Programmed to Kill: Hidden Serial Killer Connections [Pt.1]

Summarizing Dave McGowan's book "Programmed to Kill", where he reveals unnerving hidden side of Serial Killers.

These are the raw notes I took down as I trudged through Dave McGowan’s book “Programmed to Kill” for my summary and analysis series available on Rokfin and Bitchute. These are the same notes I used for those videos, and are perfect resources for people whom prefer to read, or if you wish to download this document as a PDF for later research. The end of this document will include a download link, as well as other various sources including the FULL DOWNLOADABLE PDF OF THIS BOOK. This is Part 1 of 2.

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

• [INTRO I] THE PERCEPTION OF SERIAL KILLERS

• [INTRO II] - LAUREL CANYON, ATMOSPHERE OF SUMMER OF LOVE (MANSON FAMILY ETC - SMALL AREA - LAUREL CANYON MUSIC)

• [PART I: MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES - UNDERSTANDING MIND CONTROL THROUGH TRAUMA]

• HOW DOES ALL THIS RELATE TO MIND CONTROL?

• [PART 1a: THE PEDOPHOCRACY]

• [PART II: THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT HENRY]

• [PART IIa: SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL]

• [HENRY: PORTRAIT OF AN MK-ULTRA ASSASSIN?]

• [AUXERRE, FRANCE - 2002]

• [RANCHO DIABLO]

• [THE MYTH OF THE SERIAL KILLER]

• [PART IIb: PARTNERS IN CRIME/LONE WOLVES(WOLF)]

• [SERIAL KILLER PROFILES]

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MEMORYHOLD

PROGRAMMED TO KILL SUMMARY: PART 1

Most important themes to understand:

• America's perception of serial killers

• The small area in which they originated

• Multiple Personality Disorders (MPD) or D.I.D, Dissociative Identity Disorders

[INTRO I] THE PERCEPTION OF SERIAL KILLERS

• How the public perceives Serial Killers

----> An "old" phenomenon, meaning it was much more prevalent in the 1970s than it is now (at least regarding serial killers we are aware about)

• Characteristics: collectors (trophies), god complex in some cases, high intellect in some cases 

----> The general theme seems to be that the "collector" and "trophies" variant of serial killers seem to be the ones that are most gruesome, meaning what is left of their victims is far less than victims of other serial killers.

----> Some serial killers have a particular M.O, meaning they have a particular type of victim, or some other behavior that remains almost constant throughout each killing

• Even those casually interested in Serial Killers surely have noticed that some of the serial killers are unable to describe what drives them to kill, they seem confused as to why they do it themselves. Of course, their alleged motives vary in nature: 

----> Some will describe some "other part" of them that is responsible for the killing

[INTRO II] - LAUREL CANYON, ATMOSPHERE OF SUMMER OF LOVE (MANSON FAMILY ETC - SMALL AREA - LAUREL CANYON MUSIC)

• Operation Midnight Climax (MK Ultra)

• Manson connections to Haight Ashbury medical clinic where CIA staff worked

(1:07:24)

• Military/Intelligence connections among a huge swath of famous Laurel Canyon bands at the time

• Describing the counterculture movement, summer of love, flower children, and the hippie movement blooming in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s is enough for a video by itself, but here are a few bullet points taken from an author’s interview on the subject:

  •  McGowan believes that the 1960s counterculture movement was an intelligence operation, possibly to neutralize the anti-war movement

  • Keep in mind that the Vietnam war was ongoing at this point in time

  • Many of the massively popular bands that exploded onto the scene in the 1960s and 1970s not only sprung up from the small area of Laurel Canyon simultaneously, but this area was not even the “music hub” of the US….it is odd that so many huge bands popped up out of nowhere from a place that isn’t even known for its music, and is a relatively small geographical area

  • Many of the bands had military and/or intelligence family backgrounds, so too did their friends and counterparts 

    • One striking example is the fact that Jim Morrison of the Doors’ father, George,  was involved in the Gulf of Tonkin false flag operation. From his Wiki: “Morrison was in command of the Carrier Division during the controversial Gulf of Tonkin Incident in August 1964, which resulted effectively in the true beginning of the Vietnam War by President Lyndon Johnson.”

  • McGowan commented that, for being in a time of War, one which had an ongoing draft at the time, it is odd that so many of these bands composed of men that would be drafted never were

  • A covert military facility was also right in the heart of the canyon 

  • Some of the guiding lights behind both the Rand Corporation and the Project for a New American Century were hanging out there at the time, as were the future governor and lieutenant governor of California, and, by some reports, J. Edgar Hoover and various other unnamed politicos and law enforcement personnel

  • The uncanny number of violent deaths connected to the scene 

  • Regardless of any of what I just mentioned, the fact remains that the CIA had multiple operations happening in this area of California during these years, and this period of time was during their MK-Ultra programs - the CIA was researching how LSD plays a role in Mind Control, and simultaneously, this so-called “counterculture” movement’s main tenets was the usage of psychedelic drugs, specifically LSD

(McGowan interview on Laurel Canyon)

(45:00)

(46:12) 

[PART I: MULTIPLE PERSONALITIES - UNDERSTANDING MIND CONTROL THROUGH TRAUMA]

(pages: xi-xvii)

“The experimenters will be particularly interested in dissociative states, from the abaissement de niveau mental to multiple personality in so-called mediums, and an attempt will be made to induce a number of states of this kind, using hypnosis.”

—From a declassified MK-ULTRA document..

• "Mind control is not a fictional creation of novelists and Hollywood screenwriters; to  the  contrary,  there  exists  a  substantial  paper  trail  establishing  that  the  U.S..intelligence community has devoted a vast amount of both human and financial resources, over a period of several decades, to the study of mind control. Along the way, luminaries of numerous social sciences have been recruited and co-opted."

• "The  basic  methodology  of  mind  control  was  revealed  many  decades  ago  by George Estabrooks, a prominent psychologist/hypnotist who worked under contract to American intelligence agencies. In his book Hypnotism, first published in 1943, Eastbrooks teased his audience by noting that the “intelligent reader...will sense that much more is withheld than has been told.”

• The degree in which a person is susceptible to being mind controlled is a "direct function of that person's susceptibility to what are known as 'dissociative states'"

----> "dissociative states" or "dissociative disorders" include Amnesia, Fugue State, and what used to be called Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), but more recently is referred to as "Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)"

• Just about everyone has the ability to experience a dissociative state. Take for example the phenomenon where you are driving to work, and minutes later you suddenly "snap" out of it as you pull into the parking lot of your office building. You may initially be surprised, because you can't really remember the drive over there.

----> This is a small example of course but envision that sensation as a sort of "mini fugue state", followed up with a little bit of "Amnesia" being as you cant recall the drive to your destination.

----> While you cannot recall the drive to work and "snapped" out of your dissociative state when you arrived, it could be said that an "alter personality" drove you to work...in any case, it is clear that SOMEONE drove your car to work in a safe and reasonable manner, and it's as if someone other than you was at the wheel

•(DID/MPD): Some people are more susceptible to dissociative states than are others. An individual's inherent ability to dissociate can be enhanced, though not typically through ethical means. 

----> The most severe cases of dissociative disorders in almost all cases is created by psychological trauma so severe that the traumatic incident can't be integrated into the experience of the "core personality"

----> The most common cause of MPD is early childhood trauma. This usually, but not always, is a result of horrific abuse by a parent or other adult guardian

----> Dr. Frank Putnam noted in 1989 that he was “struck by the quality of extreme sadism that is reported by most MPD victims. "Many multiples have told me of being sexually abused by groups of people, of being forced intoprostitution by family members, or of being offered as sexual enticement to their Mother's boyfriends." 

• To the professionals that have worked with a number of MPD/DID patients, it becomes obvious that sustained, repetitive, severe child abuse is a major element in the creation of MPD. This was a statement made by Dr. Deirdre Barrett in 2001 writing for Psychology Today. He made a similar observation: 

----> “‘dissociaters’...have the following traits  in  common:  Many  such  subjects  reported  a  history  of  child  abuse. Although some remembered this directly, some had been told by others that theyhad  been  battered...Other  dissociaters  who  had  not  been  abused  had  suffered childhood traumas such as prolonged, painful medical conditions and before the age of 10 experienced the deaths of their parents.”

• Mental health professionals have long recognized that the normal human reaction to high-stress situations is to enter "fight or flight" mode, many of us have probably experienced this response. 

----> However, children typically lack the ability to either fight off their attackers, or flee from their abusers. This is also true of course with very young children.

----> Therefore, during an incident that prompts the "fight or flight" response in a child, the Brain allows the child to mentally 'flee' from the situation. In cases of extreme and sustained abuse, the Brain's response is to build a sort of .. When that occurs, a separate and distinct "alter personality" to deal with the current and future episodes of abuse is created in the child's mind.

• Despite MPD/DID is officially labeled as a 'disorder" in the DSM IV, many people are skeptical about it. 

----> McGowan states this skepticism is encouraged by news and entertainment media that generally mocks and ridicules the condition, as do a significant number of psychologists and psychiatrists who deny the existence MPD/DID. 

----> Strangely, many of the very vocal members of the MPD/DID denial crowd tend to be psychologists and psychiatrists who have received funding from the CIA.

• In November of 2001, researchers in Melbourne, Australia conducted as the "world's first study" of Multiple Personality Disorder, as described by Herald Sun.

----> The goal of the study was to help resolve the dispute within the mental health community as to whether these disorders were real or fake. 

----> The conclusion reached by the researchers, at least one of whom had been in the 'denial crowd', was that individuals that claim to suffer from multiple personality disorder are not faking their alter-egos.

----> The study involved comparing the brainwave patterns of those claiming to be suffering from the disorder with the brainwave s of an actor pretending to have the condition. The actors gave outwardly convincing performances, but researchers found that there were "distinct changes in the brain of sufferers as they 'switch' personalities"

How does all of this relate to Mind Control?

The answer to that is of the utmost importance for two reasons. 

Number one, your understanding of Programmed to Kill and the additional information I'm going to share with you relies on it. 

Number two: Mind Control most likely evokes images of extremely tiny microchips inserted into the brain and robotically commandeering someone's body for a temporary period of time to achieve whatever objective it is that the controller wants to accomplish. We do have to admit, the idea of Mind Control DOES sound outlandish, especially if you are someone that still retains the images of microchips in the head when someone brings the topic up; questions about how a piece of technology like that is even possible to create, and how the ability to completely hijack someone's entire body system to the point where they are able to control the person like a remote control car is far too complex to achieve for our current state of technological achievement. 

So, understanding how D.I.D relates to Mind Control is important, because it COMPLETELY flips the standard cultural perception of Mind Control on its head; rather than mind control being achieved through technology, it is achieved through something far more grounded and recognizable that most people have heard of - Dissociative Disorders achieved through trauma.

Before continuing, let's first lay a strong foundation of fact to keep the context clear, and to firmly ground us to reality as we move forward:

1) MPD/D.I.D is REAL, and it occurs after extreme and sustained trauma. Children seem to be able to Dissociate far easier than adults.

2) The C.I.A HAS experimented with mind control, and it is documented fact that they conducted multiple unethical experiments on unconsenting individuals in order to research it further. From the "Project MK-Ultra Page on Wikipedia":

----> "MKUltra used numerous methods to manipulate its subjects' mental states and brain functions. Techniques included the covert administration of high doses of psychoactive drugs (especially LSD) and other chemicals, electroshocks, hypnosis, sensory deprivation, isolation, and verbal and SEXUAL ABUSE, in addition to other forms of torture."

----> Note the inclusion of sexual abuse as one of the methods used by the CIA to achieve mind control in its subjects.

To end this segment and transition into the next, the idea then is this: 

**If MPD/D.I.D is 100% established fact, confirmed through brainwave studies by experts in the mental health field, and if the CIA was previously engaged in Mind Control research using unethical strategies like sexual abuse, torture, and LSD...the final question is: after a dissociative state is achieved in someone, is it possible to ENHANCE that state? And if so, once created and enhanced, can it be controlled?

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•George Eastbrooks, a Canadian-American psychologist and an authority on hypnosis during World War II, was clearly  convinced  that  that  was  indeed  the  case.

----> He claimed that once a person’s core personality had been split, it was then possible to control one or more of the alter personalities, without the conscious awareness of  the  primary  personality.

----> This  process,  according  to  Estabrooks,  allowed  the intelligence  community  to  create  “Super  Spies”—unwitting  ‘agents’  who  were willing  to  follow  any  orders  unquestioningly. 

----> Among  other  duties,  these  Super Spies made ideal couriers, since they could be fed sensitive information while in a controlled dissociative  state and thereafter have no conscious awareness that they were  transporting  important  data.  Even  under  torture,  the  Super  Spy  would reveal nothing—for as far as he (or she) was aware, there was nothing to reveal! 

----> Someone  at  the  receiving  end  who  was  familiar  with  the  Super  Spy’s  program-ming, however, could readily extract the information—after which the Super Spy would remain blissfully unaware that a mission had been successfully completed.

•Decades after the publication of Estabrooks’ seminal work, another psychia-trist/hypnotist,  by  the  name  of  Paul  Verdier,  wrote  an  obscure  book  entitled Brainwashing and the Cults: An Expose on Capturing the Human Mind. 

----> Verdier’s manuscript began on a promising note, with this acknowledgement: “It must be accepted  that  brainwashing...is  now  being  used  here  [in  the  United  States]  by devious persons with personal gain in mind.” 

----> Despite the author incorrectly positing who those "devious persons" might be, he did though provide a reasonably good description  of  the  process  of  mind  control  (although Verdier,  like  Estabrooks,  did  not use the term “mind control”).

----> By Verdier’s account, the objective of the would-be “brainwasher” is to access those areas of the brain that are outside of the individual’s conscious control. According to the Doctor, this is  accomplished  by  circumventing  the  normal  inhibiting response of the cerebral cortex, so that “an individual’s voluntary conscious self-control  [will]  be  ical blockbypassed  or  short-circuited.”  ----> In  order  to  disable  what  Verdier referred to as the brain’s “cort,” all of the following were recommended: alcohol; euphoric drugs; isolation; solitary confinement; and “the most dramatic and unique item in the brainwashing arsenal,” hypnosis. All of these “brainwash-ing” techniques, significantly, have been exhaustively researched by the CIA

• Verdier went on to explain that in order to achieve truly lasting states of brainwashing (or mind control), it is necessary to subject the victim to “profound and deep emotional states.” The recommended emotional states are fear, shock, and anxiety—all of which have “an intense disinhibitive effect on the human brain.”

---->Even more effective is pain—because, “according to the eminent neurologist, Dr.Wilder Penfield, sensations of pain from the muscular sensory system enter the sub-cortical  brain  regions  directly.”  With  a  passage  seemingly  lifted  from Estabrooks’ writings, Verdier left no doubt that pain and fear are the most useful items  in  the  MK-ULTRA  toolbox:  “Russian  political  scientists  do  support  the belief that given enough punishment, all the people in any time or place are sus-ceptible to hypnotic control.”

----> Verdier echoed other of Estabrooks’ beliefs as well, including  the  idea  that  “brainwashing”  could  and  should  be  widely  utilized  for “benevolent”  purposes 

----> Verdier also stood behind notion  that  children  are  ideal  candidates  for mind control programming: “Brainwashing can be slow, insidious and sure when applied to children early in life...It is likely that there is a short period of time fol-lowing corporal punishment when the child is in a state of decortication—hyp-nosis,  so  to  speak.  This  is  the  ideal  time  to  plant  the  positive  instructions  for better behavior in the future.” What the good doctor considered “corporal pun-ishment” and “positive instructions” was left to the reader’s imagination

[PART 1a: THE PEDOPHOCRACY]

David McGowan then begins to delve into incidents of child abuse, child trafficking, and ritualized abuse - some of which were Satanic, in that the acts were committed by self-proclaimed Satanists during rituals.

He also goes on to break down how prevalent Child Pornography is, and reviews major Child Porn busts like the Wonderland group and others.

The most important segment of the PEDOPHOCRACY segment is his detailed review of high profile child trafficking cases that either involve high level politicians, satanism or both. He reviews how many of these cases, such as the McMartin Preschool Incident, The Finders Cult, and Marc Dutroux are shut down swiftly, suggesting a cover up has occurred in each incident. 

[PART II: THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT HENRY]

(page 71 in physical book)

(page 94 in ebook https://www.docdroid.net/riM594s/david-mcgowan-programmed-to-kill-pdf#page=94)

[PART IIa: Sympathy for the Devil] 

After breaking down some of the most important examples of elite child trafficking rings and the fact that many of them tend to have occult influences, McGowan than transitions into a chapter on Henry Lee Lucas, which lays the framework for the reader when it comes to examining the oddities surrounding other killers.

The segment on Henry Lee Lucas begins with an intriguing quote: 

"Henry is an unusual prisoner. He’s been given a high security cell and a few special amenities...”

—Jim Boutwell, Sheriff of Williamson County, Texas

• According to Henry himself, as well as authorities, he has killed somewhere between 300 to 600 people, though Henry himself struggles to know the exact number, and acknowledges that those numbers could be inflated.

•  While Henry was incarcerated in Texas, he somehow managed to escape the death penalty.

----> Given the advocacy of the death penalty by  then-Governor  George  W.  Bush,  things  were  not  looking  good  for  Henry.Bush had not granted clemency to any condemned man throughout his tenure as governor. In fact, no governor of any state at any time in the history of the coun-try had carried out more judicial executions than Governor Bush. 

----> "On June 18, just twelve days beforeHenry’s scheduled demise, Governor Bush made a special request that the Texas71

State Board of Pardons and Paroles, whose members were all Bush appointees, toreview Henry’s case. Strangely enough, eight days later the Board uncharacteristi-cally  issued  a  recommendation  that  Henry’s  execution nottake  place. The  nextday, just three days short of Henry’s scheduled exit from this world, Lucas becamethe first—and ultimately the only—recipient of Governor Bush’s compassionate conservatism."

• This isn't the first time the justice system has been kind to Henry, which is a detail that fits the pattern of many other incidents you may recall such as Charlie Manson.

----> The  first  big  break  for Henry  came  in  June  1970,  when  he  was  released  early  from  a  sentence  he  was then  serving  following  his  first  murder  conviction.  Sentenced  to  20–40  years, Henry  was  released  after  serving  ten,  just  after  he  appeared  before  the  parole board and explained to them that he was not ready to return to society and would surely kill again if released. As Henry told it, the questioning went something like this:  “Now,  Mr.  Lucas,  I  must  ask  you,  if  we  grant  your  parole,  will  you  kill again?” Henry: “Yes, sir! If you release me now, I will kill again.” Nevertheless,  the  board  decided  that  ten  years  was  an  adequate  amount  of time  to  serve  for  the  crime  of  killing  his  mother.

----> Within  a  year  of  his  release, Henry  found  himself  back  in  prison  after  attempting  to  abduct  a  young  girl. Despite  his  prior  criminal  record—which  began  long  before  the  killing  of  his mother—Lucas served just four years before again being granted an early release, this time in August 1975.

----> Beginning shortly thereafter, and continuing for nearly eight  years,  Henry  and  his  new  friend,  Ottis,  committed  an  untold  number  of lurid murders. Henry was finally arrested in October 1982 on suspicion of committing two murders, but he was promptly released. He was not arrested again,for the last time, until June 1983.

----> After Henry's final arrest, he accompanied law enforcement on a sort of "tour" around the country and confessed to the officers that he had killed some 600 people across 26 states. 

----> At the time, there were various charges made while Henry was being used by his escorts to clear troublesome unsolved murders in places he had never been. That quite likely was the case. Henry seemed  to  have  a  very  chummy  relationship  with  his  captors,  particularly  the Texas Rangers, and provided a valuable service to them by taking the rap for an amazing  array  of  murders. That  alone,  however,  does  not  explain  the  personal attention given to Henry’s case by Governor Bush

Those details about Henry are some of the more well known pieces of information. There are other, more infrequently noted aspects of Henry’s life, however, that may catch your attention...and many of these details were given by Henry himself:

• Just a couple years into his incarceration, he told his story in a book written for him by a sympathetic author.

•The book,  entitled The Hand of Death: The Henry Lee Lucas Story,  tells  of  Henry’s indoctrination into a nationwide satanic cult. Lucas claimed that he was trained by the cult in a mobile paramilitary training camp in the Florida Everglades. 

• His training, he said, included instruction in abduction and arson techniques, as well as  in  the  fine  art  of  killing,  up  close  and  personal. Henry also stated that the training camp clearly had military connections, and that the cult included various socially prominent individuals, including high level politicians.

• Henry  further  claimed  that leaders of the camp were so impressed with his handling of a knife that he was allowed to serve as an instructor. Following his training, Henry claimed that he served the cult in various ways, including as a contract killer and as an abductor of  children,  whom  he  delivered  to  a  ranch  in  Mexico  near  Juarez.

• He claimed that once the children were transported to the ranch, they'd be used in the production of child porn and ritual sacrifices. Henry said the cult's operations were based in Texas, and included human trafficking, drugs trafficking, and other illegal endeavors.

What Henry Lee Lucas is explaining then essentially is that, what initially would appear as the work of a random serial killer,  was in fact a planned series of crimes committed for specific purposes; purposes such as political contract hits that included assassinations of foreign dignitaries, wealthy businessman, and local businessmen.

• Not all of Henry's victims were victims of politically-motivated assassinations, though; Henry claims some of him he just did because that's what he liked to do, and that's what he was really good at.

----> The benefit of this arrangement is that it allowed Henry to conceal the true motive for many of his crimes, as someone looking at Henry's murders from the outside would be unable to differentiate between those he killed for no reason other than he wanted to, and those that were specific contract killings resulting from deeper motivations.

Henry did not always kill alone. Ottis Toole was said to be Henry's partner, though not known for a particularly high IQ. In Henry's recollection of the events, it was Toole that was responsible for recruiting Henry into the cult and training him, as well as a lot of the pair's exploits that followed.

Interestingly, many documentaries or biographies on Henry and Ottis paint Ottis as Henry's "severely retarded and decidedly junior partner". However, after reading an interview between Ottis and a journalist, the term "retarded" is not one that fits Ottis; he was most certainly uneducated, but to say that he was "severely retarded" like many documentaries and biographies had done is incorrect.

• Ottis  was  able  to  express  himself  quite  clearly,  though  perversely,  and  displayed  a  substantial  level  of  knowledge  about  the  practices  ofSatanism — which isn’t really surprising given that he was, as Joel Norris has writ-ten, “raised as ‘the Devil’s child’ by his Satanist grandmother.” 

• Ottis described a childhood that was complete with all the trappings of satanic ritual abuse. He has told of being forced to have sex with numerous family  members  and  others—including  his  father,  his  stepfather,  his  stepfather’sfriends,  and  his  older  sister  Drusilla.  His  grandmother,  who  lived  with  Ottis’ father  as  man  and  wife,  although  they  were  actually  mother  and  son,  is  said  to have been a member of a multi-generational death cult.

• Toole once explained to an interviewer how he had “been involved in all this since I was a child, through the cult, you know.” He has spoken of having urine poured on him, of eating dogmeat,  and  of  watching  two  cats  fight  to  their  death  while  their  blood  dripped down upon him. 

• Ottis also had this to say of his childhood years: “I used to go with my grandmother into graveyards — we used to dig up all kinds of bones — and she used to take the bones and do devil worship.” He has also told of once being forced into a grave to pluck the bones from a freshly rotting corpse. • Young Ottis was also consistently drugged with barbituates

• He also stated that "he used to hear voices"

As we continue with Ottis Toole and the other serial killers coming up, keep in mind the details mentioned in the first segment about abuse, trauma, and their effects on the human mind, particularly that of a child's. Also keep in mind high profile child trafficking cases like Dutroux, McMartin, and the Finders Cult - all of which included incidents of satanism.

At this point, it is clear to the viewer that Ottis Toole, the partner of "serial killer" Henry Lee Lucas, had experienced extreme and severe levels of abuse while he was extremely young, and it was perpetrated by a parent or other adult guardian. 

Ottis stated that his family was also involved in a satanic cult, namely his Grandmother. This has indicators of an organization that is multi-generational.

•Toole’s older sister, Drusilla, spent time in a mental hospital, after which she reportedly committed suicide.

• Her children were placed in the care of their Uncle Ottis  and  his  friend  Henry  Lee  Lucas. Two  of  them,  Frieda  and  Frank  Powell,

accompanied the pair on their homicidal wanderings and were forced to witness, and at times participate in, the rape, killing and mutilation of the victims.

• Frieda (aka Becky) ended up scattered in a field after suffering years of sexual abuse at the hands of Henry and Ottis. Frank fared slightly better; he was committed to a mental hospital. 

• A third sibling, Sarah Pierce, who shared with her Uncle Ottis apassion for arson, was convicted and imprisoned for indulging her passion

We're all familiar with the idea of every person being responsible for their own actions. McGowan at this point puts forth this question: 

"What if a lifetime of being bombarded with propaganda has, to some extent, deprived us all of that ability? And what if some of us have been completely robbed of the ability to exercise free will? And what if suffering through a chronically abusive childhood lays the groundwork for that to occur?"

"What if Viola Lucas was right when she told young Henry: '

I'm going to teach you the beauty of pain and you're going to be my slave for the rest of your life", and what if Henry could only break the bonds of that slavery by killing her, his mother?"

After letting all of that information about Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole sink in, you should be left with a few glaring, important questions:

"What do we make of Henry's claims of being a contract killer? What of Henry's other stories, like being a CLOSE FRIEND OF JIM JONES OF THE PEOPLE'S TEMPLE?"

• Henry claimed multiple times that it was he who was taken on a chartered plane to Guyana to personally deliver the cyanide to Jim Jones that he would allegedly go on to use in his infamous "mass suicide" event. 

"Could Henry have been telling the truth? And what does it mean if he was?"

[HENRY: PORTRAIT OF AN MK-ULTRA ASSASSIN?]

“[It is] being like a movie star...you’re just playing the part.”

—Henry Lee Lucas, describing what it is like to be a serial killer

This chapter introduces and expands on the idea of US Navy operations focused on creating Mind Controlled assassins, though it is not outright stated as having been part of MK-Ultra experiments officially. However, as I mentioned at the beginning of this presentation, all different flavors of psychological operations and research into the control of the human mind were happening throughout this period, and much of it just so happened to be focused in the same area of California that both the counterculture movement started, and where multiple serial killers would suddenly emerge almost simultaneously.

• Lt. Commander Thomas Narut of the U.S Regional Medical Center in Naples, Italy and a Navy Psychologist claimed that the Office of Naval Intelligence had  taken  convicted  murderers  from  military  prisons,  used  behavior modification techniques on them, and then relocated them in American embassies  throughout  the  world.

----> This information was divulged at an Oslo NATO conference of 120 psychologists from the eleven nation alliance, and the Navy provided all the funding according to Narut. 

----> What should immediately strike the viewer is that what Narut was describing is basically mind control programs like that of the CIA's MK Ultra program. 

----> In a question and answer session with reporters from different nations, Narut revealed how the Navy was secretly programming large numbers of assassins. 

----> He said the men were being prepared for "commando-like" operations as well as covert operation in US embassies worldwide, and the men who went through the program he described as men who could kill on command and were hitmen and assassins. Many of the men were also convicted murderers serving military prison sentences.

• The intelligence community, it seemed, was recruiting from prisons to make use of the natural talents of convicted killers to produce the fabled ‘Manchurian Candidates’—otherwise  known  as  mind  controlled  assassins. 

• The  operation described by Narut involved killers drawn from military prisons, though there isa good possibility that parallel programs were being conducted in civilian prisonsas  well.  Prisons,  after  all,  have  provided  fertile  ground  for  any  number  of  MK-ULTRA sub-projects for decades. As the Napa Sentinel article noted, “Mind control   experiments...permeate   mental   institutions and   prisons.”  

----> After  making  his  unauthorized  comments, Narut promptly disappeared from public view.

Dr. Narut dropped those giant redpills at that conference in July of 1975. Intriguingly, it was only the very next month in August of 1975 that Henry Lee Lucas was released early from prison to begin his eight year killing spree.

It's also worthy to note that Henry, during his prior 10-year stay in prison, he spent 4 and a half of those years in a mental ward. He spoke of hearing voices in his head, receiving intensive electroshock treatments, and an overall nightmarish period of time during incarceration.

If you step back and think about it for a moment, Henry Lee Lucas might have had all the characteristics that would make someone a prime candidate for the aforementioned Navy assassination training program; he had a voracious appetite for violence, and he was extremely skilled at it. It isn't entirely unreasonable to wonder whether or not Henry was recruited and programmed while in prison, all so that he could later be used by the Hand of Death Cult for a variety of murder-related missions? After all, it was Henry himself that said he was a "changed man" after he was released from prison. He said that, before his incarceration, he killed only in the heat of the moment. When he re-entered society, however, his murders were with a cold blooded determination and the professed desire to kill as many people as possible.

• Another intriguing detail surrounding Henry Lee Lucas is that he was a self-described "close friend" of Jim Jones of the People Temple, the one that resulted in what we are told was the mass suicide of over 900 people after drinking cyanide-laced kool-aid

----> Remember, Henry stated he was on the chartered flight heading to Guyana to supply the cyanide

----> Multiple investigators have also claimed that the deaths on that day were not a result of mass suicide, but in reality was mass murder; Guyanese coroner Dr. C. Leslie Mootoo concluded that only a handful of the 913 victims at Jonestown died by means of suicide. The rest were summarily executed, some by lethal injection, some by strangulation, and some simply shot through the head.

----> The CIA connections to Jim Jones and the People’s Temple through the eyes of the Mainstream media and sources like WIkipedia still claim it is merely a “conspiracy theory” - however in that same Wiki, they do state this:.

“In 1979, Joseph Hollinger, a former aide to Congressman Leo Ryan who was killed at Jonestown, claimed that Jonestown was a "mass mind control experiment" conducted by the CIA. A 1980 newspaper column by Jack Anderson also claimed that the CIA was involved in the Jonestown Massacre, and speculated that Deputy Chief of Mission of the U.S. Embassy to Guyana Richard Dwyer had ties to the CIA”

If Henry really DID travel to Guyana, do you think he would only serve the role of a delivery boy while all of this was going on? 

Other journalists and researchers have observed the parallels we are exploring here today, too; Journalist Maury Terry, in her book "The Ultimate Evil", states that the murders attributed to the Son of Sam and the Manson Family, as well as other interconnected killings (including possibly the Zodiac murders) were not what they seemed to be. 

Rather than the random work of serial/mass murderers, many were actually contract hits carried out for specific purposes by an interlocking network of satanic cults.  In  other  words,  they  were  professional  hits  orchestrated  and  disguised  to look like the work of yet another ‘lone nut’ serial killer.

• Remember, that is precisely what Henry Lee Lucas claimed his crimes were, and he said that years before Terry published his compelling book stating the same thing. 

----> Of course Terry's book was basically universally ridiculed; at the time, his contention was that David Berkowitz had nothing to do with the planning of the killings, and instead of just one of several gunment....he was basically a patsy who took the fall to protect the rest of the cult, particularly the members of the cult that were in the higher echelons of society.

While it isn’t surprising that a book like Terry’s may attract a hefty dose of skepticism, what the critics have a tendency to not acknowledge are details like this:

•Queen’s District Attorney Santucci reopened the Son of Sam case in 1979 after concluding that Berkowitz did not act alone:

“I believe david berkowitz did not act alone - that in fact others did cooperate, aid, and abet him in the commission of these crimes”

---->The police composites were apparently of wide divergence from Berkowtiz (many didnt look like him at all)

•Santucci noted “an unusual amount of people” who were connected to the case, and who were identified by berkowitz as being complicit in the crimes” are now “no longer living”. - the NY Post commented on this aspect as well.

Berkowitzwas also noted to have had hundreds of interesting connections:

• Police that investigated Berkotiz’ home reported that telephone numbers were scrawled across all of the walls of his apartment

• The numbers included the unlisted private numbers for interesting people like prominent doctors in long island, the number for a Scientology training center in Florida, and the Montauk Golf and Racquet Club which is an exclusive club on Long Island that lies adjacent to a purportedly closed military that has been tenuously linked by researchers to ongoing mind control operations

There is also a more recent case that went unreported in the American press; one that seems to closely mirror the scenario portrayed by Terry, the idea that the killings attributed to “lone nut” serial killers may not be what they seem, and in fact many may be patsys or “fall guys” for the socially prominent and the Elite.

•In 1994, a farm-hand named Pietro Pacciani was convicted of fourteen serial killings committed in Italy’s Tuscan woods. In April 2001, the UK’s The Times reported that the casehad “returned to haunt Italy—and in a new, even more sinister guise...police in Florence have reopened the case ‘in the light of new evidence.’ 

•The evidence suggests that while Pacciani may indeed have carried out the murders, or some of them, the real masterminds behind the gruesome killings were a group of ‘high society satanists’ who carried out—and perhaps still carry out—‘weird rituals that beggar belief ’ behind the respectable facades of their Tuscan villas, led by a ‘dis-tinguished doctor’ with a ‘sick and twisted mind.’”

•In  August  2001,  the Guardian added:  “Police  now  believe  that  a  group  of between 10 and 12 wealthy, sophisticated Italians orchestrated ritualised murders over the course of three decades and got away with it, allowing their careers and reputations to blossom to this day.” 

•These unidentified suspects were described as an  “occult  group  which  directed  the...murders.” 

•Pacciani’s “conviction was overturned on appeal, but he was about to be retried—which is possible under Italian law—when he died, supposedly of a heart attack.

---->”According to the investigating magistrate on the case, Paolo Canessa, Pacciani’s death was definitely not due to natural causes: “Someone was prescribing medi-cine that killed rather than cured Pacciani.”

•Pacciani’s defense attorney, Carmelo Lavorino, has noted that, at the time of Pacciani’s death, “he wasn’t in any danger.” He has also said that evidence at the scene  suggested  that  Pacciani  had  been  dragged  by  his  feet  after  his  death. The most likely explanation is obviously that Pacciani was eliminated, as the Guardian put it, “lest he reveal the real monster, or monsters.”

•“Renato Malatesta, Pacciani’s  close  friend,  was  found  hanging  in  a  stable  with  his  feet  still  resting firmly  on  the  ground...

---->Malatesta’s  daughter  Milva  was  found  dead  with  her three-year-old son in a burnt-out Fiat Panda...

----> another burnt-out car was found containing the body of Milva Malatesta’s lover, Francesco Vinci, another Pacciani acquaintance...

---->A year later came the murder of Anna Milva Mettei, a local pros-titute who had had an affair with Vinci’s son, whose body was also burnt. 

•"Investigators have now come to the belated realization that a large network of people  were  involved  in  the  killings,  some  “studying  the  most  likely  spots  in which to strike,” while others served “as look outs. They all took orders from one person  who...then  took  part  himself  in  the  actual  killings  and  mutilations.”

•Investigators also now believe “the female body parts [the left breasts and the gen-itals] were used in black masses at night in remote Tuscan farmhouses.”

•Among those now being sought by authorities is a “‘mystery woman,’ perhaps a member of  the  doctor’s  circle,  who  beat  up  Pacciani’s  elderly  wife  in  January  1996, knocked her out with sleeping pills and searched the house from top to bottom.”

•Also sought is an artist who Pacciani worked for as a gardener, and whose home was found to contain incriminating evidence. He disappeared just days before the trial began and he is believed to be hiding out in, of all places, Belgium

•By September, yet more of the cover-up was unraveling. The Observer dropped a bombshell: “The “Monster of Florence may have been a Satanic sect bankrolled by  the  secret  service.”  Suspects  by  then  included  “a  doctor,  ambassador  and  an artist.” ---->Pacciani’s death was “being treated as a murder,” and questions were beingraised about his unexplained wealth—which included two houses and more than$75,000 in cash.

• Michele Giuttari, the investigating magistrate on the case, who has received death threats, has said that the Monster of Florence was not Pacciani, but  a  “cultured  man  of  great  professional  success,  esteemed  and  powerful,  but with psychopathic hidden impulses.

It makes you wonder how many Jekylls and Hydes there are in civilised cities like Florence.” Indeed, it does.

[AUXERRE, FRANCE - 2002]

(pg. 83 in ebook)

McGowan then transitions into a case from Auxerre, France, that broke in 2002:

Consider  the  “civilised”  city  of  Auxerre,  France.

• In  late  March  2002,  the Guardian ran a brief report by correspondent Jon Henley that began as follows:The  French  justice  ministry  took  disciplinary  action  yesterday against three prosecutors involved in the case of an alleged serial killer who escaped prosecution for more than 20 years. 

•The  justice  minister,  Marylise  Lebranchu,  sacked  one  prosecutor, Daniel  Stilinovic,  and  transferred  another,  Jacques  Cazals,  from  his post in the Paris public prosecutor’s office, for their negligence in the case of Emile Louis...

•A  third,  retired, prosecutor,  Rene  Meyer,  was  stripped  of  his  hon-orary title. All three magistrates worked in the northern Burgundy city of Auxerre in the 1980s and 1990s and were found guilty by a disciplinary panel of a range of serious errors, including “lack of professional honour.”

•Fifteen  months  before  that  report,  Emile  Louis  had  confessed  to  murdering seven  mentally  handicapped  women  who  had  disappeared  without  a  trace between  1977  and  1979.

• He  had  subsequently  withdrawn  his  confession  and asserted that the girls had been “abused, abducted and finally killed by a ring of high ranking local men.” At the time of the women’s disappearances, investigations had been hastily dropped and the missing women listed as runaways. 

•It was not until more than two decades later, following Louis’ confession, that a serious inquiry was made into the fate of the missing girls.

•That inquiry led to what theGuardian referred to as “further, even more disturbing discoveries”:The  chief  prosecutor  in  Auxerre,  Suzanne  le  Queau,  said  late  last year  that  almost  all  the  inquiries  into  the  cases  of  about  30  young women  who  vanished  in  Burgundy  over  the  past  30  years  had  been either mysteriously shelved or deliberately mishandled. 

•Moreover, the files relating to most of the criminal inquiries shelved in  Auxerre  between  1958  and  1982—including  17  missing  young women—had been either stolen or destroyed, and a dozen post-1982inquiries  involving  missing  young  women  for  which  the  files  still remained had all been inexplicably dropped.

•**Lawyers  for  the  victims’  families  are  talking  of  a  sex  ring  which abducted, raped and murdered up to 30 girls in the 70s and 80s and was  powerful  enough  to  stifle  any  subsequent  investigation.  A  full inquiry into what may prove the biggest cover-up in French legal history is under way.

In  July  2002,  the  Monster  of  Florence  case  was  in  the  news  once  again.  A series of profaned corpses were turning up, and there were indications that these crimes, committed against the corpses of the elderly, were linked to the case. 

•The first  such  corpse  had  been  discovered  the  previous  month,  on  the  summer  sol-stice. 

•A report in the Sunday Herald indicated that the satanic rites performed in conjunction with the Monster of Florence killings had been conducted at a senior citizen’s home where Pacciani had once worked as a gardener. 

•Resident’s at the home at that time included the father of Florence’s deputy attorney. Some of the profaned  corpses  surfacing  in  the  summer  of  2002  were  also  connected  to  the home. 

•Also  revealed  in  the Herald report  was  that,  in  2001,  police  had  raided  the home  of  Aurelio  Mattei,  a  psychiatrist  for  the  French  secret  services.  In  1992, Mattei authored a book that alluded to evidence in the Monster case that was not uncovered by investigators until a decade later.

• The home of Francisco Bruno, a criminologist  and  prominent  television  talking-head,  was  also  raided.  Bruno’s name was on one of the drug prescriptions that killed Pacciani.

In May 2003, the UK’s Guardian reported that convicted French serial killer Patrice Alegre was “not the lone psychopath he was made out to be at his trial last year,” according to the sworn statements of former prostitutes.

 “He is alleged to have acted for most of the 1990s as the leader of a sado-masochistic sex ring, supplying  women  and  drugs  for  debauched,  and  at  times  violent,  evenings  frequented  by  senior  policemen,  judges,  businessmen,  sports  personalities  andpoliticians.”

•The  claims  surfaced  “during  a  police  investigation  into  allegations that  Patrice  Alegre,  a  serial  killer  who  is  serving  a  life  sentence  for  killing  fivewomen, was for years offered illegal protection by corrupt police and magistrate sin the south-western city of Toulouse.”

•According to a BBC report, Alegre, a policeman’s son and an employee of the police  department’s  cafeteria,  “is  also  under  investigation  in  connection  with  a criminal network in Toulouse said to have involved minors and cocaine.”

- Other allegations,   as   recounted   by   the Observer,   involved   “white   slavery,   sado-masochism, rapes, sex with minors, drug dealing and appalling brutality—all in the heart of the government of one of France’s most historic and most civilised cities.”

•It  is  alleged  that  these  crimes  were  committed  at  “Toulouse’s  Palais  de Justice  and...at  a  chateau  owned  by  Toulouse  council.” 

•  Toulouse’s  prosecutor-general, Jean Volff, was fired for “covering up links between senior officials and the exploitation of vulnerable girls.” Three judges were scheduled for questioningabout “acts of torture and barbaric acts, pimping and rapes of under-age girls.”

• Alegre claimed that at least some of the murders he committed were ordered by  some  of Toulouse’s  most  prominent  citizens. 

• The  killings,  he  said,  served  to silence witnesses and eliminate blackmail threats arising from what the Guardian described  as  “sadomasochistic  orgies  involving  politicians,  judges  and  police.”

• Two former prostitutes who had been recruited by Alegre for some of those par-ties corroborated his allegations. One judge admitted that there was “some truth”to the story told by the two women of “an official cover-up of Alegre’s crimes.”Another judge “has admitted to drinking with Alegre,” who is known to have runToulouse’s prostit

As you can see, regardless of how outlandish a story such as that one may sound to someone that is unaware of this dark underbelly of “civilized society”, the fact remains that these cases have happened, and it is these cases that intrigue investigators and researchers like myself. 

So, as bizarre as Henry Lee Lucas’ story may be about him abducting kids and people to transport to a ranch for a cult to ritually rape and murder, it’s not exactly unique, and has happened multiple times throughout history.

Also, there have been events that have transpired AFTER Henry first began telling these “tall tales” about the Hand of Death Cult that only serve to bolster his claims. Take for example the ‘Finders’ case; this case illustrated that in fact there ARE networks of highly organized and coordinated individuals involved in the transport of children, possibly abducted, to clandestine locations. In fact, documents released on the Finders even mention that one o.f the locations they were bringing the children to was a “school for gifted children” in Mexico...which is where Henry stated the cult ranch was. Another interesting note to keep in mind is that the Finders claim that the children live “on a farm”. Lastly, the connections between the CIA and the Finders give us an example of intelligence agencies being involved in child trafficking and cults...especially since the Finders were also involved in Satanism and the Occult. 

With that, we’ll end this segment with the following quote:

“No one wants to believe the cult story. The TV people cut it out.The writers don’t write about it.”

• Henry Lee Lucas

[RANCHO DIABLO]

(pg. 111)

As I mentioned, the detail about Henry bringing children to ranches in Mexico for a satanic cult may be extremely important. Keep that in mind as we review this particular case that involved a satanic cult and ritual sacrifice in Mexico:

•In 1989, just such a ranch was excavated in Matamoros, Mexico—just south of Brownsville, Texas—yielding  the  remains  of  fifteen  ritual  sacrifice  victims

• The Matamoros case so closely paralleled what Henry Lee Lucas told to law enforcement officials that some authorities in Texas chose to take a closer look at Henry's professed cult connections. 

----> Jim Boutwell—the sheriff of Williamson County, Texas—later told a reporter that investigators had verified that Lucas was indeed involved in cult activities.

 Following  the  discovery  in  Matamoros,  Clemmie  Schroeder—identified  as Henry’s  spiritual  adviser—sent  to  the  state  attorney  general  a  map  Lucas  haddrawn  for  her  in  1985  that  identified  locations  where  murder,  kidnapping  and drug-running operations were conducted. She told a reporter for the Brownsville Herald:

----> “Henry  told  me  there  were  a  lot  of  different  cults  in  Mexico  who  were involved in satanic worship and everything. I found the map and realized he had marked  this  cult  and  drug  ring  near  Brownsville.” 

----> The  attorney  general’s  office chose not to take any action.

----> In an interview conducted following the exposure ofthe Matamoros cult, Ottis Toole claimed that it was not the specific ranch withwhich  he  and  Henry  were  associated,  but  he  also  emphasized  that  there  weremany such interconnected operations along the Texas/Mexico border (pg. 88) 

The Matamoros cult was downplayed in the U.S media, but it appears that the cult was more of an American enterprise than a Mexican one: 

Though downplayed in most press reports, the Matamoros cult was largely anAmerican  entity.  

- Its  leader  was  Adolfo  Constanzo,  a  Cuban-American  born  inMiami, Florida and raised in Miami and San Juan, Puerto Rico.

- Its ‘high priest-ess’   was   Sara   Aldrete,   an   honor   student   at   Southmost  Texas   College in Brownsville.

- One  of  the  cult’s  top  lieutenants,  Serafin  Hernandez  Garcia,  also lived  in  Brownsville  and  attended  Southmost—as  a  law-enforcement  major. Serafin’s grandfather was the owner of Rancho Santa Elena, where the cult per-formed its ritual sacrifices and buried many of its victims. Another cult member,drug  baron  Elio  Hernandez  Rivera,  also  hailed  from  Brownsville.  Yet  another lived in Weslaco, Texas

Leader of the cult, Adolfo Constanzo, was described by chronicler  Clifford  Linedecker in an interesting way; what name, infamous for their 1960s killing spree, comes to mind when hearing this? Linedecker described Constanzo as:

• “A  “thor-oughly ruthless and malevolent genius with a messianic ability to command theloyalty and blind obedience of followers who joined him, zombie-like, in a loath-some  blood  feast  of  dope  dealing,  terror,  torture,  and  human  sacrifice”

That description seems pretty close to describing Charlie Manson and The Family, is it not?

Constanzo, like many other of the serial killers outlined in this book, had a unique and neglectful upbringing:

He was born November 1st, 1962 to his mother whom more than likely was an underage prostitute given the fact that she was 15 at the time she had Costanzo. Costanzo was blessed by a Palo Mayombre high priest at age 6 months and declared “the chosen one”

• Until the age of 10, he was trained by Satanists in San Juan and Haiti

  • (fitting that multi-generational satanic cult pattern)

• He then returned to Miami in 1972, where he was mentored by another Satanic High Priest who taught him a variety of things, but also about grave robbing.

• Meanwhile, his mother was arrested multiple times…..but, as Michael Newton writes: “the charges never seemed to stick, and she always escaped with probation”

• The neighbors in Dade County considered Constanzo’s mother to be a “witch” or a “sorceress”

Adolfo Constanzo lived in Mexico City by mid-1984, and began his endeavor of serving as a sort of “psychic to the stars”; he earned extravagant fees from his work, and lived lavishly because of it. Interestingly, his neat and orderly home was adjacent to an elementary school

Costanzo was described  as having a magnetic personality, and he attracted an array of  famous  and  colorful  people—including  entertainment  stars,  fashion  models, transsexual  nightclub  performers,  politicians,  businessmen,  crime  lords,  police officials   and   civil   servants.  

•  One   of   his   followers   was   Irma   Serrano—a singer/actress  and  the  high-profile  mistress  of  a  former  president  of  Mexico. 

  • This caught my attention because it brings to mind Emiliano Salinas, the son of former MExican President that was a high ranking member of the NXIVM child trafficking cult 

• Another  admirer  was  Florentino  Ventura,  the  head  of  the  Mexican  branch  of Interpol.  Ventura  was  such  a  devoted  disciple  that  he  considered  himself  to  be Constanzo’s ‘godson.’

• He allegedly killed himself in Mexico City on September17, 1988, after killing his wife and another woman. Strangely though, all three were killed with the same burst of gunfire

Police first discovered the Matamoros cult in early APril 1989 when the police searching the ranch discovered drugs and occult paraphernalia. When they returned on April 9th, the authorities arrested 4 members of the Hernandez  drug  family. 

On April 11th,  the  first  bodies  were  exhumed  from Rancho Santa Elena.

•  Some of the victims had been beheaded, while others had been grotesquely disfigured by machete blows to the head. 

• Brains, hearts, lungs and  other  internal  organs  had  been  cut  or  torn  from  many  of  the  bodies,  and some of these were found stewing in cauldrons in a shed at the ranch.

•  Spines had been ripped from the decomposing corpses to fashion ceremonial necklaces. Onevictim  was  reportedly  boiled  alive,  another  skinned  alive;  all  were  mutilated  to varying degrees

• These victims included the owner and secretary of a company that served as a front for a cocaine-processing lab, an informant for the Federales and his mistress,two  federal  narcotics  officers,  three  former  police  officers,  and  the  American nephew of a U.S. Customs agent. 

• There were also a number of law enforcement personnel  within  the  cult,  including  Salvador  Vidal  Garcia,  a  Mexico  City Federal Judicial Police agent who was in charge of narcotics investigations. 

• Juan Benitez,  the  Commandante  of  the  Federal  Judicial  Police,  claimed  that  there “were  another  six  agents  involved,  but  we  have  no  proof  at  this  time  to  bring charges.” 

• In addition to the victims found at the ranch, the cult was also said to be responsible for the deaths of at least seven members of a drug trafficking fam-ily who were killed in a mass slaughter because they had evidence of police com-plicity  in  the  drug  trade  that  they  had  threatened  to  expose.  That  massacreoccurred  on,  of  all  days, Walpurgisnacht of  1987.  The  victims’  bodies  showed clear signs of sadistic torture. Fingers, toes and ears had been removed and geni-tals had been excised. Two brains were missing and a portion of a spine had been ripped from one of the bodies

On April 17, Serafin Hernandez Rivera—said to be the patriarch of the cult—was arrested in Houston, Texas. 

The next day, just two days shy of Hitler’s birth-day, a U.S. grand jury issued indictments for the still-at-large Constanzo and ten of his followers on various drug trafficking charges. Three days later, on April 21,Mexican  authorities  formally  charged  the  four  captured  cultists  with  multiplecounts  of  murder,  kidnapping  and  drug  trafficking.  

Just  two  days  after  that,  alarge contingent of heavily armed Mexican Federales burned down the death shedat Rancho Santa Elena, destroying a wealth of valuable evidence. Constanzo and most of his followers remained in hiding and the subjects of a massive manhunt.

As  the  investigation  proceeded,  reports  on  the  case  grew  more  disturbing .Police reported finding blood-spattered altars in the homes of many of the sus-pected  cultists,  and  Mexico  City  newspapers  openly  speculated  that  human infants  had  been  ritually  sacrificed  by  the  group.  

• Some  reporters  opined  that babies might even have been bred specifically for that purpose.

•  Michael Newtonhas  reported  that  from  1897–1989,  there  were  seventy-four  unsolved  ritual homicides in Mexico City; fourteen of those victims were infants.

• Other reports noted  that  in  custody,  high  priestess  Sara  Aldrete  displayed  what  Linedecker described as “signs of a split personality. As the days wore on, three separate per-sonas became evident.” A U.S. Customs agent told the Houston Chroniclethat sheclearly had a “dual personality.”

•  Like the other cultists, Aldrete, who had married on Halloween day, 1983, had links to the Hernandez drug family

•  A particularly compelling report in the Brownsville Herald revealed that the drug traf-ficking Matamoros cult was part of a massive, hemisphere-wide, drug trafficking network: “federal agents have established a pattern of drug trafficking from the Hernandez  family  in  Matamoros  to  top  Chicago  mob  bosses.”  Interestingly enough,  Constanzo  was  reportedly  sighted  in  Chicago  during  the  time  that  he was the focus of the manhunt, but those reports were scoffed at by authorities.

In the wake of the Matamoros case, two members of the Texas state legislature,Senator J.E. Brown and Representative Sam Johnson, introduced a bill aimed atcombating cult-related ritual crime, which they asserted was a burgeoning prob-lem in Texas and elsewhere in the country.

Not long after the Matamoras Cult ranch was unearthed, so, too was another ranch near Juarez Mexico. Strangely, this property was located precisely where Henry Lee Lucas had claimed that the Hand of Death cult maintained a ranch.

It was December 1st, 1999 that the first reports on the Juarez Ranch surfaced, which was less than 5 months after Resendez-Ramirez surrendered to US authorities at a location on the US border that was very close to the ranch. A LA Times reporter stated that the “clandestine burial grounds were practically within sight of the US border”

Early  reports  indicated  that  authorities  anticipated  exhuming  between  100and  300  bodies  from  mass  graves  on  the  ranch,  including  twenty-two  missingU.S. citizens and a number of former FBI and DEA informants.

• The investiga-tion was quickly expanded to include at least three more possible burial grounds in the area

Interestingly, U.S authorities swooped in swiftly and took control over the Jaurez ranch case, which angered many Mexican officials including two senators that stated the U.S was in clear violation of Mexico’s sovereignty.

By mid-December, with the U.S. firmly in control of the case and with all evidence being clandestinely transferred onto U.S. soil, Mexico’s attorney general was claiming that the early reports had been wildly off the mark.

Press  coverage  of  the  case at this point almost completely halted, but only after the media wa ssure to tell everyone that essentially “there’s to see here, folks!” 

The final report carried by the Los Angeles Times maintained that some victimshad “reportedly disappeared after being detained by men in Mexican police uniforms,  raising  questions  about  the  extent  of  police  corruption  in  Mexican  law enforcement.”  

• Peter  Smith,  the  director  of  Latin  American  studies  at  UC  SanDiego,  echoed  that  sentiment:  “The  clandestinity  raises  the  issue  of  potential complicity  on  the  part  of  local  or  state  authorities.”  Not  surprisingly,  reports made  no  mention  of  the  extent  of  police  corruption in American law  enforcement.

• Officials were quick to claim that there was no connection between the bodies exhumed at the ranch and the unsolved murders of hundreds of young women in the Juarez area.

There is no consensus on the number of women that have been brutally raped, tortured and murdered since the killings began in 1993, but esti-mates run as high as 500, with hundreds more reportedly missing and possibly dead.

As the website Americas.orgre called, “Free trade supporters once claimed theNorth American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) would turn Ciudad Juarez into the city of the future.” And perhaps that is exactly what the city has become—acity  where  NAFTA’s  ‘free  trade’  rules  ensure  that  “a  company’s  right  to  profit trumps the rights of government and the protection of citizens.”

In the 1960s, the Mexican government offered Western corporations a sweet-heart  deal:  build  factories  on  the  Mexican  side  of  the  border  to  manufacture and/or  assemble  goods,  operate  with  wanton  disregard  for  environmental  and labor laws, and, to top it off, pay no local taxes. So-called maquiladoras, which had  previously  been  known  as  sweatshops,  soon  began  to  dot  the  U.S./Mexico border. 

McGowan goes on to explain the explosion in population around the areas these manufacturing centers were being created, and comments on how the government’s investment in those same cities did not match the population growth. Because of this, infrastructure began to crumble and generally degrade. The Observer noted,  there  has  been  “no attempt to create infrastructure—no roads or housing. Taxation is voluntary for companies, and most pay none.”

With 70% of Maquiladoras being composed of women, it makes sense then that most of the new arrivals to these booming areas were also young women. They end up living in shantytown neighborhoods that spring up around cities like Jaurez. The neighborhoods have no real roads, no address, no utilities, no street names, no public services; violence is endemic, drug lords rule the streets….and it is against this backdrop that the murders have been committed.Most of them being Maquiladora workers.

The  first  Juarez  victim’s  body,  by  most  accounts,  was  found  on  January  23,1993. 

• The first suspect, Abdel Latif Sharif Sharif, was arrested two years later, in1995. Sharif had an interesting history—one with close parallels to many other alleged serial killers, which we’ll see later.

• Born  in  Egypt  in  1947,  Sharif  was  reportedly  sexually  abused  as  a  child,including being frequently sodomized by his father and other male relatives. In his early twenties, Sharif immigrated to the United States, landing first in NewYork City and then in New Hope, Pennsylvania. By 1981, he was living in Palm Beach, Florida

As we’ve seen in other serial killer cases, as well as mass casualty incidents of recent memory, we see that Sharif had numerous run-ins with law enforcement, but received very little punishment for crimes that were quite severe, and persistent:

• In May of that year,Sharif beat and repeatedly raped an unidentified 23-year-old woman. For those offenses, he received only probation. 

• In August of the same year, he was charged with another rape. He was again convicted, but he served just 45 days.

•  The next year, he was married briefly in Gainesville, Florida, until he beat his bride uncon-scious.  She  divorced  him  shortly  after  that. 

•  In  March  1983,  Sharif  beat  and repeatedly raped yet another victim. In January 1984, while awaiting sentencing,he managed to escape, but he was soon recaptured and, on January 31, sentenced to  serve  twelve  years.  Not  quite  six  years  later,  in  October  1989,  Sharif  was paroled.  At  that  time,  he  was  to  be  deported,  but  instead  he  was  allowed,  for unexplained reasons, to remain in the country

• Sharif  quickly  found  work  in  Midland,  Texas  at  Benchmark  Research  andTechnology. While employed and living in Texas, the thrice-convicted rapist was photographed shaking hands with Senator Phil Gramm, in addition to being sin-gled  out  for  praise  by  the  U.S.  Department  of  Energy.  In  1991,  while  still  on parole, Sharif was arrested for drunk driving. He suffered no apparent repercus-sions  for  that  offense.  By  1993,  he  was  once  again  facing  charges  of  holding  awoman captive and raping her repeatedly. In May of the following year, the stateof  Texas  inexplicably  agreed  to  drop  all  charges  against  the  repeat  offender  ifSharif voluntarily left the country. He promptly moved to an exclusive residential neighborhood  in  Juarez  and  went  to  work  at  Benchmark’s  maquiladora.  In October 1995, Sharif was arrested by Mexican authorities and charged with rape.He  was  convicted  and  given  a  thirty-year  sentence,  but  the  bodies  of  young women continued to pile up in and around Juarez

Next to be arrested were a gang of nightclub workers known as The Rebels,who were allegedly being paid by Sharif to continue the killings. The gang wasled by Armendariz Diaz, also known as El Diablo. 

All members of the gang later claimed that they had been tortured by police to coerce their confessions. In early 1999,  five  members  of  another  gang—The  Toltecs,  led  by  Jesus  GuardadoMarquez, also known as El Dracula—were arrested and accused of collaborating with  Sharif. 

After  the  arrest  of The Toltecs,  the  FBI  sent  some  of  its  famed  ‘profilers’  to Juarez. Among them was Robert Ressler, who advanced the dubious theory that the murders were the work of Resendez-Ramirez. The arrest of Ramirez in July1999, however, had not put a stop to the killings. Before the year was out, more young women would go missing, more bodies would surface, and the mass graves at the ranch would be discovered.

On November 6 and 7, 2001, eight bodies were discovered in a vacant lot just300 yards from the headquarters of the Association of Maquiladoras. Confessions were  quickly  obtained  from  two  bus  drivers,  Victor  Javier  Garcia  and  GustavoGonzalez Meza, also known as El Cerilloand La Foca. Following the pattern setwith  previous  suspects,  police  reportedly  obtained  the  confessions  through  the use of torture. 

The two men had visible burn marks on their bodies, marks thatOscar  Maynez  Grijalva,  the  chief  forensic  investigator  on  the  case,  determined had been made with stun guns used by the police.Maynez thoroughly searched a van that the bus drivers had purportedly used to  abduct  women,  and  he  found  no  evidence  to  support  the  allegations.According to Maynez, he was then asked “to help plant evidence against two busdrivers who were charged with the murders. A couple of police officers broughtus  items  for  us  to  put  in  the  van  they  said  was  used  to  abduct  the  women.

”Maynez refused to take part in the framing of the suspects, and, in January 2002,he  resigned  in  protest  over  the  handling  of  the  case.  He  has  said  that  he  now believes that some police are involved in the murders. The outspoken Maynez has reported receiving death threats intended to silence him.Also  in  January  2002,  Jorge  Campos  Murillo,  a  federal  deputy  attorney  in Mexico  City,  told  reporters  that  “juniors”—the  sons  of  wealthy,  powerful Mexican families—were connected to the killings. Campos was promptly trans-ferred and he now refuses to discuss the Juarez case.

In May 2003, the Juarez murders, which had been almost entirely ignored bythe  Western  media  for  a  full  decade,  were  suddenly  in  the  news.  A  flurry  of reports pitched the theory that the killings were the work of an organ trafficking ring,  possibly  with  cult  connections.  

• New  Zealand’s One News reported  that  as many as 90 women may have been killed by the ring. Some of their organs, it was claimed,  were  brought  to  the  States  by  an  unidentified  American.

A Reuters report listed the following as possible motives for the murders: “Satanic rituals, organ trafficking and snuff movies where women are kidnapped, sexually assaulted and then mur-dered on camera.” 

The Guardianspoke of “evidence indicating the women may have  been  victims  of  an  international  organ  trafficking  ring...Police  also  were investigating  the  possibility  that  certain  mutilations—breasts  were  cut  off  on  a few  of  the  victims,  and  some  had  scars  cut  in  designs—might  indicate  the involvement of a religious cult.”

Skepticism  of  those  theories,  however,  was  expressed  by  Oscar  Maynez,  the former head of the Ciudad Juarez forensics office and one of the very few voicesof conscience in this story. According to the Journal-Constitution report, Maynez“said  he  never  saw  any  evidence  of  missing  organs  in  the  bodies  he  examined when  he  worked  on  the  case.”  Whether  accurate  or  not,  the  official  proclama-tions, and the accompanying news reports, served to federalize the investigation of  the  Juarez  murders  for  the  first  time.  Before  that,  federal  officials  had  stead-fastly maintained that the killings were a state matter.

And so the case of the Juarez Ranch dissolved out of public view, though the killings never really stopped. Before we conclude our segment into Ranches and the Satanic Cults that seem to occupy them, let’s quickly review the case of another ranch of a slightly different variety that was uncovered in Kerrville, Texas in 1985:

The ranch, run by a family of German immigrants, was found to be holding seventy-five human slaves, many of them acquired when they were young teenagers.

The ranch was patrolled by armed guards who kept the slaves chained together and routinely tortured them by applying electric cattle prods to their tongues and genitals. Whenever a slave was killed, the body was burned to dispose of the evidence. 

The media naturally initiated its disinformation campaign surrounding the subject when the news of the ranch broke, and that was only after the Texas Rangers FINALLY followed up on tips about the area, having been ignoring them up until that point. 

When it was all over with, the rancher and one of his sons received extraor-dinarily light sentences for their crimes: fifteen years for one, and fourteen for the other. Another indicted son was acquitted and walked away a free man.

 A media disinformation campaign portrayed the entire sordid affair as a trumped-up case,but investigative journalist Gordon Thomas noted that the trial transcript indicated that it was nothing of the sort. Thomas wrote about a similar ranch in Southern California:

•  He states evidence collected from a variety of sources indicates caters to powerful pedophiles.

•The ranch is located immediately adjacent to one of the numerous U.S. military bases that pepper the southern half of the state. 

•The property has a rather ominous  history,  having  previously  served  as  a  concentration  camp  for  Japanese-Americans  during  World  War  II

•Would later be used as  a  ‘deprogramming’  center  for returning Korean War veterans who it was said had been brainwashed.

•According to witness statements, children from around the country have been abducted and transported to the covert location, never to be heard from again. Once there, they are  held  as  slaves  to  feed  the  depraved  desires  of  powerful,  well-connected pedophiles who torture, abuse, and at times kill their young victims.

•One man who may have worked at the ranch, according to reports cited by Thomas, was serial killer Leonard Lake..

[THE MYTH OF THE SERIAL KILLER]

At the beginning of this presentation, I mentioned that a very important theme to keep in the back of your mind for this presentation is how the public perceives the phenomenon of the Serial Killer. With that thought in mind, take into consideration the following details, which paint a very different portrait of these so-called “Serial Killers”, and indicate perhaps there’s more to the story.

• The "Serial Killer Profile" was an FBI creation in the 1970s(?)

• However, many of the people we refer to as "Serial Killers" today do not match the profile that the FBI has put forth, despite calling them serial killers

• Randomized killings, no real M.O, temporary "weapons of convenience" used (which fits Mafia contract killings, and is a strategy present in the CIA assassination handbook...of course the Mafia and CIA overlapping quite a bit)

• Henry Lee Lucas for instance had a partner in his killings (Ottis Toole); they killed peoploe of various ages, races, and gender, and did not fit the super clean "profile" that the FBI want the public to believe all serial killers fit neatly into. Lucas himself stated: “They’s been a mixed breed ofpeople, as far as the killings themselves.”

• It is claimed that serial killers  follow  a  readily  identifiable modus operandi, with the means of obtaining victims and the trajectory of the crime fol-lowing  a  well-defined  pattern. 

----> Henry Lee Lucas and Ottis Toole also broke this important criteria for being a Serial Killer; his victims were obtained in a variety of ways, and they inflicted death by a variety of means—including bludgeoning, stabbing, strangulation, shooting, and suffocation.  Some  were  killed  in  their  homes,  while  others  were  abducted  and taken  to  remote  locations.  Some  were  sexually  abused,  both  before  and  after death,  while  others  were  not.  Some  were  cannibalized.  Some  were  left  on  display for  maximum  impact  upon  their  discovery .while  others  were  left  so  as not to be discovered at all. ----> Henry Lee did not even come close to matching the profile of what he was supposed to be. Strangely enough though, perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Henry Lee Lucas story is that it is not actually remarkable at all. In reviewing the case histories of more than two-dozen other alleged serial killers, it becomes readily apparent that few—if any—fit the supposed profile

• Resendez-Ramirez and his victims also don't fit any real pattern. They ranged in age between 21 to 88 years, with a mix of males and females. 

----> The cause of death varied as well, with most being bludgeoned, though one was shot in the head, another stabbed, and yet  another  had  a  pick-ax  buried  in  her  head.  

----> Almost  all  of  the  weapons  used  for  inflicting  death—by  both  Lucas  and Ramirez—had  one  thing  in  common:  they  are  what  are  termed  “weapons  of opportunity.” In other words, they are weapons that were acquired at the crime scene  immediately  before  the  murders  were  committed.  

----> Notably,  this  precisely mirrors the means by which the CIA has historically taught its assassins to kill. A CIA training manual entitled A Study of Assassination .advises the would-be killer: “the  simplest  local  tools  are  often  the  most  efficient  means  of  assassination.  A hammer, axe, wrench, screwdriver, fire poker, kitchen knife, lamp stand, or any-thing hard, heavy and handy will suffice...All such improvised weapons have the important  advantage  of  availability  and  apparent  innocence...the  assassin  may accidentally  be  searched  before  the  act  and  should  not  carry  an  incriminating device  if  any  sort  of  lethal  weapon  can  be  improvised  at  or  near  the  site.” This advice has been taken to heart by a good number of ‘serial killers.’

• MURDER, INC: The Mafia assassination service known as Murder, Inc., which was the brainchild of the Lansky/Luciano syndicate and had extensive connections to U.S. intelligence agencies, had  a  remarkably  similar  philosophy. 

----> “Like most of Murder, Inc.’s assassins, Pittsburgh Phil never carried a weapon in case the local police picked him up on suspicion. He would cast about, once he had selected his murder spot, for any tool handy that would do the job.”

----> Pittsburgh Phil was credited with killing at least 500 people in this manner (using weapons of convenience) from the late 1920s through 1940

• Henry  Lee  recounts  in The Hand of Death that  his  training  by  the  Hand  of Death cult followed the same time-honored tradition of using weapons of convenience.

----> Keep in mind: while the FBI assures us that satanic cults and satanic crime do not exist in modern-day America, they were also telling us that organized crime didn't exist in America...and that was during the reign of Murder, INC and Pittsburgh Phil.

• Another important aspect of Murder, INC and the CIA assassination technique is the usage of .22 caliber weapons..

----> The .22 is a weapon of choice for killers and assassins due to the fact that the caliber of round is destroyed after it enters the body, because it typically does not EXIT the body, and instead ricochets around the skull should it be a headshot. This ensures both 1) the victim is less likely to survive, and 2) Forensics Teams have a hard time matching the destroyed .22 round with undamaged rounds when investigating the killer

----> The sound of a .22 firing is also indistinguishable from a lot of standard noises one might hear in a bustling city, therefore limiting witnesses to hear what they perceive as a "gunshot" and instead think it's something simple like a car backfiring or something similar.

• With those details in mind, it is intriguing that a large amount of victims of "serial killers" were killed by means of a weapon of opportunity, or they were shot in the head with a small caliber weapon, execution style

----> More often that not, there is no specific type of victim that is targeted, nor is there a pattern as to how the killings are carried out

•(RICHARD RAMIREZ “NIGHTSTALKER”) Take for instance Richard Ramirez, or the "Night STalker" in Los Angeles. Most  of  the  Night  Stalker  victims  were  killed  with  contact wounds from a small caliber handgun to the left side of the head while they slept. Both .22 and .25 caliber weapons were used. The remaining victims were bludgeoned  or  stabbed  to  death  with  household  items—including  a  hammer  and  alamp/vase. Some of the victims were mutilated to varying degrees, including twothat  were  hacked  with  machetes.  Others  were  subjected  to  electrical  torture.Their ages ranged from young adults to a pair of octogenarians, with both menand women well represented. And there was certainly no discrimination shown asto the race/ethnicity of the victims.

•(SUNSET STRIP MURDERS): In the killings known as the "Sunset Strip Murders," also in Los Angeles, had victims that were also dispatched with a .25 caliber contact wound to the head—except for one victim who was shot in the chest and sliced open. Two of the victims were also beheaded. One of the dead—who had likely been an accomplice—was male,with the rest females of various ethnicities

• (HERB MULLIN):  The  seemingly  randomly  assembled  set  of  crimes  credited  toMullin  stands  as  perhaps  the  most  ludicrous  use  of  the  term  ‘serial  killer’  on record.

----> The first victim was a homeless man beaten to death with a baseball bat,for no apparent reason, on a lonely stretch of road. The next was a girl who was repeatedly stabbed, then sliced open, mutilated, and generally made a mess of—in what most people would think of as a typical serial killing.

----> The next five victims were all killed in a single night at two different residences—both occupied by known drug traffickers and their families. In one house, all three victims, twoof whom were children, were shot once in the head with a .22 and then stabbed afew  times  for  good  measure.

----> At  the  other  home,  a  slightly  less  professional  job was done. The two victims at that address, who were close friends of the victims at the other crime scene, were shot multiple times with a .22 in various parts of the body, then stabbed.

----> The next four victims were a group of teenage boys on a camping trip, who were each shot once in the head and multiple times in the body. Interestingly enough, the boys had their own .22 caliber rifle, within arm’s reach of where they were killed. All four were allegedly killed by a lone assailant before they could reach for the gun, despite the fact that Mullin would have had to  reload  his  six-shot  .22  automatic  at  least  once  to  complete  the  slaughter.

----> Following the mass execution of the teenagers, Mullin next allegedly decided to test his skills as a sniper, picking off an ex-boxer as the victim strolled across his front yard

• (RICHARD CHASE): In nearby Sacramento, California, Richard Chase got his sniper killing out of the way right off the bat. His first victim was dropped in front of his home witha .22 round fired from a parked car, just the way Mullin had allegedly done it.

----> The rest of the Sacramento victims were killed with a .22 caliber contact wound to the left side of the head, sometimes followed by a second shot. Some were thenmutilated. Ages ranged from twenty months to fifty-one years, with both malesand females targeted

•(CHICAGO'S RIPPER CREW): Chicago’s ‘Ripper Crew’ killed a string of women, both black and white, by a variety  of  means  before  then  adding  something  new  to  the  serial  killer  repertoire — a  gang-style  driveby  shooting  of  known  drug  dealers.

---->  It  is  always  good practice, for any aspiring serial killer, to throw at least one obvious drug ‘hit’ into the mix. Charles Manson and Richard Ramirez understood that, as did various other serial killers, although such troublesome facts are routinely ignored in most press accounts, lest anyone catch on that ‘serial killings’ are not necessarily random acts of violence.

• (CHARLES NG AND LEONARD LAKE): The cases of Charles Ng and Leonard Lake also did not fit the established mold.

----> At least a few of their known victims were deeply involved in drug traffick-ing. Other than that, the victims had little in common. Excavated from the pair’s compound were the remains of seven men, five women, and two babies—though there were likely many more undiscovered victims.

----> How the pair’s victims were killed was impossible to determine, as was largely true of the cases of other killers who fall into the ‘Collectors’ category—including Jeffrey  Dahmer,  John  Wayne  Gacy,  Bob  Berdella,  Gary  Heidnik  and  Herb .Baumeister.

---->  In all these cases, all that remained of the unfortunate victims were various bones and, in some cases, genitalia, internal organs and slabs of flesh. It is within this group that the most consistency is shown in the targeting of victims.

---->The  known  victims  of  Gacy,  Berdella,  Baumeister  and  Dahmer  were  all  youngmen—frequently gay or bisexual men. Even so, there was not necessarily a spe-cific victim profile in all these cases; Dahmer’s victims, for instance, ranged in age from fourteen to thirty-one and were of various races.

• (BOSTON STRANGLER): Another serial killer that seemed to have no M.O; The victims ranged in age from nineteen to seventy-five, were both black and white, and varied considerably in physical attractiveness. And they were not, contrary to popular mythology,  all  strangled  in  the  same  manner. 

----> In  some  cases,  it  was  done  manually,  in others with ligatures acquired at the scene. In addition, some were stabbed, mutilated and/or sexually assaulted as well. Most of them were left on display, though .one was discretely covered with a blanket.

• (L.A's "HILLSIDE STRANGLER): The Hillside Strangler's victims in LA ranged in  age  from  twelve  to  twenty-eight,  and  varied  considerably  by  height,  weight, race,  skin  tone  and  hair  color.

----> In  addition  to  strangulation,  various  other  tech-niques were utilized, including electrocution, lethal injection and lethal gas—all methods improvised with materials at hand and, strangely enough, all methods used by the state to perform judicial executions

• (TED BUNDY): It is frequently claimed that Bundy's victims looked remarkably similar in appearance. Many  of  the  books  chronicling Bundy’s alleged exploits reinforce this notion by including a carefully selected set of photos of the slain women who did resemble one another to a limited degree. 

----> Overall though, the victims varied widely in height, weight, build, attractiveness,hair color and style, and various other physical attributes.

----> As for the manner in which  they  were  abducted  and  killed,  that  is  largely  a  matter  of  speculation. Many  were  never  found,  and  of  those  that  were,  frequently  only  the  skull  was recovered.

----> In those cases where the cause of death could be determined, it was by means  of  weapons  of  opportunity.  In  the  infamous  attack  at  the  Chi  Omega sorority  house,  for  instance,  the  crimes  were  committed  with  a  club  acquired immediately  before  entering  the  property.  The  Chi  Omega  bloodbath,  by  the way, was in marked contrast to Bundy’s previous alleged crimes, which involved the abductions and killings of single victims. This crime instead seemed to bor-row  heavily  from  the  rampage  allegedly  perpetrated  by  Richard  Speck.  

----> Bundy’s final alleged murder before his capture, the killing of a twelve-year-old child, also did not match his supposed modus operandi

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All of this information represents only a few examples of what the FBI and the public would view as beig done by the work of serial killers, save for the fact that none of those same details match the criteria of the very profiling system created by the FBI to call them serial killers to begin with. McGowan goes on to state that: “It is difficult to find a case study of any serial killer who does leave a distinct ‘signature’ at each crime scene.”

[PART IIb: PARTNERS IN CRIME/LONE WOLVES(WOLF)]

(pg. 107)

Another perception of the Serial Killer that spawned after the coinage of the term and the idea of "profiling" established by the FBI is the idea that serial killers are "lone. wolves". This detail is also a mystery as to how it came to be bound with the serial killer phenomenon, as they are clearly not all lone wolves.

 There are any number of serial killer cases where it is officially acknowledged that there was more than one perpetrator. 

• The Manson Family, of course, is probably the most well known case of mul-tiple-perpetrator ‘serial killing.’

• Less well known is the case of the ‘Ripper Crew’in  Chicago  in  the  early  1980s. 

----> Described  by  authorities  as  a  four-man  satanic cult, the Rippers—led by charismatic Robin Gecht—allegedly killed as many as seventeen  women  in  as  many  months.  

•(CHARLES NG): in the case of Charles Ng, he was the only one to stand trial for the series of killings in Northern California, but it is acknowledged that the crimes we re committed with the assistance of Leonard Lake, who committed suicide upon his arrest.

----> Evidence also strongly suggests that there were others involved as well, most notably Lake’s ex-wife.

•The Hillside Strangler team of Kenneth Bianchi and Angelo Buono also worked as a pair

• And working the same Los Angeles area just one year after the Hillside Strangler team were stopped, a team composed of Roy Norris and Lawrence 'Pliers' Bittaker took the reigns

• And only a few years after THEY were caught was the Douglas Clark and Carol Bundy was working the same LA streets committing multiple murders that would later be dubbed the 'Sunset Strip Murders'

• Only one year after the Sunset Strip Murders, Richard Ramirez, or the Nightstalker, began his killing spree.

----> Despite the media coverage to the contrary, McGowan puts forth here that evidence in the Nightstalker case clearly suggested multiple perpetrators

----> Evidence also strongly suggested that the killings were contract hits

• The evidence in the famous Son of Sam case also indicate to some investigators of him not being a lone wolf killer at all, but rather a part of a group of killers - specifically, a satanic cult

----> Son of Sam would later go on to say that the story about his neighbor's dog speaking to him and telling him to kill was a straight up lie; complete nonsense

----> Neighbors in the area have stated they witnessed individuals attend a satanic cult meeting in the area, before the killings

----> He has also made statements that he was a member of a violent satanic cult that orchestrated the murders along with fellow cult members John and Michael Carr (the sons of the demon dog's owner Sam Carr). 

----> In short, the idea is that there are multiple "son of sams", and that Berkowitz was merely the "fall guy" for the rest of them.

Continuing his exploration into the idea that some serial killers that have been deemed Lone Wolves were actually working with others, McGowan goes into the case of Cary Stayner, and states the case is one of the most bizarre serial killer cases on record: 

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Although the crimes that ended up being attributed to Cary Stayner, it appears as if the strange saga of the Stayner family began long before that. A friend of Cary Stayner told Esquire Magazine: “There’s just something, you know, off with that whole family”

Serious weirdness has gone on in that family as far back as 1972. On December 4th of that year, Cary’s younger brother Steven was apparently abducted by a male pedophile (who was working with an accomplice) who proceed to hold him captive as a sex slave for more than seven years.

His  abductor  was  Ken  Parnell,  a  Texas  native  who  is  said  to  have  been extremely self-destructive as a child. He had reportedly damaged his eyes by star-ing into a bright light, attempted to pull his own teeth out, set numerous fires,and attempted suicide on a number of occasions. 

• He had also spent a fair amount of time institutionalized in both prisons and mental  hospitals, including  spending  much  of  his  teen  years  in  California  juvenilelock-ups.

Stayner was not Ken Parnell’s first victim. 

Parnell had previously been convicted in 1951of kidnapping and sexually assaulting an eight-year-old boy. He was back on the streets by 1955, but then incarcerated again before year’s end for a parole viola-tion. 

• He was soon released again, only to be convicted of armed robbery a few years later. For that crime, he served some seven years.

•  Five years after his release from that prison term, Parnell met up with Steven Stayner. It was not a chance meeting. As Parnell indicated to his accomplice, Ervin Murphy, Stayner had been selected prior to the time of his kidnapping.

Following the abduction, Parnell and Stayner lived in Yosemite Lodge—which happened to be located just a few hundred yards from the home of Cary and Steven’s grandfather, who was universally described as an exception-ally  cruel  man.

 Following  their  stay  in Yosemite,  Parnell  and  Stayner  moved  to Santa  Rosa,  and  then  to  Ukiah,  from  where  Jim  Jones’  People’s  Temple  had recently departed for San Francisco, and where Michael Aquino would later be accused of child exploitation.

In  February  1980,  Stayner  escaped from Parnell. However, this was more of an escape from Parnell’s psychological control over Stayner, being as there was nothing physically stopping Stayner from escaping for the duration of time he was kept by Parnell. 

When Stayner did leave, it was prompted by his desire to save 5 year old Timmy White, a boy Parnell just abducted on Valentine’s Day. Stayner brought White with him on his escape, and became something like a hero in the process. 

Stayner returned home, though it was said that he felt closer to Parnell, the man who had sexually assaulted him for 7 years, then he did to his estranged family. Apparently, the family never spoke about his ordeal. Cary Stayner’s friend remarked on the oddity:

“It  was  like  it  never  happened,  like  he  was  never  kidnapped  or  anything.” 

Stayner’s parents would not allow Steven to get therapy to help deal with his shattered childhood, which is odd. He dropped out of school by age 16 and moved out on his own. 

As for Parnell, described as an accomplished manipulator, he was charged with the  kidnapping  and  false  imprisonment  of  both  Stayner  and  White,  as  well  as with  sexual  molestation  of  Steven.  Investigators  on  the  case  discovered  that Parnell had also molested a number of Stayner’s friends (Stayner attended school under a name given to him by Parnell, and outwardly lived a normal life with his ‘father’)

• One of Steven’s friends reportedly served as Parnell’s accomplice in the White  abduction.

•  Also  discovered  was  that  Parnell  was  fond  of  taking  Polaroid photos of his captive sex slave, and possibly other victims as well.

Just like many other cases, Parnell was treated gently by the US justice system for his horrific crimes:

•  For unexplained reasons,  his  bail  was  set  at  just  $20,000,  which  allowed  him  to  walk  free  after posting a mere $2,000 bond. He was tried in separate proceedings for the crimes committed  against  White  and  Stayner.  Parnell  was  convicted  in  both  proceed-ings, but he received remarkably lenient sentences for his crimes. For the multitude  of  offenses  he  committed  against  Steven  Stayner,  he  received  just  a twenty-month sentence

Things were relatively quiet in the Stayner home for the next nine years, until May 1989 when Steven was thrust back into the limelight owing to the airing of a television movie about his case entitled “I Know My First Name is Steven.” Themedia’s  reopening  of  the  case  was  followed  just  weeks  later  by  the  untimely demise of young Steven Stayner, who was killed instantly when an unidentified car  turned  abruptly  into  the  path  of  his  speeding  motorcycle.  The  car  and  its driver  promptly  disappeared. 

 Steven  left  behind  a  wife  and  two  young  kids.Parnell was by that time already out of prison and a free man once again, afterserving just five years for his crimes—less time than Steven Stayner had spent ashis  prisoner. 

 The  following  year,  Jesse  Stayner—Cary  and  Steven’s  uncle—was found  shot  to  death  in  his  Merced  home.  Jesse—or  as  he  was  more  commonly known, Jerry—was perhaps the family member closest to the alleged serial killer. In his youth, Cary spent more time at Uncle Jerry’s home than he did at his own; the two even lived together for a brief time.

Jesse was killed with a shotgun blast to the head fired from his own gun, allegedly by an intruder he had surprised in his home.

The Stayner family managed to stay out of the news for nearly a decade after Jesse’s death, until of course Cary - the Stayner son that deffffiiinitely wasn’t held as a mind controlled sex slave for 7 years, described by the LA Times as “a man who has been a passive and kind presence for 37 years”, suddenly for no apparent reason decided to become a serial killer. At least, that’s what the official story is.

On February 16, 1999, three women were abducted from their room at the Cedar Lodge, which lies just outside the westgate to Yosemite National Park. Strangely, though, there was no indication that any abduction had taken place.

• There were damp towels in the bathroom, indi-cating that at least one of the three had showered. Other than that, the room was neat and orderly, with the beds made and the key left out.

•  There was no blood and certainly no sign of a struggle.

•  The three were scheduled to check out later that  morning  anyway,  in  order  to  catch  a  flight  out  that  day,  and  it  looked  as though the women had simply decided to check out early in the morning with-out going to the front desk.

• Jens Sund—father of Juli Sund and husband of Carole Sund, two of the three missing women—did not bother to report his wife and daughter missing when they  failed  to  depart  from  their  scheduled  flight  and  also  failed  to  contact  him with an explanation for the scheduling change. In fact, Jens Sund did not bother to report his wife and daughter missing until the next day, and only then after he had played a round of golf

• All  three  of  the  missing  women  came  from  extremely  wealthy  families. The Sunds are a branch of the dynastic Carrington family, and the third woman—JuliSund’s  friend,  Silvina  Pelosso—was  from  a  wealthy,  well-connected  family  in Argentina. Perhaps that is why the FBI was immediately called in to assist in what was,  in  the  beginning,  a  simple  missing-persons  case. 

•  Just  ten  days  after  the reported disappearances, the FBI announced that it was bringing in two profilers, despite the fact that there was not yet any hard evidence that the women had met with  foul  play. 

Investigators eventually discovered the car over 100 miles away from the abduction site. It was thoroughly and by all appearances quite professionally burned. ALl forensic evidence was obliterated. The bodies were so badly burned that it was difficult to even determine their gender.

They were found in the trunk of the car, which the FBI did not bother to open until the day after the car was found and identified—a rather  odd  fact  considering  that  the  back  seat  was  burned  away,  leaving  the remains  visible  to  the  hunter  who  discovered  the  vehicle. 

Carole  Sund’s  wallet rather incongruously turned up in Modesto, also over 100 miles from the abduc-tion  site,  though  in  another  direction.  

Juli  Sund’s  nearly  decapitated  body  was later  found  at  yet  another  location,  roughly  midway  between  the  Cedar  Lodgeand the location of the car and the other bodies. Juli’s discovery was precipitated by the receipt of an anonymous, taunting letter sent to the FBI tipping them off to the whereabouts of the body.

Due to the complexities of the crime, many investigators on the case assumed that multiple perpetrators were involved. During the course of the investigation,at least a dozen people were implicated in the murders; all of them were part of a drug-trafficking network operating in the area. 

• One of these was a man named,perhaps appropriately, Billy Joe Strange. Like Cary Stayner, Billy Joe worked at the Cedar Lodge. Strange was the night clean-up man at the lodge’s restaurant, above which lived handyman Cary Stayner. Strange’s girlfriend, another suspect,also  worked  at  the  lodge,  as  a  night  clerk. 

•  Also  implicated  was  a  man  namedDarrell  Stephens,  who  occasionally  roomed  with  Strange  and  his  girlfriend. Stephens had a lengthy arrest record, as did another suspect, Michael Larwick.Larwick’s  rap  sheet  included  arrests  for  attempted  manslaughter,  rape,  kidnap-ping, child stealing, assault with a deadly weapon, and various drug offenses.When police came to arrest Larwick, he led his would-be apprehenders on ahigh-speed chase, in which one officer was shot, before barricading himself in ahouse and initiating a fourteen-hour standoff. He was eventually driven out with tear gas. When he was brought to court for his arraignment, the courtroom doors were locked to the press and public. This was improbably claimed to have been an accidental oversight.

•  Jeff Keeney, another suspect in the women’s murders, also led officers on a car and foot chase, leaving a trail of drugs in his wake. His home was found to contain three portable methamphetamine labs

Larry Utley, a convicted sex offender and an associate of Michael Larwick, wasalso deeply involved in the meth trade, and quite possibly in the murders as well.Utley was also an associate of Eugene Earl “Rufus” Dykes, Larwick’s half-brotherand  yet  another  suspect.  Once  in  custody,  Dykes  claimed  that  Larwick  had admitted  to  playing  a  role  in  the  kidnappings.  He  also  admitted  that  he  had received  from  Larwick  checks  and  jewelry  that  had  belonged  to  the  victims.  A friend  of  Dykes’  acknowledged  being  asked  to  forge  identification  to  accessCarole  Sund’s  bank  account,  and  another  friend  admitted  to  having  taken  herwallet to Modesto. Dykes, whose ex-convict father was also implicated, agreed to take a polygraph examination, which seemed to confirm that he was being truth-ful about his involvement in the kidnappings/murders. His girlfriend admitted to investigators that Rufus had confided to her that he and another man had killed the trio by slitting their throats. Dykes himself ultimately confessed, first to help-ing transport the bodies, and then to the murders themselves

That he had transported at least one of the bodies was apparent from the fact that  pink  fibers  found  on  Juli’s  corpse,  probably  from  a  blanket  her  body  was wrapped  in,  matched  fibers  recovered  from  a  Jeep  used  by  Dykes. These  same fibers were also found on Dykes’ jacket, in a truck owned by a friend of his, andin  Michael  Larwick’s  Corvette.  Other  fibers,  which  appeared  to  come  fromSund’s clothing, were also found in the suspects’ vehicles. Though fiber evidence is  inherently  problematic,  it  should  probably  be  noted  here  that  several  alleged serial killers have been convicted, and even condemned to die, on less substantial fiber evidence cases than the one assembled against this group of individuals. Andthe  incriminating  fibers  certainly  were  not  the  only  evidence  that  investigators had. Rachel Lou Campbell, an associate of both Dykes and Larwick, was discov-ered to have in her possession Carole Sund’s checking account and ATM num-bers. Investigators believed that she was likely the unidentified female who had twice called the bank in the week after the disappearances to inquire about the status of the account. Another woman testified before a grand jury that she hadreceived a ring from Larwick that two members of the Carrington clan identifiedas having very likely belonged to Juli SundWith all of these suspects in jail—on other, unrelated charges—and with theevidence  against  them  continuing  to  mount,  most  investigators  considered  thecase to be essentially solved. It was widely anticipated that indictments would behanded  down  soon.  Media  coverage  of  the  case  dropped  off  appreciably  andpolice began directing their attention elsewhere. But then a most amazing thing happened:

On July 21, 1999, Joie Armstrong—a naturalist living in Yosemite Park—was beheaded  in  a  brutal  murder  case  that  brought  the  earlier  triple  slaying  roaringback  into  the  headlines.

• Other than geographic proximity, there was nothing linking the two cases

• Only one victim this time, and she wasn’t abducted

• Her body was quickly and easily found. Allegedly, there was a clear evidence trail leading to a sole assailant: Cary Stayner

• Armstrong’s murder was immediately declared to be connected to the previous case, although it is anyone’s guess how investigators came to that conclusion

• On July 23rd, Stayner was questioned and then released. Almost immediately after his release, a warrant was issued for his arrest and a manhunt ensued. 

• Stayner appears to have made little efort to flee or hide his identity, and was arrested the next day at a nudist colony by the FBI

• He waived both his rights to an attorney and to remain silent, and is said to have launched into a full confession right away

• Within a couple of days, Stayner had also given his confession to a television reporter. He took sole credit for all four murders.  The  reporter,  Ted  Rowlands,  promptly  made  the  rounds  of  national news shows with his ‘scoop,’ and all the evidence implicating the drug trafficking ring was quickly forgotten.

• Apart from Stayner’s confession, there was no evidence to support his claims

According to his version of events, here’s how things went down:

• According to his version of events, Stayner single-handedly got the jump on the three women in their room and was able to bind them all with duct tape. He allegedly used a gun, although no gun has ever been produced and none of the victims  were  shot

• Two of the women were purportedly killed in the room

• All three women were then carried out, one at a time, and loaded into their car. One was very much alive and most likely resisting the efforts of her abductor at this point

• No one at the lodge saw or heard anything during this entire ordeal 

• Stayner then allegedly cleaned up thehotel  room  in  which  the  first  two  murders  occurred,  successfully  removing  alltraces of a struggle. Stayner then drove for miles before stopping to kill the thirdvictim,  Juli  Sund,  and  dump  her  body

• He  then  supposedly  drove  many  moremiles  to  another  remote  location,  which  happened  to  be  very  near  Michael Larwick’s childhood home, and abandoned the car with the other two bodies still in  the  trunk. 

• Apparently he then took a taxi back to Yosemite Valley, incurring a cab fare of $125

• Two days later, he returned to the abandoned car in an unidentified vehi-cle, and at that time he set Carole Sund’s abandoned car afire, with the two bod-ies still inside. After that, he allegedly drove to Modesto to dump Sund’s billfold,which for some bizarre reason he did not destroy with the rest of the evidence in the fire

Despite this rather convoluted story, authorities have not been able to explain away all of the incongruous evidence: 

• For example, the taunting letter sent by the killer revealing the location of Juli’s body was sealed with someone else’s saliva. The FBI reluctantly acknowledged that DNA tests verified that fact.

  • Spokesmen  for  the  Bureau  had  an  explanation,  however:  their  theory  was  that Stayner had “tricked an unsuspecting male” into supplying the saliva to seal theenvelope. How exactly that would be done was left to the imagination.

• Cary hadinitially given an alibi for the night of the murders: he said he had been visiting a female  friend.  The  woman  in  question  confirmed  that  fact. 

•  Then  there  is  the rather  troubling  fact  that  evidence  strongly  indicates  that  the  women  were  not killed that morning at the lodge, but later at an unknown location. That, needless to say, casts serious doubt on Cary Stayner’s confession

• Any number of credible witnesses came forward, or at least attempted to comeforward,  to  attest  to  the  fact  that  the  three  were  very  much  alive  long  after  the time they were allegedly killed. 

• A private investigator working on the case discov-ered credit card slips for purchases Carole made at the Yosemite Lodge—former employer of Ken Parnell—after she allegedly disappeared. Carole had signed for the purchases

• Yosemite Valley’s  postmistress  reported  selling  stamps  to  the  trioon February 16, many hours after they had allegedly been kidnapped and killed.

• In Sierra Village, far away from the Cedar Lodge, and very close to where Carole’s car was later found, at least three witnesses reported seeing the women that after-noon.

• A gas station owner remembered selling them gas, and a gift shop owner remembered  them  stopping  in  her  place  of  business  as  well.  Both  of  them attempted to contact the FBI. One failed to get through despite several attempts,and  messages  left  by  the  other  went  unanswered.

  • The  Bureau  later  reluctantly acknowledged that there were several credible sightings of the women, not just onFebruary 16 but on February 17 as well

Interestingly, a man who claimed to have witnessed the assaults on Sund ended up drowning.

In short, despite Nick Rossie of the FBI saying early on that “the assumption is that more than one person is involved” and James Maddock, the lead investigator at the FBI saying that they were “operating on the assumption that more than one person is involved”, STayner and his defense attorney accepted the terms of a federal plea bargain agreement that had a stench of cover up.

Stayner professed his sole guilt in the death of Joie Armstrong and he was sentenced to life in prison without  the  possibility  of  parole,  though  he  was  spared  a  death  sentence. 

The agreement contained a very unusual provision: “After  the  entry  of  judgement  in  this  case until his death he [Stayner] will not speak to anyone, write to anyone, or communicate to anyone about the death of Joie Ruth Armstrong.” No one, in other words, will hear Stayner’s side of the story. Ever.

Three months after the verdict was rendered, Ken Parnell was arrested in Berkely California after allegedly attempting to purchase a child.

RICHARD SPECK (Page 115)

We’ve examined some of the evidence in the Stayner case, and how it leaves room to doubt that Stayner was the sole perpetrator of those crimes. This is also true in the case of the infamous Richard Speck:

According  to  the  sole  survivor,  Cora  Amurao,  she  answered  the  door  in  the early morning hours of July 14, 1966, allowing Speck entry into the house. She claimed  he  was  brandishing  a  gun,  though  none  of  the  victims  were  shot that night and no evidence was ever found indicating that a gun was used at the crime scene.

• Authorities claimed that Speck stole the gun from a rape victim on the veryday  of  the  slaughter,  and  then  used  it  to  quickly  corral  Amurao  and  five  otherwomen in the house into a room.

• He then proceeded to tear a sheet into strips,which he then used to tie the women up, one by one. How he was able to accomplish this while keeping all the rest at bay—and allegedly while keeping a knife in his hand at all times—is anyone’s guess

• Three more women arrived home afterSpeck’s alleged entry into the house. All three were quickly bound and forced into the room with the others

At this point, we are told that Speck began dragging the women off one by one and killing them, spending at least twenty minutes with each victim. After finishing with one, he would go into the bathroom to wash up and return for another, repeating this process.

This scene played out for about four and a half hours. During that time, the young women waiting for their turn tried to hide under the beds to hopefully elude their assailant. Of course, they were found and promptly killed. 

All of them, that is, except for Cora Amurao, who claims that she alone avoided detection by Speck. It has been suggested that Speck lost count of his victims and falsely concluded all the girls were dead, thereby making the crucial error of leaving a living witness behind.

That detail is a bit problematic though, right? Think about it:

• Why did the young women choose to remain in the room in which they had been herded? If, despite their bindings, they were able to move about within the room—which they clearly were or they would not have been able to get under the beds—then why would they not leave the room altogether?

• And once out of the room, why not get completely out of the house?

• And what was to prevent the women from untying each other? The pattern was set early on - after the first couple of slayings, it was abundantly clear to the women that their lives were coming to an abrupt end, but each time he brought a victim out to be killled, they had a 20-30 minute window of opportunity to escape

And what about the story of lone survivor Cora Amurao? 

It  should  be  quite  clear  to  anyone  that  an adult simply cannot avoid detection by hiding underneath a bed. That was amply illustrated by the fact that all but one of those attempting to do so were discovered.  And  yet  one  survived.  How  is  it  possible  that  Speck  could  have  searched under  the  beds  to  locate  the  others,  and  yet  failed  to  see  Cora  Amurao  hidingthere  as  well? 

 And  does  it  really  seem  likely  that  Speck  was  unable  to  count  to nine?

If  not  for  the  existence  of  the  sole  survivor,  police  investigators  would  have immediately  assumed  that  multiple  perpetrators  were  responsible  for  the  mass carnage.  No  theorizing  was  necessary,  however,  since  an  eyewitness  was  on  the scene  to  provide  the  unlikely  ‘sole  assailant’  scenario  that  was  later  refined  to become the official story. 

• Interestingly though, the composite drawing (a crude,two-dimensional rendering that was seriously lacking in detail) of the suspect that was  released  by  police,  purportedly  based  on  Amurao’s  description,  did  not resemble Richard Speck

In other words, the trial of the man fingered by police (Speck) hinged entirely on Amurao’s (the sole survivor’s) eyewitness testimony and very little else. 

• Interestingly, Amurao was zealously protected, and was set up in a resort where four guards were posted around the clock, held there incommunicado for months while being prepped extensively for the testimony she was to deliver

• However, if Speck was the sole suspect, and he was already in jail, what were they protecting her from?

And, like many other cases you will come to learn about, the trial was filled with multiple oddities that would lead to Speck being the sole perpetrator in the eyes of the justice system.

For instance, while Speck was in the hospital for a failed suicide attempt, Amurao was allegedly sent into his room dressed up as a nurse in order to get a good look at the suspect

• From this encounter, she positively IDed him as the perpetrator

• Aside from the fact that this was a brazenly illegitimate means of identifying a suspect, the real question is this: what caliber of police official would send a severely traumatized crime victim, who only days ago witnessed the slaughter of eight of her friends and experienced the terror of knowing she was minutes away from dying violently, into a room unprotected to face the man who put her through such torture? 

  • What guarantee was there that speck would not recognize his accuser given that hers was the first face he had seen as he entered the house that night?

The case was followed by more oddities. Prosecutors had doubts about their visibly shaky case. For one, the jury selection process was, according to defense attorney James Gramenos, “illegal and unfair”. Gramenos objected strenuously to the violation of his clients due process rights but was overruled. 

Another indication was the fact that, even though the case was moved some three hours outside of chicago (the first time any trial had ever been moved out of cook county due to pre trial publicity) the judge opted to stay on in the new venue. That same judge put a gag order on the press, guaranteeing that no news would get back to Chicago, or anywhere else in the country. In other words, it was this gag order that prevented the public from ever seeing how weak the case against Speck was.

To conclude this segment, McGowan goes on to state the following:

“The most likely explanation? The survivor and star witness was not actually a survivor at all; she was quite possibly an accomplice to a cult of individuals who perpetrated this slaughter. She could well have been the “inside man” so to speak, and it was not likely an accident that she was left alive. It was essential that she remain alive to sell the single assailant scenario and thereby derail the investigation before it ever began. After all, authorities noted from the beginning that the house was not highly visible and immediately assumed that the killer was familiar with the surroundings. Speck did nt have that familiarity, but Amurao did. And it is  a rather odd fact that Amurao admitted to being the one to let the killer (or killers) into the house”

Did Richard Speck take the fall for others, as David Berkowitz and PIetro Pacciani might have? It might help explain why Speck was treated so laxly at the prison, as evidenced by the home videotape produced around 1988 showing him snorting huge piles of coke and flashing rolls of money. How one of the country’s most notorious serial killers, or so we’re told, was able to gain access to video equipment, drugs, and even hormone treatments in one of the toughest prisons is unknown.

CLOCKTOWER SHOOTING: (page 119)

Only days after Richard Speck was arrested in Chicago, Charles Whitman, a former US Marine sharpshooter that received training by the Naval Enlisted Science Education Program (an intelligence agency), ascended the tower at the university of Texas at Austin and killed 14 people.

To get to his perch, he had to drag a heavy footlocker loaded with three rifles, three handguns, a sawed off shotgun, 700 rounds of ammo, two knives, enough food and water for several days, gasoline, an alarm clock, a radio, a compass, a hammer, a hatchet, and other items, up the final three flights of stairs unnoticed and unassisted. Once there, his shooting spree lasted 3 and a half hours. Shots at various times were coming from various sides of te clock tower, and various eyewitnesses assumed there were multiple gunmen.

The night before his killing spree, Charles killed his wife and mother. He left a note which read in part “I dont quite understand what is compelling me to type this note. I have been to a psychiatrist. I have been having fears and violent impulses”. With the note, he left a roll of exposed film with instructions to develop it after his death.

Both of these mass murders - the one attributed to Speck in Chicago, and the clocktower shooting, took place just weeks after Anton LaVey had formally established the Church of Satan and declared April 30th, 1966 to be the first day of the Age of Satan. The face of a particuarly brutal criminal enterprise, masquerading as a religion, was beginning to emerge from the shadows. 33 years later, the New York Times reported “the Whitman attack marked a new and different terror - that anyone anywhere could be killed at random”

As the Times noted, this new (and wholly manufactured) threat “prompted many police departments to develop the first SWAT teams”

America was under siege.

KILLERS: PROFILES (IN PROGRESS)

Ted Bundy

• Born in 1946 at the Elizabeth Lund Home for unwed mothers; was promptly abandoned there for three months by his mom, Eleanor Louise Cowell

•  Therefore, Bundy spent the first few months of his life deprived of the opportunity to bond with his biological mother; some studies done in early childhood development emphasizes the importance of this bonding Bundy did not have

• Bundy was adopted by his grandparents, and was led to believe his own mother was his older sister. Samuel Cowell, Bundy’s grandpa, was a key figure in Bundy’s life

  • Sam Cowell was a tyrannical bully and a bigot who apparently hated all races of people

  • Beat his wife, family dog, and swung neighrbood cats by their tails. Also spoke out loud to unseen presences sometimes

•  Bundy had a large porn collection which he kept in his greenhouse. Family members were aware of this

• Sam Cowell’s wife Eleanor suffered from depression and was agoraphobic, which means having a fear of open spaces

  • She was later hospitalized and given shock therapy for depression on more than one ocassion

• Bundy’s mom Louise also had an explosive temper like Sam Cowell, her father

• The identity of bundy’s father is a mystery. Some have speculated that Louise’s own violent father, Sam Cowell, may have fathered Bundy out of incest

  • Flew into a violent rage at least once when confronted about Bundy’s paternity 

  • Bundy’s birth certificate assigns paternity to a salesman and air force veteran named Lloyd Marshall; later though Bundy’s mom Louise claimed that she was seduced by “a sailor” whose name may have been Jack Worthington

• According to some accounts, Bundy’s mom Louise was an abusive young prostitute, and would engage in her work in front of her son

• Dr. Louis Jolyon West, a name you may remember from my video on Charles Manson video and from his involvement in MK Ultra and brainwashing programs, said of Bundy “somewhere in that man’s boyhood, a woman beat him with a stick”

• In October of 1950, Ted’s mother began calling herself Louise and legally changed her son’s name from Theodore Robert Cowell to Theodore Robert Nelson for no real reason

• In 1951, she married Johnnie Culpepper Bundy and changed Ted’s name again

  • Johnnie was a former Navy man, and was employed at a military hospital at a joint army/air force complex

• On August 31st, 1961, eight year old Ann Marie Burr vanished from her home in Tacoma when Bundy was 14. The Burr house was on Bundy’s newspaper delivery route

  • The victim’s father was sure he saw Bundy in a ditch at a construction site on the nearby UPS campus the morning his daughter disappeared

  • Other circumstantial evidence implicates him, but detectives familiar with the case have never agreed on the likelihood of his involvement. Bundy repeatedly denied culpability, and wrote a letter of denial to the Burr family in 1986

  • Forensic testing of the materials from the Burr crime scene in 2011 yielded insufficient DNA material for comparison with Bundy’s

• Bundy attended Woodrow Wilson Highschool in Tacoma, Washington according to his former classmates. However, it can’t be verified for sure because all the records of Bundy’s enrollment there have disappeared

• Bundy also was picked up twice by police for shoplifting expensive clothes and ski equipment, and was also suspected of auto theft, but nothing ever came of those incidents

• Bundy enrolls at the University of Washington in 1966, and in 1967 met a woman identified by the pseudonym Stephanie Brooks - she was the daughter of a wealthy California family

It is unknown when exactly Ted killed his first victim, but it’s widely acknowledged to have been as early as 1969, or a few years later. Some theorize that he had been killing since he was a teenager, and cite the Ann Marie Burr murder I mentioned earlier as evidence.

• He later received a scholarship to attend Dr. Lunde’s Stanford University, just as that tiny geographic region of the country was about to become the serial killer capital of the world

  • Bundy apparently attended Stanford for sessions in intensive Chinese studies, but nothing else in his biography indicates he had any interest in Chinese studies

• Became involved in the political campaigns for the one of the Rockefeller candidates

• Served as a bodyguard and driver for another politician

• Later, him and Stephanie broke up. And according to one of Ted’s family members Glenn, it really messed him up

• In 1969, Ted told his friends he was going to Aspen Colorado because he got hired as a ski instructor there, which was a lie

  • The real reason for Ted’s stay in Aspen remains unknown

  • He also visited Arkansas that same year

• In September of 1969, a woman variously identified as Liz Kendall or Meg Anders met Bundy. She was the daughter of a prominent doctor in the Mormon stronghold of Ogden, Utah. 

• In 1971, Ted began to work at the Seattle Crisis Clinic as a paid work/study student - he remained there until 1972.

  • His work partner at the clinic was Ann Rule, a policewoman and “true crime” reporter whose brother had recently been killed, allegedly by his own hand at Stanford University

  • “Perhaps it is just a bizarre coincidence that the investigative journalist working later on the biggest story of her career just so happened to be a friend and sometime co-worker of the man who would ultimately be held responsible for the six year string of killings she was researching”

    • Ann Rule herself commented on how statistically improbable something like that happening would be, so the “bizarre coincidence” was not lost on her either

    • She also stated that she and ted had lived in the same state at the same time, multiple times

• Ted also went on to work as a key organizer of Washington Governor Dan Evans’ reelection campaign, and his specific job was to spy and gather intelligence on the governor’s opponent. Evans wrote a glowing letter of recommendation to a Utah Law School for Ted

• In April 1973, he became a special assistant to Washington’s Republican Party Chairman Ross Davis. Ted frequently dined with him, and even babysat his children occasionally 

• In July of 1973, Bundy flew to the San Francisco area just as the dust was settling from the flurry of ritual murders that had been going on

After Bundy was arrested, he was recorded saying this to a police interrogator:

Police Interrogator: “Where’d you get the money [that you used after your escape to travel across the country] from?”

Ted: “Well, man, there’s other people. Other people are in on it.”

Bob Berdella (Collector) (Pg. 248)

• Wiki: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Berdella

• Known as the “Kansas City Butcher”, or “The Collector”

• Killing spree began in Kansas CIty, Missouri in 1984

• Bob Berdella’s father, Robert Berdella Sr, was a world war II veteran and member of the KNights of Columbus

  • He was reportedly physically and emotionally abusive. His son was repeatedly and regularly beaten with a leather strap

• Berdella kidnapped, raped, tortured, and murdered at least six men between 1984 and 1987 in Kansas City, Missouri

  • He was sentenced to life imprisonment without the possibility of parole for the first degree murder of one of his victims Larry Pearson (this was around 1988)

• In 1968, while Berdella was a sophomore at college, he was arrested for selling drugs to an undercover federal agent and received a five year suspended sentence

  • He was also arrested again no drug charges a month later

• In 1969, bob financed the purchase of his home. He also performed a bizarre ritual on the grounds of the campus in which a duck was decapitated

• When Bob was not occupied with his current job as a chef at a restaurant at a country club in Kansas City, he spent his time collecting bizarre artifacts. Slime reportedly were fashioned from human body parts. By 1981/1982, he made this hobby into a full time job

• He also set up a Neighborhood Watch program, and served as the liaison to the police and to a couple of nearby youth homes

• In 1982, Berdella began renting his own booth at the Westport Flea Market, and he called his store Bob’s Bazaar Bizarre. He primarily sold and traded primitive art, jewelry, and antiques

  • He would often take lodgers in at his home as a means of gaining additional income

  • Neighbors state that he had a constant flow of young men coming and going from his home, many of them living there for varying periods of time. One former boarder at the house said at one time as many as 4 people lived there, and that large groups of young men regularly attended parties there

• Interestingly, many of Berdella’s young companions regularly signed up as volunteers for unspecified “medical experiments” at the nearby Quincy Research Center

  • One group of such volunteers staged a party at Bob’s house to celebrate the completion of a thirty day program at the center

• Berdella’s young companions also said that Berdella would frequently claim to know powerful people who could “get things done”.

  • He apparently did have a rather large network of connections for an owner of a flea market stand, including contacts in Africa, Asia, South America, and along the Pacific Rim

• Berdella’s first victim was in 1984, and his name was Jerry Howell who disappeared in July

  • At least two victims told police that they suspected Berdella gave Howell what they call a “hot shot”. Another young witness reported “word on the streets is that Berdella does bad things to kids”

  • The police department’s Fugitive Apprehension Unit purportedly questioned, watched, and harassed Berdella, but there was little indication that any serious effort was made to investigate him

• His next known victim was in 1985, followed by a third victim disappearing on the summer solstice of that same year. In September, Walter James Farris disappeared as well

  • Farris’ wife said, when he was last seen, he was heading to Berdella’s house

• This was the first time in the history of the Fugitive Apprehension Unit that the same suspect was positively linked to two missing persons cases, yet even then little effort was made to investigate Bob Berdella

• In June of 1986, Todd Stoops and Larry Pearson disappeared. Pearson was abducted right when Berdella returned from a trip to Ohio, and was held captive in his home for 6 weeks all while boarders and guests freely came and went. Berdella kept his head in a freezer for a week. 

• McGowan stated that the known victims represents the tip of the iceberg, stating that evidence indicated that many more young men were tortured and killed despite the fact that the authorities denied that detail.

• Chris Bryson was abducted on March 29, 1988 and imprisoned. However, Chris escaped. He recalled being subjected to extreme torture, and was photographed by Berdella while it happened.

  • Chris initially claimed that Berdella had been assisted in the abduction by a blond woman. This fact was later expunged from the official story. He also reported that Berdella told him that there were others with whom he would later be shared. Berdella had also warned him that he might be sent off to a remote location in Wyoming where his abuse would continue indefinitely

• Police assembled a 12 man task force to investigate the case. Troy Cole was selected to lead the task force. Troy Cole, by his own admission however, was a “former” employee of the CIA.

• Searches of Berdella’s home uncovered a wealth of evidence. Berdella kept voluminous notes and meticulously detailed logs of the tortures of his victims

  • He also had numerous videotapes, audiotapes, and films of the tortures and killings that were taken into custody, but their contents were never revealed

  • In the yard were human vertebrae that had been cut into pieces with a skilsaw, just as Charles Ng and Leonard Lake had done at Wilseyville

  • There was also a sizable stockpile of powerful pharmaceuticals seized

• Despite all that evidence, Troy Cole announced that the investigation was not being treated as a homicide case. That became harder to justify when the housing of a chainsaw discovered at the house was found to be packed with human flesh, blood., and hair. This is around the time the FBI were brought in to assist on the case

• Victim Chris Bryson had been taken, strangely enough, to the Research Psychiatric Center to recover from his injuries

• Interestingly, as the investigation continued and more witnesses were questioned, some reports linked Berdella to the disappearances of two paperboys in Des Moines, Iowa

  • Those same disappearances were also linked to Larry King and Michael Aquino

• Some witnesses claim that Berdella killed some victims in satanic ritual sacrifices. Others told of Berdella taking regular trips to a farm south of the city with heavy trash bags. Three farms were identified later as possibly being that farm, but it was deemed impractical to search them.

• As frequently happens in the serial killer cases, prosecutors chose to take their evidence to a grand jury, whose proceedings are conducted in secrecy rather than holding a public preliminary trial

• Berdella had satanic and occult related items strewn about his house:

  • He had at least 20 books on satanism and/or witchcraft. He also had books on sadism and a literary work entitled “how to create poisons and antidotes to them”

  • He had a record album entitled “black mass for lucifer” on top of his turntable

  • Clippings of serial killer stories were scattered about 

  • Buried in his yard was a jar containing brd feathers

  • Nevertheless, former CIA employee and current head of the Task Force hunting Berdella Troy Cole insisted that the Berdella case had nothing to do with Satanism

    • Both Cole and Michael Aquino scoffed at these claims. At this time, Aquino appeared on a Geraldo Rivera special on Satanism.

• With Berdella serving a life term, an auction was scheduled to dispose of all Berdella’s property. His home and business were up for sale.

  • Local millionaire and convicted bank robber Delbert Dunmire consistently outbid other bidders for items like the cu stomized torture bed and the collection of ceremonial robes. Dunmire bought out the entire inventory, including Berdella’s house, and later razed it, which destroyed all evidence that may have remained. He then sold the vacant lot. Some theorize that this was done to cover up evidence that others were involved, possibly even DUnmire himself being involved

• CIA Cole’s team claimed Berdella gave af ull confession to his crimes, but they appeared to be carefully crafted confessions given in total secrecy.

  • Rather than using the services of a court reporter, they brought in a private stenographer

  • All of the confession sessions were held in a private room, and all of the resulting confessions were tailored to conform to the state’s versions of events. Berdella conessed to precisely six murders, which was the official tally. No new names appeared in the confessions. Berdella claimed he disposed the bodies in the trash, not at the farms brought up earlier that he frequently visited and brought trash bags to. 

  • He denied having any links to satanic groups

  • He also quashed rumors of any police involvement

  • Berdella, regarding his torture logs, explained away a specific reference in one of the logs to Lt. Col. OIiver North. His claim was as follows: “We just had the TV on, and apparently something about Ollie North came on” and he must have accidentally wrote it. There is no indication that Berdella felt compelled at any other time to dutifully record in his logs what was transpiring on television.

John Wayne Gacy

• Gacy was a well connected guy; served as a lighting commissioner and as a Democratic Party precinct captain

  • Claimed to have been an aide to Chicago Mayor Richard Daley

  • Known to be on friendly terms with Illinois Attorney General WIlliam Scott

  • Gacy also claimed that local columnist Mike ROyko and local TV anchorman Walter Jacobson were “good friends” of his

  • He once had his photo taken with First Lady Rosalynn Carter; the image is signed: “To John Gacy. Best Wishes. Rosalynn Carter”. In the picture, Gacy is wearing a secret service “S” lapel pin, indicating he had high-level, or some level, of security clearance. 

• One of Gacy’s prosecutors stated that “two items on Gacy’s Chicago Police reports were blacked out, indicating that they were FBI matters”

• Gacy also mentioned having organized crime connections

  • He claimed that not only did he work for “The Syndicate”, but also that he was a cousin of local mob figure Tony Accardo

• When Gacy was arrested, one of his first questions to police was: “Who else do you have in the station? There are others involved”. He was then asked whether these “others” were directly or indirectly involved, and he said “directly, they participated”. When asked who the “others” might be, he responded “My associates”

  • Gacy was also asked where one of his victims, Rob Piest, was; Gacy answered “I don’t know. I didn’t transport him”. When asked who did transport him, he replied “I can’t say”

• Gacy buried his bodies under the floorboards of his house, and the mainstream public claims Gacy is responsible for all 33 victims there. 

  • Gacy provided a map of the bodies under his house, and although it was mostly accurate, it contained numerous discrepancies

  • Gacy was able to recall only sketchy details of the murders, and even then, only sketchy details of 5 of the killings. He had no memory of the other 28 murders

  • Initially claimed the first murder happened in 1974, then changed his statement to say they began earlier in January of 1972

• Gacy has suggested a scenario in which his house was just a dumping ground for the bodies, and wrote as much to a judge he sent letters to

  • While this sounds outlandish, there were at least 6 other people who had keys to John Wayne Gacy’s home

• A surviving victim who testified against Gacy stated under oath that he had a meeting with police and the assistant state’s attorney not long after his initial complaint was filed, and that at the meeting, he was not allowed to sign any complaints against Gacy and was bluntly informed that no action was going to be taken

Jeffrey Dahmer: (Pg. 260)

• Born in 1960; the son of a research chemist with PPG Industries named Lionel Dahmer, Ph.D

• Dahmer admitted to being molested at the age of 8, purportedly by a neighborhood boy

• By 10, Dahmer was experimenting with dead animals and learning to use acid to dispose of the bodies

• In 1975, a few neighborhood boys found a mutilated dog in the woods behind Dahmer’s home, it’s decapitated and gutted carcass hanging from a tree

• In 1978, Dahmer was a senior in Highschool, and went on his school’s Senior Trip. The trip was to Washington DC. While on the trip, Dahmer made a call from a payphone, then announced to his classmates that he had secured them an appointment to visit the office of the vice president of the united states.

  • His friends were skeptical at first, but sure enough Jeffrey did indeed lead them on a tour of Walter Mondale’s office, followed by a visit to the office of prominent writer Art Buchwald

  • It has never been explained how Dahmer established this tour

• A girl that dated Dahmer in Highschool briefly in senior year recalled that one date included a seance being conducted at Dahmer’s home

  • Someone in the group suggested it would be a good idea to contact Satan

  • The girl hastily left the house

• Jeffrey Dahmer’s parent field for divorce soon after he graduated Highschool in 1978

• Dahmer enrolled at Ohio State University, but was taken to a military recruiter by his father and began his career in the military. He sought training as a military policeman but was instead trained as a medic

  • He completed his training on the Summer Solstice and was then assigned to a West German military hospital

  • Dahmer was released early from military duty allegedly due to alcoholism, but it was an honorable discharge with full benefits

• Dahmer then surfaced in Miami where he briefly stayed before moving back home with parents

  • He got in trouble a little bit there; one time in 1981 for possessing an open container of alcohol. Another time in 1982 was for indecent exposure. 

  • Around this time he began working at the Ambrosia Chocolate Company. Simultaneously around this time he began visiting gay bars, experimenting with drugging unsuspecting victims

  • The Club Bath Milwaukee was a favored lab for dahmer’s field experiments. The owners were well aware of Jeffrey’s activities, but little if anything was done to stop him

• Dahmer was arrested in March of 1987 again for indecent exposure; he masturbated in front of two young boys

• Dahmer was still living with this grandma when he began killing. It was in her basement he began dismembering the victims.

  •  His first victim was purportedly killed in a hotel and then brouht back to grandma’s house in a suitcase transported by taxi

  • The body of his second victim was allegedly allowed to decompose in her basement for a week. The odor would have been unbearable. Nevertheless, it is stated that Grandma had no idea what Jeffrey was up to.

• Dahmer got his own apartment in September of 1988. That same month, he was accused to molesting a young boy

• The following May, he was convicted of second degree sexual assault

  • Jeffrey received a 3 year sentence, but served just 10 months in minimum security, and during that time he wa sin a work release program that allowed him to work at the chocolate factor

  • On Thanksgiving, Dahmer was given a rare opportunity: twelve hours of freedom. He returned late and visibly intoxicated, but suffered no repercussions

• Dahmer began his killing spree some time in 1990. Interestingly, this is around the same time Herb Baumeister began “collecting” (killing) in Indianapolis 

• In early 1990, Dahmer was released on parole

  • He would be on parole throughout his entire killing spree, and no one for whatever reason would check up on him. The survivors of Jeffery Dahmer would later file a lawsuit about this fact, claiming multiple lives could have been saved if authorities checked up with him while he was on parole as they should have

  • *It should also be noted, Dahmer’s situation was not a unique one; Ed Kemper was supposed to have regular contact with both a parole officer and a social worker while he was on his killing spree, but he never contacted either of them, and no one was ever sent to check on him.

• In July 1990, Dahmer hit a 15 year old boy over the head with a rubber mallet and attempted to strangle him

  • Following this attack, he inexplicably called the kid a taxi and sent him on his way

  • He went to a hospital where he gave police the description and address of Dahmer’s apartment, but no one bothered to investigate the incident.

• Around this time, Jeffrey acquired a 57 gallon drum of acid, which he apparently brought home in a taxi. 

• In May of 1991, a young boy was seen fleeing from Dahmer’s apartment by two young women who called the police to report the incident

  • The boy was naked, b leeding, and drugged into a near stupor

  • The responding officers chose to believe Dahmer’s tale of the whole incident being a “lovers quarrel”, despite the fact that the witnesses who were still ont he scene angrily informed them that they had seen the boy resisting dahmer, stricken with terror

  • On top of that, the victim was clearly a minor - he was 14 years old.

  • The witnesses claimed that the officers told them to go away and refused to take their names. 

  • They opted to not run a routine background check on the possible subject; if they did, it would have revealed that Dahmer was a convicted chil dmolester who was still on parole for his previous molestation convictin

    • **The victim of that previous molestation was the brother of the bleeding, terrified young boy in front of Jeffrey Dahmer’s apartment

  • Most mysteriously, the police officers actually accompanied the pair back to Dahmer’s apartment and noticed nothing amiss. This was in spide of the fact that there was a three day old rotting corpse l ying on the bed, and the smell of death permeating the apartment

    • There was also an abundance of morbid artificats and photos l ying about the home. Nevertheless, the police saw nothing wrong and left the scene, leaving Dahmer with the victim he would promptly kill, disembowel, and rape the corpse of.

  • The mother of one of the witnesses called the police after reading a newspaper account of a missing boy who closely resembled the naked young man, but her concerns were dismissed

    • She then called the local FIB office, but she was rebuffed there as well. The woman claimed that she was instructed not to talk to the press.

  • Dahmer’s last intended victim was Tracey Edwards, a 31 year old father of six.

    • Edwards had recently jumped bail in Mississippi on charges of sexually battering a 13 year old girl.

    • Edwards escaped from Dahmer and went to authorities where he gave a description of the assailant and his rancid smelling apartment

    • Edwards told police that he had seen dahmer undergo a sudden radical transformation: “his face completely changed. I wouldn’t have recognized him. It was as if the devil himself stood in front of me”

    • According to Dahmer, the apartment was filled with male torsos

  • Dahmer’s house was filled with more than torso’s though:

    • There wer ebloodstains on the bed

    • An extensive collection of photos depicting bodies in various stages of dismemberment

    • Four intact heads were found; one in the refrigerator, three in the freezer

    • Another freezer was filled with wrapped, unmarked meat and a human heart

    • A file drawer was filled with bones 

    • The barrel of acid was brimming with miscellaneous body parts

    • One kettle was filled with skulls and another contained severed hands and penises.

    • In total, seven skulls were found

    • Gruesome photo albums were scattered around the house

  • Dahmer was initially charged with four counts of murder, and his bail was $1,000,000. Prosecutors soon added 8 more chounts of murder were added, although there were no body parts or photos to support the additional charges

    • Prosecutors claimed that one photo album had been destroyed. They also claimed that the bodies of the victims depicted in that particular album had been, conveniently enough, tossed out with the trash.

  • Jeffrey’s trial began in January of 1992. His attorney, Gerald Boyle, had previously set his sights on becoming the city’s District Attorney. He waived his client’s righ tto a preliminary trial

    • Boyle also allowed his client to give a detailed confession to his crimes during lengthy interrogations

    • Dahmer entered a plea of guilty, but insane and was given a 937 year prison sentence

    • By the end of the year, his apartment had been destroyed. The three police officers who had, unknowingly or otherwise, aided and abetted the serial killer in the case of the 14 year old victim that tried to flee was cleared of any wrongdoing

  • There were questions still left unanswered at the end of the trial:

    • Two of the victims had been abducted from Chicago, and Dahmer did not own or have the use of a car. How were those victims transported?

    •  Some remains were never found. Were their bodies really disposed of in the trash?

      • If so, why did Dahmer choose to dispose of only a select few bodies?

    • Some aspects of Jeffrey’s confessions were completely unsupported by the evidence. To what extend did the interrogators shape his confessions?

• One victim’s grandmother reported receiving several phone calls during which she heard groaning, choking, and faint cries of “help me, help me, help me”. Those calls came a few weeks AFTER the disappearance of her grandson. Was he kept alive for an extended period of time?

• Dahmer is part of the “Collector” sub-section of “Serial Killers”. Like many Collectors, Dahmer was obsessed with gaining control over his victims.

  • His preferred means of doing so was through the use of chemicals, which could have been an interest acquired from his research chemist father

  • Jeff was reportedly working on perfecting a home lobotomy procedure tha tinvolved drilling a hole in the victim’s forehead and then injecting various combination of chemicals

• Dahmer has been described as a “dabbler” in Satanism, but evidence suggests he was more than just a dabbler:

  • In his apartment, he had a detailed plan for constructing a satanic altar. The plan incorporated the human skulls and other artifacts he had been collecting. He told authorities that he believed that by constructing the altar and consuming the flesh of his victims, he would be infused with “special powers and energies” what would help him succeed socially and financially

• Oddly enough, in March of 1999, the brother of one of Jeffrey’s victims was found stabbed to death. Police described the young man’s death as a ritual sacrifice.

• Dahmer served just two years of his prison sentence before he was inexplicably paired with two homicidal inmates on an unsupervised work detail whom ended up killing him

During the attempted escape of the 14 year old boy and the police response that followed, Dahmer spoke to the police as they walked the pair back to the apartment. He mentioned the amount of crime in the area, and how there’s a need for more security. He thanked the police for being there. He said it’s because of the crime that he has a surveillance system in his apartment.

• Multiple photos of Dahmer’s living space reveal cameras in the living room, mounted on the walls near the ceiling 

Wayne Williams

• [VIDEO CLIP OF INTERVIEW]

• Claims in a document he was trained by the CIA

Herb Baumeister:

Gary Heidnik:

• In November 1961, Heidnik joined the Army

• He requested to be trained as a military policeman, but the military instead sent him to medic training at Ft. Sam Houston, near San Antonio, Texas

• When that training was completed, he was sent to an Army Hospital in West Germany to work as an Orderly

• Coincidentally, it was this same Army Hospital that Jeffrey Dahmer was stationed at, albeit many years apart. 

• Heidnik was stationed there in 1962, and Dahmer was there metime between 1979-1981.

• It isn’t exactly clear when Dahmer was at Landstuhl; he was stationed in Baumholder primarily, but he went on assignment to Landstuhl for a few months which was only a few miles away.

• Was experimented on by the Army; he was drugged with high dosages of psychedelics and LSD

  • Heidnik’s records state he was sent back to the US to an Army Hospital then released

• During his trial, it’s said: “Gary (Heidnik) was kept heavily dosed with Thorazine throughout the trial. He sat at the defense table staring straight ahead, saying nothing and, by all appearances hearing and seeing nothing.”

Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi:

• Like many other serial killers, Kenneth Bianchi is of unknown parentage

  • He was born the son of an alcoholic teenage prostitute on may 22, 1951 in Rochester, New York and privately adopted by the Bianchi’s

  • His adoptive parents were repeatedly reported to the Rochester Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children for their treatment of their son

• Ken was taken frequently to doctors and administered unspecified tests at the urging of his mother, who frequently kept him home from school for prolonged absences. This included nearly his entire Kindergarten year.

  • As a child, Bianchi is said to have regular fell into trance-like states during which his eyes would rol lback to the back of his head

  • He later recalled enduring punishments like having his hand held over a stove flame

  • He also is said to have once killed a cat and left it on his neighbor’s porch on Halloween

• After Highschool, Bianchi sought psychiatric care and married briefly, though that union didn’t last very long.

• At the age of 26, Ken moved to Hollywood and moved in with his cousin Angelo Buono. Angelo had a son, also named Angelo Buono. 

  • While there, Ken readily established access to a steady supply of drugs, which he both sold and used

• Angelo supplied the services of young girls to the city’s business and policital elite, including city councilman and police chief

  • These favors earned sidekick Bianchi the right to display an L.A County seal on the windshield of his cadillac

• Buono had connections to Hollywood

  • Angelo once shared a home with actor Artie Ford

  • He was friends with Jay SIlverheels 

  • Buono also repaired cars for Frank Sinatra and for Mafioso Joe Bonnano

  • Buono’s daughter once claimed that her father once drove her to Sinatra’s Palm Springs home, where Angelo dropped off a package

• Several of the suspects identified during the investigation were Hollywood Names as well. 

  • The first suspect listed was an actor named Ned York who gave a long rambling confession to the crimes

  • Another man questioned in connection to the stranglings was identified as a minor actor who had a film studio set up in his home. An aspiring actress recounted of going to his home for an audition and being forced to participate in the production of hardcore S&M videos

  • Yet another suspect was a famous Hollywood producer who was said to enjoy the company of young girls. However, all information including his name was never released. 

    • He was stopped by police while driving the car of a convicted rapist, and was accompanied with a young girl while in possession of a phony police ID (which is intriguing because John Wayne Gacy used a similar trick)

  • While it’s possible that cousins were involved in the killings, others could have been too. Some say a police officer was involved. Several were questioned during the course of the investigation.

    •  A few who were conclusively linked to the times and places of the disappearances and/or the body drop sites could not account for their time

  • George Shamshak was another suspect. He had escaped from Massachusetts prison around the time the killing began, and was recaptured around the time that the killings stopped.

    • Shamshak confessed to the murders. He even offered the press what he said were audiotapes of some of the killings

    • He claimed that Peter Mark Jones, a Bevery Hills resident, was involved, and then he promptly left the city and was quickly forgotten.

  • As for the Washington murders, the last two victims attributed to Bianchi, Bianchi maintained that an accomplice performed the killings

    • The accomplice was only identified as “greg”, and was apparently known to police

    • Greg was killed in a ‘freak’ motorcycle accident near the infamous body drop site shortly after Kenneth Bianchi’s arrest.

Arthur Shawcross:

• Shawcross was professional and brutally efficient assassin. He killed over 50 kills in total

  • The first 39 kills were not crimes, despite the absolutely barbaric things that were done to them, the kills including torture, mutilation, cannialism, and necrophilia.

  • One female victim had her head put on a stake. He also ate her thigh while another victim was forced to watch

    • The second victim lost her head, was strung up by her feet like an animal and then gutted

  • Those first 39 murders were not crimes because they were Vietnamese nationals, and Shawcross was only doing his job: terrorizing the Vietnamese people into acceding to US demands. He was an assassin for the Phoenix Program.

    • Shawcross did not become a criminal until he brought home skills taught to him by the US Military

• When Shawcross returned home from Vietnam, he was surprised to find he was married to a woman named Linda Neary before he shipped out….except for the fact that he has no memory of doing so. Near had received and spent all of his service paychecks.

  • Shawcross later said that Neary’s family was into witchcraft, and would not allow him to leave

• Shawcross described the act of killing to author Joel Norris as occurring in “a kind of dream state in which another person inside of him was reacting in his place”

  • It’s like during those moments, the killer was able to completely shut out the world around him. Arthur recalled: “didn’t hear anything around me...I couldn’t figure that out...other times in my life I have had the feeling of leaving my body”

It’s as if what remained in the body was a highly efficient, emotionless, programmed assassin - one of uncle sam’s finest.

Police asked Shawcross years later how he was “able to kill these girls so easily...where did you learn to do that?: and Shawcross replied “Ask Uncle Sam”.

Asked where he had learned to butcher bodies so that they would decompose faster, he gave the same response.

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[PG. 131 - THE SPAWNING]

On March 21, 1967 (the spring equinox), Charles Milles Manson was releasedfrom prison and given transport to San Francisco, where—despite having servedvirtually his entire adult life in prison—he immediately started gathering devotedfollowers, many recruited from the various satanic groups blossoming in the area.

In the spring of the following year, 1968, Manson loaded his new followers into abus  and  took  them  on  the  road,  ultimately  settling  into  the  Los  Angeles  area where Charlie quickly and improbably established numerous prominent contactsin  the  entertainment  industry.  As  Neil  Young,  who  knew  Charlie  and  his  girls well  and  once  tried  to  get  the  head  of  Warner  Brothers  to  sign  the  aspiringsinger/songwriter, once told an interviewer: “A lot of pretty well known musiciansaround L.A. knew him, though they’d probably deny it now.”

On December 20, 1968, just shy of the winter solstice, what was thought tobe the first of the Zodiac murders rocked the San Francisco area when a man wasshot once in the head at point blank range with a .22 and his female companionwas  shot  multiple  times  with  the  same  weapon.

----> A Detective noted  that  the  male  victim  had  recently  learned  of  a  major  drug  deal  that  wasabout to go down, and he had been talking openly about who was involved in thetransaction

It would later be speculated that the Zodiac killings actually began in the LosAngeles area on the eve of Halloween, 1966—just a few months after the ram-pages of Richard Speck and Charles Whitman. 

---->The victim, Cheri Jo Bates, hadbeen  stabbed  in  the  chest  and  her  throat  had  been  slit  so  deeply  that  she  wasnearly decapitated.

•***A wristwatch of military origin had been found at the crimescene,  along  with  a  military-style  heel  print.

----> The  circumstances  of  the  murder suggested that the female victim knew her killer and had spent a portion of theevening with him before the attack. What was said to be a confession was receivedin  the  mail  and,  on Walpurgisnacht of  1967,  taunting  letters  were  sent  to  areanewspapers  and  to  the  victim’s  father.

----> The  FBI  would  later  inadvertently  reveal that it had an alternate version of the ‘confession,’ featuring the exact same word-ing but set in a different typescript and with a different number of words per line.

On Independence Day, 1969, another couple was gunned down in their car,this  time  with  a  9mm  semi-automatic.  The  woman,  Darlene  Ferrin,  whoappeared to be the primary target of the attack (the man survived his wounds),may have known the previous Zodiac victims.

• She had reportedly told her friends that she had witnessed a murder by a man who had subsequently been following her. 

•In the weeks before her death, she had been receiving mysterious packagesfrom a man living in Mexico who Darlene had, for unexplained reasons, marriedin 1966 using an assumed name and then later divorced.

• Her companion on thenight  of  the  murder,  Michael  Mageau,  left  his  home  in  such  a  hurry  that  the lights and TV were left on and the front door was left open.

• He later told investi-gators  that  he  and  Darlene  were  followed  immediately  upon  leaving  Ferrin’s house.

----> After changing his story several times, Mageau went into hiding. Shortlyafter the shootings, police received a call from a man claiming credit for Ferrin’s murder.

----> The call was placed from a payphone just outside the Sheriff ’s station.

 At the end of July, the first of what proved to be a long series of letters arrivedat area newspaper offices, with a request that the letter be published on August 1,the occult holiday known as Lammas. 

The series of letters were laced with codesthat  suggested  that  the  writer  had  a  background  in  naval  intelligence,  bringingthe ONI (Office of Naval Intelligence) onto the case. 

----> Others agencies that inves-tigated  the  Zodiac  killings  included  the  FBI,  the  U.S.  Postal  Service,  theCalifornia  Department  of  Justice,  and  four  local  police  agencies.  

On  August  4,1969, the killer supplied his moniker in a letter that began: “This is the Zodiacspeaking.” 

Just days later, on the nights of August 8 and 9, the Manson Family committed two of the most notorious multiple murders in the nation’s history: the Tate-LaBianca slayings. The Manson killings were part of a weekend orgy violence in Los Angeles that saw the city record twenty-nine known homicides injust four days.

• Before the search for the perpetrators of the high-profile murders was over, it would involve the FBI, the Mossad, the California Beverage ControlBoard,  the  U.S.  Treasury  Department,  the  L.A.  County  District  Attorney’sOffice, the LAPD, the L.A. Sheriff ’s Office, and Colonel Paul Tate—a U.S. ArmyIntelligence asset, Vietnam veteran, and the father of victim Sharon Tate.

The month after the Tate-LaBianca killings, and just after the autumnal equi-nox, a man and woman were stabbed multiple times in a San Francisco-area park.

•Despite the fact that it took nearly an hour for an ambulance to respond to a callas the pair lay bleeding, the man survived the attack.

• ***In what has to be the only known case of a serial killer showing up for work dressed in a logo-bearing costume,  the  assailant  was  described  as  wearing  a  strange  hood  with  an  attached apron  that  prominently  displayed  the  trademark  symbol  of  the  Zodiac

----> The attacker reportedly had a gun, but chose instead to use a knife, breaking from theprevious pattern and likely contributing to the survival of the male victim.

----> **Prints from a military-issue boot distributed primarily to U.S. naval bases on the westcoast were found at the scene.

----> The professed killer again called police, again froma payphone near the local police station.

----> *He reportedly left a clear palm print on the phone, but a “nervous” technician reportedly destroyed it.

On October 11, 1969, one day shy of the birthday of Aleister Crowley, a taxidriver was shot once in the head with a 9mm handgun, although it was a differ-ent 9mm than had been used previously by the Zodiac. At four San Francisco-area  crime  scenes,  the  ‘Zodiac’  had  now  used  a  different  weapon  at  each. 

The latest victim had picked up his fare on Mason Street and had then driven him toan address in the Presidio Heights area of the city, where he was promptly shot.

Some local kids witnessed the murder and immediately called the police with adescription  of  the  assailant.  For  unexplained  reasons,  however,  the  police  dis-patcher broadcast a description of a black perpetrator, allowing the real shooter toevade  a  massive  police  response. 

 Two  days  later,  a  new  letter  from  the  Zodiac claimed credit for the killing and threatened a future attack on a school bus.

in  November  1969,  two  Scientologists  were  found  savagelymurdered  on  the  streets  of  Los  Angeles.  Each  had  been  stabbed  more  than  fiftytimes. 

---->One of the victims had dated Manson disciple Bruce Davis in 1968, justbefore  Charlie  had  sent  Davis  to  London  to  visit  both  the  headquarters  of  theProcess  Church  and  the  local  Scientology  school. 

----> Davis  was  later  convicted  ofother, unrelated murder charges, and he has been identified by some researchers asa possible suspect in the Zodiac killings.

 Interestingly, one of the Zodiac’s numerous let-ters contained a coded reference to the locations of the killings.

 A decoding sug-gested that the crime scenes formed a pattern that centered on Mt. Diablo (theDevil’s Mountain) and that utilized an obscure unit of measurement known as aradian, which is a mathematical unit based on the number Pi.

---->*Process Church breakaway cult called "pi" something

Just  as  Stanley  Baker  and  Charlie  Manson  had  migrated  away  from  SanFrancisco, so too did many other disenchanted hippies and flower children moveon in the late 1960s and early 1970s. 

Many of them found refuge in the hundredsof  square  miles  of  sparsely  settled  wilderness  offered  by  the  Santa  CruzMountains, where the abundance of rich soil and clear, running water providedideal conditions for communal living and marijuana cultivation.

As  Margaret  Cheney described the scene:Every  enterprising  commune  or  solo  Druid  grew  a  patch  of cannabis;  but  it  did  not  end  there.  More  enterprising  men  began  tooperate small, portable pill factories in the remoter parts of the forest,turning out LSD and amphetamines for the city market, free of policeharassment. 

A small cult of Satanists from San Francisco liked the land-scape and opened a local parish. After them came pretenders, exploitersand  hangers-on.  The  more  sensational  news  media  promoted  theblack-mass  aura.  Small  sacrificial  animals  were  occasionally  found beheaded

Seemingly  random,  motiveless  killings  quickly  began  to  plague  Santa  Cruz.On October 19, 1970, in a case closely mirroring the slaughter of the residents ofthe Tate house the year before, John Lindley Frazier, allegedly acting alone, killed all  the  occupants  of  a  home  in  Santa  Cruz,  including  a  prominent  doctor,  hiswife, secretary, and two children.

 Frazier, who was known to have a strong inter-est in the occult, was said to have started his own lifestyle as an ‘Aquarian Age’21hermit living in a six-foot-square shack in the woods (a lifestyle later adopted byTed  Kaczynski,  who  was  a  subject  of  MK-ULTRA  experiments  while  he  was  ayoung student at Harvard, and who has been named by some researchers as a pos-sible suspect in the Zodiac killings). 

Just over a week after the Frazier killings, aHalloween card was received from the Zodiac. More cards and letters followed,the last of which arrived in 1974. 

---->The murders were never solved, though many believe  that—as  Inyo  County  District  Attorney  Frank  Fowles  has  stated—“Manson and the Zodiac Killer were connected"

Soon  after  Frazier’s  rampage,  women  began  going  missing  from  around  theSanta  Cruz  area.  As  early  as  autumn  of  1968,  reports  began  surfacing  of  grisly occult sacrifices being performed in the surrounding mountains. 

•By the summerof  1972,  it  was  clear  that  Santa  Cruz  had  a  problem.  Mutilated  bodies  beganshowing up in the hills.

---->By the time 1973 rolled around, the bodies were pilingup at an alarming rate. ---->In just the first six weeks of the year, eight bodies werefound, and women were continuing to disappear. 

---->What had once been an idyllic community had been radically transformed; the murder rate had quintupled andSanta  Cruz  had  achieved  the  rather  dubious  distinction  of  having  the  highesthomicide  rate  in  the  country.

•*Many  of  the  area’s  killings  were  credited  to  twoalleged  serial  killers,  Edmund  Kemper  and  Herb  Mullin,  who  were  said  to  be operating at the same time in the same city, though acting independently of eachother.

---->Kemper’s  bloody  odyssey  reportedly  included  eight  victims  brutally butchered between May 1972 and April 1973, most of them coeds whose corpses were  cannibalized  and  sexually  violated.  

----> Mullin  was  credited  with  dispatching thirteen victims in just four months, from October 13, 1972 through February13, 1973.

----> Mullin admitted to having a strong interest in the occult, a fact madeevident by the nature of the killings attributed to him: the first victim was killedon Friday the 13th, the second on or about Halloween, and the third murder wasthe stabbing of a Catholic priest in his confessional on November 2, celebrated asAll Souls Day

(RECAP): 

To  briefly  recap,  no  fewer  than  six  serial  killers/mass  murderers—CharlesManson, Stanley Baker, Edmund Kemper, Herbert Mullin, John Lindley Frazier,and the Zodiac—were all spawned from the Santa Cruz/San Francisco metropol-itan area in a span of just over four years, at a time when ‘serial killers’ were a rare enough  phenomenon  that  they  hadn’t  yet  acquired  a  name.

 And  another  serial killer was said to be at work not far away during the same timeframe. As Bundy chronicler Richard Larsen recounts, the bodies of at least fourteen young womenand  girls  were  found,  nude  and  with  their  belongings  missing,  in  Northern California  between  December  1969  and  December  1973.

  In  the  immediate vicinity of each of the bodies “was found an elaborate witchcraft symbol of twigsand rocks.” Remarkably enough, the crimes collectively attributed to these mendid not even account for allthe ritualized homicides that occurred in the Bay area during  that  time. 

 For  example,  the  murder  of  Fred  Bennett,  the  captain  of  theOakland chapter of the Black Panthers whose mutilated remains were found scat-tered in the Santa Cruz hills, was never solved.

 And many of the young students who were reported missing from local campuses were never found, either dead or alive, and were therefore never listed as homicide victims

On October 12, 1974, the birthday of Aleister Crowley, student Arliss Perrywas brutally murdered and left on display in the Stanford Memorial Church onthe  campus  of  Stanford  University,  nestled  in  the  shadows  of  the  Santa  CruzMountains. Perry was left lying on her back, with her head toward the altar and her legs spread wide.

----> Her  jeans  had  been  neatly  arranged  in  an  inverted  V-shape  and  placedacross  her  splayed  legs,  forming  the  Masonic  symbol  of  the  compass  and  thesquare.

---->  Five  years  earlier,  the  very  same  symbol  had  been  left  carved  into  thestomach of Manson victim Leno LaBianca, as the “W” in the word “War.” Theprime suspect in the still-unsolved murder of Perry is a man named Bill Mentzer, who knew Charles Manson and at least one of his victims: Abigail Folger. 

----> In fact, Mentzer reportedly had lunch with Folger just a few days before her death

A few years after Perry’s murder, a new rash of ‘serial killings’ began in nearbySacramento,  California. 

These  were  ultimately  attributed  to  a  man  named Richard Chase, also known as the “Vampire of Sacramento” and “The Dracula Killer.” These killers—Chase, Manson, Kemper, Mullin, the Zodiac, Frazier and Baker—heralded the dawn of a new era that soon had established ‘serial killers’ asan  ever-present  part  of  the  American  landscape. 

 Before  1960,  fewer  than  twoserial killers a year were reported nationwide. By 1970, the number had climbedto six per year; by 1980, to nearly twenty per year.

---->By 1990, nearly three-dozen serial killers a year were being reported across the country

*****The  years  covered  by  the  occult  bloodbath  in  Northern  California,  1967through  1973,  correspond  precisely  to  the  years  that  the  Phoenix  Program  inVietnam  was  in  full  operation  (although  similar  programs,  under  differentnames, existed prior to 1967). In September 1973, the head of the Phoenix oper-ation,  William  Colby,  was  appointed  as  the  new  Director  of  the  CentralIntelligence Agency. Phoenix had officially come home

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(MANSON)

I tend to think that there is something more, some missing link thatenabled him to so rape and bastardize the minds of his followers thatthey would go against the most ingrained of all commandments, Thoushalt not kill, and willingly, even eagerly, murder at his command.Charlie himself once gave an indication of how he controlled his flock: “If youwant to get to people and unlock their minds, the basic way you get to them isthrough  fear.” 

 That  was  a  concept  that  borrowed  from  the  teachings  of  theProcess Church. In a summer 1969 interview, Beach BoyDennis Wilson spoke of“getting the fear.” In the same interview, he referred to Charlie as “the Wizard.”

While pondering the question of howManson was able to exert such control,Bugliosi  largely  ignores  a  perhaps  even  more  important  question: where did Charlie  learn  the  techniques  that  he  was  obviously  so  skilled  at?

***Another  question  never  addressed  by  Bugliosi  is  how  it  was  possible  that  aman  of  limited  education,  who  had  spent  the  majority  of  his  life  behind  bars,somehow  acquired  those  skills  while  U.S.  intelligence  agencies,  after  investing countless millions of dollars in decades of research aimed at attaining that verysame goal, have allegedly met with nothing but failure.

[PG. 239 - THE COLLECTORS]

Leonard Lake was a collector. He started collecting in the San Francisco area asearly  as  July  1984.  Bob  Berdella  was  also  a  collector.  He  started  collecting  inKansas City, Missouri in July 1984. Gary Heidnik was another collector. He didnot start collecting in Philadelphia until November 1986, unless you count hisfirst failed attempt in 1978. Jeffrey Dahmer was probably the best known of thecollectors.  He  started  collecting  in  Milwaukee  in  1990,  around  the  same  timethat Herb Baumeister started collecting in Indianapolis

In November 1961, Gary Heidnik joined the U.S. Army and requested thathe be trained as a military policeman. The Army though opted to send him to Ft.Sam Houston near San Antonio, Texas for training as a medic. When that train-ing was completed, he was sent to an Army hospital in West Germany to work asan  orderly. That  did  not  work  out  too  well,  however,  especially  after  the  Armybegan experimenting on him with powerful hallucinogenic drugs, as his recordswould later reveal. He was sent back to a military hospital here in the States andthen released early with an honorable discharge. He later became a collector

In January 1979, Jeffrey Dahmer joined the U.S. Army and requested that hebe trained as a military policeman. The Army though opted to send him to Ft.Sam Houston near San Antonio, Texas for training as a medic. When that train-ing was completed, he was sent to an Army hospital in West Germany to work asan orderly. That did not work out too well, however, and Jeffrey was released earlywith an honorable discharge. He later became a collector

----> Now  that  seems  a  little  odd.  And  while  we  are  on  the  subject  of  JeffreyDahmer, his hometown of Bath, Ohio was just fifteen miles from Bob Berdella’shometown of Cuyahoga Falls. That seems a little odd as well.

ollectors  generally  have  much  in  common. Their  primary  concern  is  withcontrol, which they attempt to gain by torturing their victims into submission.Along the way, they tend to take numerous photos and shoot a number of homevideos.  Some  of  these  they  keep  for  themselves,  and  some  they  sell  to  others.Collectors also like to keep various body parts lying around the house and theygenerally keep their freezers well stocked with unmarked meat. Some collectorsare  prone  to  race-war  diatribes  and  have  grand  plans  to  keep  large  stables  offemale  sex  slaves  as  breeders.  These  collectors  are  not  unlike  Charles  Manson,except  that  their  techniques  are  somewhat  cruder.  Leonard  Lake  and  GaryHeidnik are examples that type of collector. Other collectors are not concernedwith acquiring breeders; they prefer to collect young men and boys. These collec-tors  are  not  unlike  John  Wayne  Gacy.  Bob  Berdella,  Jeffrey  Dahmer  and  HerbBaumeister all fit into that category.

Here are the stories of the collectors and the havoc they wreaked in the late1980s and early 1990s.

(LEONARD LAKE):

Leonard  Lake  was  born  in  San  Francisco  and  raised  primarily  by  a  grand-mother who reportedly was a strict disciplinarian. His father was said to be abu-sive and cold. His mother was a licensed practical nurse with experience workingin mental wards. She later said that the family always encouraged Leonard to takean interest in the naked human form and to take pictures of girls, including hissisters and cousins. Leonard’s brother was reportedly abusive to animals and hehad  a  keen  interest  in  fire.  ‘Mental  illness’  ran  in  every  generation  of  the  Lake family

Lake later became a member of the Society for Creative Anachronism (SCA),described by chronicler Joseph Harrington as a “cult based on medieval worshipinvolving  sacrifices.”  Lake’s  ex-wife,  who  sometimes  modeled  for  the  hardcoreS&M videos that Leonard produced and sold, admitted that her former spousehad  a  longstanding  affiliation  with  a  San  Francisco  “witches  coven.”

***Some  of Leonard’s  friends  later  recalled  that  he  often  boasted  of  membership  in  a  secret“death  cult.”  According  to  chronicler  Joel  Norris,  Lake  “supported  himself  bymaking snuff videos and selling drugs.” He also was known to stockpile guns.

----> In his free time, he worked with kids at a local 4-H Club. According to one report,that club was later the target of allegations of ritual abuse

• (Execution): Henry somehow managed to escape the death penalty while incarcerated in Texas

----> Given the advocacy of the death penaltyby  then-Governor  George  W.  Bush,  things  were  not  looking  good  for  Henry.Bush had not granted clemency to any condemned man throughout his tenure asgovernor. In fact, no governor of any state at any time in the history of the coun-try had carried out more judicial executions than Governor Bush. 

----> "On June 18, just twelve days beforeHenry’s scheduled demise, Governor Bush made a special request that the Texas71

State Board of Pardons and Paroles, whose members were all Bush appointees, toreview Henry’s case. Strangely enough, eight days later the Board uncharacteristi-cally  issued  a  recommendation  that  Henry’s  execution nottake  place. The  nextday, just three days short of Henry’s scheduled exit from this world, Lucas becamethe first—and ultimately the only—recipient of Governor Bush’s compassionate conservatism."

Ottis Toole

Ted Bundy

Richard Ramirez

Charlie Manson

Zodiac

Son of Sam

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MILITARY EXPERIENCE:

Berkowitz - 

Gary rideway

BTK

Leonard Blake

Arthur sharcross

Anthony Sole

Gary Heidneck

Robert Lee Gates

Richard Allen Davis

Timothy McVeigh

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QUOTES:

“You don’t understand me. You are not expected to. You are notcapable of it. I am beyond good and evil. Legions of the night, nightbreed, repeat not the errors of the Night Prowler and show nomercy.”—Richard “The Night Stalker” Ramirez

“There are other ‘Sons’ out there—God help the world.”—David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz

“What about your children? You say there are just a few? There aremany, many more, coming in the same direction. They are runningin the streets—and they are coming right at you!”—Charles Milles Manson

“The really scary thing is that there are a lot of people who are notin prison, a lotof people who are not in prison, who were far moresuccessful than I.”—Theodore Robert Bundy

“All across the country, there’s people just like me, who set out todestroy human life.”—Henry Lee Lucas

“Henry is an unusual prisoner. He’s been given a high securitycell and a few special amenities...”—Jim Boutwell, Sheriff of Williamson County, Texas

• Consider  the  “civilised”  city  of  Auxerre,  France.  In  late  March  2002,  theGuardianran a brief report by correspondent Jon Henley that began as follows:The  French  justice  ministry  took  disciplinary  action  yesterday against three prosecutors involved in the case of an alleged serial killer who escaped prosecution for more than 20 years. 

  • The  justice  minister,  Marylise  Lebranchu,  sacked  one  prosecutor,Daniel  Stilinovic,  and  transferred  another,  Jacques  Cazals,  from  his post in the Paris public prosecutor’s office, for their negligence in the case of Emile Louis...A  third,  retired,  prosecutor,  Rene  Meyer,  was  stripped  of  his  hon-orary title. All three magistrates worked in the northern Burgundy city of Auxerre in the 1980s and 1990s and were found guilty by a discipli-nary panel of a range of serious errors, including “lack of professional honour.”

  • Fifteen  months  before  that  report,  Emile  Louis  had  confessed  to  murdering seven  mentally  handicapped  women  who  had  disappeared  without  a  trace between  1977  and  1979.

    •   He  had  subsequently  withdrawn  his  confession  and asserted that the girls had been “abused, abducted and finally killed by a ring of high-ranking local men.” At the time of the women’s disappearances, investiga-tions had been hastily dropped and the missing women listed as runaways. It was not until more than two decades later, following Louis’ confession, that a serious inquiry was made into the fate of the missing girls.

    •  That inquiry led to what theGuardian referred to as “further, even more disturbing discoveries”:The  chief  prosecutor  in  Auxerre,  Suzanne  le  Queau,  said  late  last year  that  almost  all  the  inquiries  into  the  cases  of  about  30  youngwomen  who  vanished  in  Burgundy  over  the  past  30  years  had  been either mysteriously shelved or deliberately mishandled. 

    • Moreover, the files relating to most of the criminal inquiries shelved in  Auxerre  between  1958  and  1982—including  17  missing  young women—had been either stolen or destroyed, and a dozen post-1982inquiries  involving  missing  young  women  for  which  the  files  stil lremained had all been inexplicably dropped.

    • **Lawyers  for  the  victims’  families  are  talking  of  a  sex  ring  which abducted, raped and murdered up to 30 girls in the 70s and 80s and was  powerful  enough  to  stifle  any  subsequent  investigation.  A  full inquiry into what may prove the biggest cover-up in French legal history is under way.

• In  July  2002,  the  Monster  of  Florence  case  was  in  the  news  once  again.  A series of profaned corpses were turning up, and there were indications that these crimes, committed against the corpses of the elderly, were linked to the case. 

  • The first  such  corpse  had  been  discovered  the  previous  month,  on  the  summer  sol-stice. A report in the Sunday Herald indicated that the satanic rites performed in conjunction with the Monster of Florence killings had been conducted at a senior citizen’s home where Pacciani had once worked as a gardener. 

  • Resident’s at the home at that time included the father of Florence’s deputy attorney. Some of the profaned  corpses  surfacing  in  the  summer  of  2002  were  also  connected  to  the home. 

  • Also  revealed  in  the Herald report  was  that,  in  2001,  police  had  raided  the home  of  Aurelio  Mattei,  a  psychiatrist  for  the  French  secret  services.  In  1992, Mattei authored a book that alluded to evidence in the Monster case that was not uncovered by investigators until a decade later. The home of Francisco Bruno, a criminologist  and  prominent  television  talking-head,  was  also  raided.  Bruno’s name was on one of the drug prescriptions that killed Pacciani.

• In May 2003, the UK’s Guardian reported that convicted French serial killer Patrice Alegre was “not the lone psychopath he was made out to be at his trial last year,” according to the sworn statements of former prostitutes.

  •  “He is alleged to have acted for most of the 1990s as the leader of a sado-masochistic sex ring, sup-plying  women  and  drugs  for  debauched,  and  at  times  violent,  evenings  frequented  by  senior  policemen,  judges,  businessmen,  sports  personalities  andpoliticians.”

  • The  claims  surfaced  “during  a  police  investigation  into  allegationsthat  Patrice  Alegre,  a  serial  killer  who  is  serving  a  life  sentence  for  killing  fivewomen, was for years offered illegal protection by corrupt police and magistratesin the south-western city of Toulouse.”

  • According to a BBC report, Alegre, a policeman’s son and an employee of thepolice  department’s  cafeteria,  “is  also  under  investigation  in  connection  with  a criminal network in Toulouse said to have involved minors and cocaine.”

  • - Other allegations,   as   recounted   by   the Observer,   involved   “white   slavery,   sado-masochism, rapes, sex with minors, drug dealing and appalling brutality—all in the heart of the government of one of France’s most historic and most civilisedcities.”

  • Alegre claimed that at least some of the murders he committed were orderedby  some  of Toulouse’s  most  prominent  citizens. The  killings,  he  said,  served  to silence witnesses and eliminate blackmail threats arising from what the Guardian described  as  “sado masochistic  orgies  involving  politicians,  judges  and  police.

  • ”Two former prostitutes who had been recruited by Alegre for some of those par-ties corroborated his allegations. One judge admitted that there was “some truth”to the story told by the two women of “an official cover-up of Alegre’s crimes.” Another judge “has admitted to drinking with Alegre,” who is known to have run Toulouse’s prostitution business in the early 1990s

• Also in June 2003, Michel Barrau was appointed as the prosecutor-general forthe case. His appointment immediately raised concerns among lawyers, according to the Observer, owing to the fact that Barrau had previously been “credited with stopping an investigation into corruption among senior right-wing politicians in85David McGowan   • 

• Paris before last year’s general election.”

  •  Barrau was, in other words, no stranger to political cover-ups. Before the month was out, the evidence in the case, according to a Reuters’ headline, had “evaporated.” 

  • Alegre reneged on his confession after one of the prostitute witnesses purportedly admitted lying about seeing senior officials at  S&M  orgies.

• And there could be nothing to the fact that Toole, who was convicted in the state of Florida, shared with Henry the fate of having his death sentence commuted. Florida is, of course, a state that is also overly zealous in its application of the  death  penalty,  although  not  zealous  enough  to  execute  the  likes  of  Ottis Toole. In  any  event,  it’s  interesting  to  note  that  both  of  these  men  had  their  death sentences set aside in a state that was, until January 2001, run by a member of the Bush family.

• It is interesting also to take note of the case of the man known as the “Railroad  Killer,”  Rafael  Resendez-Ramirez.  On  July  13,  1999,  Ramirez  was reported to have walked across a bridge from Juarez, Mexico into El Paso, Texasand  turned  himself  in. 

  •  At  the  time,  he  was  wanted  for  a  string  of  nine  alleged serial  killings.  Mirroring  the  circumstances  surrounding  Henry’s  final  arrest,Ramirez  had  been  taken  into  custody  several  weeks  prior  by  the  U.S.  Border Patrol, only to be promptly released—despite his presence on FBI most-wanted lists, and despite the issuing of alerts to the immigration service, and despite the fact that a nationwide manhunt was underway.

  • Between this detainment and his surrender, Ramirez claimed four more vic-tims.  Apparently,  he  still  had  a  little  work  left  to  complete.  Having  done  so,Ramirez then made the incomprehensible decision to surrender to Texas authori-ties. 

  • Crossing the border into Texas, Ramirez left a country with no death penaltyand entered the execution capital of the Western world.

  •  The Los Angeles Times, in reporting on his surrender, noted he was “adamant he wanted to surrender to a Texas Ranger,” and “he had not requested an attorney and was cooperating with detectives.”

  •  In the same article, it is noted that authorities say Ramirez is “strik-ingly intelligent.”Strikingly intelligent? Not based on the actions he took on July 13, 1999. But then again, perhaps Ramirez knows something about the Texas criminal justice system that the rest of us do not.

  •  Interestingly enough, Lucas was reportedly fascinated  by  the  Ramirez  case.  While  the  manhunt  was  underway,  he  told  the Houston Post: “I follow his case on the TV...I’d like to meet him.” They presumably would have much to talk about.

  • Ramirez, by the way, was born in Matamoros, Mexico and, according to his mother, was raised there outside of the home by non-family members.

[QUOTES BY RAMIREZ]

“At some time I have start(ed) to hear funny voices, like a person calling me, but no one call me.”

—Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, in a letter to a reporter in Houston following his surrender to authorities“

“Can I tell you who really I am, with all the secrecy that’s in the family? I only have one purpose in life, and that’s to express some of my views and some of the views that I have been instructed—anything that can put down Christianity, anything that can put down democracy, anything that can put down freedom.”

—Rafael Resendez-Ramirez, delivering his closing argument to a jury in St. Louis, March 1989

(HERB MULLIN AND ED KEMPER PARALLEL LIVES)

Edmund  Kemper  III  and  Herbert  Mullin—Santa  Cruz’s  dueling  serial killers—lived what were, in many respects, strangely parallel lives. 

• Both were born the sons of World War II heroes, Kemper on December 18,1948,  and  Mullin  on  April  18,  1947.  Edmund  Emil  Kemper,  Jr.  was  a  Special Forces  operative  whose  specialty,  according  to  his  son,  was  suicide  missions. 

• Martin  William  Mullin  served  as  a  highly  decorated  captain  in  the  Pacific.According to his son, Martin voluntarily committed himself to a mental hospital at the close of the war. 

• Both of these men liked to regale their sons with graphic war stories. Young Herb was taught that violence is natural, and Ed’s childhood home was filled with what Margaret Cheney described as “mementos of battle-field gore and heroics.”148•   Program

• In  their  youth,  both  Herb  and  Ed  received  training  in  firearms  from  theNational Rifle Association while at summer camp.

•  Both would later be accused and convicted of killing with the cold precision of a professional assassin.

•  Both were  also  labeled  ‘serial  killers,’  though  both  were  convicted  of  crimes  that  evi-dence suggests they did not commit—at least not alone.

• Both  of  their  alleged  killing  sprees  began  in  1972  in  Santa  Cruz,  California and  both  were  arrested  in  early  1973. 

•  Following  those  arrests,  the  two  were assigned  adjoining  jail  cells,  appointed  the  same  defense  attorney,  examined  by the same psychiatrist, and their cases were prosecuted by the same district attorney, at least until Chang bowed out of the Mullin case due to a medical emergency.

• Kemper and Mullin were both found guilty, both determined to be sane,and both were sent to California’s Vacaville Medical Facility, which has been well documented as a hotbed of covert intelligence operations. 

• Not long before their killing  sprees  began,  both  men  spent  a  considerable  amount  of  time  in  mental institutions, both voluntarily and involuntarily. In the two years leading up to the convictions of Kemper and Mullin, at least seventy-four men, women and chil-dren were killed in the state of California by released mental patients.

• Herb Mullin was, by all outward appearances, the quintessential All-American boy. He was a bright student, a talented athlete, and was popular enough to have been voted “most likely to succeed” by his graduating class at San Lorenzo Valley High School.

•  But he was also known to consume large quantities of hallucino-genic drugs and he had “Legalize Acid” boldly tattooed across his stomach.

• On April 21, 1968, just three days after his 21stbirthday, Mullin was arrested for  possession  of  the  substance  referenced  in  another  of  Herb’s  tattoos:  “EagleEyes  Marijuana.”  He  cryptically  wrote  to  his  parents  of  that  experience:  “That day the GAME started.” 

• The personable young man—who was known to have a keen interest in astrology,  numerology,  reincarnation,  magic  and  the  occult—was  institutional-ized at least four more times over the next few years, including a voluntary com-mitment to Mendocino State Hospital near Ukiah.

•  On July 30, 1970, Herb wasagain  arrested  on  drug  charges  and  ordered  into  the  psychiatric  ward  of  the county hospital. That  same  year,  he  met  an  older  woman  named  Pat  Brown  at  a  Santa  Cruzcommune,  and  she  soon  thereafter  convinced  him  to  accompany  her  to  Maui. Once there, Herb was once again committed to a mental hospital. 

• According to Manson chronicler Ed Sanders, the hospital was run by the U.S. Army. Sandersalso claimed, in a letter to famed ‘conspiracy’ researcher Mae Brussell, that a mind control project in operation on the Hawaiian Islands at the time was specifically aimed at creating ‘serial killers.’

•  While on Maui, Mullin—whose other tattoos read“Mahas hamadhi,”  “Kriya  Yoga,”  and  the  word  “Birth”  with  two  crosses—also spent time at the Krishna Temple. Upon his return to the mainland, he was met at the airport by the son of a prominent local doctor, Richard Koch. Mullin reportedly revealed to him that he had received electroshock treatments while on Maui.

•  in May, moved to San Francisco, where he remained for the next sixteen months, although late rhe had only vague memories of that lengthy period.  For the most part, he could not  account  for  that  entire  one-and-a-half-year  slice  of  his  life.  

• He  lived  in  the city’s ‘Tenderloin’ district, where Charlie Manson had taken up residence just a few years earlier. Herb stayed in the company of young male hustlers in a series ofseedy hotel rooms and, at times, in his car. 

• Friends and acquaintances from tha tperiod of his life universally described him as sweet, tender, sensitive, and com-pletely  incapable  of  killing  anyone.  Strangely  though,  he  also  appears  to  have been a Golden Gloves boxer during that time.

• Throughout his adult life, Herb complained frequently of voices in his head, haunting his thoughts. He regularly told those around him that he was receiving messages,  including  commands  to  kill,  that  were  delivered  in  his  father’s  voice. Herb would later state: “I feel that I was under my father’s control, like a robot.”Mullin was also known to tell people that his father, a Mason, was a mass murderer  responsible  for  countless  unsolved  killings  up  and  down  the  California coast.

•  During the largely blacked-out period that he spent in San Francisco, Herbengaged in what is known as backward writing, a hypnotically conditioned skill that is frequently indicative of mind control programming. Mullin was ultimately diagnosed  as  suffering  from  MPD;  his  alters  were  said  to  include  a  Mexicanlaborer, an Eastern philosopher, and, bizarrely enough, local columnist and unofficial Anton LaVey publicist Herb Caen.

RANDOM ED KEMPER DETAIL

When  Ed  Kemper  was  just  a  toddler,  his  father  headed  off  for  the  Pacific,where he spent two years working on the U.S. atomic bomb testing program, asdid the father of the so-called “Sunset Strip Killer”

• One  particularly  bizarre  aspect  of  the  crimes  attributed  to  Ed  Kemper  andHerb Mullin is that the body of one of Ed’s alleged victims and the body of oneof  Herb’s  alleged  victims  were  found  buried  in  the  virtually  the  same  isolated,remote location. As Kemper himself noted, the body of his victim was discovered“amazingly close to where the girl from Cabrillo was found up there, stabbed.”

• Kemper’s trial was a largely pointless affair that featured the very same cast ofcharacters that had starred in the Frazier and Mullin trials. No one in the court-room ever questioned whether Ed was factually guilty of the crimes, or whetherhe had acted alone. After all, he had given what Cheney described as “one of themost detailed, articulate, and chilling confessions of sadism, murder, mutilation,cannibalism, and necrophilia in the annals of crime.”

•  He had also taken the timet o document his barbarity with a large collection of ‘snuff ’ photos. What the con-fessions and photos revealed was a series of unbelievably sadistic crimes that were laced with occult symbolism. 

• This had led some avenues of the media to theorize,prior to Ed’s arrest, that the yet-to-be-identified killer was a member of a devil-worshiping cult.Just as Mullin had unwisely chosen to take the stand in his own defense, so too did Kemper

Incidentally, John Frazier, like Kemper,had spent time with the CYA; he also claimed, like Mullin, to hear voices in his head. The phenomenon of hearing voices, though considered by psychiatrists tobe auditory hallucinations indicative of delusional thought processes, is actually a quite logical manifestation of both Multiple Personality Disorder and mind con-trol  programming,  the  two  frequently  going  hand-in-hand. 

•  Many  researchers have put forth the idea that the hearing of such voices, and particularly the receiving  of  specific  commands,  is  a  result  of  various  high-tech  forms  of  electromag-netic  mind  control,  such  as  inter-cerebral  implants.  However,  while  such technology no doubt exists, it really is not necessary to explain the phenomenon of  hearing  voices—a  phenomenon  that  long  predates  the  development  of  any technological means to produce it.In all probability, what the voices represent are the various alter personalities of a  person  with  a  severe  dissociative  disorder  communicating  with  that  person’s core  personality,  which  has  no  conscious  awareness  of  the  alters  and  so  experi-ences  their  voices  as  disembodied  “voices  in  the  head.” 

•  The  voices,  in  other words, are essentially a one-way internal conversation between different personal-ities inhabiting the same body. In a sense then, the voices are not a delusion at all,for the afflicted person is not imagining that someone is talking to him; someone is talking to him.

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