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OCCULT CRIMES
PART I: Introduction
PART II: Occult Crime Cases Part I
INTRODUCTION: THE "SATANIC PANIC" Occultists in general, (and Satanists in particular it seems), tend to say that crimes commited in the name of the occult (of whatever variety) are exxagerated and the result of a "Satanic Panic". Granted, there are some people that carry things to the extreme and see a devil hiding behind every rock, and there will always be the more hysterical types that will invent things. A book called Michele Remembers detailed so-called "recovered" memories of a woman, Michelle Smith, who had alegedly been abused by a Satanic cult all throughout her childhood. The claims were fantastic, including many encounters with a Satan who spoke in rhymes. The book is a hoax, inspired by a book released a few earlier called When Rabbit Howls, that was completely disproved 10 years after its publication. But at the time of the book's release, thousands of people, literally bought the story. Michelle Smith's sister was located, although the book doesn't even mention one, and denied all accusations made, as did her father. Eventually the co-author, Psychiatrist Lawrence Pazder, admitted the book was a fake, but no criminal charges were leveled against him for all the panic he helped create. Keep in mind the author was a Psychiatrist, not a Fundamentalist Christian minister of any kind. But who gets blamed for the "Satanic Panic"? Christians. There was a spate of claims of ritual abuse at daycares follwing a Geraldo rivera TV special and subsequent tabloid sleazo talk shows with themes like "Survivors of Satanic Ritual Abuse". Even though the media --which is slanted to the left, deal with it-- started the "Satanic Panic" it was fundamentalist Christians that ultimatley get blamed for it. I had a family member who was "investigated" by a Health and Rehabilitative Service worker in 1992. He saw my then 5 year old nephew drawing in the sand with a stick. The worker then took the stick and "finished" the drawing...which he made into a pentagram. The worker then took a picture my "nephew's" drawing and said he was going to the local library to check out the occult books to see if there were any occult symbols. It looked like there was going to be a false allegation of "SRA". And then...nothing happened and the social worker didn't return. Even though I was into the occult, and my brother was a "dabbler", his children were certainly never abused by me or him. I wonder in a worse case scenario if the police would have raided the house and found my large cache of occult books what would have happened. Yes, I know how people can trump things up. Yes, there were a lot of crazy allegation against daycares in the 1980's. Yes, people make up crazy stories. Yes, some people did get accused falsely because of over zealous social workers (not Christian minsters mind you, social workers). Were there people who got falsely accused of participating in grisly Satanic rituals and abusing kids who in reality didn't? Yes, but the truth would always come to light. I've read one article by an "underground" author who claimed there were still thousands of people lamenting in prisons who had been falsley accused of SRA...and of course he didn't cite even one example. The idea is ludicrous. People who falsely accused others were always found out and wound up going to jail themselves, and the numbers of these cases certainly weren't up in the thousands. HOWEVER...this does not mean that occult crimes do not happen. They do indeed happen! Occultists of all types need to stop the double standard. The way they look at the world, everytime a pedophile who became a priest, clergyman, or sunday school teacher just to get next to kids, they view this as yet another example of "the evil xtians" and they toss yet another log onto the fire of hate they burn inside their hearts, but an occultist who's convicted of a crime is simply a "nut" and should be dismissed, or (and this is their favorite battle cry) a victim of "religious persecution". Occultists of any stripe will say “Look, sure there are nuts, but then there are the real occultists! The real occultists aren’t the nuts!” But the problem is, the line between nut and non-nut occultist is often blurred. Some would dismiss, for instance, Ricky Kasso, the archetypical stoner-Satanist as simply a drugged up sociopath. But look at Aleister Crowley, he clearly displayed psychotic behavior as well. He too was a drug addict. In 1923 in Sicily, he conducted a ritual where his wife copulated with a goat, and the goat’s throat was slit, it’s blood collected in a chalice and then drunk. He would defecate on hotel carpets, insisting his feces was sacred. He wrote poetry about molesting his own children. He ate feces as part of his "magical" rituals. Crowley even spent four months in a Paris insane asylum around 1925. All these details come from biographies of people who actually knew him and even followers, (like Colin Wilson and Kenneth Grant), not from some Televangelist! So is Crowley really different from teen Satanists somewhere who drink cat’s blood on Halowe’en? The difference between Crowley and Ricky Kasso is basically Crowley had a better education, was more posh, and wrote a lot of books. Had Kasso left behind dozens of volumes of books, he might be revered as an eccetrinc “demigod” by posthumous followers also. The line also gets a little blurry with Gerald Gardner, Anton LaVey, and many others as well. Gerald Gardner claimed his coven performed a human sacrifice to end WWII (recorded by Francis King) and LaVey claimed the Church of Satan had a "cannibal feast" on at least one occasion (recorded in several books including Church of Satan and Secret Life of a Satanist by Blanche Barton). I got tired of hearing Satanists and other garden variety occultists acting like that animal sacrifices, human sacrifices, sexual abuse, grave desecration, etc., never really actually occur. That gave me the idea for this list, by no means complete. 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 . 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. Plenty of things happen that never do. 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. Occult Crime Cases
"The Devil made me do it!" The Occult: It Isn't just for pale skinned portly bookish types, it's also for con-artists, sociaopaths, psychos, perverts, and homicidal killers! [LAST UPDATE 2-4-10 about 365 incidents listed! ] OLDER CRIMES ARE ON PAGE 2 and PAGE 3 Do people into the occult ever commit violent crimes, or is it all just "xtian propaganda"? CRIMES AND INCIDENTS FROM 2008-1900 (Warning: Some parts are very graphic!) How to find what you're looking for on this page: 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). *******************
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) *******************
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 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" [probably Enochian], 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," [so there big stupid heads, nyah, nyah, nyah!] a very
mature16-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 tosexually 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. Fernandez 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 (as much as Sprint charges for
a call to Vietnam). One man sued after his "free" call cost him $300.
Lady Cleo (who's real name is Youree 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, "Lady Cleo", wasn't a Jamaican born psychic, but a
Californian actress with a phony accent. Harris wrote a play called
"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
Thelma 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)FREE DOWNLOAD!
A Law Enforcement Primer by David Rice, in HTML format. It comes as a zipped file. This book has been used by Law Enforcement to educate the police about occult crimes.
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