1985 Houston,
TX On 8-5-85 a Satanic Cult comprised of Harold Glenn Smith,
Martin Wayne Tosh, Michael Gene Cravey, Shannon Rivera, and Bridgette Stowe,
ages ranging from 16-18, had grown tired of sacrificing animals and decided to
move on to bigger game. Smith, known as “The Wizard”, decided to sacrifice
Dennis Keith Medler to Satan, because he previously had kicked he and Tosh out
of his home. Lured to a secluded area on the ruse of picking psychedelic
mushrooms, all took turns slashing his throat. Smith told the victim’s
lifeless body, “Hey Keith, it was nothing person, we just wanted to see someone
die.”“The Wizard” received life, plus a $10,000 fine. Stowe was not present at
the killing, and testified against the others. Cravey received life and was also
later charged with the murder of Ronald Monohan. Trimmer pleaded guilty and
recieved two concurrent 60 year terms. Tosh plead guilty and received 20 years
for his part. Rivera received 15 years, eligible for parole in 2 years, as the
jury decided she hadn’t used a deadly weapon in the sacrifice. Police suspect
the cult also sacrificed 16 y.o. Wayne Schubert, and a teenage “Jane Doe”, but
lack of confessions or enough evidence prevented the cases from being
prosecuted. (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil Worship and Satanic
Crime by Michael Newton )
1985 San Francisco,
CA On 6-15-85 police recovered the body of “John Doe #60" from an auto
salvage yard. The man had been tortured and sexually abused over a period of
several days before his killers finally cut a gash in his perineal area causing
him to slowly bleed to death. A pentagram had been carved into his chest and
there was black candle wax present in his hair and right eye socket. The break
in the case came from responding to a disturbing the peace call 9 days later.
Two patrolmen arrived at the residence of Clifford St. Joseph in the middle of a
homosexual S & M Satanic ritual with 3 friends. Clifford St. Joseph had no
apparent connection to the Church of Satan, but did have connections to the
O.T.O., (which had an 11th homosexual degree). Rather than a nude female altar,
a 19 y.o. male was bound and stripped naked inside a circle of black candles on
the floor & being whipped and assaulted, and fortunately the cops arrival
prevented him from being John Doe #61. Paramedics rushed him to a rape center
where he later recounted Clifford had met him at a gay bar, later drugged him
and held him prisoner, where he was repeatedly assaulted by he and Maurice Bork,
and other Satanists who dropped by for the event. The participants were
all dressed in black robes, a human skull with a black candle adorned the
mantel, and The Satanic Bible was being used in the proceedings. Bork later
jumped bail, but was recaptured after an armed robbery in 1987. Bork admitted to
participating in the killing of John Doe #60 during a Satanic Ritual, in which
the victim’s blood was collected in a gold chalice and drunk as a toast to
Satan. Clifford St. Joseph was convicted of first degree murder and received 25
years to life. The other unidentified participants were never caught, and still
remain at large. Anyone with any information should contact the SFPD.
(AP)
1985 Provo
UT A teenage Satanist described his coven's rituals to police,
claiming they caught cats because "they're all over the place". He then said
they would slit the throats so everyone could drink the blood. He described his
first time: "It was salty and kind of scary, but I went for it anyway. You kinda
don't think about anything else". (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil
Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael Newton )
1985 Lynchburg,
VA Steel executive Derek Haysom, 72 y.o., and his wife Nancy, 53 y.o.,
were found slain in their home. Police determined robbery was not the motive,
and there was Satanic grafitti at the crime scene, including a red triangle
painted on the wall in the victim's blood, and "666" carved on the wooden floor.
Police later find letters by the Haysom's daughter, Elizabeth Roxanne Haysom,
22y.o., which implicate her in the crime. Elizabeth had fled to the U.K.
and was living under an assumed name. She was arrested in London on
check forgery, and extradicted to the U.S. She was later convicted in a Virgina
court for the double homocide and recieved 90 years. Friends of the
family described Elizabeth as headstrong, eccentric, and facinated by the
occult. Her boyfriend, Jens Soering, a West German national, was believed to
have also participated in the crime. He had also been arrested in London with
Elizabeth for check forgery, but the West German government would not allow
Soering to be extradicted to any country where he might recieve the death
penality. (Reuters)
1985 Cypress,
CA Six young Satanists break into a mortuary and steal the ashes
of a man and woman. Security guards caught the thieves on the roof before they
could get away, and they got arrested. (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of
Devil Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael Newton )
1985 Ft. Meade
Florida a man was arrested after police recieved complaint that he had
been having sex with chickens in his front yard wearing only a diaper. Police
confirmed the report, and found the diaper clad man, known as a local
pothead, along with several dead chickens in his front yard. Inside they
discovered a church altar and several other items that had been reported stolen
from local churches, along with occult books and items. The man admitted to
police that he was a Satanist and had stolen the items for use in occult
rituals. (Friends of the accused)
1985 St. Clair
County, Michigan A coven of 4 teenage Satanists aged 12 to 14
were arrested by police for torturing and mutilating animals in an old barn that
was the cite of their rituals. 8 cats, a dog, a fox, and a squirrell were among
the victims. A 12 y.o. member confirms the animals were "sacrifices to Satan".
According to a father of one of the juveniles, about 2 years prior, a 21 y.o.
man got the kids involved in devil worship. And parents allowed their kids to
hang out with a 21 y.o. man because....? (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of Devil
Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael Newton )
1985 Calaveras,
County, CA Leonard Lake is arrested for shoplifting and commits suicide
while in custody via cyanide capsule. Police search his rural home and discover
skeletal remains of 25 victims, along with tapes of the rapings and slayings
commited with his partner in crime, Chales Ng. Upon questioning, Lake's
ex-wife reveals Lake had often bragged about membership in a "coven of witches"
that met in San Fransisco. Former neighbors also recalled Lake claiming to
belong to a "death cult" that practiced ritual sacrifice...but no one bothered
to take him seriously. Ng stood trial on 12 counts of murder in 1998, after
a long extradition battle with Canada. He was convicted of 11 murders, those of
six men, three women and two baby boys, and was sentenced to death. He is
currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison.(AP)
1985 Las Vegas,
NV Two members of the alien elite strike at Sin City resident Jim
Hill's home. In October, two vandals sacrificed one of his cats, and
shaved another and set it on fire. A pentagram was burned onto the lawn and the
word "Satin" painted on the driveway. "Satin"? I doubt references to comfy
fabric made poor Mr. Hill feel any better. (Raising Hell: An Encyclopedia of
Devil Worship and Satanic Crime by Michael Newton
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