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"The Devil made me do it!"
Do people into the
occult ever commit violent crimes, or is it all just "xtian
propaganda"?
2000 Prince William County,
VA Michael Lenz, a drifter serving 29 years in prison for burglary and
firearm possession, converted to Asatru (Odinism), a Neopagan
religion that worships Thor, and started a prison chapter called Ironwood
Kindred. During a ceremony, Lenz with the help of fellow inmate and Odinist,
Jeffrey Remington, kills fellow inmate and Odinist Brent Parker. "I called
[Parker] up to the altar..." Lenz testified at his trial. "And I pulled a knife
out of my pocket and I said, 'Are you trying to take it to the next step?' And
he said, 'Yes, I am.' And so I stabbed him."In prisons across the United States,
the number of converts has increased in recent years, according to experts, some
of whom say prisoners find encouragement for violence in the gods they worship.
"This is a warrior thing," said Heidi Beirich, deputy director of the
Intelligence Project for the Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks hate
groups and extremist organizations. "What they take out of it is violence,
physical dominance and racial purity. To them, Thor represents the ultimate
white male." Beirich said there are racist and nonracist versions of the
religion in prisons and among the general population. Remington was sentenced to
death for Parker's slaying, but he killed himself on death row in 2004. Parker
was executed in 2006. He practiced Odnism even on death row, not seeing how it
had ruined his life. (AP)
2000, Murfreesboro,
Tennessee; Alonzo South, 31, pleaded guilty to three counts of
aggravated sexual battery. He was sentenced to 24 years in prison. South
admitted that on at least three occasions over the last two years he
participated in Satanic rituals in which a nude
girl under the age of 10 was sexually touched. Court records say the child, who
was the daughter of a woman involved in the Satanic group, was raped in a home,
the nearby woods, a shed, a pickup truck and a car. See, (The Tennessean, Sept.
30, 2000).
2000, Nashville,
Tennessee; A Federal judge was asked to hold the State of Tennesee in
contempt of court in Feb. for its continued failure to provide court-ordered and
doctor-prescribed mental health services to a severely traumatized 17-year-old
victim (called "Sara C. to protect her identity) of rape as part of a Satanic
ritual,. A State advocacy group, Tennessee Justice Center, filed a class action
lawsuit against the state for failure to properly administer the appeals
procedure for the health care plan enrollees of TennCare, (Tennessee Behavioral
Health). The 17 yr. old victim was just one of the people named in the
settlement but she was left without proper care until this motion was filed. In
April, the state agreed to properly attend to her care.(AP)
2000 Grand Island,
NY Wiccan
James R. Walsh was charged with first-degree
murder for the death of his father, 42-year-old James L. Walsh. James L. Walsh's
body was found in the back of a delivery van. Timothy J. Vlock, 20, was charged
with being an accessory to the killing. Vlock told police that he watched Walsh
perform a Wiccan ritual before going into the bedroom and holding a pillow over
his sleeping father's head and killing him, according to search warrants filed
in district court. Police said they confiscated an altar made from a box, two
candles, a dragon statue, dragon cards and a homemade bong from the Walshes'
apartment. Zerlina Eischeid a Wiccan friend of Walsh naievely told the press
"Our magic is just like a Christian or Catholic praying,"
LOL! Excuse me, but Christians don't smother people in their sleep as part of
prayer! Someone get that kid a copy of Christianity For Dummies or
something. The occult
attracts mentally unstable people, deal with it.
(AP)
1999 Sawetto, South Africa A Mozambique man, Maeoriko Manyike was sentenced to life in prison for ritual murder and mutilation. Manyike mutilated a 15-yr-old boy and tried to sell his genitals which he had cut off. According to a news report: "Ritual or 'muti' murders are common in South Africa where people are prepared to pay well for portions made of human parts which they believe will bring good health or good fortune." What? You mean African Voodoo isn't a life affirming earth based religion???(Reuters)
1999, Kiev, Ukraine The supreme court sentenced Satanist Dmitry Dyomin to death for the riual killing a 15-year-old girl whose tongue he then boiled and ate. Dyomin belonged to a Satanic cult and with the help of two Satanist accomplices had severed the girl's head with a kitchen knife. Dyomin later lacquered the skull and kept it in his room. Skulls, books on black magic and upside-down crucifixes were found during a search of Dyomin's house. his accomplices, Valentin Chelyshev and Alexei Andreyev sentenced to 13 and 8 yrs. in jail, respectivley.(Reuters)
1999, Allentown, Georgia
Minnie Pearl Thompson, 44, was considered a "root worker" (i.e.
Voodoo sorceress) amongst her local community. Her money spells
appraently didn't work, becuase she had to suplement her income by selling
crack. The Ocmulgee Drug Task Force discovered she was moving over a quarter of
a pond of crack per week. Police wiretaps discovered Minnie had buried a dead
chicken in her yard "for protection". When police raided her house, they
discovered, among buring candles, roots, voodoo dolls and such things, and white
powder scattered on the floor. "She said it was Law Stay Away powder," said
Wilkinson County Sheriff Richard Chatman. Well...it didn't work. She recieved
life in prison w/o parole! Her boyfriend, Sam Rozier, 33, an apostate Christian
minister, was also arrested. Rozier had met Thomas in 1998 and moved in
with her not long afterward. He told drug agents she must have put roots on him
to make him join her drug scheme."If he'd had his way, the roots would have been
his defense," Bache said. "He really, really believed that's what happened to
him." Rozier told the agents her spell entered him through the food she fed him.
Full of remorse and shame, he told Bache: "I should have left those
biscuits alone." Indeed, he should have left it all alone and stuck with Jesus!
He got 18 monhts in the Atlanta Pen. (AP)
1999 Tulsa,
OK -James Ryan Bunnell originally told the cops he had gotten a
gun from his parents' dresser drawer to kill a skunk the family dogs were
chasing and then tripped over the threshold when he went back into the house,
accidently killing his 15 year old brother. If he hadn't been smoking pot when
the police arrived, it might have made his story more believable. The police
really doubted his story when they found a blood soaked pillow with four bullet
holes in it. Later the landlord discovered occult books & the Satanic
writings of Brunnell's in a Bible. Bunnell stated in his
writings that he was the "Son of Satan" and desired to kill his entire family as
a sacrifice to the Devil, according to testimony heard in Rogers County District
Court. Bunnell also wrote, "I want to rape young girls and feed upon their
flesh." Perhaps he was imitating Anton LaVey, who admitted to dining on the leg
of a 20 year old girl. Bunnell pleaded guilty to manslaughter and recieved 35
years in prison.(AP)
1999 Littleton,
CO Dylan Klebold and Eric
Harris kill 12 students, a teacher, and wound 23 others at a
shooting at Columbine High School, before killing themselves. Several students stated that some were killed for stating they believe in
God. Later, 50 homemade explosive devises were found at the school
and their homes. The story shocked the nation and the world. The pair were said
to be fascinated by violence, Satanism, Nazism, Nietzche, often spoke to
each other in German, and always wore black trench coats that was part of the
get up of the set of outcasts known as "The Trenchcoat Mafia". One victim,
Cassie Bernall, 16, wassaid to have been asked by her assassin if she were a
Christian, and was then shot. Feeling like outcasts at school, (even though they
were friends with each other) Their need for
recognition and power led to a fascination with Satanism, Nazism, Adolph Hitler
and death..(AP)
1999 St. Petersburg,
Russia Police recorded several acts of Satanic vandalism. In northern
St. Petersburg, a cross was twice cut to firewood at a church for disabled
persons. The first time a big bone from an unidentified animal was found on the
altar. Later one of the cemeteries of the town was desecrated. In the
Southern part of Russia, in Stavropol, Police think Satanists were the culprits
who burned a 6 foot cross at a county hospital. The cross was consecrated by
Patriarch Alexis II two years earlier and was erected by the staff of the
hospital. The hospital chaplain considers the attempt to burn the cross simply
to be "a sinful boyish trick."(Reuters)
1999 Palatka, Florida
William Tyler Black, 17, and Jeffery Burton Carter, 16, were arrested after
their teacher said they told him of a "Columbine like assault" they hatched. The
teacher told investigators that Black, an 11th-grader at the time, and
Carter, a 10th-grader at the time, said they considered themselves outcasts
because they worshiped Satan and that they had a plan for killing people at
Palatka High School. Luckily the plan was discovered and stopped in time before
it could be carried out. (AP)
1999 Ft. Lauderdale, FL
Darrel Wayne Harris, 17 was tried for attempted murder as an adult for
repeatedly stabbing a friend he asked to participate in a Satanic ritual. The
attack caught the victim, Robert Menendez, 22, and the ritual's other
participants by surprise, officials said. Authorities said the two struck up an
acquaintance through e-mail and an interest in Satanic web sites, which they
frequently visited at public libraries. They met in a wooded area along S.W.
20th Street around 4:15 a.m. to perform the ritual along with Harris'
unidentified girlfriend and at least one other person, Detective Mike Reed, a
police spokesman, said. Investigators said the two sliced their hands, mixed
their blood and drew a pentagram in the dirt while chanting. Harris then
allegedly took the bloodshed one step farther and turned the butcher knife on
Menendez, striking him as many as nine times in the neck, Urruella said. "He was
very lucky to have survived," Urruella added.(AP)
1999 New York, NY
37 y.o. old Psychic and fortuneteller Pamela Miller was arrested for making a
woman in her 40's believe she had a curse and taking $50,000 in
"donations" of her money over three years to get rid of it. It was the 13th
arrest under Operation Crystal Ball, a seven-month-old effort by the New York
City Police Department's Special Frauds Squad to address the problem of illegal
fortunetelling.(AP)
1999 Madrid, Spain In
March a Belgian woman died from injuries suffered during a Satanic
ritual in southeastern Spain. Police in the town of Villajoyosa arrested
four suspects in connection with the death, including the woman's husband. State
radio news said the woman, a mother of two in her 30s, had gone into a coma and
later died in hospital. Her husband was reported to be a Spaniard but there was
no information on the nationalities of the other suspects. The radio and daily
newspaper El Mundo cited police sources as saying the woman and those taken into
custody were members of a Satanic cult. "They were practising a particular
ritual of their group which produced serious injuries, presumably caused by a
knife, and burns on many parts of her body," El Mundo quoted the police sources
as saying. (Reuters/March 22, 1999)
1999 Warsaw, Poland In
March, a 19-year-old woman and a 17-year-old boy were killed during a ritual
Satanic mass in southern Poland, police said Thursday after finding their cut up
and burned bodies. Another teenage cult member who survived was taken to
hospital with multiple knife wounds. Police have arrested a 19-year-old cult
member suspected of having carried out the killings. The two victims were
members of a sect which staged the black mass in a disused bunker on the
outskirts of the town of Ruda Slaska, but did not know they were to die, a
spokesman said. Police have arrested a 19-year-old cult member suspected of
having carried out the killings. (Agence France-Presse/March 4,
1999)
1998 BRADENTON, Fla. Paula Green-Albritton
along with her son Jimmy Lee Clarke, owners of Green's Funeral Home in
Bradenton,Florida, were arrested after police discovered she stuffed voodoo
dolls into a corpse in a death curse against her competitors in the burial
business and other enemies. Albriton invoked the voodoo deity Damballah in the
hope that people whose names she had written on notes pinned to the dolls would
die. She allegedly severed the left hand of the corpse of the corpse and placed
12 dolls inside the chest cavity. ``These dolls were placed inside a body that
was to be buried and will decompose with time,'' voodoo expert Rafael Martinez
said in his report, which police gave to Reuters. Richard Woodie of the Westside
Funeral Home was one of least two people whose names were attached to the dolls
who were connected to the funeral home business. ``Be gone and may you rot in
the grave Richard Woodie -- Damballah curse him as I curse him, and spoil him as
a spoil him -- by the fire at night,'' one note said. Green-Albritton was
arrested last month a. She pleaded not guilty Friday to tampering with a corpse.
No date was set for trial. Not only did the curse not work, but
Albriton faced charges that carry a maximum sentence of 15 years in jail
or a $10,000 fine.(Reuters)
1998 Santa Monica,
California Satanists Glen Mason, 23 Elizabeth Ann Mangham, 17, and
Dennis Ronald Scott, 24, murdered 13 y.o. Shevawn Geoghegan in a Satanic
Ritual. Detectives found dead animals and Satanic symbols near the scene
of the crime. Geoghegan's body was found on 2-26-98, wrapped in a
blanket in the basement of a vacant mental hospital that police said was
frequented by teens who were into their own brand of satanic worship. Geoghegan
was a friend of the three suspects and voluntarily went to the hospital on the
night of her slaying. She had been strangled with a belt. The case was profiled
on "America's Most Wanted" which lead to the capture of the fugitive Scott in
Alabama in 1999. Birmingham police found Scott in a section of town
known as Five Points South, a popular spot with youth who are into alternative
culture. Police said Scott had been hard to capture because he lived under
numerous aliases, including the name of a dead friend, Jimmy Ronald Turner.
Mason and Scott were convicted of murder, and Mangham pleaded no
contest to manslaughter. (AP)
1998 Donskoi,
Russia In Feb., Police in Donskoi arrested members of a satanic
cult whose ages range from under 20 to 80. The cult members stood trial on
charges of two ritual murders, but the regional court returned the case for
re-investigation. The prosecutor's office appealed the court decision to the
Russian Supreme Court which ruled that the regional court gave the evidence
inadequate scrutiny. After re-investigation, in 1999 A court of the city of
Donskoi sentenced the cult's memebrs to eight to nine years in prison. The
cult's leader Yelena Kuzina, 80, was sentenced to five years in prison and her
oldest son, second in command in the cult, to ten years. Most of cult members
are teens. All of the satanists were convicted on charges of murders with
aggravating circumstances. Defense lawyers of the satanists said they
would protest the sentences. (ITAR/TASS/February 12, 1999)
1998, South Africa Naledzani Mabuda and his wife Helen Madidida confessed to killing their 23-month-old son. The father, a traditional healer and spiritual medium (called a "sangoma", or witch-doctor), confessed to the ritual Voodoo killing of his son because "his ancestors had threatened to destroy him if he did not". Police found the boy's head, legs, hands and genitals buried under various parts of the floor in the couple's house. Later searches revealed the poor toddler's intestines, liver and other internal organs from a series of ritual "graves" on the nearby mountainside. The couple were refused bail after another local traditional leader banned them from the village. He testified that the couple had committed a crime of the "greatest evil" and that the townspeople were terrified. The case was remanded to trial for May 4 when a series of villagers were asked to testify about ritual human sacrifices as part of traditional African beliefs. Africa still needs Christian missionaries!(Reuters)
1998 South Africa Some good news. In January, witch-doctors, or sangomas, claimed that ritual murders and killings related to the medicinal quest for body parts had decreased by more than 90 percent. A news article reported that police estimate that several hundred people, many of them children, are killed in South Africa each year for their body parts. Female genitals, breasts and placentas are used for infertility and good luck, while hands burned to ashes and mixed into a paste are seen as a cure for strokes, and hearts for heart disease. Blood is given to impart vitality and brains for political power and business success.(Note the Good Witch's Bible mentions similar rubbish) (Reuters)
1998 Oregon Michael James Hayward and three Satanist friends were members of a "Death-Metal" band, who loved violence andlistened to their own Death-Metal music which included lyrics to "The Pick-Axe Murders," An Experiment in Homicide," "Hammer smashed face," Meat Hook Sodomy," "Gutted," and "Living Dissection". They planned their crime and went to a Dari Mart store, killed a female clerk and brutally beat another one. The evidence of "Death-metal" music and Satanism was admitted into court testimony and was upheld because it partially explain the motive for the crime and the motive for the degree of brutality used. (AP)
1997 Equatorial Guinea; An unnamed individual was condemned to death after removing the eyes, tongue, ears and genitals of his 10-year-old female victim as part of a Pagan human sacrifice. Malabo radio reported that 17 ritual murders were committed in Equatorial Guinea in August and September of 1997, according to official figures. Another news report cites a Spanish journalist and ethnographer, Jose Manuel Novoa, claims that anthropophagy (eating human flesh) is widespread in the country. He stated, "Eating human flesh was a tradition of warriors pertaining to the ethnic group of the Fang, which lives in Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria, Gabon and Cameroon ...as they conquered new territories, Fang warriors ate parts of their victims to absorb desirable qualities such as youth and strength... human organs are eaten by members of secret brotherhoods which practice sorcery in forests at night. New members are initiated in ceremonies which invoke spirits...bodies are obtained through murder and robbing them from cemeteries ...the secret groups are known as 'evu societies', because many Guineans believe the human body to contain an organ known as the 'evu.'"... "The human brain is known to be highly toxic, for which reason the cannibals seek to immunize themselves by ingesting potent vegetal poisons in small doses... nevertheless, the cannibalism led to a disease known as kuru." (Reuters)
1997, India In Nov., Dharam Vir chopped off his son's head and offered it to the Hindu goddess of destruction, Kali, in a belief that a human sacrifice would earn him divine favors. He ordered his son to lie on the ground and then beheaded him. The police said he murdered his son because he was driven by his own religious beliefs. (Reuters)
1997 Nashville, TN In July Satanist Christa Gail Pike killed another female, 19 y.o.Colleen A. Slemmer, that she felt a rivalry with, and carved a pentagram into her chest. The court found that this murder involved torture, and medical experts thought the injuries were inflicted when the victim was still alive. A group of "others" were named who helped her but Pike didn't give information about them. The pentagram she was wearing was admitted as evidence. "A witness stated that as the Defendant described hitting Slemmer in the head with a piece of asphalt and carving a pentagram in her chest, she danced around in a circle, smiling and singing." She was convicted and recieved the death penalty. Another member of the coven surfaced, Tadaryl D. Shipp,21, and was convicted for his part in the torture slaying in 1999. Judge M.B. Leibowitz sentenced him to 25 years, and said said Shipp treated the victim with "gross cruelty while at least partly satisfying an interest in Satanism". (AP)
1997 Pearl, MS Luke
Woodham kills his mother then proceeds to kill 3 students and wound 7 others
at Pearl High School. As he leaves the building to kill students at a
Junior High, the vice principal gets his .45 from his car and holds it to
Woodham's head until the police arrive. Woodham said Grant Boyette, an
older friend, confided that he worshipped Satan and asked Woodham to join his
group, (called "The Kroth") saying Woodham had "the potential to do something
great." Boyette promised that he could either get his
ex-girlfriend back or get even through Satanism. Woodham said,"You can send demons to go and do things. I've seen
them," he said. "I know what I was dealing with. I felt like I had complete
control, complete power over things. I know it's real in spite of what people
thinkWoodham said he got the idea for the shooting after he became involved in
Satanism, which he said bestowed "power over many things.", apparently like
spending the rest of your life in prison. Investigators discovered Boyette --
whom fellow Satanist called "father" -- plotted to take over the school and kill
students and parents. Boyette lived a double life, and even attended a
Baptist Church, although his friends knew he was a Satanist. Boyette was later
charged and convicted with being the mastermind in Luke's high school shooting
spree.When will you gus learn, the occult only brings misery and ruin?
(CNN)
1997 Chicago IL Dr.
Michael Swango, the illusive "Doctor of Death" is finally captured. Swango
murdered at least 30 patients and colleagues during his career. Swango was first
suspected of murdering patients at an Ohio hospital he worked at as far
back as 1983. Swango tried to poison his co-workers with a pitcher of iced
tea, which got him arrested. Police searched his home and found...you guessed
it...tons of occult and witchcraft literature
and paraphenalia, in addition to poisons and how-to-kill survivalist books.
Convicted of aggravated battery from poisoning his coworkers, he serves 5 years,
is released, re-establishes himself as an MD with forged papers and gets a job
at a WV hospital. In 1992 "Dr. Satan" landed a job at the Veterans
Affairs Medical Center, in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Swango got cocky enough to
apply to the AMA who ran a background check and discovered who he really
was. The AMA told the boobs at the VA, who then simply
discharged Swango to avoid a scandal, and Dr. Death is free to
murder yet again. Your tax dollars at work, folks. The AMA re-discovered Swango
posing as a Psychiatrist Northport Veterans Administration Medical Center , and
once again his patients were dying for no reason (perhaps other than sacrifices
to Satan, that is). Eventually, word got out about Swango, and he fled overseas.
In November 1994 he surfaced in Zimbabwe and got a job at Mnene Hospital...and
his patients began dying mysteriously. A year later the poisonings were
traced to him, and he was arrested in Zimbabwe... and escaped before his
trial, and hid out in Africa and Europe. In March 1997, he applied
for a job at the Royal Hospital in Dharan, Saudi Arabia, using false
credentials. In June 1997 on a flight that had a
layover in Chicago, he was arrested by Federal authorities.
Three years later, on July 11, 2000, Michael J. Swango plead guilty to
killing three of his patients, and fraud charges & sentenced to life
imprisonment without the possibility of parole. Now he'll have plenty of time to
read all his occult books. How much do you want to bet he gets made a
trustee in the prison infermary?(Reuters)
1997 Paducah, Kentucky –
Michael Carneal, 14, was known to his classmates as a Satanist and frequently
dressed in all black. On 12-01-97 he opened fire on a small prayer
group of Christians. Three girls died as martyrs for Christ and five other
students were wounded for Christ. Another student tackled him, and it was
soon revealed that Carneal had a pistol, two rifles, and two shotguns, along
with 700 rounds of ammunition, all of it stolen. He’d threatened earlier
to “shoot up” the school, but no one had taken him seriously. Could it be
because Satanists are always saying how they don't kill people and so no one
believed him?(AP)
1997 Stolkholme, Sweden
An Rosicrucian occult order called the "Order of The Solar Temple", that based
itself on the teachings of Aleister Crowley and the Golden Dawn killed
themselves in a mass suicide claiming 48 members. Farewell letters left by the
believers stated that they believed they were leaving to escape the "hypocrisies
and oppression of this world." and that they were going to the star Sirus. Its
top 33 members were known as the Elder Brothers of the Rosy Cross (an
alternative name for the Rosicrucians), and were headquartered in Zürich,
Switzerland. Swiss police were on a heightened state of suicide watch in
anticipation to the summer solstice on June 21. Gerard Ramseyer, the top justice
official in Geneva, said police was maintaining a "discreet surveillance" of 10
people believed to be known members of the suicidal Solar Temple Sect. Two of
the 10 under surveillance are believed to be children. All the
suicide/murders and attempts occurred around the dates of the equinoxes and
solstices which are occult holidays to Wiccans, Neopagans, and Tehelmites. Police think there are at least 100
people in Switzerland who were formerly close to or had been members of the
suicidal cult. It is believed that The Solar Temple group continues to exist,
with thirty surviving members in Quebec at the St-Anne-de-la-Pérade center, with
from 140 to 500 members remaining worldwide. (NOTE: A Rosicrucian
occult is hardly Christian, but this group is misidentified as a
"Christian" group by the Ontario Consultants for Religous Tolerance. The group
is run by two Neopagans and an Athiest, and seem to have tolerance for anything
but Christians. ) (The Florida Times Union, July 22, 1997)
1997 Keokuk, Iowa
14-year-old Mary Danielle Kemper, was arrested and charged with assisting
attempted suicide after police discovered she supplied a boy with ammunition
which he later used to shoot himself in the chest on 9-28-1997. Fortunately, the
boy survived and got medical treatment. Police Chief George Morgan said the
teens interviewed in connection with the boy's suicide attempt admitted
they were involved in occult activity, and had apparently formed their own
Satanic coven. (Iowa Courier10-12-1997).
1997 Simferopol,Crimea In
Oct. a group of youngsters aged 16-17 suspected of performing satanic rites was
detained by the police of Simferopol. Local law enforcement bodies suspected in
spring that a ritual murder had been committed when a dismembered body of a dead
young woman was found in the city cemetery followed by several incidents of
vandalizing graves at city cemeteries were registered. One of the participants
in these acts was arrested in Sept. He confessed to having practiced Satanism
for several years. In 1997, he vandalized two graves and removed sculls and
bones to perform "magic rites". He also took away metallic plates from tombs to
make knives for a ritual. Crimean police reported that in the attic where the
man practiced satanic worship they found a black crucifix turned upside down,
sculls of different animals, earth taken from a graveyard and a diary where the
man thoroughly described his satanic practices. The diary helped trace other
cult members.(Reuters)
1997 Tyumen, Serbia In
March, Russian police announced that they were searching for the ringleaders of
a Satanic cult in western Siberia. The cult is believed to be from the city of
Tyumen, 1,400 miles east of Moscow, where five young people have been found
hanged to death in what, at first, authorities though were suicides. Later, the
discovery of cabalistic jottings in the belongins of the dead youths revealed
their involvement in a seven-stage initiation ceremony that culminated in ritual
suffocation. The first death occurred in April,1996. Denis Abramov, 19, was
found hanged in his room at home in the village of Roshchino. In May Dima
Bronnikov, 17, and in July, Stas Buslov were found hanged from a tree. Three
days later his friend Sergei Sidorov, 18, hanged himself at home. So did Tanya
Stankeyeva, 22, in October. All the victims were friends and used to meet in a
basement, which was equipped with a kind of Satanic altar and had walls painted
with diabolical signs and cryptic symbols. The mother of Sergei Sidorov said her
son admitted to her shortly before his death that he was involved in a cult.
"Mama, I'm a Satanist. I know it is bad, but I cannot escape. They are terribly
strong." Mr. Buslov, the father of one of the victims, discovered that 36 young
people between the ages of 12 and 22 have hanged themselves in Tyumen province
in the past year. While there is no known connection to any cult, the high
number of deaths have shaken the whole of western Siberia. A spokesman for the
provincial prosecutor's office said: "We may be dealing with a serial killing,
though it is not clear if this is murder or incitement to suicide." The leader
of the cult is said to be a man in his 40s, who, helped by two younger acolytes,
exerted enormous influence on naive provincial children. But, thanks to the
"Russianness" of the police, there seems little chance of catching those
responsible.(Reuters)
1996 Eustis, Florida A
group of teens formed a cult involved in vampirisim, fantasy role playing, and
the occult known as "The Vampire Clan" (inspired by The Lost Boys) were
arrested for the brutal murder one of the member's parents. and
indicted by a grand jury. Rod Ferrell, Scott Anderson and Charity Keesee,
all 16, and Dana Cooper, 19, in the slayings. It was Ferrell who police think
broke into the animal shelter, stomping one dog to death and pulling the legs
off another in Murray, KY. Neighbors at the public housing complex where he
lived say they never noticed anything unusual about him or his mother, Sondra
Gibson. "Cool Mom" Gibson is herself charged with solicitation to commit
rape. Police say she wrote to a 14-year-old, inviting sex and hinting she was
involved in vampire-type activity. "I longed to be near you ... to become a
Vampire, a part of the family immortal and truly yours forever," the letter
reads. "You will then come for me and cross me over and I will be your bride for
eternity and you my sire." Small wonder why the kids turned out like they did.
Accused with Ferrell and Ms. Wendorf of killing the Wendorfs are Dana Cooper,
19, of Murray, and Scott Anderson, 16, of Mayfield. Charity Keesee, 16, of
Murray was charged with being an accessory to murder. Extradition proceedings in
Baton Rouge are to begin Monday. Calloway County prosecutor David Harrington
described Ms. Cooper as a "follower, someone who wanted to be liked.
(AP)
1996, Milan, Italy
Marco Dimitri, the young leader of the Italian Satanist group, the Luciferian
Children of Satan (Bambini di Satana Luciferiani), which is described as "a
neo-pagan cultural association", was arrested twice in the same year on
charges of rape. Dimitri was accused of raping a two-year old boy and a teenage
girl in Satanic rituals, a case which sparked intense media attention. After 14
months of prison, he was released and exonerated of all charges, however. Marco
Dimitri and his followers, always the subtle types, dress all
in black, wear a plethora of Satanic symbols, and have appeared as spokespersons
for Satan in popular Italian TV talk shows. (Reuters)
1996 Larksville,
Pennsylvania Shaun Marc Zarcufsky (16) and Stanley J. Szcuzupski (16)
were found dead in Larksville, Pennsylvania's West Side Landfill. Both had died
from self-inflicted gunshot wounds to the head resulting from a "Satanic worship
pact." The teens' interest in Satanism was only 3 to 4 weeks old before the
double suicide. In that short time, it was evident to parents, teachers and
friends that their personalities changed dramatically. A search of Zarcufsky's
bedroom at home uncovered "scores" of occult-related literature on Black Magic
(AP)
1996 Boston, MA The State
Supreme court ruled in favor of adopting out the children of a member of the
Ordro Templi Orientis who had lost custody of them through court order. The
court cited Social Services case that found neglect, sexual molestation and
statements of the children as the reason. The children described being made to
participate in child porn and being molested by several different men. While
describing the past history of the father, the court said: "In 1983, the father
joined a religious organization called Orlo Templi Orientis and studied the
so-called Satanic Bible. In January, 1984, he was convicted of grave robbing,
and sentenced to two months in jail. After release, he returned to his transient
life-style, alternating between Los Angeles and San Francisco." Every man
and woman is a star? Not in this case. (AP)
1996 Hannibal, Missouri A self-described Satanic family had been in and out of social services for many years. Parental Rights were terminated as to three of the children. There was constant and severe domestic violence; the father continually abused the mother, including using a cattle prod to electrically shock her, shot her with a gun, cut her with a razor blade and violated her with a baseball bat. Physical evidence was discovered, and indeed she had a stab wound in her side and she was bleeding internally. Both parents had been arrested for the rape of a teenager, but the witness wouldn't testify so the charges were dropped. Both parents had tried to commit suicide and were involved in drug usage. The mother admitted to sacrificing animals in front of her children and giving them drugs to forget the ceremonies. The children also stated that this occurred. [In Interest of P.J.M, 926 S.W.2d 223, Missouri Court of Appeals, Termination of Parental Rights Affirmed.]
1996 Bellaire, Ohio In Oct., Satanist Nathan Brooks found guilty of the mutilation slaying of his parents and sentenced to two consecutive life terms. The 18 yr. old perpetrator decapitated his father and hacked to death his mother. Brooks told the officers he used the head in a Black mass ritual that he believed would "increase his Satanic powers". It apparently didn't work unless his idea of success was spending the rest of his life in an 8 by 10 cell until he dies. He said he had also planned to kill a younger brother, but the youngster was visiting a friend. (AP)
1995 Indianapolis, Indiana Jimmie Lee Penick and 3 other practitioners of Satanism sacrificed, William Ault, a prospective member of their "Satanic Church." The cult chose Ault because they feared he knew about a prior murder. During what he thought was going to be his initation, Ault was mutilated, and an inverted cross was carved into his chest. Penick dismembered the victims head and hands and Penick admitted he removed the head to give the skull to a friend. (AP)
1995 Houston, Texas Satanist Steven Brian Alvarado killed two people, a mother and son, during a drug deal and sentenced to death. A year or so prior to the murder Alvarado had been in the hospital. The psychologist stated he was considered "violent and dangerous and that he had a full-blown antisocial personality disorder."... he had "no concern for the rights of others, and that he admitted selling illegal weapons, abusing and selling illegal drugs, sexually assaulting a woman, mutilating human infants in Satanic rituals, and committing numerous other crimes. He was discharged after twelve days in the hospital because he was felt to be a danger to the other patients and that he was not suffering from a mental illness that was treatable, and, therefore under the mental health code had to be discharged." So rather than being a threat to crazy people, he was turned loose on society. (AP)
1995 Las Vegas, NV
Satanist Edward Bennett was sentenced to death for killing a girl. Writings were
seized showing that the murder was "ritualistic and Satanic." Some of these
statements included: "There's a problem in this country and has a lot to do with
being white. There's too many people with ugly skin."... "I need to kill
somebody or tear someone apart. I got to satisfy my need, cure this thirst for
blood. So as I make the sacrifice by doing it just for you and kill this child,
for it is a first born, I'm giving you my soul, Satan. Where is my reward?" Well
gee, he got you death row, isn't that enough? (AP)
1995 Greensboro, NC Satanist Michael Allen Parker recieved 8 life sentences for raping his own children as part of a Satanic sex rituals that sometimes involved drinking small amounts of the children's blood. The children testified that Parker raped and sodomized them in the family's trailer near Saluda and in nearby woods, while other people wearing black stood around chanting with lit candles. (AP)
June 1995, Athens, Greece; Satanic Cult leader Asimakis Katsoulas and Manos Dimitrokallis were found guilty of kidnapping, raping and murdering a 30 year old woman and a 15 year old girl during occult ceremonies. They were sentenced to life imprisonment. Dimitra Maryetti was found guilty of complicity and sentenced to 23 years.Katsoulas and his "high priestess" confessed to leading a 20 member satanic cult, which had conducted animal and human sacrifices for three years. The first victim was killed at her initiation ceremony. Katsoulas claimed he was the vehicle for "ancient demons." Another witness was abducted when the murderers told her they were police officers who wanted to question her.(Reuters)
1995 United Kingdom
20-year-old David McCallum stabbed a 15-year-old boy 11 times after they and two
others used a Ouija board to "talk to Satan". McCallum, who professed to be a
Satanist, believed that he was speaking to Satan himself at the time, "If you
are Satan, what is it you want me to do?" he asked. Apparently the answer was to
comitt homocide. McCallum was placed in an institution for the criminally
insane. Another British occultist, Aleister Crowley also used a Ouija board to
talk to "preternatural beings" too...and was probably just as psychotic. (BBC
News)
1995 Tsitsikamma, South
Africa Satanists Frans du Toit, and Theuns Kruger, known as
"the ripper rapists" are arrested and charged with multiple crimes. A
psychiatrist who evaluated Kruger at the Elizabeth Donkin Hospital in Port
Elizabeth testified that Kruger suffered from a very low self image (as do
practically anyone into the occult) and seemed to be easily influenced. Du Toit
said he had been introduced to Satanism after an affair with a "Satanic witch".
He in turn introduced Krueger to Satanism and demons. Du Toit claimed that
during a ritual in 1985, conducted by the witch he'd met in Adelaide, a demon
had taken possession of him. This demon, which du Toit called Incubus,
supposedly spoke to him "inside his head", and would sometimes give him orders
to have "violent sex", according to his testimony in Die Burger of June 20,
1995. The demon, according to du Toit, made him "attractive to women"; despite
this, however, his victim was so repulsed by him that she pushed her
hands against the car's ceiling so as not to touch him. Judge Jansen found Frans
du Toit and Theuns Kruger guilty on all charges - abduction, indecent
assault and rape in relation to the attack on a pregnant woman, and abduction,
indecent assault, rape, attempted murder and robbery with aggravating
circumstances. (Reuters)
1995 Bellaire, Ohio In
September Nathan Brooks killed his mother with an ax and decapitated his father
with a hacksaw after shooting him to death. Nate chopped off his father's head
in the family home in and planned to use it in a Satanic ritual. When arrested,
he confessed to the sacrifices. Investigators also found books about satanism
and the occult and a biography Jeffrey Dahmer. He also had an altar in an old
abandoned house that mysteriously burnt down after he was arrested. There he had
a list of 16 people he was going to kill. He planned evicerating them, then
burning there skin off. Days before the murders he allegedly told a friend,
"Just wait until I'm famous." In court he pleaded innocent by reason of
insanity. He will probably spend the rest of his life locked up,
regardless.(AP)
1994 Paris, France On
Nov. 15,French Police arrest 22 y.o. Pazuzu worshiper Nicolas Claux on
suspicion of the murder of Thierry Bissonnier, 34. Upon investigation, the
Brigade Criminelle discovered the inside Claux's apartment was littered with
human bones, blood bags (used for drinking) in his refrigerator as well as
slasher films, S and M porn, and occult books. Claux admitted to cannibalism and
grave robbing, as well as a life long facination with the
occult. Claux told police he was emotionally
withdrawn as a child, having no friends. "This is the time when I also developed
a fascination for death and the occult.", said Claux," I would spend hours
reading books on vampires and werewolves. A photo of the statue of the Sumerian
demon Pazuzu especially fascinated me. I found it in a book my parents had
bought in England. For me, it symbolized something extremely ancient and
powerful -- something that I respected. A few years later, I saw the same statue
used in the movie The Exorcist, and my interest in the occult grew stronger." As
he grew older, Claux also became obsessed with death, and later graveyards. This
lead to descrating graves, mutilating corpses, necrophillia, cannibalism, and
his graduation into a homosexual killer. After serving just seven years and four
months of a 12-year sentence, Nicolas Claux was released from prison on March
22, 2002. (Reuters)
1994 West Memphis,
Arkansas, - Jessie Misskelly, Jr. is convicted and sentenced to life
plus forty years in prison for the mutilation-murders of three eight-year old
boys at West Memphis, Arkansas, the previous year. A month later, accomplices
Damien Echols and Charles Baldwin are likewise convicted, with Echols sentenced
to death and Baldwin sentenced to life without parole. Echols is an admitted
practitioner of black magic, and prosecutors describe the triple murder as a
ritual slaying.(USA Today, March 21, 1994) (AP)
1994 Birmingham, Alabama
- Self-described Satanist Carey Grayson, 19, and three younger
defendants are charged with the murder of a female hitchhiker they picked up in
Birmingham, Alabama. Police say the victim was mutilated "in an apparent ritual
that involved cannabilism". They are currently waiting on death row.
(USA Today, April 28, 1994) (AP)
1993 Oslo, Norway Odinist Varg Vikernes a.k.a, "Count Grishnáckh" was arrested for the burning of several Norwegian churches described as being "of great cultural importance". Vikernes was said to be a deeply anti-Christian & anti-Semite Black Metal musician who believes in Old Norse gods like Odin and Thor, and a Neo-Nazi looking back to a (non-existant) "golden age" in the Viking Era, hoping to restore it in the future. Police decided they didn't have enough evidence to go to trial, and he was released. Only days later he was arrested again, this time for one of the most brutal murders ever committed in Norway. The court did not buy his story that he had to stab the poor guy scores of times in self-defense, and he was convicted to twenty-one years in prison. His motive for committing the murder remains unclear; some think that he simply loved to see his face in the papers. He laughed when the judge sentenced him to 21 years. Even though non-racist Odinists say the Neo-Nazi odinists are rare...I kinda doubt it.. (Reuters)
1993 Moscow,
Russia Three Russian monks, Bro. Ferafont, Bro. Trofim,
and Bro. Vasilij, are martyrs for Christ after they were stabbed to
death by a Satanist In Optina Pustina, one of the most famous monasteries in
Russia, during Easter time. "666" had been carved into each of the victims.
After the arrest the Satanist declared: "There is a war going on between God and
Satan; the monks are the soldiers of God and especially hostile towards Satan.
Therefore I killed them." The Russian Ministry of the Interior claims there are
about 30 organized Satanic groups in Moscow with estimated 2,000
members.(Reuters)
1993 Tampa, FL Assistant
State's Attorney Stuart Baggish shuts down production of a Satanic “comic book”
called Boiled Angel, published by Tampa underground comic artist and
Satanist, Michael Diana. Diana and his girlfriend “Suzie Morbid” became
local minor celebrities in the Tampa alternative scene that radiated from Ybor
City. Diana was subsequently charged with several counts of obscenity and fought
a long legal battle with the aid of the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, which was
eventually lost. The magazine is just a series of Xeroxed papers, stapled
together which even Diana describes as "Satanic filth". The artwork is rather
crude, and talent wise, looks like it was drawn by that kid you knew in Junoir
High who always drew pictures of trucks. The artwork is a disturbing collection
of cartoons, depicting, rape, incest, necrophillia, and usually just plain
blasphemous stuff. One picture depicting a woman dressed in S and M attire
climbs on to a nude, crucified, Jesus, and the caption reads “It’s OK., we’re
married”. Another picture shows a little girl with the caption “F*** her, and
kill her!” There also various newspaper clippings about Satanic slayings,
serial killings, pictures of surgical instruments, as well as numerous pictures
of goat’s heads, upside down crosses, and prayers to Satan. The magazine bears a
striking resemblance to another Xeroxed collection of Satanic filth called
Onslaught! That was put out by the neo-Nazi Luciferian Light Group, also
based in Tampa. Diana had a few other brushes with the law, including a incident
involving trying to pass a counterfeit $20 at a local nightclub a few years
later (AP)
1993 Brownsville, TX Dora
Cisneros, a Brownsville mother, was convicted in federal court for the 1993
murder-for-hire of her daughter's ex-boyfriend, Joey Fischer. She went through a
folk healer to hire the men who killed Fischer for breaking her daughter's
heart. According to testimony, the folk healer had done a tarot card
reading and determined that Cisneros' daughter
would not end up with Fischer, spurring Cisneros to have him killed.
(AP)
1992 Salida, California-
In July two Satanists are sentenced to die for the 1990 decapitation murders of
four cult defectors in Salida, California. Two more defendants are convicted and
sentenced to life in January 1993. [Modesto Bee, 1990-93]
1992 Palmyra NY
Post-Standard Wed. August 12th 1992 Satanist Chad Campbell (who had spent 18
months in a juvenille detention center), 16, recieved 18 years to life for the
murder of a todler and her 15 y.o. babysitter Cynthia Lewis.(8-1-90 on Lughmas,
a Neopagan holiday). Campbell's mother claimed
that her son had been bullied into going along with the murders by another
Satanist, Michael Huthcinson, 18. Hutchinson died a few months after the murder
by an aparrent drug overdose. Campbell was 14 at the time of the murders. The
mother of the toddler latered sued Cambell's mother for "failing to restrain her
child." (Palmyra NY Post-Standard Wed. August 12th 1992)
1992 Milton-Freewater,
Oregon Cemetery workers discovered a grave robbery of a human skull.
Police suspect the crime is occult related. The
skull belonged to a Robert Z. William, who was buried in 1929 in the
Bowlus Cemetery. To date the culprits have not been caught. (AP)
1992 Atlanta,
Georgia A self-described high priest of a Satanic cult named Mike
Earnest was convicted of murder. Ernest performed a Satanic ritual over the
female victim. Evidence of Satan worship and evidence of the cult's
involvement in church vandalisms was admissible as evidence as to motive for the
crime. (AP)
1992, Eastland County, Texas In Sept., Phil Stanley Rogers pleaded guilty to "Indecency with a child, younger than 17 years, committed during the course of a ritual." The occult sex rituals began after the purchase of a Ouija board by Rogers. Items police took as evidence included books covering Satanism and the occult, pentagram symbols, candles, daggers and wands. He recieved 99 years. (AP)
1992 Minneapolis, MN In April, a Satanist woman had her parental rights terminated by a court. By the mother's own admission, her past included "years of sexual and physical abuse, parental neglect, early and long-standing addiction to numerous drugs, serious mental health problems, and involvement in a Satanic cult." The mother also tried to commit suicide, and was diagnosed with borderline personality disorder.Her child was taken into custody after two hospitalizations due to overdosing. The mother was involved in four incidents, three involving criminal convictions, which caused harm to children. (AP)
March 1992, Orlando,
Florida In Jan., Margie Wright pleaded no contest to three charges of
attempted sexual battery and two charges of attempted lewd acts and was
sentenced to 5 1/2 years in prison. Jim Wright was convicted of raping and
fondling five children.couple were charged with molesting children in the
context of satanic rituals. The parents of three of the victims moved residences
and the prosecutor expressed concern because the children had been threatened by
the cult not to testify. The children reported that they saw Wright sacrifice a
stray dog, slit its throat and stomach and remove some entrails. Sheriff's
investigators found the dog's skeleton near the Wright's trailer. The Wright's
molested children during their "Magic Show." The victims said he pulled a gun
out of a hat and made their underwear disappear. They stated that Jim Wright put
a "bad curse" on them and said "devil
words." The children described Satanic symbols, chalices filled with blood and a
box containing a corpse. They had been told not to tell or their parents would
be killed. Maggie Wright testified against her husband while she pleaded no
contest [which means "I'm guilty but I don't want to say it"] to reduced
charges. (AP)
1992 Parksburg,
Washington 18 y.o. Chad Franciscus is convicted for the ritual
saacrifice of 16 y.o. Michael Divine of Parksburg. Police found a Satanic altar
and books on witchcraft in Fransicus' home. Franscicus told a cellmate he had
killed his vitim to "feel the power of his life go into his hands". (9-16-1992
The Intelligencer-The Record)
1991 New York, NY Matias
Frias, 21, is arrested for stealing 5 skulls from a cemetery and selling them
for use in Palo Mayombe rituals.
(AP)
1991 Des Moines IA A 100
year old mausoleum was broken into, and a skull stolen. The skull was later
recovered at an abandoned hotel covered with occult symbols and frequented by a
Satanic cult known as “The Lost Boys” , name taken after the vampire film (for
some reason, several Satanic cults take their name from that film. It was an
80's "Corey & Corey" film for cryin' out loud!) (AP)
1991 Phillidelphia,
PA Satanist Jason L. Enders and his friends were convicted of
false imprisonment and assault stemming from their participation in a Satanic
cult ritual. The victim stated he wanted nothing to do with them but he was
forcibly taken to an abandoned barn and tied to stakes in the ground over a
pentagram drawn in the dirt. A Satanic
ritual was performed over him. He had a leather
collar with nails placed around his neck. One of the defendants punctured his
neck by pressing on the nails and placed his fingers in the victim's blood and
then to his lips. He was released after being warned he'd be killed if he told
anyone. Human skulls and occult books were taken from their homes as
evidence.(AP)
1991, Bute, Montana In April, Leon Lloyd Whitcher, A 30 yr. old self-described "high priest" of a satanic cult was convicted of raping a 14 yr. old girl. Prior to the assault, he asked her a series of questions about initiation into his satanic cult, whether she wanted "power," and if she'd "obey a high priest." He told her to change into a black robe, lie down, and stare at a pentagram painted on the ceiling before he assaulted her.(Billings Gazette)
1991 Ft Wayne, IN Two
enterprising young Satanists got busted for their money making scheme that had
zero overhead: a service that delivers stolen corpses for use in occult rituals.
An undercover cop posing as a Satanist offered them $400 for a dead body. Adam
Barnaba and a 17 y.o. friend were arrested after they tried to steal a corpse
from a mortuary. The pair advertised their services by word of mouth...maybe the
Yellow Pages would have been better. (AP)
1990 Ogden, Utah Alan B.
Hadfield was convicted of sodomy and sexual abuse after his own children
testified against him. Prosecution said that at "least fifteen adults and
fifteen children were identified as participants in various unusual sexual
activities,including instances of group abuse of children by adults. The
activities described by the children involved Satanic ritual, costumes and
masks, photography equipment, men dressing in women's clothing, and frequent
episodes of playing with and consuming human excrement. Alan Hadfield was
released on probation in 1998. (Salt Lake City
Messenger)
1990 Waterbury,
CT Two 16 y.o. Satanists were arrested for stealing urns with
human remains from a mausoleum. The pair admitted the remains were for use in
Satanic rituals. A third suspect was sought by police.(AP)
1990 Bradenton FL
Satanist Willie J. Hills, 28, was sentenced to an 80-year prison term in a plea
bargain over attacks on elderly women that included sexual battery with force,
attempted felony murder, armed burglary and two counts of aggravated battery,
amony other charges. Hills was accused of beating two women in their 80s until
they were unconscious, raping and beating a third elderly woman and fondling and
tying up another. Hills flashed a victory sign after he pleaded no contest to
the charges. Hills told police and psychologists that he believes in Satan and
that he committed the attacks "to gain power." Hills suffers from possible
brain damage and hallucinations, & has a history of violent crime (which is
the kind of person attracted to Satanism). (Tampa
Tribune)
1990 Brentwood, CA
Michael Pacewitz had tried joining a local Pentecostal church, but it didn’t
work out, because he kept dropping his pants and mooning people during the
service. In fact he mooned people anywhere he felt like, which landed him mental
institutions from time to time. Failing at Christianity (and also at taking his
anti-psychotic medication), he became a Satanist. It seemed to make him even
crazier. On 3-4-90, he confessed to police for raping and murdering 3 y.o.
Marcelline Ornick, for whom he was babysitting. He told police the devil had
commanded him to kill the girl, and he did not regret it. He recieved 26 years
to life. (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime
by Michael Newton)
1990 Berkley, CA Sex
magic cult "Ordo Templi Orientis", and seven individual plaintiffs filed a suit
in Federal Court against the City of Berkeley, County of Alameda, 10 named
officers of BPD, two other individuals and as yet unidentified additional
defendants. Their legal lottery suit asked $9.5 million in compensatory
damages with additional special damages and remedies. The damages arose
from allegations of violation of civil rights, civil conspiracy, false arrest
and imprisonment, slander, libel, conversion, assault, battery, malicious
prosecution and abuse of process,among other things. The O.T.O. made an appeal
for people to donate to their legal fund, citing their failure to win past cases
and sue "renegade O.T.O. lodges" due to lack of funds. One would think with all
that magical power they would have won their case, but alas, they didn't.
They could have bought a lot of dope with that much money. Their demigod,
Aleister
Crowley, died a penniless drug addict in a
flophouse half a century ealier, you know. (skepticfiles.org)
1990 Durango,
Mexico Police in Northern Mexico have arrested 14
people accused of belonging to a Satanic cult suspected of carrying
out more than 30 human sacrifices.
The aurthorities have begun digging up a mass grave
containing victims in the Northwestern state of Durango. The cult which
allegedly carried out devil worship and ritual killings, was uncovered by
police in the small town of Mezquital. The victims were believed
to be local farmers killed during ceremonies in which
they were hung unpside down and had their throats cut. The
crimes seem to have been similiar to those at Metamorors, leading some to think
claims by that group that the cult had more locations to not be just mere
bragging after all.
1990 Providence, RI Two
teens and two adults were arrested for stealing an infant’s corpse from a
cemetery. The body was later recovered at an abandoned house used for Satanic
rituals. (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime by
Michael Newton)
1990's South
Florida several victims fell prey to a Santeria
scam that cost them their lives. The scammer told
vicitism that by drinking a certain potion they would be able to find buried
treasure. The potion cost several thousand dollars and turned out to actually be
a deadly and quick acting poison. The story was profiled on NBC's Unsolved
Mysteries. (NBC's Unsolved Mysteries)
1990 NYC - Most Satanists
say they don't believe in charity, and perhaps it's actually a good thing.
Daniel Rakowitz, self-styled leader of the "Church of 966" (his own peculiar
variant of "666") was convicted and sentenced to life in New York City of the
murder of Monika Beerle. Cult member Randy Eastherday was also arrested in 1992
and charged with helping Rakowitz dissect and boil Beerle's corpse, after
which Rakowitz carried her skull and bones around in a bucket. The soup
made from her body was then fed to the homeless who didn't know the soup's
disgusting ingridents...which is really why Satanists should leave the whole
soup kitchen thing to the Christians. In 2004, Rakowitz
was denied parole despite his claims he was no longer a threat to society. At
his sanity hearing, the prosecution presented several books the inmate had in
posession while in prison...all involving murders and serial killings.
Rakowitz tried to obtain copies of Hitler's Mein Kampf and Grey's
Anatomy, a discetion manual, but was denied by prison authorities. Rakowitz
had a copy of "Mein Kampf" on him during his first interrogation by cops,
explaining that his father gave it to him when he turned 13. (Raising
Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael
Newton)
1990 Phoenix Arizona
William Schmidt, wanted by police as a suspect in four murderes, two involving
his wives is found dead from suicide in a Phoenix motel. Schmidt belonged to an
occult group called "The Osirian Order", and wore an amulet with the order's
name on one side and a pentagram on the other. In 1987 Schmidt was arrested on a
firearms violation. Police discovered Schmidt had ran a hose from his exhaust
pipe to the camper on the back of his pickup, creating a gas chamber on
wheels. (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic
Crime by Michael Newton)
1990 San Jose,
California The Board of Directors for the Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosy
Cross claimed Imperator Gary Stewart bilked the
orginization out of $500,000 and hid the money in Spain. Stewart denied the
embezzelment charges. In April, 1990 a lawsuit was filed by the AMORC
Board and as a result of the allegations, Stewart was kept from returning
to AMORC's properties by a restraining order. The case never
went to trial, but the Insurance Company of North America's made a motion
for intervention on June 3, 1993 alleging insurance fraud against the new AMORC
Board of Directors. AMORC settled out of court & on August 10, 1993
dismissed their case against Stewart with prejudice. Even though the
Ancient Mystical Order of the Rosy Cross swears their founder H.Spence Lewis
could turn lead into gold, Imperator Gary Stewart apparently couldn't.The order
derives it's income from the monthly dues it charges it's members for
monthly occult lessons, sale of occult books, and related
paraphenailia. Original Imperator Leiws was a disciple of Aleister
Crowley, the bisexual sex "magicican" who died penniless in a flophouse, so it
sounds unlikely anybody was changing lead nto gold now or at any time. Since the
Rosicrucians aren't fundamentalist Christians, the scandal got little coverage
outside of San Jose. (San Jose Sun)
1989 Arlington, TX
Satanist Fred Burke was arrested by police for kidnapping his 7 y.o.
daughter, Guinevere. The child was the center of a custody battle, with ex-wife
Agnes calling Burke an unfit parent and obseesed with the occult. When
Burke failed to appear with his daughter at a custody hearing, police searched
his trailer and found tons of occult literature, swords, knives, weapons, and a
manual on disceting the human body...along with a large collection of kiddie
porn. Burke had shared the trailer with his mother, Coylene Weaver, who called
herself a practicing witch. The pair had belonged to a 20 member Satanic cult.
Fortunately Guinevere was recovered unharmed two months later when
conservation officers stopped a stolen car driven Brad Allen Kovar, with Burke
and daughter as passengers. Burke was later tried and convicted for
kidnaping.and posession of child pornography. (AP)
1989 U.S.A
Nationwide NBC's Unsolved Mysteries airs a program dramatizing
the swindling of Josephine Wallace by "spiritual advisors" Marie Wilson and Ann
Corricelli of East Peoria, Illinois. The pair were charged with swindling
$600,000 from "clients"...and that's just the ones who came forward. Police said
they knew of other victims who were too emb