings. A
fire reported in the building led to the discovery. When fire fighters
arrived at the scene, they found the decomposed bodies of two women and
two men. Three of them had been decapitated and one man's chest was cut
open. There were candles around the bodies, which were also decorated
with flowers (Agence France Presse, Interfax)2001 London, England In
Feb. Thelemite and jobless drifter Henry Bibby (alias Edward Crowley)
was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old Bailey for carrying out a
Thelema ritual of child sacrifice on an innocent twelve-year-old
victim.
He had stabbed the boy, Diego Pineiro-Villar, over thirty times in
Covent Garden, London, on 8 May 2000. Police found a bag that Bibby had kept with him. It contained a small number of legal documents about his change of name, and a chilling sketch that police believe was drawn a few weeks before the attack. Entitled Delendus Est Pineiro, which roughly translates as “destroy Pineiro,” the pencil diagram makes references to child sacrifice, black magic and Greek mythology. The symbols relate to quotations from Crowley’s works. There were a number of references to child sacrifice, including one from Aleister Crowley’s "Magick in Theory and Practice" that read, “For the highest spiritual working one must accordingly choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest force. A male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the most satisfactory and suitable victim.”. (BBC News) *******************
2001
Lake Charles,Louisiana David
Daniel Settlemyer pleads guilty
to attempting to persuade a man to travel to Louisiana to have sex with
a minor, as well as to sending child pornography by computer. With this
and other charges, Settlemyer may face life in prison. Prosecutors
claim that Settlemyer tried to convince someone he met on-line (who
turned out to be an undercover FBI agent) to come to Louisiana to
kidnap and rape three girls. Settlemyer had previously been convicted for kidnapping and attempted kidnapping. A California man, Chance Rearden, faces a number of charges related to an alleged attempt by Rearden to persuade Settlemyer to go to California to hunt, kidnap, rape, and kill children. Authorities claim that Rearden is an admitted neo-Nazi, Satanist, and white supremacist. (AP)2001 Moscow, Russia Police arrested a man who confessed to murdering four people in a basement in the Russian capital in what appears to have been ritual Satanic slayings, Interfax reported on 3-17-01. One of the police investigators quoted by Interfax news agency, said the murders appeared to have been committed by a Satanic cult judging by the way the bodies were mutilated and other evidence at the crime scene. At around 3.30 a.m on Saturday, the fire service received a phone call reporting a blaze in the basement of an apartment building in eastern Moscow, Police Lieutenant-Colonel Fyodor Agapov told Interfax.When fire fighters arrived at the scene, they found the decomposed bodies of two women and two men. Three of them had been decapitated and one man's chest was cut open.There were candles around the bodies, which were also decorated with flowers.(TASS) *******************
2001
Georgia Statewide Satanist Jay
Scott Ballinger, 36, of Yorktown, Indiana, recieved a life sentnce for
the torching of some 26 churches including 5 in Georgia, one of which
killed a firefighter. It was the largest number of fires charged to one
individual during the task force's nearly 3-year-old investigation,
said Treasury Undersecretary James Johnson, the task force co-chairman.
The task force has opened investigations of 752 church fires, bombings
or attempted bombings and has charged 331 individuals in 249 of those
attacks. Racial prejudice was not a motivation as Ballinger was "a
white man charged with setting fire to predominantly white churches,"
Acting Assistant Attorney General Bill Lann Lee, task force co-chairman, said at a news conference at the Justice Department. Ballinger traveled with his girlfriend, Angela Wood, 24, of Atlanta, as she worked as a stripper in several states. Wood and another man, Donald A. Puckett, 37, of Lebanon, Ind., have told federal agents they took part with Ballinger in burning an Indiana church where they painted an upside-down cross on the steps as part of a Satanic ritual. Mostly unemployed since he settled back into his parents' rural home in 1990, Ballingerhad two scrapes with the law before the arson case. In 1994, he was cited for giving minors alcohol. That same year, parents complained he was recruiting teen-agers into a cult. At Ballinger's home, Daleville Police Sgt. Mark Brewer confiscated about 50 contracts signed in blood by teen-agers who agreed to give their souls to the devil and do "all types of evil" in exchange for wealth, power and sex. Ballinger was not charged and successfully sued to get the contracts back, Brewer said. Yeah, why that's religious persecution by the "evil xtians" against a harmless peace-loving Satanist! (The Capital, 4-14-01) *******************
2001
London, England Londoners were
horrified by the sight of
the dimembered corpse of a child floating down the River Thames in
Sept. The child had been murdered as part of a Voodoo sacrifice. The
child, called "Adam" by police, turned out to be a Nigerian national,
and lead police to breaking up a major child trafficking ring, possibly
saving many other West African children from a life of slavery,
prostitution, child pronography...and even worse. Police say Adam had been earmarked for human sacrifice when he was smuggled into the UK. Richard Hoskins, a U.K.based expert on African religion and Voodoo, was called in on the case. He told reporters human sacrifice is a highly unusual aspect of black magic but that Nigerians themselves acknowledge that sacrificial killings often occur. He also added that Animal-blood offerings are deeply rooted in West African voodoo culture. It's regarded as a way to "communicate with the spirit world and gain protection from ancestral deities". To find out why and by whom, murder squad detectives traveled to Nigeria and the city of Benin. With the trafficking gang's ringleader now in jail, detectives remain hopeful that Adam's killers can finally be brought to justice. (BBC News) *******************
2001
Dayton, OH Satanist Darrell W. Ferguson, 23, takes advatange of a 2-day
pass to go on a crime and killing spree. While robbing people to fuel
his huffing and crack habits, he brutally stabbed 61-year-old Thomas
King Sr. in his Dayton home on Dec. 23, 2001, and stomped and kicked
him with his steel-toed boots. A day later, he did the same to Arlie
and Mae Fugate, aged 68 and 69. He left bloody impressions of his boot
on the cheek of Mr. Fugate and on Mr. King's pants. DNA testing of his
boots found probable blood matches for all three victims. Ferguson
confessed to the crimes with graphic detail after his arrest and
personally requested the death penalty in letters to the judge and
prosecutor. "What I done is done and if I could bring them back I
wouldn't,'' his letter to the judge read. "I have no Remorse for what I
did.'' In prison he taunted the families of his victims during his sentencing hearing and posted poems and essays about his crimes and his Satanic beliefs on his personal web site (um, why are murderers allowed to have websites???). Ferguson refused to participate in his own clemency hearing, and volunteered to hasten his execution. He was executed in 2006. (AP) *******************
2001
North Ft. Myers, FL The North
Fort Myers
woman who police say went on a bloody rampage Sept. leaving her
6-year-old son dead practiced Wiccan witchcraft and went by the name
“Palm Frond.” Leslie Wallace, 39, studied the Wicca religion and kept
recipes for death spells and ailments for enemies, according to reports
made public. In her Book of Shadows she wrote “Society itself is full
of bigotry toward witches and witchcraft...As it doesn’t deal with
Christianity, it is feared and loathed. My goal is to better learn of
the craft and to apply it to being a solitary Wicca.” Apparently this included murdering her kids. Yep, no better way to calm fears of irrational "xtians" like sacrificing your own offspring! According to police, Wallace deviated from the Wiccan rede (or maybe she just didn't think she was harming anyone) in September, when she killed her son James with a shotgun and tried to shoot her other two sons, including one whose life was literally saved by a Bible. [That noise you hear is Silver Ravenwolf grinding her teeth] After gunning down poor little James, Wallace drove to New Wine Ministries in North Fort Myers, where she tried to gun down her son, Kenneth, 16, sending a panic through the church (oh, you xtians are so prejudiced against Wiccans!). The boy’s life was spared when the shotgun blast hit a Bible he held in front of him. Police said she next went to a Pizza Hut in North Fort Myers where she tried to kill Gregory. But that attempt failed, too, when Wallace couldn’t get through the locked doors. The rampage ended in a gun battle with Lee County sheriff’s deputies on the Fort Myers side of the Caloosahatchee Bridge. After firing at deputies, Wallace was shot and critically wounded. Wallace, who was contemplating a divorce in the days before the shooting, is now in the Lee County Jail facing one count of first-degree murder, one count of attempted first-degree murder, four counts of aggravated assault and four counts of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer. Prosecution says it will seek the death penality. Her sister said in a statement that Leslie Wallace bragged about being bipolar and that the courts "wouldn’t do anything to her.” Blessed Be! At least James will be with Jesus after the Ressurection, where witches can't hurt him. (USA Today) *******************
2001
Llanfairpwll on Anglesey,Wales 17
y.o. paperboy Mathew
Hardman is found guilty and recieves a life sentence for murdering his
90 year old neighbor Mabel Leyshon. Hardman denied all the charges and
allegations,but DNA found at the murder scene matched that of blood
found on a knife at Hardman's home. Hardman was obsessed with vampires
and the occult, and had told others he wanted to kill someone "in order
to become immortal". In Nov. of '01, he broke into her house, stabbed her 22 times and drank her blood as part of an occult ritual. he also mutilated her body before placing pokers at her feet in the shape of a cross. Her heart had been removed, wrapped in newspaper and placed in a saucepan on a silver platter next to her body. Prosecution said the murder was carefully planned. Two months before Mrs Leyshon's murder, Hardman had accused a 16-year-old German girl of being a vampire. Claiming she was "one of them", he begged the student to bite his neck so that he too could become a vampire. When she refused, he became violent and began insisting, pressing his neck against her mouth. Eventually the girl had to summon help. The prosecution also outlined how Hardman had surfed the internet for vampire websites and had read a magazine which featured an article on how to conduct a black mass (btw, is that how you got here?). Kids, there are no real vampires, and vampires are evil. Evil is not something you want. If you want to be a vampire, please see the LINKS page on this website to find help (BBC News) *******************
2001
Las Vegas, NV Wiccan Brookey Lee
West was arrested
for slaying her mother, while continuing to collect her mother's Social
Security checks. In 1998 West told acquaintances that she sent her
elderly mother to live with West's brother in California. Some doubted
her story and suspected foul play, but three years came and went before
their suspicions were confirmed. In February 2001, authorities found
Smith's body sealed in a plastic garbage can inside a Las Vegas storage
unit. The can had sprung a leak, and the overpowering stench from the liquefied remains led to the discovery of the secret tomb. Next to the garbage can, investigators found books on Wicca and the occult, including a handwritten Book of Shadows written in Thebes. Police would connect Smith to several murders throughout her life. Author Scott Mitchell later remarked, "She just got overconfident," he said. "She got away with so much for so long, she just became a little too casual."Smith was a "gernerational witch". Her father, Leroy Smith, had also been a practioner of Wicca and also a white supremacist. The crimes are detailed in the book, Witch: The True Story of Las Vegas's Most Notorious Female Killer. The family's occult links showed themselves in the mid-1980s, when West was embroiled in a custody dispute with the father of her 8-year-old daughter. West wanted to give the girl up for adoption, but the father, Ronald Viramontes, refused to sign away his parental rights. In the middle of the dispute, Leroy Smith sent Viramontes a threatening letter that included pentagrams and satanic curses. Four days after the letter arrived, a masked man knocked on Viramontes' door and shot his 86-year-old grandmother in the chest. She survived, and the case remains unsolved. "She had a history, along with her father, of trying to eliminate people when they got in their way," Clark County prosecutor Scott Mitchell said of Brookey Lee West. "Once you showed yourself to be in opposition to anything Brookey Lee West wanted to do, your life was in danger." Blessed Be! (Witch: The True Story of Las Vegas' Most Notorious Female Killer Berkley True Crime) *******************
2001
Swansea, Wales Satanist Richard
Cullen, 44,
taped 21 y.o. Elizabeth Sims-Rees’s hands together and repeatedly
smashed her head with a rubber mallet. Then he throttled her with a
shirt, before carrying the 21-year-old upstairs and raping her. Cullen
claimed the incident started over an argument about the T.V. show,Buffy
the Vampire Slayer. Cullen was jailed for five years in 1990 for arson
and possession of a firearm, and again in 1993 for indecent assault and
threats to kill. He had told the woman victim in the indecent assault
case about his devil worship, and claimed to have sacrificed dogs in
rituals because the species’ name was God spelt backwards. He recieved
life in prison.(WalesOnline)*******************
2001
Madrid, Spain In December, police
disrupted a Satanic ritual in progress with the participants performing
Satanic rites using dissected eagles, goats and entrails. The Satanists
escaped by clambering out through the roof, leaving the officers to
examine blood-splattered walls on which was written "Satan will
conquer" and in various places the number 6. Police were dispatched
after people complained about the noise from a disused slaughterhouse
in a suburb of the week prior, leading to the raid. A neighbour said: "They were kicking up a lot of noise and had prepared a fire." Police are worried that they had also used bottles of diseased sliced pig, jars of animal remains and chemicals that were left in cupboards at the abattoir when it closed two years ago. "We are particularly concerned about containers labelled 'porcine disease'," an officer said. Eagles are a protected species in Spain, and use of protected birds by Satanic sects is being investigated by police. (Telegraph News)
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