2000
Prince William County, VA - Michael Lenz, a drifter serving 29 years in
prison for burglary and firearm possession, converted to Asatru
(Odinism), a Neopagan religion that worships Thor, and started a prison
chapter called Ironwood Kindred. During a ceremony, Lenz with the help
of fellow inmate and Odinist, Jeffrey Remington, kills fellow inmate
and Odinist Brent Parker. "I called [Parker] up to the altar..." Lenz
testified at his trial. "And I pulled a knife out of my pocket and I
said, 'Are you trying to take it to the next step?' And he said, 'Yes,
I am.' And so I stabbed him."

In prisons across the United
States, the
number of converts has increased in recent years, according to experts,
some of whom say prisoners find encouragement for violence in the gods
they worship. "This is a warrior thing," said Heidi Beirich, deputy
director of the Intelligence Project for the Southern Poverty Law
Center, which tracks hate groups and extremist organizations. "What
they take out of it is violence, physical dominance and racial purity.
To them, Thor represents the ultimate white male." Beirich said there
are racist and nonracist versions of the religion in prisons and among
the general population. Remington was sentenced to death for Parker's
slaying, but he killed himself on death row in 2004. Parker was
executed in 2006. He practiced Odnism even on death row, not seeing how
it had ruined his life. (AP)

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2000, Murfreesboro, Tennessee - Alonzo South, 31, pleaded guilty to
three counts of aggravated sexual battery. He was sentenced to 24 years
in prison. South admitted that on at least three occasions over the
last two years he participated in Satanic rituals in which a nude girl
under the age of 10 was sexually touched. Court records say the child,
who was the daughter of a woman involved in the Satanic group, was
raped in a home, the nearby woods, a shed, a pickup truck and a car.
See, (The Tennessean, Sept. 30, 2000).

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2000, Nashville, Tennessee - A Federal judge was asked to hold the
State of Tennesee in contempt of court in Feb. for its continued
failure to provide court-ordered and doctor-prescribed mental health
services to a severely traumatized 17-year-old victim (called "Sara C.
to protect her identity) of rape as part of a Satanic ritual,. A State
advocacy group, Tennessee Justice Center, filed a class action lawsuit
against the state for failure to properly administer the appeals
procedure for the health care plan enrollees of TennCare, (Tennessee
Behavioral Health). The 17 yr. old victim was just one of the people
named in the settlement but she was left without proper care until this
motion was filed. In April, the state agreed to properly attend to her
care.(AP)

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2000 Grand Island, NY - Wiccan James R. Walsh was charged with
first-degree murder for the death of his father, 42-year-old James L.
Walsh. James L. Walsh's body was found in the back of a delivery van.
Timothy J. Vlock, 20, was charged with being an accessory to the
killing. Vlock told police that he watched Walsh perform a Wiccan
ritual before going into the bedroom and holding a pillow over his
sleeping father's head and killing him, according to search warrants
filed in district court. Police said they confiscated an altar made
from a box, two candles, a dragon statue, dragon cards and a homemade
bong from the Walshes' apartment. Zerlina Eischeid a Wiccan friend of
Walsh naievely told the press "Our magic is just like a Christian or
Catholic praying," LOL! Excuse me, but Christians don't smother people
in their sleep as part of prayer! Someone get that kid a copy of
Christianity For Dummies or something. The occult attracts mentally
unstable people, it isn't just "xtian propaganda", deal with it. (AP)

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2000, Springfield, Mass - Two Thelemites are jailed after one stole a
handwritten manuscript written by Aleister Crowley. The man threatened
to blow up the would be thief with dynamite. He was later arrested by
the police and charged with aggrevated assault. (AP)

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2000 Kent, New York - Patricia Ann Garofalo, 39, was charged with two
counts of fourth-degree grand larceny. The police said she used her
employer's telephone and credit card numbers to make calls to psychic
hotlines totalling $4700. Garofalo called many hot lines,
including Eclipse Psychic, for $4.59 per minute, Voice of Astrology,
which offers personal astrology consultations by phone costing $95 for
30 minutes, and weekly chart readings for $249 per month. Garofalo told
police she started calling the hot lines after her boyfriend broke up
with her. Detective Gerald Locascio of the Kent Police Department said,
''We asked her if the psychics told her we'd catch her, and she said
no, but that she had a feeling we would.'' Gee, you don't suppose
psychics and astrology are a load of bunk, do you? (N.Y. Times
8-25-2000)

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2000 Buenos Aires, Argentina - The mutilated body of Juan Carlos
Vazquez was found on Monday surrounded by his two daughters, Silvina,
21 and Gabriela 29, who stabbed their father 100 times and ate part of
his face. Police revealed details of the strange crime, announcing that
the three of them belonged to a cult known as the "Alchemy Center for
Transmutation." According to the police, apparently the father and
daughters engaged in a ritual that ended with the murder of Juan Carlos
Vazquez. Juan Carlos' body was found not only with 100 knife wounds,
but also marked with cuts forming a strange figure.

The killing took place in the living room, after the
furniture was moved to one side. In the place were found cups with
strange liquids and a book of "alchemy rites." When the police entered
the home, the two daughters were screaming in a state of shock, one
invoking Satan, the other one saying that Satan had finally left her
father's body. According to Jose Maria Baamonde, a psychologist from
Fundacion Spes, a Catholic institution dedicated to studying the
growing number of sects and cults, the cult to which the Vazquez'
belonged "is the type of organization that is becoming tremendously
popular by combining some elements of Gnosticism and strange formulas
and rites which they claim have been inherited from the ancient
Alchemists." Baamonde explained that, despite the sect's self-portrayal
as an institution devoted to self-knowledge and self-discipline, "some
of their rites explicitly invoke the presence and power of the Devil.
(Reuters)

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2000 Warsaw, Poland - In April A 19-year-old woman and a 17-year-old
boy were killed during a ritual Satanic Black Mass in southern Poland,
police said after finding the cut up and burned bodies. The two victims
were members of a sect that staged the black mass in a disused bunker
on the outskirts of the town of Ruda Slaska, but they did not know they
were to die. Another teenage cult member who survived was taken to the
hospital with multiple knife wounds. Satanists Tomasz Suszyna,and
Robert Krakowian plead guilty to the murders & sentenced to life in
prison. (Reuters)

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2000 Franklin County, OH - In march A mother and father who had their
children taken away by child protective services failled to comply with
the reunification plans. The court stated that in addition to physical
abuse and neglect of the children, Satanic occult practices were
"commonplace" at the household. After being in counseling for over
three years, the mother continued to deny what happened to her children
and claimed "an inability to remember" the abuse, rather than denying
it. There was even testimony that appellant mother could also "not
recall" taking blood and hair from the children as part of satanic
rituals, but didn't deny it. And the reason some social worker
thought these nutcases should get their kids back after a few parenting
classes was...??? At any rate, the children were later adopted out. (AP)

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2000 Aug. Brasilia, Brazil - Brazilian police said on Friday they
arrested two Quimbanda priests for the murder of a 6-year-old boy who
bled to death in a black-magic ceremony. In statements to police,
Joaquim Alves, 71, and his girlfriend Priscila Souza Ferreira, 22,
blamed each other for the murder of Carlos Andres de Jesus Barros, who
disappeared in the impoverished Brazilian state of Bahia. Soares said
the two voodoo priests killed the boy after Alves' 10-year-old son led
him to the house. Alves told police that his girlfriend has tried to
kill other children as well. "We are investigating the possibility they
have killed other children. This, unfortunately, is a possibility, but
I am not able to say more at this time," Soares said. The boy was found
dead at the bottom of a well with his clothes removed, his hands and
feet bound and two puncture wounds in his stomach, authorities said.

The couple led police to the body after their
shantytown neighbours tipped-off authorities. "One neighbour called,
saying the boy kept crying and screaming, that he was suffering," said
lead investigator Juliana de Oliveira Soares. "Inside the house, we
found a series of religious icons, all of them of spirits that do harm.
Then we found the body." Enraged after learning of the murder,
townspeople on Friday destroyed Alves' makeshift home in the tropical
city of Vitoria da Conquista. Some leaders of the Afro Brazilian
religious culture tried to distance themselves from the slaying, just
like Satanic groups do in the U.S.A do when a Satanist sacrifices
someone to Satan. "These people, these are witch-doctors. They have
nothing to do with any houses of worship here," said Antonio Bispo, an
official at the Bahian Federation of Afro Cults. (Reuters)

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2001 London, England In Feb. Thelemite and jobless drifter Henry Bibby
(alias Edward Crowley) was sentenced to life imprisonment at the Old
Bailey for carrying out a Thelma ritual of child sacrifice on an
innocent twelve-year-old victim. He had stabbed the boy, Diego
Pineiro-Villar, over thirty times in Covent Garden, London, on 8 May
2000. Police found a bag that Bibby had kept with him. It contained a
small number of legal documents about his change of name, and a
chilling sketch that police believe was drawn a few weeks before the
attack. Entitled Delendus Est Pineiro, which roughly translates as
“destroy Pineiro,” the pencil diagram makes references to child
sacrifice, black magic and Greek mythology. The symbols relate to
quotations from Crowley’s works. There were a number of references to
child sacrifice, including one from Aleister Crowley’s Magick in Theory
and Practice that read, “For the highest spiritual working one must
accordingly choose that victim which contains the greatest and purest
force. A male child of perfect innocence and high intelligence is the
most satisfactory and suitable victim.”. (BBC News)

2001 Lake Charles,Louisiana David Daniel Settlemyer pleads guilty to
attempting to persuade a man to travel to Louisiana to have sex with a
minor, as well as to sending child pornography by computer. With this
and other charges, Settlemyer may face life in prison. Prosecutors
claim that Settlemyer tried to convince someone he met on-line (who
turned out to be an undercover FBI agent) to come to Louisiana to
kidnap and rape three girls. Settlemyer had previously been convicted
for kidnapping and attempted kidnapping. A California man, Chance
Rearden, faces a number of charges related to an alleged attempt by
Rearden to persuade Settlemyer to go to California to hunt, kidnap,
rape, and kill children. Authorities claim that Rearden is an admitted
neo-Nazi, Satanist, and white supremacist. (AP)

2001 Moscow, Russia Police arrested a man who confessed to murdering
four people in a basement in the Russian capital in what appears to
have been ritual Satanic slayings, Interfax reported on 3-17-01. One of
the police investigators quoted by Interfax news agency, said the
murders appeared to have been committed by a Satanic cult judging by
the way the bodies were mutilated and other evidence at the crime
scene. At around 3.30 a.m on Saturday, the fire service received a
phone call reporting a blaze in the basement of an apartment building
in eastern Moscow, Police Lieutenant-Colonel Fyodor Agapov told
Interfax.When fire fighters arrived at the scene, they found the
decomposed bodies of two women and two men. Three of them had been
decapitated and one man's chest was cut open.There were candles around
the bodies, which were also decorated with flowers.(TASS)

2001 Georgia Statewide Satanist Jay Scott Ballinger, 36, of Yorktown,
Indiana, recieved a life sentnce for the torching of some 26 churches
including 5 in Georgia, one of which killed a firefighter. It was the
largest number of fires charged to one individual during the task
force's nearly 3-year-old investigation, said Treasury Undersecretary
James Johnson, the task force co-chairman. The task force has opened
investigations of 752 church fires, bombings or attempted bombings and
has charged 331 individuals in 249 of those attacks. Racial prejudice
was not a motivation as Ballinger was "a white man charged with setting
fire to predominantly white churches," Acting Assistant Attorney
General Bill Lann Lee, task force co-chairman, said at a news
conference at the Justice Department. Ballinger traveled with his
girlfriend, Angela Wood, 24, of Atlanta, as she worked as a stripper in
several states.

Wood and another man, Donald A. Puckett, 37,
of Lebanon, Ind., have told federal agents they took part with
Ballinger in burning an Indiana church where they painted an
upside-down cross on the steps as part of a satanic ritual. Mostly
unemployed since he settled back into his parents' rural home in 1990,
Ballingerhad two scrapes with the law before the arson case. In 1994,
he was cited for giving minors alcohol. That same year, parents
complained he was recruiting teen-agers into a cult. At Ballinger's
home, Daleville Police Sgt. Mark Brewer confiscated about 50 contracts
signed in blood by teen-agers who agreed to give their souls to the
devil and do "all types of evil" in exchange for wealth, power and sex.

Ballinger was not charged and successfully
sued to get the contracts back, Brewer said. Yeah, why that's religious
persecution by the "evil xtians" against a harmless peace-loving
Satanist! (The Capital, 4-14-01)

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2001 Moscow,Russia On Mar 18, Russian police arrested a self
described Satanist who confessed to sacrificing four people in a
basement in ritual Satanic slayings. A fire reported in the building
led to the discovery. When fire fighters arrived at the scene, they
found the decomposed bodies of two women and two men. Three of them had
been decapitated and one man's chest was cut open. There were candles
around the bodies, which were also decorated with flowers (Agence
France Presse, Interfax)

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2001 London, England Londoners were horrified by the sight of the
dimembered corpse of a child floating down the River Thames in Sept.
The child had been murdered as part of a Voodoo sacrifice. The child,
called "Adam" by police, turned out to be a Nigerian national, and lead
police to breaking up a major child trafficking ring, possibly saving
many other West African children from a life of slavery, prostitution,
child pr0nography...and even worse.

Police say Adam had been earmarked for human
sacrifice when he was smuggled into the UK. Richard Hoskins, a
U.K.based expert on African religion and Voodoo, was called in on the
case. He told reporters human sacrifice is a highly unusual aspect of
black magic but that Nigerians themselves acknowledge that sacrificial
killings often occur. He also added that Animal-blood offerings are
deeply rooted in West African voodoo culture. It's regarded as a way to
"communicate with the spirit world and gain protection from ancestral
deities". To find out why and by whom, murder squad detectives traveled
to Nigeria and the city of Benin. With the trafficking gang's
ringleader now in jail, detectives remain hopeful that Adam's killers
can finally be brought to justice. (BBC News)

2001 Dayton, OH Satanist Darrell W. Ferguson, 23, takes advatange of a
2-day pass to go on a crime and killing spree. While robbing people to
fuel his huffing and crack habits, he brutally stabbed 61-year-old
Thomas King Sr. in his Dayton home on Dec. 23, 2001, and stomped and
kicked him with his steel-toed boots. A day later, he did the same to
Arlie and Mae Fugate, aged 68 and 69. He left bloody impressions of his
boot on the cheek of Mr. Fugate and on Mr. King's pants.

DNA testing of his boots found probable blood
matches for all three victims. Ferguson confessed to the crimes with
graphic detail after his arrest and personally requested the death
penalty in letters to the judge and prosecutor. "What I done is done
and if I could bring them back I wouldn't,'' his letter to the judge
read. "I have no Remorse for what I did.'' In prison he taunted the
families of his victims during his sentencing hearing and posted poems
and essays about his crimes and his Satanic beliefs on his personal web
site (um, why are murderers allowed to have websites???).
Ferguson refused to participate in his own clemency hearing, and
volunteered to hasten his execution. He was executed in 2006. (AP)

2001 North Ft. Myers, FL The North Fort Myers woman who police say went
on a bloody rampage Sept. leaving her 6-year-old son dead practiced
Wiccan witchcraft and went by the name “Palm Frond.” Leslie Wallace,
39, studied the Wicca religion and kept recipes for death spells and
ailments for enemies, according to reports made public. In her Book of
Shadows she wrote “Society itself is full of bigotry toward witches and
witchcraft...As it doesn’t deal with Christianity, it is feared and
loathed. My goal is to better learn of the craft and to apply it to
being a solitary Wicca.”

Apparently this included murdering her kids.
Yep, no better way to calm fears of irrational "xtians" like
sacrificing your own offspring! According to police, Wallace deviated
from the Wiccan rede (or maybe she just didn't think she was harming
anyone) in September, when she killed her son James with a shotgun and
tried to shoot her other two sons, including one whose life was
literally saved by a Bible. [That noise you hear is Silver Ravenwolf
grinding her teeth] After gunning down poor little James, Wallace drove
to New Wine Ministries in North Fort Myers, where she tried to gun down
her son, Kenneth, 16, sending a panic through the church (oh, you
xtians are so prejudiced against Wiccans!). The boy’s life was spared
when the shotgun blast hit a Bible he held in front of him.

Police said she next went to a Pizza Hut in North
Fort Myers where she tried to kill Gregory. But that attempt failed,
too, when Wallace couldn’t get through the locked doors. The rampage
ended in a gun battle with Lee County sheriff’s deputies on the Fort
Myers side of the Caloosahatchee Bridge. After firing at deputies,
Wallace was shot and critically wounded. Wallace, who was contemplating
a divorce in the days before the shooting, is now in the Lee County
Jail facing one count of first-degree murder, one count of attempted
first-degree murder, four counts of aggravated assault and four counts
of aggravated assault on a law enforcement officer.

Prosecution says it will seek the death penality.
Her sister said in a statement that Leslie Wallace bragged about being
bipolar and that the courts "wouldn’t do anything to her.” Blessed Be!
(USA Today)

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2001 Llanfairpwll on Anglesey,Wales 17 y.o. paperboy Mathew Hardman is
found guilty and recieves a life sentence for murdering his 90 year old
neighbor Mabel Leyshon. Hardman denied all the charges and
allegations,but DNA found at the murder scene matched that of blood
found on a knife at Hardman's home. Hardman was obsessed with vampires
and the occult, and had told others he wanted to kill someone "in order
to become immortal". In Nov. of '01, he broke into her house,
stabbed her 22 times and drank her blood as part of an occult ritual.
he also mutilated her body before placing pokers at her feet in the
shape of a cross. Her heart had been removed, wrapped in newspaper and
placed in a saucepan on a silver platter next to her body.

Prosecution said the murder was carefully planned.
Two months before Mrs Leyshon's murder, Hardman had accused a
16-year-old German girl of being a vampire. Claiming she was "one of
them", he begged the student to bite his neck so that he too could
become a vampire. When she refused, he became violent and began
insisting, pressing his neck against her mouth. Eventually the girl had
to summon help. The prosecution also outlined how Hardman had surfed
the internet for vampire websites and had read a magazine which
featured an article on how to conduct a black mass (btw, is that how
you got here?). Kids, there are no real vampires, and vampires
are evil. Evil is not something you want. If you want to be a vampire,
please see the LINKS page on this website to find help (BBC News)

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2001 Las Vegas, NV Wiccan Brookey Lee West was arrested for slaying her
mother, while continuing to collect her mother's Social Security
checks. In 1998 West told acquaintances that she sent her elderly
mother to live with West's brother in California. Some doubted her
story and suspected foul play, but three years came and went before
their suspicions were confirmed. In February 2001, authorities found
Smith's body sealed in a plastic garbage can inside a Las Vegas storage
unit. The can had sprung a leak, and the overpowering stench from the
liquefied remains led to the discovery of the secret tomb.

Next to the garbage can, investigators found books
on Wicca and the occult, including a handwritten Book of Shadows
written in Thebes. Police would connect Smith to several murders
throughout her life. Author Scott Mitchell later remarked, "She just
got overconfident," he said. "She got away with so much for so long,
she just became a little too casual."Smith was a "gernerational witch".
Her father, Leroy Smith, had also been a practioner of Wicca and also a
white supremacist. The crimes are detailed in the book, Witch: The True
Story of Las Vegas's Most Notorious Female Killer. The family's occult
links showed themselves in the mid-1980s, when West was embroiled in a
custody dispute with the father of her 8-year-old daughter.

West wanted to give the girl up for adoption, but
the father, Ronald Viramontes, refused to sign away his parental
rights. In the middle of the dispute, Leroy Smith sent Viramontes a
threatening letter that included pentagrams and satanic curses. Four
days after the letter arrived, a masked man knocked on Viramontes' door
and shot his 86-year-old grandmother in the chest. She survived, and
the case remains unsolved. "She had a history, along with her father,
of trying to eliminate people when they got in their way," Clark County
prosecutor Scott Mitchell said of Brookey Lee West. "Once you showed
yourself to be in opposition to anything Brookey Lee West wanted to do,
your life was in danger." Blessed Be! (Witch: The True Story of
Las Vegas' Most Notorious Female Killer Berkley True Crime)

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2001 Swansea, Wales Satanist Richard Cullen, 44, taped 21 y.o.
Elizabeth Sims-Rees’s hands together and repeatedly smashed her head
with a rubber mallet. Then he throttled her with a shirt, before
carrying the 21-year-old upstairs and raping her. Cullen claimed the
incident started over an argument about the T.V. show,Buffy the Vampire
Slayer. Cullen was jailed for five years in 1990 for arson and
possession of a firearm, and again in 1993 for indecent assault and
threats to kill. He had told the woman victim in the indecent assault
case about his devil worship, and claimed to have sacrificed dogs in
rituals because the species’ name was God spelt backwards. He recieved
life in prison.(WalesOnline)

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2001 Madrid, Spain In December, police disrupted a Satanic ritual in
progress with the participants performing Satanic rites using dissected
eagles, goats and entrails. The Satanists escaped by clambering out
through the roof, leaving the officers to examine blood-splattered
walls on which was written "Satan will conquer" and in various places
the number 6. Police were dispatched after people complained about the
noise from a disused slaughterhouse in a suburb of the week prior,
leading to the raid. A neighbour said: "They were kicking up a lot of
noise and had prepared a fire." Police are worried that they had also
used bottles of diseased sliced pig, jars of animal remains and
chemicals that were left in cupboards at the abattoir when it closed
two years ago. "We are particularly concerned about containers labelled
'porcine disease'," an officer said. Eagles are a protected species in
Spain, and use of protected birds by Satanic sects is being
investigated by police. (Telegraph News)

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2002 Manahttan, NY Two self-described psychics, Sonia Merino, 50 and
her daughter-in-law, Nasta Merino, 23 were arrested and charged with
five counts each of mail fraud for allegedly conning clients into
paying thousands of dollars in fees to "free them from bad karma". The
pair offered psychic readings for as little as $10 but would then tell
clients that additional sessions, ranging up to $20,000, were needed to
drive away a curse or some negative spiritual force. One client told
investigators that he gave Sonia Merino more than $518,000 in checks, a
1999 Volkswagen Beetle, a CD player and a personal computer over a
three-year period after first going to her for a tarot card reading in
1996 after a failed romance. He says Sonia told him he needed a series
of costlier sessions including a request for $750,000 to pay a group of
psychics to conduct all-night meditations on his behalf. One
victim was quoted in the affidavit as saying that Sonia Merino
threatened to put a curse on her when she refused to pay several
thousand dollars for a series of sessions. Another told of being
badgered with phone calls every few hours throughout the night. In
addition to mail fraud, Sonia and her husband Steve, 44, were charged
with tax fraud for allegedly underreporting $750,000 in income from
1995 through 1999. Sonia Merino also sold clients what she described as
"holy water" from the Vatican but analysis showed it was Manhattan
Beach tap water, authorities said. Nasta Merino was accused of
selling at least one person "holy water" from Ste.-Anne-de-Beaupre, a
Catholic shrine near Quebec City, Canada, which is frequented by
invalids seeking miracle cures. It, too, came from a local tap. (AP)

2002 Bochum, Germany A couple who killed a friend by stabbing him 66
times in a Satanic ritual were jailed in Jan. Daniel Ruda, a
26-year-old former car parts salesman, and his 23-year-old wife Manuela
had confessed to the killing in their apartment, surrounded by human
skulls, cemetery lights, scalpels and incense. The dead man, a
33-year-old colleague of Daniel Ruda's, was found in the couple's
apartment covered in knife wounds and with a scalpel protruding from
his stomach. A pentagram, the sign of the Devil, had been carved into
his chest. A judge in the western town of Bochum sentenced Daniel
to 15 years and Manuela 13 years in a psychiatric ward. Manuela, a
former high school student who said she drifted into the "Gothic" scene
after the devil contacted her when she was 14, slept in a coffin in
their apartment. The court heard how Manuela acquired a taste for
vampirism during a visit to London, where she attended "bite parties"
at which people voluntarily had blood sucked from their veins. She met
Daniel after responding to his advertisement in a heavy metal magazine
that read: "Pitch black vampire seeks princess of darkness who hates
everything and everyone."They have shown no remorse, saying the devil
ordered them to send him a human sacrifice because he wanted a "court
jester". Daniel said he had merely been a tool of the devil. "If you
run someone over with a car, you don't prosecute the car," he said at
one point.(serialkillercalendar.com)

2002 Tucson, AZ Jason Paul Doty, the "Aryan Satanist" who murdered
Grady Towers in March 2000, was found guilty on January 18, 2002. His
sentencing hearing is coming up in a few weeks. He recieved 2 life
sentences. His "spiritual war to purify the white race" prompted Doty
to shoot a security guard at Tohono Chul Park and brag about the
sacrifice to friends. Grady Mitchell Towers, 55, was killed because
Doty, 29, needed to slay a white person on March 20, 2000—the Spring
Equinox—to achieve magical powers, Deputy County Attorney Teresa Godoy
told jurors. Jurors heard excerpts from letters Doty
wrote to friends and from an "archive" he kept of his activities.
"Violence is the law, death to the dove. Behold the terror in [Towers']
eyes," Godoy read from Doty's writings. He was shot 7 times; once in
the upper chest, above the left eye, in the back of the head and all
other shots were to the left side of the head—two shots against the
head. The Satanist Doty also remains the primary suspect in the
unsolved murder of Robin Hay, a mother of two who was brutally slashed
to death in March 2000 at the eegee’s restaurant at Ina and Thornydale
roads where she
worked.
(Pima County Attorney's Office)

2002 Los Angeles, California The company that operated a telephone
psychic line that saturated the airwaves with infomercials was
brought to court by the Federal Trade Commisison for fraud. It seemed
rather than give people a "free reading" as promised, the company
(Psychic Friends Network) was charging folks a hefty $6.00 per minute
(as much as Sprint charges for a call to Vietnam). One man sued after
his "free" call cost him $300. Lady Cleo (who's real name is Youree
Harris), the infomercial's star, had seemed to lose credibility with
the public after failing to predict the terrorist attacks on the U.S.A.
on 9-11-01. It also turned out the spokeswoman, "Lady Cleo", wasn't a
Jamaican born psychic, but a Californian actress with a phony accent.
Harris wrote a play called "Women Only" in which she cast herself as a
Jamaican woman. This characther became the basis for her psychic Cleo
charachter. In 2006 Harris apparently tried to gain some publicity by
"coming out" and admitting she was a lesbian. The story only recieved
coverage in a few gay newspapers and was largely ignored by the
mainstream press. You don't have to be psychic to figure our her acting
career is over. (Court TV)

2002 Leesberg, Virginia "Dr. Robert Schwartz, 57, was a founding member
of the Virginia Biotechnology Association, and the Executive Director
of Research and Development at Virginia's Center for Innovative
Technology. In his farmhouse he was stabbed and slashed repeatedly
with a sword and an 'X' was carved in the back of his neck . His
daughter, who identifies herself as a Wiccan high priestess, and three
of her fellow pagans have been charged." [Globe and Mail, 5/4/02] All
were part of what they called a coven, and interested in magic, fantasy
and self-mutilation. The police have no motive as to why they would
have wanted to kill Schwartz, who was a single parent and said to be
very close to his children. One of the Wiccan murderers, who has a
history of mental illness, says he was given permission to kill
Schwartz by "vampires and creatures named Ordog, Sabba and Nicodemus".
Schwartz worked at Virginia's Center for Innovative Technology on DNA
sequencing and pathogenic microorganisms. Despite wiccans always
claiming how scientists endorse Wicca, I guarentee you one at least who
wouldn't if he were still alive! (AP)

2002 Prince William County VA Russell John Smith a.k.a "Reverend
Sorath." operated his own Satanic internet website called "The Order of
Perdition", open to Satanists & "Left Hand Path Pagans."
"Satanismallows for indulgence in life and its pleasures rather than
abstinence, as Christianity preaches," Smith wrote on his website.
Smith’s "indulgences" included talking 12year old girls into sex as
part of a Satanic sex ritual. He was charged with rape and forcible
sodomy of a child and was eventually sentenced to 48 years in prison.
After allegations surfaced that Smith, 37, had repeatedly molested two
girls, he resigned his job as a corrections officer and was on the lam,
along with his 12 y.o. daughter. Police searched Smith’s home &
found a goat skull with a pentagram drawn on it, black robes, black
candles, young girls’ underwear. His spells couldn’t keep him out of
jail, and he became America’s Most Wanted capture #720. Russell Smith
tried to evade serving hard time by attempting to slash his wrists with
a piece of tin foil from a juice carton. But a judge saw right though
it and sentenced him to 48 years in prison. I guess his magic doesn't
work either. The Order of Perdition "excommunicated" Smith, and stated
on their website : "We ...DO NOT promote or have anything to do with
Child Abuse, Animal Abuse or Animal Sacrifice, Illegal Substances, or
ANY Criminal Activities what so ever." But even LaVey didn’t measure up
to those standards in real life according to his family! The website is
gone at this writing, and the order has apparently been disbanded.
Perhaps eventually they’ll get tired of apologizing and realize
Satanism is for criminals and ditch it. (America's Most Wanted)

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2003 Portsmouth, England A 26-year-old druid was arrested in for going
to the hardware store while wearing his ceremonial sword and
dagger. The sword, named Talesin <snicker>, was confiscated
by police as evidence. Apparently he didn't think the store owners
would be afraid some clown dressed as a wizard wearing a sword &
might be scared they would be robbed or something. Hey, you never know
when you're going to need your sword at ACE Hardware. Chief druid "King
Arthur Pendragon", who believes he's the reincarnation of King Arthur
and claims a spiritual age of 1,451 years,
wearing white robes with a red lion emblazoned on the front, acted as
Williams's legal adviser...and he's not a crackpot! King Arthur had
been arrested several times himself since 1985 for trying to gain
admittance to Stonehenge during the Summer solstice, but the charges
were always dropped. England has a high tolerance for eccentrics,
and the man was freed by the court. The sword could not be reached for
comment. (BBC News)

2003 San Mateo, CA Janet Adams, 41, was arrested Saturday
after police say she fleeced a Half Moon Bay teen out of $15,000 --
payment to ward off the bad fortune she predicted. San Mateo Police Lt.
Kevin Raffaelli said the 19-year-old met Adams in December, when Adams
did a psychic reading for her. Adams got the teen's phone number, and
called her asking for more money to perform incantations to protect her
and her family from harm, Raffaelli said. `This 19-year-old was very
innocent, very vulnerable,'' Alberti said. Over several months, Adams
would make predictions that the woman's family members were about to
die, and would tell her that she needed to pay or the predictions would
come true, Alberti said. The victim had access to a parent's bank
account, and also charged payments on her credit cards, Alberti said.
(AP)

2003, Tokyo, Japan Japanese 'psychic' Shunichi Miyazaki,55, and his
group were arrested for fraud. A Japanese man has been arrested along
with eight "disciples" on suspicion of fraud, after taking millions of
yen in fees for performing exorcism rites on the public. Most of the
victims were believed to be women in their 20s or 30s, the Daily
Yomiuri said. Police said that the group dressed in tennis clothes and
carried racquets or violin cases to make them appear more "credible"
when approaching potential clients in public places, such as train
stations.The group members told passers-by: "Your back is possessed by
the spirit of a dead woman and she has attached strings to your neck,"
or "the spirit of a dead man with severed legs is cling to your waist,"
the Daily Yomiuri reported. The group, led by 55-year-old Shunichi
Miyazaki, is suspected of charging more than 1,000 people between
30,000 and 1 million yen ($253-8,449) for an exorcism, the paper said.
"When I was a high school student, I nearly drowned. After the incident
I came to have psychic power. I didn't mean to cheat them and it is not
a fraud," he was quoted as saying. (The Daily Yomiuri)

2003 Roanoke, VA Satanist Terry Dale Duncan, 30, says he tried to
‘disassemble’ his month-old son. Duncan, who claims to be a Satanist,
was convicted of attempted capital murder. The child, identified
previously as Terrence Alexander Duncan, likely would have died if not
for intervention from a Child Health Investment Partnership nurse and a
social worker who visited the Duncans after the boy missed a doctor’s
appointment. Doctors discovered the child had suffered fractures to a
leg, a shinbone and both collarbones. Bruises covered his nose,
forehead and eyes. They later discovered a wound that appeared to be a
cigarette burn at the back of his throat.(AP)

2003 Des Moines, Iowa In Nov. Iowa Melissa Fernandez, 20, is charged
with one count of child endangerment. Tina Kish said she was shocked by
what her daughters told her about the times they stayed with Fernandez,
a family friend and baby sitter who also lives in the Park Ridge
Apartment complex on Indianola Avenue. Kish said the girls told her
that Fernandez served them alcohol, and got one of them drunk. The
girls also said Fernandez taught them things about witchcraft, took
them to an abandoned building Fernandez told them is haunted, and
allowed one girl to cut herself as part of a blood ritual. Fernandez
admitted she studies Satanism as a "religion", but denies she practices
witchcraft. Fernandez admits she's a cutter, like many Wiccans and
Satanists, it seems. "I had cut myself. I do that kind of out of habit
now. And she just kind of copied me," Fernandez said. Fernandez also
admitted to getting the kids drunk, "I had been drinking a little bit
that night. And they pretty much wanted to try it, like kids always
do," Fernandez said. However, she tried to explain away the Satanism
part, I can completely understand the charges for distributing alcohol
to a minor, and I will fess up to that, but anything else I completely
do not understand," Fernandez said. Fernandez said she simply showed
the girls the movie "Practical Magic," which is about witches, and the
twin's Satanism claims are just "a misunderstanding". Eeeeeeyeah. (AP)

2003 North Carolina - Wiccan Janine Sutphen, 57, a cellist with the
Durham North Cartolina Symphony Orchestra, became suspicioua of her
husband's spending practices. She, along with Wiccan husband William
James Petrick, were part of a polygamist marriage. Sutphen's remains
turned up in North Carolina's Falls Lake in May 2003. Her body was
wrapped up in sleeping bags and a chain was tied around her legs. The
absence of apparent wounds led police to determine the cause of death
was asphyxiation. Petrick rejected an initial plea deal to
second-degree murder and fraud charges. But just before jury selection
began in July in his fraud trial, he pleaded no contest to a single
count of obtaining property by false pretenses and admitted to being a
habitual felon.Sutphen's remains turned up in North Carolina's Falls
Lake in May 2003. Her body was wrapped up in sleeping bags and a chain
was tied around her legs. The absence of apparent wounds led police to
determine the cause of death was asphyxiation. Following an
investigation of the couple's home, Petrick was charged with multiple
counts of fraud related to bogus checks, including one for $47,866
alone. Petrick dismissed his defense attorney and decided to
represent himself, just like Ted Bundy and other psychotic killers have
done in the past. He got life in prison. From this we can
conclude 1. His money spells didn't work, which is why he had to steal.
2. His magic couldn't gain him his freedom 3. Criminal types are
attracted to the occult. (AP)

2003 Lake Placid, Florida A little publicized case occured when a man
was arrested for the murder of his wife. The two were both Satanists
and made their living owning a funeral home. One night the couple
engaged in a sex game involving drainig the blood out his wife necks
with a syringe and drinking it. The vampire "game" went to far when the
bleeding got out of hand, and the wife bled to death. He was arerested
for murder. (local undrertaker)

2003 North Jersey, NJ - Karen R. Mitchell, 32, of Allendale has to
answer charges of theft by deception for claiming to be a psychic and
bilking a client out of nearly $24,000 over two years.The client told
police the scam began on her first visit when Mitchell said she needed
more time for a séance and asked her to get more money from an
automated teller machine. At one point she and the soothsayer traveled
to New York City to buy a $12,000 Tourneau watch so they could "turn
back time." The watch was among jewelry and clothing that police say
persuaded the woman to buy. In other instances, the client was
persuaded to buy clothing to dress up figures to look like people from
her past. (AP)

2003 Pompano Beach,FL On 11-6-03 cops say Jean-Marie Jean-Francois beat
his girlfriend Fritz-Anna to death as part of a well thought out plan.
Jean-Francois had abused the woman throughout their relationship.
Jean-Francois was a Voodoo practitioner, who had his own handwritten
book of spells, and he was more than just a "dabbler". Jean-Francois
led a double life; on the one hand, he seemed like a church going man,
but police say nothing could mask his obsession with voodoo, seduction
and pain. Jean-Marie Jean-Francois is still at large and could be
hiding out among Florida's Hatian community, Canada, or Haiti. Anyone
with any information should call law enforcement or 1-800-CRIME-TV.
(America's Most Wanted)

2003 Burton, MI - Two girls and their mother spent six years in
constant fear, hiding from a devil worshipper who raped the girls
dozens of times while he baby-sat them. On Halloween when the family
received an anonymous “Friday the 13th” videotape depicting two sisters
being killed. Fearful that David Lindensmith, 40, would kill them, the
girls finally went to police and detailed a horrific story of
molestationthat began in 1992 when they were 4 and 6 years old. The
girls, now 14 and 16, told police Lindensmith pointed a pistol at them
and threatened to kill them if they went to police. Genesee County
Sheriff Robert J.Pickell said Lindensmith met the girls in 1992 when he
became their mother’s boyfriend for a short time. A search of
Lindensmith’s Bergin Avenue home turned up 300 DVDs and four computer
hard drives with images of child pornography, Pickell said. Police also
found satanic cult items in his house, along with books they said he
used to cast evil spells on people. (GCSD Press Releases)

2003 King's Moutain SC Police shut down a home explosives lab operated
by Phillip Lovelace, Jonathan Garrett, Roger McFarland and George Adams
the third, who all belonged to a Satanic cult. The police chief says
the group tested homemade napalm and Molotov cocktails in unoccupied
places in town and possibly threw one at an Amtrak train driving
through town where it bounced off. Police also discovered occult books,
and several copies of The Satanic Bible. (NTI: Global Security Newswire)

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2004 Egg Harbor Township, NJ A woman found six beheaded birds while
walking along the beach on 11-4-04. The six large birds (a goose,
pheasant, chicken and other birds) were grouped in twos and all were
facing in the same direction. The New Jersey Society for the Prevention
and Cruelty to Animals is investigating. SPCA officials said they
believe the birds were killed as part of a ritualistic sacrifice.
"The location is right where the old Hutton mansion used to be and
there had been a lot of reported devil worship and things like that
going in there," said Rich Frank. The Hutton mansion was built in the
1920s. Heiress Barbara Hutton, who had been married to actor Cary
Grant, allegedly held seances there. The mansion was torn down in 2002,
but investigators said this latest animal sacrifice shows the lure of
the mansion is still there. To date the case remains unsolved. SPCA
investigators are asking anyone with information on the beheadings to
call them at 609-927-9059.

2004, Columbia, SC- Wiccan Richard Legette shot and killed Chris Clark
at the Lexington Green condominiums in an argument over a woman.
Prosecutors at Legette's bond hearing said Legette is a Wiccan and that
Wiccans don't believe the government of a Christian nation can dispense
justice (apparently stemming from a comment Legette made).
Legget's "fiance" said Legette is actually a Neopagan, NOT a Wiccan,
(heavens, they wouldn't want to be one of THOSE weirdos!) and that what
he was charged with had nothing to do with his beliefs.
Apparently Legget's magic couldn't win his girlfriend or his freedom.
(AP)

2004 Milan, Itlay A Satanist named Andrea Volpe (age 27) who lead a
rock band called "The Beasts of Satan" was arrested along with two
other band members for the murder of his girlfriend Elizabeth Ballarin
(age 18) . Police discovered Volpe was also responsible for the murder
of other band members: in 1998 of Fabio Tollis (age 16). It was also
discovered the band members belonged to a Satanic cult called "The
Beasts of Satan", the same name as the band. Police began to link
Volpe's cult to several unexplained murders and questionable "suicides"
that occured over the years in northern Milan. Volpe's girlfriend's
murder, Chiara Marino, and had occured on a Friday the 13th during a
full moon. Police also suspect the cult in other cases that were
particularly baffling: two young men, at least one of them close to the
alleged Satanists, both of whom worked in the Legnano cemetery and both
of whom killed themselves in the past six months.Angelo Lombardo, 28, a
guard at the cemetery, was the first to die. On a Sunday afternoon last
December he went into the porter’s lodge at the cemetery, doused
himself in petrol and set himself on fire. Visitors to the cemetery
found him still in flames and writhing in agony. He was taken to
hospital with 80 per cent burns but died four days later. Then, in May
this year, his friend Luca Colombo, 21, a florist at the same cemetery,
hanged himself from a tree in his parent’s garden. Before his death,
Luca confided in friends and relatives that he was frightened. A local
woman who claims to have been his girlfriend for five months told
Corriere della Sera newspaper, “For the first three months he was
happy, funny and very sweet. Then suddenly he changed. He wasn’t
himself any more: nervous, bad tempered, always scowling … Just once he
said that one day he would explain [the problem], but that moment never
arrived.”He is known to have been friendly with some members of the
sect, and particularly close to Nicola Sapone, the plumber who is
thought to be its leader. As more evidence of the sect’s crimes
emerged, people have began coming forward to denounce the police for
failing to follow up satanic leads from years ago. Pasqualina Antonini,
the mother of Chiara Marino, who died from stab wounds and whose
remains were discovered earlier this month, has told reporters she gave
police a full account of the Satanists she held responsible soon after
her daughter’s disappearance more than six years ago.Volpe later plead
guilty to his part in both murders of Tollis and Marino, and recieved
30 years. In 2006, Nicola Sapone, one of the leaders of the Beasts of
Satan rock band, was sentenced to life behind bars for the double
homicide. (telegraph.co.uk/news)

2004 The Bronx, NY A woman was arrested in the February death of her
good friend during a Santeriaritual that went awry when candles
"accidentally" ignited a flammable liquid and engulfed the victim in
flames, police said. (AP)

2004 Hialeah, Florida -- Hialeah police arrested Pablo Fauria, 62, a
Santeria priest who used his position tosexually abuse two children.
Fauria was charged with 20 counts of sexual battery and sexual abuse.
Police said Fauria offered to help the children after their parents
died. But investigators discovered Fauria had sexually abused the 12
y.o. and 13 y.o. since 2000. (AP)

2004 Hopewell NJ Hopewell Township police think the human skull found
in the Delaware River Nov. 22 may have been used in a Palo Mayombe
ritual. Capt. George Meyer of the township police said Monday that the
investigation has led authorities to believe the skull may have been a
ceremonial artifact used in cult rituals by a Palo Mayombe priest.
"According to experts we've contacted, the Palo Mayombe religion
requires that such a skull be disposed of in a river, and in a way that
seems related to the objects found with the skull," the captain said in
a Hopewell Valley News article. (AP)

2004 Jenner, OH Christian camp counselors Jason Allen, 26, and his
fiancee, Lindsay Cutshall, 22, spread sleeping bags on the sand of a
secluded cove that locals refer to as Driftwood or Fish Head Beach. The
young Ohio couple also placed a Bible near where they slept, and where
ultimately they died as martyrs for Christ. The two had taken a vow of
chastity until they were married and slept in seperate sleeping bags.
That night someone emerged from the darkness and shot each of them once
in the head. The devil drawings on a piece of driftwood seemed to
indicate a Satanic murder. A local homeless man, Jeff Winkler, claimed
he drew the devil picture weeks earlier, but did not kill them. He also
said he "hated Christians", but was not a Satanist. The case may have
been the work of occultists. At any rate, the case is still unsolved
and was featured on America's Most Wanted. Anyone with information on
the murder should call the Sonoma County Sheriff’s Department. (AP)

2004 Pretoria, South Africa Satanist and Tatoo artist Robbie "Goggaman"
Robbie Classen (38) recieved 60 years for multiple counts of rape,
indecent assault and abduction on a girl aged 7 at the time and her 9
and 11 year old brothers. Classen claimed the children accusing him of
sexual abuse confused him a look-a-like...extremely unlikely
considering the unique tatoos covering his body. Classen's body was a
mass of occult tattoos, including one on his penis. The victim's mother
told authorities she had known it was there because the children had
told her about it before she ever met Classen. Classen sodomised
the boys, made the children eat insects, even injected one of the boys
with his own blood, and tried to teach the children "astral
projection", among other things. The girl claimed she was tied to a
cross upside down and raped. Despite Classen's claims to innocence,
medical evidence corroborated the children’s claims that they had been
raped and sodomised. Classen had a long list of previous convictions
for drug-related crimes and had spent time in jail for
robbery.(theherald.co.za)

2004 Escondido,CA In August Police arrested a "Gypsy", Fatima Demetro,
31, who is wanted for allegedly scamming an Illinois woman out of
$80,000. Police believe she may also have duped local residents.The
self-proclaimed psychic, palm reader and healer is known to target
Latinos, police said. Demetro is accused of befriending a mother and
daughter in McHenry, Ill., who used her services because they were down
on their luck and overweight, Gaylor said. Police say she convinced the
older woman that her luck would change if she cleansed her life savings
of $80,000. The woman withdrew the money, all in $100 bills, and gave
it to Demetro. During a seance involving vegetables and live lizards,
the cash was wrapped into a white handkerchief. The women were asked to
stare at a candle.They were given back the handkerchief and told to
place it under a bed for several days, police said. "When they open up
the (handkerchief), they find cut-up newspaper," a police officer said.
Demetro also is wanted in another Illinois case. She is accused of
telling a client that his wife had been unfaithful and he was not the
father of their unborn child, police said.The man paid her with his
wedding ring and ended up killing his wife, stabbing her 80 times,
police said. Anyone who believes they might have been victimized by
Demetro is asked to call Escondido police at (760) 839-4972 (AP)

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2005 Odessa, Ukraine In June, Diana Semenuha, 29, A self described
practioner of black magic and "vampire" was arrested in the Ukraine
after luring street children into her home for their blood. Semenuha
believed that drinking blood could fend off a muscle-wasting condition.
She kept the children intoxicated on drugs and alcohol and bled them
regularly, selling the surplus to other black magic practitioners.
Semenuha's arrest exposed an occult network in the city. Many claimed
to have been taught by Semenuha and said that she would cut herself and
let them drink her blood. When that weakened them, she dumped them back
on the streets and lured replacements with the promise of a place to
sleep and a hot meal. Police raided Semenuha's apartment in the Black
Sea port of Odessa after a tip-off. Olga Buravceva, a police spokesman,
said: "The apartment was painted black, with all the windows covered
with thick black cloth to stop natural light coming in. The only light
came from black candles, and there was a heavy, sickening odour of some
sort of incense in the air." Detectives found seven drugged children
strapped to beds and benches, and a large, black knife and silver
goblet engraved with Satanic symbols. "The arrested woman told us that
she was helping people, who wanted to cast an evil spell on their
rivals or enemies. She became known in the society of black magicians.
We found the 'witch diploma' in her apartment, which she received from
Red Dragon magic order in the beginning of the last year."(Interfax)

2005 Friday Harbor, WA On "Samhain" (Oct. 31st) A 25 y.o. Satanist
Robert Wilson, known as "Reverend" described as "a former
card-carrying member of the Church of Satan", allegedly conducted
'rituals' at which bare-breasted girls as young as 13 were "fondled and
groped" by adult males, according to several witnesses who spoke to the
San Juan Free Press. According to several of the participants, the
scenario included two bare-breasted underage girls on the floor being
"groped and fondled" by adult males. They were being watched by six or
seven adults and underage teenagers, all of them naked from the waist
up. Everyone was consuming alcohol. At one point the 'Reverend' threw
water on the people present, "spoke in a strange language" [probably
Enochian], and one underage participant got a cut on her ear that
required six stitches later that night at the medical center. The event
was not a one-time occurance, either. The accused "Reverend" fled
San Juan County after the Sheriff's Office filed a report on the case
to the prosecutor, and is still at large. (San Juan Free Press)

2005 Guwahati,India In February, a Pagan Hindu mob lynched a tribal
couple for allegedly practisingwitchcraft and then carried the two
severed heads around as trophies in a brutal incident in Assam near
Guwahati,India. A police spokesman Saturday said the mob killed the
Bodo tribal couple of Alengi Bazar village in western Assam's Kokrajhar
district. A senior police said that "...the incident was influenced by
beliefs that [they] were practising sorcery and black magic,". Hinduism
is the oldest Pagan religion on the planet, and is chock full of
superstitons about sorcery, demons, and black magic. (South Asia News)

2005 San Bernadino, CA A high-school student who practices Wiccan
beliefs says his rights have been violated after being suspended this
week for wearing lipstick and makeup. "If I can't wear makeup, then the
girls or the staff can't wear makeup either," [so there big stupid
heads, nyah, nyah, nyah!] a very mature16-year-old James Herndon told
the San Bernadino Sun, believing his "constitutional right to free
expression" is being violated. He says the cosmetics help him "express
his neopagan religious beliefs in the supernatural", which he shares
with his mother [and probably her make-up too], Valerie Wallace, a
Wiccanpriestess."After my divorce from his father, he became very
depressed, and wearing the makeup makes him feel good," Wallace said.
The ACLU decided to take the case to court. Since Wicca is a
make-it-up-as-you-go-along occult religion, anything can have religious
signifcance. Do you think if I delcared that Bill Gates is diriminating
against me because my Wiccan beliefs say he should give me $ 1
Billion and he won't, that I'd have a case? (AP)

2005 Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan A 16 y.o.girland 27-year-old - holding hands
jumped down from a roof of a 12-story building in the Vostok
neighbourhood on 8 August. Two more people committed suicide in the
same way and in the same place on 12 July. Police officers found
Satanic literature at the site in both cases. A witness said, "This
notebook was about Satan. The last page said that we must sacrifice
ourselves for Satan, there was their signature and the date. First,
they threw the notebook down and after that they jumped here from the
roof." Neighbors of the girls confirmed they were into Satanism, and
even sported Satanic tattoos. Another neighbor claimed the girls all
belonged to a sect of 14 members, led by a young man. (Kyrgyz
Independent Bishkek Television)

2005 Paris, France In March Paris police officials announced an
alarming increase in grave desecrations, apparently related to
Satanism.Vandals left satanic symbols such as inverse crosses,
pentagrams and demonic numbers at scenes of their crimes. Officials
noted 23 cases from January to August 2004 compared to 18 for the whole
year of 2003. Cemetery profanations have been especially frequent
in eastern French regions such as Alsace, where the report said
Satanist groups had linked up with neo-Nazis. Swastikas and satanic
symbols have been found spray-painted on tombstones in Christian,
Jewish and Muslim cemeteries in eastern France over the past year. (The
Paris News)

2005 Queens, NY 20 y.o. Daniel Romano claims he was beaten up because
he was a member of the Church of Satan. Romano, who still lives with
his mom, wears makeup, blue hair, goth tyoe clothes and inverted
crosses says he was persecuted for his religion by two neighbor boys,
with whom he's had run-ins in the past. The Church of Satan however,
denies Romano's a member. High priest of the Manhattan-based church
said, “I don’t know the guy,” said High Priest Peter Gilmore, the
church’s leader. “I can’t vouch if he is a Satanist or not. He might be
somebody that’s out for publicity. Anybody who says he’s a Satanist,
and is not a member, we don’t support,” Gilmore added. “How can we?
There’s a lot of crazy people out there.” What? You mean a 20 y.o. with
blue hair and dresses like Edward Scisorhands just wants attention???
(AP)

2005 Springfield, Ohio - In a little publicized case (considering the
crime), a Wiccan couple was charged with the ritualistic murder of
their 13 month old infant daughter, Jacqueline Mae Cooper. The
stepfather, Daniel Duffield, 32, was charged with murder, involuntary
manslaughter, child endangering and felonious assault involving
puncturing the girl's feet and face. The girl's mother, Vanessa
McGlumphy, 25, was charged with involuntary manslaughter and child
endangering. Aside from a fatal neck injury, the toddler's body was
also riddled with more than 40 puncture wounds, 12 broken ribs and a
lacerated liver. Prosecutors believed religious tattoos on the two
Wiccans matched puncture wounds on the toddler's feet. McGlumphy, in an
attempt to pin all the blame on her hubby, said Duffield was of a
"different religion" than she, and a "black pagan". She claimed the
sacrifice was done as part of a ritual of Duffield's "religion".
Surprisingly, in this intolerant "xtian" nation that hates Wiccans so
much, the couple only recieved 15 years for the stepfather, and 10
years for the mother. Hardly worth the life of a baby if you ask me.
(AP)

2005 Denmark A Danish Satanist accused of having sex with and
pimping his 10-year-old daughter to a slew of men went on trial in
Denmark in a case that has shocked the Scandinavian country.The case,
Denmark’s highest-profile incest and pedophilia trial, has made
headlines since the man’s arrest in August 2005. The accused, 47, a
member of a Satanic cult, told police in December he repeatedly had sex
with his daughter between February and August 2005, when the girl was
aged 10 and 11. Police arrested the man after receiving an anonymous
tip. Placing advertisements in papers and on the internet, the man is
alleged to have invited men to his house in Toender, in southwestern
Denmark, to pay to have sex with his daughter. The man pleaded guilty
in court. Fourteen clients have already been convicted in recent months
and sentenced to jail terms of up to six years for having sex with the
girl. Prosecutors have also charged the man with physically abusing his
second daughter in 2003 and 2004 when she was six and seven. The girls’
43-year-old mother, a schizophrenic, was sentenced in December to a
secure psychiatric hospital for an undetermined period for complicity
to incest. The man went on trial for the crimes in 2007. If convicted
the man faces a maximum 18 years in jail. (theaustralian.news.com.au)

2005 Olympia, WA Wiccan Burt Stockstill, 33, recieved two life
sentences for raping children. At the time of the trial the District
Attorney's Office said Stockstill claimed he was a witch, made the
children eat feces and raped the youngsters as part of his brand of the
Wiccan sex ritual known as "the Great Rite". In what prosecutors called
a bizarre case, Wiccan Michelle C. Littlefield (who recieved 25 years)
allowed her children, now 6 and 9, to be raped and abused by her
roommate, Burt Stockstill who had changed his name to "Eion Woodcraft"
after becoming a Wiccan. The grandfather of one of the boys called
Stockstill a monster who used Wicca, also called "white" witchcraft, as
a catalyst to force bizarre acts on the boys. "This ritual is designed
to do one thing: break down the inhibitions of all of those involved,"
the grandfather said. During the trial, both defendants took the stand
in their own defense. Stockstill first denied practicingWicca, but then
admitted to it on cross-examination. Blessed Be! (AP)

2005 Chicago, IL David Rodriguez, 18, was upset when his girlfriend
dumped him. He decided the best way to win her back was with a Satanic
ritual...yeah, forget all that candy and flowers junk. Rodriguez
and a 15 y.o. Satanist friend kidnapped a 6 y.o. girl and an 8 y.o. boy
outside a South Side library and intended to carve a pentacle on the
girl's chest as part of a love spell to win back Rodriguez's
girlfriend. Since they decided they only needed the 6 y.o. girl for the
ritual, they let her brother go and he ran off and told people on the
street about the kidnapping. Rodriguez took the girl to his house then
headed out to the store to get some candles and incense for the ritual.
The police busted in and got the girl out and then they arrested
Rodriguez when he came home. Luckily the girl was unharmed. The love
lorn magicians were charged with kidnapping. Ya know, I wonder why his
girlfriend dumped him in the first place? (AP)

2005 Athens, Greece Asimakis Katsoulas,31, the leader of a
20-member Satanic cult and convicted Satanist cult killer has been
re-arrested in Itea, Greece on charges of attempted assault and rape of
a young woman while on a 5-day leave from Malandrinos prison.
Katsoulas is serving two life sentences for the ritual killing of two
women, including a 15-year-old girl. Call me overly cautious, but
should Satanic killers get 5 day furloughs??? They might want to
re-think that. (The Hellenic Radio (ERA): News in English, 05-03-29)

2005 Papua,New Guinea Pagan Raphael Kogun and his family murdered a
middle-aged married couple who they were convinced had become possessed
by evil spirits. In the highlands witches are known as "sangumas" and
superstitous people think witches can assume the form not only of
humans, but animals such as dogs, pigs, rats and snakes. A surge in the
illegal growing of marijuana in the emerald green valleys has
contributed to black magic paranoia, experts sa"We chopped their heads
off with an axe and a bush knife," said the 27-year-old farmer from
Goroka, in Eastern Highlands province. "I felt sorry for them but they
were witches, they deserved to die. If they were still alive they could
hurt people with their magic. We buried the bodies but then the police
found out and started digging them up." Two of Kogun's brothers were
arrested under the Act of Sorcery incorporated into PNG's criminal
code, but the case collapsed because witnesses were too afraid to
testify. The number of witch killings has been estimated at 200 a year
in the neighbouring province of Simbu alone, although definitive
figures are impossible to come by. A report by Amnesty International in
September found there was a "conspiracy of silence" surrounding the
murders. Belief in evil spirits is ubiquitous throughout Papua New
Guinea, where ancestor worship and animism are still practiced.
(ukcoalition.org)

2005 Cape Town, South Africa A church custodian was murdered in the
dead of night and his mutilated corpse, bearing vicious stab wounds to
his head and side mimicking those of Jesus Christ on the cross, is left
in front of the altar. On the ground, in the victim's blood, is written
the word "Satun" (sic). The Halloween slaying of 53-year-old Charles
Jacobs, janitor at the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter-Day Saints
in the quiet, church-going town of Paarl, east of Cape Town, was the
latest in a long string of murders that reflect an obsession with
Satanism that goes back deep into South Africa's apartheid past.
(theaustralian.news.com)

2005 Ponchatoula, LA Authorities arrested Daniel Edwards, a
former "pastor" turned Satanist accused of leading a church group in
"cult-like" rituals involving the sexual abuse of children and animals.
Also arrested were eight other members of the cult. Tangipahoa Parish
Sheriff Daniel Edwards said members of a Ponchatoula church carried out
the practices for years as part of a devil-worshipping ritual involving
cat blood. "This is hard to talk about and harder to believe, but some
of the suspects have told us their intention in all of this was devil
worshipping," Edwards said. "We know of one dog. That was a pet and the
dog is dead now," Edwards said. The sheriff said one of the suspects
had sex with that dog, and that blood from a cat was used in the cult's
rituals. The dog and cat apparently were pets belonging to members of
the church's congregation, he added.Edwards also said that the people
involved in the cult reportedly had sex with children and animals from
1999 until the church disbanded in 2003. Edwards said the victims in
the case range from toddlers to teenagers. A conviction on sex-abuse
charges involving juveniles under age 12 can result in the death
penalty. (AP)

2005 Toronto, Canada In June, Police arrested a self-proclaimed
"psychic healer" named Alex Orbito, 66. A number of victims came
forward to report that he "treated" 600 people in his Best Western
Hotel room in Scarborough, Ontario, charging C$135 for two-minute
"healing" treatments. He claimed that he could heal any illness by
removing "negative energies" and performing psychic surgery. Orbito and
an accomplice were arrested and charged with fraud over $5,000 and
possession of proceeds of crime. (healthwatcher.net/Quackerywatch)

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2006 Jan. The Hague, Netherlands Police across Europe and in New
York arrested 20 people suspected of smuggling young girls out of
Nigeria and forcing them to work as prostitutes after intimidating them
in voodoo rituals, Dutch prosecutors said. Acting on requests from
Dutch authorities, police in New York; Madrid, Spain; Antwerp, Belgium;
and the central British city of Coventry also arrested five Nigerian
suspects. A South Yorkshire man, Gilbert Ektor, 31, of Canklow Road,
Rotherham was accused of helping mastermind an international sex
trafficking operation has failed in his fight to prevent extradition to
Holland.A sixth Nigerian was arrested last week in Dublin, Ireland. The
young girls were pressured under the intimidation of voodoo and were
forced to swear an oath to a voodoo priest to pay back a so-called
debt. Thirteen of the suspects were arrested in a series of coordinated
raids in cities
across the Netherlands, the national prosecutor’s office said in a
statement. Police also found 10 illegal immigrants, who were turned
over to the immigration service. (Reuters)

2006 Melbourne, Austrailia First Druids allow the Romans to invade
Britain, now this. A 50 year oldDruid High Priestess, whose full name
is just “Morgan”, was refused admittance to Cushion Lounge night
club. Later she filed charges that the bar had discrimated against her
based on her religion (couldn’t see that one coming, could you?). In
October, the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT) decided
the nightclub (which was a hotpsot for 20 somethings to hang out)
had actually refused her admittance because she was “too old”, but did
agree that had sexually discriminated against her by telling her she
“needed a good [BLEEP]”. The woman claimed she had gone to the club to
retrieve her 16 year old son, an underage drinker, off to a good start
in life already. The 3 security guards were ordered to complete a
two-hour course in “equal opportunity”. The judge gave Morgan the
chance to seek $2000 from the guards and the bar by nominating someone
else to receive it. She previously told the tribunal that as a druid
she was unable to accept compensation, according to a news report.
Trust me, all the attention she got WAS the compensation!
(theaustralian.news.com.au)

2006 Younkers, NY On 6-6-06, Black spray paint was used to write 666 on
the three steps leading up to the main entrance of St. Joseph's
Catholic seminary. Just above the number was painted “REIGN IN BLOOD.”
A large pentagram, believed to be a symbol of the devil, was painted in
thick black lines in front of the main door, just where Pope John Paul
II stood when he visited the seminary on Oct. 6, 1995. Two columns in
front of the entrace were defaced on front and back. Upside-down
crosses were painted on their fronts, facing the grounds. On the back
of the left column, facing the seminary doors, the vandal or vandals
wrote “BETTER TO REIGN IN HELL.” And on the second, “THAN TO SERVE IN
HEAVEN.” The famous line comes from Milton’s “Paradise Lost.” A statue
of Jesus in front of the seminary was also vandalized. Upside-down
crosses and a pentagram were painted on the base. “It’s laid out in a
very deliberate fashion, and the spelling is perfect, so I don’t think
it was kids, at least not young kids,” .(AP)

2006 Bogota, Colombia Authorities suspect a Satanic cult is responsible
for slitting the throats of six members of the same family in Colombia.
The Associated Press reported one of the victims was a child.
Authorities were suspicious about there being six victims, adding to
their belief that there was a ritualistic aspect to the crime.The
murders took place on June 6, 2006, or 06-06-06. Jorge Gomez, a human
rights official in the town of Barrancabermeja, Santander Province,
tells the Associated Press, "It seems to have been related to today's
date." Police detained a suspect in the murder. (AP)

2006 Milford, Conn. Police have arrested two Stratford women accusing
them of scamming a woman out of $145,000 through some bizarre rituals
including drinking rooster blood. Maria dos Santos, 52, and her
daughter, Shirley Iannucci, 30, were arrested by police Tuesday on
charges of first-degree larceny and conspiracy. Police said the two
women had become friendly with the alleged victim who was going through
a divorce last year. According to court documents, the alleged victim
feared for her life after dos Santos told her that "God was going to
kill her." The city woman called police in January, the day after dos
Santos performed a Santeria ritual in her West River Street home that
included drinking blood from a dead rooster, according to the arrest
warrant affidavit. Dos Santos persuaded the victim to let her handle
all of her financial affairs while the divorce was pending, according
to court documents.(CBS NEWS)

2006 Wixom City, Mich In May, Druid John Jordan Anderson was arrested
for the murder of Wiccan Natsha Miller, 19. Anderson, described by
Miller's close friends as "creepy," according to court documents, had
dated the 19-year-old known as "Tasha" until they broke up around
Thanksgiving 2005. Her nude body was discovered by hikers along the
banks of the floating in the Huron river on Powers Beach in the Proud
Lake State Recreation Area. Funeral services were held for the young
woman just eight days before her 20th birthday. During an 11-hour
police questioning, Anderson slipped in and out of an English accent,
discussed druid beliefs, and talked of his love of fantasy and science
fiction novels. Anderson said he had been driving a friend around at
the time of the murder. The friend denied it, saying Anderson only told
him that "something bad happened" and he would talk to him about it
later. Eventually he confessed to strangling her with a
2-foot-long orange ribbon he often used to tie up his ponytail or wear
on his arm, said Detective Scott Tarasiewicz of the Milford Police
Department. During his admission, Anderson told police he had recently
embarked on a religious comparative study and decided to become a
Druid, based on druidism's focus on "the earth's natural elements" (and
they also practiced ritual human sacrifice, go figure). Anderson told
police Miller was a Wiccan, or white witch, and said that, because of
his beliefs and hers, he had to dispose of the body by earth, water or
fire after he killed her to return her to the natural elements, Walton
said. Trial began in June 2007. Anderson kept a blog on his web site
with postings titled "Miss Murder," "Angry Again" and "Blood Poetry,"
which prosecutors plan to show the jury. Despite Anderson's
lengthy confession, a judge ruled the jury won't hear some of the
statements he made to police regarding his druid beliefs.(The Oakland
Press News)

2006 Fort Lauderdale, FL A human skull found in a woman's luggage at
Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport is likely an object
used in a voodoo ritual, the Broward 2006 Ft Lauderdale, Florida
Myrlene Severe, 30 y.o., was on Lynx Air International Flight 203 from
Haiti to Fort Lauderdale when she was arrested when cusoms found a
human head with "organic matter" inside of her checked baggage . "It
still had teeth, hair and bits of skin and lots of dirt," said Barbara
Gonzalez, a spokeswoman for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement in
Miami.The medical examiner said the skull was a man's who probably died
within the last year or so. It appears the skull was dug up from a
grave. Officials found it in a bag with various fruit and vegetable
leaves, a nail and some stones.Severe told authorities "she had
obtained the package, which contained the human head, from a male in
Haiti for ... use as a part of her Voodoobeliefs. Severe also stated
that the purpose of the package was to ward off evil spirits,"
According to ICE agent Erick Hernandez. She faces a maximum of 15 years
in prison if convicted on all charges, according to the U.S. Attorney's
Office for the Southern District of Florida. (WFLA News)

2006 Midland Park,NJ Behind the storefront advertising tarot-card
readings and a glimpse into the future, police say, a woman claiming to
be a psychic bilked a client out of nearly $24,000 over two years. The
psychic was sentenced to 2 to 10 years in prison.(AP)

2006 New Orleans Zachary Bowen, 28, strangled and dismembered Adriane
"Addie" Hall, 30, on Oct. 5. Eleven days later, Bowen jumped to his
death from a hotel roof with a suicide note in his pocket telling
police about the killing. Police found Hall's charred head in a pot,
her arms and legs in the oven and her torso in the refrigerator. The
couple lived in an apartment that was above a "Voodoo Temple and
Cultural Center". Police claim there's no concrete evidence the slaying
had anything to do with Voodoo, even though many New Orleans residents,
who have been exposed to Voodoo all their lives, have their doubts.
(KATC News katc.com )

2006 Queens, NY Three Queens fortunetellers were arrested in June after
they tried to charge undercover investigators for services including
exorcism and rekindling a past romantic relationship, the authorities
said. You would think they could have seen it coming. The
fortunetellers, who operated out of apartments or storefronts on 30th
Avenue in Astoria, face charges including fortunetelling, which is
illegal unless patrons are told that such services are "for
entertainment purposes". One of the fortunetellers, Sabrina Martell,
42, told a female investigator that her problems stretched back to
something her mother had eaten while pregnant (sounds like
Scientology), prosecutors said. Ms. Martell charged the investigator
$1,100 for those and other services (naw, too cheap for Scientology),
prosecutors said. The other women arrested were identified as Dorothy
Miller, 53, and Rose Miller, 73. They are not related. (New York Daily
News)

2006 Kenner LA Lecia "Sister Jackson" Urich, a Kenner palm reader and
"psychic" received a suspended sentence of one year (plus one
year's probabtion)in July for trying to scam a Slidell businesswoman
out of $5,000 in 2004. The judge also fined Urich $250 plus court costs
and warned her to refrain from fraudulent activity. Urich/Jackson, who
had pleaded guilty,had told the woman that a ritual that involved
burying the money would help lift a deadly curse. Several other theft
charges followed after other victims came forward to describe similar
schemes, including an 87-year-old Kenner woman who said Urich swindled
her out of $37,000. Kenner police said Urich told four customers that
their enemies had put curses on them and offered to dispel the hexes
for a total of $7,100, which she said she would bury in a church or
cemetery. (KATC News katc.com )

2006 Moscow, Russia In Nov., Two Satanists were arrested in connection
with the murder of a 50-year-old unemployed in the town of Pavlovsky
Posad near Moscow - a student of the Polygraph Institute, aged 21, and
a packager at a Moscow firm, aged 18. As they walked around the town in
the early hours of November 19, 2006, clad in black, they wanted “to
sense the smell of blood”, as the suspects themselves put it, the press
service said.Their first victim was a cat they strangled, burnt and
hanged on a tree.They proceeded to attack a passerby they mistook for a
homeless.“They beat him up and cut him with a knife, striving to stab
him in the heart 13 times,” according to Interfax News Service.
(Interfax)

2006 Monrovia, Liberia A Liberian woman has been arrested after
dumping her 2-year-old child in a well. The 39-year-old woman,
who claims to be a witch, said she dumped her son in the well as a gift
to members of a witch cult to which she belonged. The child was saved
from drowning by neighbors. The woman said she and other cult members
had eaten other members' children over the years and that it was now
her turn to sacrifice her child. ("DPA," September 4, 2006)

2006 Port Huron, MI woman who claimed she was a psychic was sentenced
Tuesday to 23 months to 10 years in prison after admitting in January
she defrauded at least one client of $45,000. (AP)

2006 Rome, Italy Police are investigating whether the killing of four
members of a family from southern Italy was carried out by a relative
who believed he had done a deal with the devil. The chief suspect in
the quadruple homicide is Claudio Tomaino, 28, the nephew of the slain
family’s father. Nine bullets were fired in all, most to the victims’
heads. The youngest victim was the 18-year-old daughter, Maria, who
sang in the local church choir. Police are investigating a Satanic oath
which Tomaino was said to have written before the killings. “Tomaino
wrote that he had a deal with Satan to sell him his soul if Satan
assured him he would make him rich and make sure he wasn’t sent to jail
for killing his uncle Camillo and the rest of the family,” Salvatore
Curcio, lead prosecutor in the southern city of Catanzaro, told a news
conference. Curcio added forensic tests had proved the “contract” was
signed by Tomaino in his own blood. (khaleejtimes.com)

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2007 Seattle WA Samara Spann, 30, was sentenced to 23 years under a
plea deal for the slaying of her 6 y.o. daughter Kyeimah on Dec.
31-2004 or Jan. 1-2005. Prosecutors say she killed her daughter because
she believed she was possessed and "would not stay in bed and kept
interrupting" a telephone conversation. Relatives of Spann say she was
involved in "Voodoo rituals" and had consulted someone described as
"being heavily into the occult" shortly before the slayings.
Spann's father, Gary Spann, told The Sacramento Bee in 2005 his
daughter routinely called the girl a "devil child" and also belonged to
a bizzare cult that worshipped the late rapper Tupac Shakur as the
reincarnation of the 16th century political philosopher Machiavelli.
Yes, really. Subsequent investigation showed the little girl had been
subjected to extensive abuse and had been removed from her mother's
care three times in California, only to be returned each time. (KING 5
News, Sacremento Bee)

2007 Dec.
Cortland, OH Andrew Culver, 18, was arrested after a leader of the
Church of Satan turned over to the FBI an e-mail the high school
student had written to the sect in which he threatened to kill his
grandparents, authorities said. According to Bazetta Township Police
Chief Charles Sayers Culver told police the e-mail detailing his
intention to kill his grandparents and steal their money and car was "a
joke". But police discovered Culver had access to an arsenal of weapons
and wanted to "kill in the name of our unholy lord Satan." "To send an
e-mail making specific threats, to sign your name, that to me is not a
joke," Sayers said. Culver sent the message to Peter Gilmore, the high
priest of the New York City-based Church of Satan, Chief Sayers said.
Gilmore alerted the FBI, which notified local police.
(AP)

2007 Tel Aviv, Israel In January six youths who had formed a Satanic
cult, ranging in age from 12 to 15, and living and attend high school
in the South Tel Aviv suburb of Bat Yam were arressted for acts of
Vandalism, including burning Torah scrolls. The teens admitted to
burning the Isareli flag, and told police that they had used an
abandoned house as their base of operations. Youth crimes investigators
also believe that their mezuzah bonfire caused a subsequent building
fire. The youths were released morning to house arrest. All six of the
suspects are new immigrants from the former Soviet states. Russia and
other former Soviet Bloc countries have seen a dramatic jump in the
numbers of people calling themselves Satanists in recent years. (The
Jerusalem Post)

2007 Denver, CO On 12-9-2007 24-year-old Matthew Murray killed five
people, and injured several others in a rampage that spanned 70 miles,
from a missionary training center that expelled Murray to Colorado
Springs' New Life Church, a symbol of the Pentecostal and charismatic
Christianity he so despised. He was killed by a volunteer female
security guard as he entered the church. Somehow, a child of a
prominent doctor, someone who was home schooled in a comfortable Denver
suburb, evolved from would-be Christian missionary to a killer trying
to rain Columbine down on the Christian world. After Murray rejected
religion, he became fixated on people and groups that explore the dark
side of spirituality, obsessing over the Satanic lyrics of Swedish
metal bands, and doing other odd things. Murray attended events held by
the Denver-based occult group Ad Astra Oasis during the last two years,
but was turned down when he sought to become a member of the group. His
involvement with them ended in October, supposedly. (AP)

2007 Trecynon, Wales Satanist Geraint Evans, 24, recieved "indeifnite
detainment" for the murder of Father Paul Bennett on 3-14-07 on the
grounds of St Fagan’s Anglican Church. Father Bennett, 59, died as a
martry for Christ. He married & a father-of-two, was attacked yards
from the church in front of his wife. In a gloating voice Evans told
Mrs. Bennett ‘I stabbed him through the heart, I stabbed him through
the eye. You have to forgive me now’,” As well as regularly smoking
cannabis, Evans inhaled lighter fluid on a daily basis. He was a
subscriber and contributor to satanic websites using the pseudonym Jack
Blade where he declared: “I am Satan.” At the time Evans was living in
his mother’s flat which overlooks the vicarage where Father Bennett,
who was profoundly deaf, lived with his family. Bennet was a popular
vicar, who had three churches under his stewardship, was described as
being at the “very centre of his community”. Evans was initially
charged with murder, but his plea of manslaughter was accepted after
three doctors presented reports to the court confirming Evans was a
deluded paranoid schizophrenic. Satanists...The Alien Elite! (BBC News)

2007 Novi Banovci, Serbia On 9-2-07 police recovered beheaded bodies of
Vasilije Trbovic, 26, and his five-year-old nephew, L.O., from the
Danube River near Novi Banovci in Vojvodina. Police arrested suspect
Danijel Jakupek who later confessed to the crimes.“The murders were not
committed for the sake of the murder, rather they are typical of a
cult-inspired ritual. Everything we found in the suspect’s house points
to that conclusion,” Chief Inspector Zoran Lukovic said. Upon searching
his house , police found an improvised satanist altar in the basement,
while certain pieces of furniture were painted over in Satanistcolors,
red and black, as well as occult literature. Asked how it was possible
that no one noticed the suspect’s strange behavior, Lukovic said that
people in Serbia “are usually poorly informed of cults and sects.” He
called for the ministries of health and religion to join in the
campaign to fight dangerous cults operating in Serbia. (Blic Online in
English)

2007 Mzuzu , Malawi Police broke up a teen Satanic cult into vampirism.
After practicing with the girls for some months, one girl revealed her
involvement to the clergy following her the cult's request that she
kill her father. Police in Mzuzu arrested two girls for coercing a 14
year-old student into the Satanic cult According to police, the
girl confessed that she was sucking people’s blood and she frequently
used to travel with her many friends for meetings where their “queen”
is, at a location by the Indian Ocean. The police said the two girls
will be charged with conduct likely to cause breach of peace and will
be taken to court.(ENI News)

2007 Nizhny Tagil, Russia In August at the city cemetery was vandalized
by a Satanists who destroyed around 35 tomb stones and put
the crosses back in the ground upside down. Police arrested 2 men,
& believe that are more people involved. A 20 y.o. man, arrested
& confessed that he was guilty in this crime, and during a search
of his house police found occult & satanic literature. The young
man calls himself a Satanist and says that he destroyed the tombs
because he hates "all the things connected with Christianity".
(Interfax)

2007 Dallas, TX Police discovered a "nganga" (a cauldron used in Palo
Mayombe) containing a human skull. The three-legged iron vessel was
wrapped in black and red cloth also contained animal bones, chicken
feathers, a machete and an 18-inch statue of a man, carved from dark
wood. The identity of the skull's victim has not been identified. The
week before the discovery of the cauldron, the bodies of a murdered
couple turned up across the river a few hundred yards away from the
"nganga", although police say it's "just a coincidence". Palo
Mayombe is a religion similar to Santeria. (AP)

2007 Phoenix, AZ Loren Williamson, 33, was booked into the Fourth
Avenue Jail on four counts of sexual conduct with a minor and three
counts of child molestation. Police said the abuse started when the
victim was 6 years old and continued until authorities recently got a
tip.Officers said Williamson was involved with the Wiccan
religion and may have used its "mystical traditions" as a way to spark
the interest of young girls. Officers said they are not immediately
aware of any other victims, but it appears that there could be more who
have not yet come forward. People with information related to the case
should contact the department's Crimes Against Children Unit at
602-534-3200 or Silent Witness at 480-WITNESS.(AP)

2007 Zimbabwe A witchdoctor, or to be PC, "Traditional Pagan healer and
shaman" Rotina Mavhunga claimed in April that she had discovered
deposits of refined gasoline seeping from rocks near a spiritual shrine
in the Chinhoyi district, 60 miles northwest of Harare. The shaman told
her followers the fuel could last hundreds of years and was "a gift
from ancestral spirits who saw their children suffering because of the
shortages of fuel," according to a government spokesperson. Top
politicians, Security Minister Didymus Mutasa, Defense Minister Sydney
Sekeramayi and Home Affairs Minister Kembo Mohadi, in charge of police,
went to the district to investigate the claims — a sign that the
government took them seriously. But the scam was busted before it even
got off the ground, and police arrested 50 followers of Mavhunga.
The tribal healer/shaman herself was last reported still on the run.
(ZWNews)

2007 New York, NY In May, self proclaimed Satanists Danielle
Wilbur, John and William Santiorello, and Dan Trassers were all charged
with aggravated harassment and commiting a hate crime for the defacing
of a Baptist Church. The would be Anton LaVeys spray painted their
MySpace handles and Satanic graffitti all over the church. Police were
easily able to apprehend them after identifying them on MySpace. (AP)

2007 Balitmore, Maryland "Native American psychic" Grace Uwanawich
struck a plea deal with a Maryland court, to recieve a reduced sentence
of 18 mos. in jail. The deal includes nearly $257,000 in
restitution to four former clients. Authorities say Uwanawich, 63,
defrauded vulnerable middle-aged women by persuading them to hand over
tens of thousands of dollars to crush devastating curses. One woman was
a 57-year-old Poolesville Chineese woman who, over the course of a
year, gave Uwanawich more than $160,000 in cash and property. The woman
was told she and her family had a curse that dated to the building of
the Great Wall of China. After wiping out the Poolesville woman's bank
accounts, maxing out her credit cards and tricking her into buying a
Mercedes Benz she never got to drive, Uwanawich stopped giving the
woman appointments."This is beyond fortunetelling for entertainment
purposes," Montgomery Assistant State's Attorney Carol Crawford said.
She compared Uwanawich to a "leech" who drained her victims' wealth by
terrorizing them with the prospect of spells and then becoming their
only source of solace. Court records show she was also arrested in
Chester County, Pa., and later in Philadelphia during the 1990s in
connection with similar scams. (AP)

2007 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia Next time someone whines on an internet blog
about "religious persecution" against would-be-witches in the U.S.A.,
just remember this story: In Oct.Saudi Arabia’s religious police, known
as Mutawas, have arrested a domestic worker accused of having put a
spell on her employer, the Al-Madina newspaper reported.
Witchcraft is a capital offence in Saudi Arabia, where Sharia law is
strictly applied.The Mutawas, discovered “talismans and products of
charlatanism” in a search of the maid’s quarters in the eastern city of
Damman. The arrest of the maid, whose nationality was not revealed (but
probably from Indonesia or Sri Lanka), followed a complaint by the wife
of the employer who she said had been “bewitched by the maid”. The
woman said she suspected her husband had been put under a spell because
he fiercely defended the maid from criticism every time she neglected
her work. A more logical explanation is the employer and maid were
having a tryst, which would explain why he doesn't care if she cleans
the house or not, and the "spell" doesn't seem to affet the wife. The
paper said the maid, “admitted she took refuge in sorcery so as to make
her employers like her”...but of course Arab newspapers aren't well
known for their truth telling ability. Everyone reading this, please
pray for this girl that her life is spared, and complian to the Saudi
embassy. (Al Madina Press)

2007 Lake City, Idaho Wiccans and Satanists learn to overcome their
differences and work together! A self proclaimed Satanist and a self
proclaimed Wiccan were arrested for the burning of a Seventh-Day
Adventist School library. Damage to the library was estimated at
$30,000. Rathdrum resident Jason Howry, 20, and Athol resident
Jacqueline Smith, 16, were charged Tuesday and booked into the Kootenai
County Jail on charges of first-degree arson, police said. Maybe Wicca
made her feel all grown up. It should, because Smith was charged as an
adult. Smith told detectives she practiced the Wiccan religion and that
Howry proclaimed he was a "Satan worshipper." I wonder if they said "So
Mote It Be!" or "Hail Satan!" when they got done burning that awful,
intolerant library that was persecuting them? (spokesmanreview.com)

2007 Santa Maria, CA In July Wiccan couple Sean and Rachelle Pelino
face six felony counts each, including several charges of lewd and
lascivious acts with a minor. Police said the couple used the
Wiccareligion to lure a 15-year-old girl into sex. Investigators say
the suspects were using Wiccan rituals and drugs, including marijuana
(use of which is mentioned in the Gardnerian Book of Shadows as part of
the 8-fold path), to seduce the teen. Lieutenant Kendall Greene of the
Santa Maria Police Department said the encounters "...involved
threesomes between husband, wife and victim. Sometimes individual, one
on one," sex was involved as well. Blessed Be! (KSBY 6 Action News
ksby.com)

2007 Belgrade, Serbia A man was arrested 9-1-07 on suspicion that he
killed a 5-year-old boy and his uncle and dismembered them in a Satanic
ritual, Serbian police said. The suspect, identified only as "Danijel
J.", 27 y.o. , is accused of cutting off the victims heads, arms and
legs in Novi Banovci, a village just north of Belgrade, before he
dumped their bodies into the Danube River, a police statement said.
Zoran Lukovic, a police inspector involved in the investigation, told
reporters a search of Danijel’s flat in the village showed he possessed
“Satanic literature” including a manual on how to dismember a human
body and that he belonged to "an unidentified religious sect". Lukovic,
the police inspector, said that police discovered “a room with an
altar” at Danijel’s home where he performed Satanic rites. Serbia’s
Interior Minister Dragan Jocic said ritual killings are on the rise in
Serbia.(Beta News Agency)

2007 Miami, FL In Sept.,Satanist Lazaro Galindo, 26, was convicted of
brutally killing a romantic rival and then butchering him. Galindo, who
represented himself during his trial, told the Miami court he was "God"
and that he would unite the Catholic and Satanic religions. In a
confession nearly 40 pages long, the 26-year-old detailed how he
stabbed and beat Argelio Gonzalez and then spent two days inside his
caravan home dismembering the man. Calling the murder "appalling" and
"gruesome," Miami-Dade Circuit Judge Peter Adrien ordered Galindo serve
a life sentence, virtually guaranteeing he will die in prison. Galindo
is serving a 45 year sentence for molesting a 13-year-old. His life
term will start after that sentence concludes.(AP)

2007 Tokyo, Japan In Oct. Police arrested a total 23 members of a
Shinto sect in central Japan in connection with the slaying of a
fellow member Motoko Okuno, 63, who was beaten to death in Sept. Okuno
was killed as punishment for failing to carry out religious rites.
Kigenkai, founded in 1970, is based on Japan’s indigenous Pagan goddess
cenetered Shinto religion and sells purified water the sect claims can
cure diseases. It has about 400 members in branches across Japan,
according to Japanese media. (gulf-daily-news.com)

2007 Saudi, Arabia On-11-03-07 Arab Muslim officials executed an
Egyptian man convicted of "sorcery", desecrating the Koran and
adultery, the country's official news agency said. Mustafa Ibrahim had
been accused by another foreign resident of practicing magic in order
to separate him from his wife and said evidence had been found in his
home, including books on black magic, a candle with an incantation "to
summon devils" and "foul-smelling herbs". "He confessed to adultery
with a woman and desecrating the Koran by placing it in the bathroom,"
the agency said. Islam...the religion of peace and tolerance!
(Al-Jazirah)

2007 Portland, OR A transsexual internet psychic named David Wayne
French charged clients $145-$265 an hour for a variety of different
services, including travel to other planets<snicker>,
"dimensionality", astral projection, "ET or Angel Walk-ins", third eye
mastery, kundalini (sex yoga), "transmutaion", and ironically "mastery
of glands". In May, he murdered his gay lover of 5 years, 51 y.o. Frank
Johnson. French leapt from a 3 story window as police were entering the
apartment, to avoid capture. French also goes by the alias Zalia Crizta
or simply "Z". Since he can pass as a man or woman, it makes his
capture more difficult. His case was profiled on America’s Most Wanted,
and anyone with information should call 1-800-crime-tv.
(America's Most Wanted)

2007 Papua,New Guinea Officials report Pagan shamanisitc beliefs are
causing people to committ murder. Tribesmen resort to old ways
and rituals to 'ward off evil spirits',including the murder and torture
of those believed to be witches. Suspected witches – mostly women but
including some men and even children – have been subjected to horrific
torture before being hanged or thrown off cliffs. A growing Aids crisis
and the collapse of health services have sapped villagers' faith in
Western medicine and prompted a return to ancestral beliefs. Barely
educated villagers living in remote mountain valleys are blaming the
increasing number of A.I.D.S. deaths not on promiscuity but on black
magic. "We're seeing a big rise in witchcraft cases. We hear of a
killing almost every week," said Hermann Spingler, a German Lutheran
pastor who heads the Melanesian Institute, a cultural study centre in
Goroka. "They take the law into their own hands and torture people to
make them 'confess'. They drag women on ropes behind vehicles, burn
them with hot wire, chop off hands, fingers. People have been buried
alive." (telegraph.co.uk)

2007 Leeds, England Satanist Gary Dover Afflick, 41, A sex offender
& drug dealer who went on the run after he was released from
prison was arrested in Leeds in March. The Fagin-style gang leader was
convicted for a string of offences in 1997 at Bristol Crown Court. He
was sentenced to 14 years in prison. Afflick selected rootless
youngsters, usually aged between 9 and 14, and offered them shelter in
"squats and flats". He gave them drugs, lectured them about Satanism,
and kept them in line with a regime of beatings and sexual
assaults.(Reuters)

2007 Salvador, Brazil Rosanita Nery dos Santos, 47, chopped her husband
in over 100 pieces, boned the body parts with a knife, fried the body
parts, and then kept the remains under the stairway in the couple's
home. Police think she may have eaten some of the body parts. According
to Bernadete de Souza Soares, 63, the victim's aunt and a witness in
court, Rosanita and José Raimundo used to fight a lot over her habit
of going to candomblé (an African religion like Santeria) worship
services. Soares told jurors that the husband once dragged Rosanita out
of the candomblé church during a service. "He went in and broke
everything," said Soares. "After that, the mãe-de-santo (afro-Brazilian
priestess) said that he would pay dearly for that and that he wouldn't
live more than one year. The priestess also asked Rosa to deliver his
heart to her and that's why she dismembered him." Santos was
convicted of the crime and recieved 19 years in prison. (brazzilmag.com)

2007 Waukesha, WI Wiccan Brenna K. Barney, 42, was arrested after
neighbors complained to police the woman was yelling witch chants
around a bonfire. Police discovered High Priestess Barney in her
underwear wearing headphones dancing around the fire which included
rubber car mats and a cooler. The responding officer tried to get her
attention by shining a flashlight on her but she continued yelling her
chants. At one point she poured lighter fluid on the fire, which was
10-feet from her residence, the officer said. When the officer was able
to get the woman's attention she still refused to cooperate. Capt. Mike
Babe said Brenna K. Barney of Waukesha told police they were infringing
on her religious beliefs since she was performing a ritual under the
new moon. She continued to be belligerent and the officer could smell
alcohol on the woman's breath. Four officers responded to the scene and
were able to take the woman into custody. She was first taken to
Waukesha Memorial Hospital where she continued to yell and swear at
officers and hospital staff. After she was medically cleared, she was
taken to jail. (AP)

2007 Portsmouth, England Debbie King, Arch Druidess of the
Insular Order of Druids, was arrested at Fareham Magistrates Court for
carrying a five-inch blade. 'It would have the same status as a
crucifix to Christians. It represents truth, honour, justice and
protection. I was told if I signed a disclaimer and gave up the athame
I would just be given a caution, but I had to stand my ground.",
apparently not understaning weapons can't be brought to court. Miss
King, 44, said she had the "Druid kit" for a television interview later
in the day, and didn't know if she would have time to return home and
collect her belongings after supporting a family member in court.
"Athame" is actually a Wiccan term, coined by Gerald Gardner, and has
no connection to ancient druidism. "King Arthur Pendragon", Battle
Chieftain of the Council of British Druid Orders <snicker>, is
vowing to fight for Miss King's right to carry her knife. King Arthur,
who was cleared at court in 1996 for carrying his broadsword, said: 'If
it goes to court, I'll defend it to the hilt. I think it's
ridiculous..." Some would find grown people calling themselves "Druids"
and getting themselves arested all the time for stupid things
ridiculous too.(Reuters)

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2008 OCT. Lake County, FL Antonio Orsillo, owner of Big Oak Italian
Restaurant & Pizza, was arrested shortly after Midnight on Friday
night and was released on $50,000 bond on Saturday afternoon according
to the court records. Orsillo, 49, had attepmted to hire a hit man to
kill a former employee allegedly for sleeping with his wife. Orsillo
told the hitman he wanted the victim decapitated with a Brazilian
machete that Orsillo would supply and he wanted it returned with the
man's blood on it. He also asked for a jar of the victim's blood as
well. Orsillo apparently wanted the jar of blood for use in Santeria
type rituals. According to the officer's report Orsillo had previously
sacrificed six goats and used their blood to in a ritual. Orsillo
paid $1,000 to the hitman as a down payment toward a $3,000 fee to have
his target killed Saturday. Orsillo had agreed to pay the remainder of
the money on Halloween. (Florida Times Union, Police Records)

JULY 2008 San Antonio TX 29 year old Kethan Beschorner, A 365 pound
6'4'' Satanist was arrested after murdering his girlfriend, Michelle
LaGue, 44. Beschorner said demons had been "nagging him to kill
somebody", so he chose LaGue because people might connect her death to
another man she was going to testify against in the 2005 murders known
as the "Taco Land slayings". The sacrifice took place on 7-4-08 after
the pair had been drinking and smoking pot, and she refused to have sex
with him. They fought briefly before he grabbed a knife and began
stabbing her, police said. The body of LaGue was found July 7 inside
her apartment in the 1000 block of West Russell. She had been slashed
and nearly decapitated. Like manySatanists who get arrested, Beschorner
told police that he recently became a believer in Jesus Christ in jail
after having worshiped Satan. Well, I'd say the Satanist thing isn't
working for him, so he might as well try Christ. Couldn't hurt at this
point. (San Antonio News)

2008 DECEMBER, CARY, NC Four teenagers were charged with Eagle
Scout Matthew Silliman's death. The teens "foretold his future" using
tarot cards, then proceeded to beat him on the head with a hammer,
bound him with zip ties, and suffocated him with duct tape, according
to search warrants. A defense attorney for one of the self confessed
slayers said "She's not a bad person," I'd hate to see his idea of a
bad person, in that case. The warrants also said investigators seized
"medications commonly used for animals to plan the murder and read the
deceased his fortune using tarot cards just prior to his death." The
four "friends" of the Eagle Scout -- Drew Shaw, 16, Ryan Hare, 18, and
Aadil Khan, 17, of Apex and Allegra Dahlquist, 17, of Cary -- confessed
to the crime and each face one count each of murder. Hare and Shaw are
also charged with one count of conspiracy to commit murder.Matthew
Silliman, 18, was given a memorial service at Peace Presbyterian Church
in Cary Monday afternoon, 12-8-08.(The News & Observer of Raleigh)

2008 NOV. San Juan, TX San Juan police are asking the public for help
finding two "Brujares" who scammed a man out of approximately $1,000
dollars using the old "cursed money" scam.

One of them told a 79-year-old man that she could tell something was
wrong and that she knew he had lot of money. To prove her alleged
psychic power, she asked for him for a white t-shirt and an egg. "She
blessed him with an egg and smashed the egg inside a shirt where a bone
and a hair was produced," said San Juan police spokesman Rolando
Garcia. The elderly man allegedly interpreted that as a sign of bad
luck and handed over approximately $1,000. The Brujares took the cash,
began to wrap it in the shirt and a handkerchief and made one more
request. "In the process of blessing the money, they ended up doing a
switcharoo," Garcia said "They had him pick a leaf off a tree. That's
where he gave the back to the suspects." They took the leaf and gave it
to him with a handkerchief and what he thought was his money. The woman
said if he kept it under his pillow for two weeks he would obtain good
luck and be blessed. But the man's daughter was suspicious and had her
father open the handkerchief. That's when they discovered it was full
of newspaper clippings instead of his money.

The egg scam happened when the two women drove up to Juan Rodriguez's
home on the 100 block of West Alfredo Street in San Juan.Police said
the alleged fortune teller is described as a Hispanic female in her
late 30's to early 40's, with hazel eyes, thick brows and brown
hair.The driver was also Hispanic, in her late 40's to 50's. Both were
wearing floral skirts.Police believe they might be traveling in a white
truck with partial Texas plates X-X-7.If you have any information, call
San Juan Crime Stoppers at (956) 283-TIPS. (KGBT 4 News)

2008 SEPTEMBER, CHIBOTE, ZAMBIA Copperbelt police commanding
officer, Antoneil Mutentwa confirmed the arrest and detention of a
Satanist who murdered his two-year old son using a knife. "Yes, I must
confirm that a man claiming to be a Satanist was arrested and detained
at Kalulushi police station for allegedly murdering his own son using a
knife on Sunday. The man, who is a resident of Chibote Township in
Kalulushi, arrived home and told his wife to go and buy candles and
when the wife left, he took a knife and cut the throat of his two-year
old son. When the wife got back from buying the candle, she found the
son in a pool of blood and his husband also had blood on his hands. The
wife reported the matter to the neighbours who took him to Chibuluma
police post before being taken to Kalulushi police station where he is
detained," Mr Mutentwa said. (Times of Zambia 9-2-08)

2008 SEPTEMBER WESTERN RUSSIA A cult of teenagers Satanists were
arrested by authorities for sacrificing and then eating their victim's
remains in a "cannibal feast". Ksneia Kuzetsova, Alexander Vornov,
Anton Makovkin, and leader Nikolia Ogolobyak were all arrested for the
homocides of four russian teenagers. Teachers of the accused told
detectives that most had been moody at school and were of lower than
average intelligence and were all described as "Goths". The victims
were Anya Gorokhova, Varya Kuzmina, Olga Pukhova, and Andrei Sorokin.
Each victim was stabbed 666 times before being roasted in a bonfire,
according to police. The teen victims had been missing for months, when
police discovered the remains in a charred pit in a wooded area. Above
the pit was an upside down cross with a rat crucified on it. Victim
Sorokin's father later told police "My son said he had Satanists among
friends. I wasn't scared. I thought 'Well, let him spend his time
sitting around a cemetery--there's not much harm in that, is there?"
Leader Ogolobyak later told police he became a Satanist because God
didn't make him rich, but "things improved when he prayed to the
Devil". So...if you can't be wealthy, settle for cannibalism and
murder? [UK Daily Mail]

2008 JULY LEBANON, IN - A coven of Wiccans were warned that being
in Oak Hill Cemetary (a central Indiana cemetery about 20 miles
northwest of Indianapolis) after posted visiting hours constitutes
trespassing. No charges were filed, police said . The would be witches
were illegally performing a ceremony to "give thanks for a recent run
of good luck". The ceremony involved the use of candles, incense and
driving swords into the ground during the full moon. The incident came
to police attention after a Wiccan, Katherine Gunther, 36, of Lebanon,
pierced her left foot with a sword while performing ,ironically enough,
a good luck ritual. You can write your own joke here. Hospitals
automatically contact police anytime there is a stabbing, shooting or
evidence of assault. Gunther said she was aiming to put the sword in
the ground, but hit her foot instead. Gunther immediately pulled the
sword out of her foot, and the rest of the coven took her to Witham
Memorial Hospital, where she was kept a couple days for treatment. I
guess her luck ran out. "It wasn't the first time I performed the
ritual, but it was the first time I put a sword through my foot," she
said. If Wiccans want to stop being mistaken for Satanists, then they
need to stop performing spells in graveyards. Geeze. (AP 7-22-08)

2008 July Durham, NC On 7-3-08 Three people have been arrested in
Durham County, N.C., in a series of alleged Satanic rituals involving
violence, police say. Police said the most recent arrest was of Diana
Palmer, the vice chairwoman of the Durham County Democratic Party, who
was allegedly linked to the suspected rituals including a rape, ABC
News said Thursday. Palmer's attorney, Bill Thomas, denied an earlier
police report that his client attempted to remove items from the home
where the crimes occurred.Suspect Joseph Craig, 25, was arrested last
week and accused of kidnapping and beating a man, along with raping a
woman as part of the alleged Satanic rituals.Craig's wife Joy Johnson,
a former Durham County Democratic Party vice chairwoman, was also
arrested and charged with allegedly assisting in the rape and
assault.ABC News said both victims had met the couple on the Internet
and voluntarily went to their home when the crimes occurred sometime
between January and June. (AP)

2008, Portage County, Ohio July Jennifer E. Sobczak, 28 y.o., &
alleged follower of Voodoo, was sentenced to six months imprisonment by
the Portage County Common Pleas Court on a fifth-degree felony charge
of assaulting a corrections officer at the Portage County Jail.
According to facts presented in court, Sobczak was incarcerated at the
Portage County jail on July 11, 2007 when corrections officers
attempted to put her into a holding cell. Defense attorney Troy Reeves
said Sobczak refused to enter the particular cell, No. 41, because of ,
quote,"bad voodoo" believing it would be bad luck because a previous
inmate who had been housed in that cell had experienced a death in the
family. "She didn't want 41. She wanted 42. She didn't want to be in
there," Reeves said.She then scuffled with corrections officers. One of
the officers suffered a sprained finger during the altercation. Sobczak
is well-known to Portage County law enforcement, having been arrested
as many as 80 times in the last five years. (AP)

2008 July Deltona, Florida A voodoo doll found in the front yard of a
Deltona commissioner with her picture glued on the head and pins in the
body has led to extra security for city leaders. The 6-inch doll was
found earlier this month in the front yard of Commissioner Zenaida
Denizac's home. According to the Orlando Sentinel, the Volusia County
Sheriff's office has ramped up patrols near the homes of elected
officials, hoping the extra patrols will deter any further harassment.
"My first thought was somebody wants to destroy me,” Denizac said. “I
don't know a lot about these things, but because of all the pins, I
assume someone wants me destroyed." Deltona is a few miles from
Cassadaga, the last of two spiritualist camps in the U.S. The tiny
village of psychics and occult bookstores is a magnet for occult
wierdos of all kinds (I even saw Shirley McClaine there once). Anyone
with any information should call the Volusia County Sheriff's
Department @ (386) 860-7030 (AP)

2008 Kitakyushu, Japan On June 27, police at Kitakyushu City's Kokura
Minami branch arrested Maki Sakaguchi, 29, on suspicion of violating
the anti-stalking law. Yukan Fuji (on June 28) reported the police
acted on complaints that Sakaguchi had stalked her ex-boyfriend,
frantically pleading him to return to her, and had also made repeated
threatening telephone calls to his new lady friend. The case took an
interesting turn when the authorities searched Sakaguchi's residence
and turned up a "noroi no wara ningyo," a straw doll used in Japan
since ancient times for the purpose of "voodoo-type curses". The doll
was tacked to a board bearing the name of Sakaguchi's female rival; a
pair of 5-inch nails had been driven into the torso. Not only didn't it
work, but she landed in jail! (AP)

2008 May 1st, White Plains, N.Y. — A rather homley 51-year-old man who
claimed to practice Voodoohas admitted telling underage girls that if
they refused to have sex with him terrible things would happen to them
and their families. Hector Aviles of Yonkers pleaded guilty 5-1-08
(appropriately enough, the day after the occult holiday of "May Eve")
to second- and third-degree rape, said Janet DiFiore, the Westchester
district attorney. Aviles could be sentenced to up to 15 years in
prison. DiFiore said that at various times in 2006, Aviles told three
girls, ages 16 and 14, that he could help them with such problems as
boys and parents if they engaged in a sexual "ritual" with him. He
warned that if they backed out, he would make bad things happen to them
and their relatives. The district attorney said that when he was
arrested, Aviles confessed to police he practiced Voodoo. (New Yok
Times)

2008 March Port St. Lucie, Florida, A man was arrested after
threatening his wife with Voodoo death, and a gun. The woman is a
recent immigrant from Haiti, and as such feared the Voodoo threat far
more than she feared the firearm threat. Police spokesman Robert Vega
says 34-year-old Nerlet Bellot was arrested on charges of domestic
battery, hindering communication with law enforcement and domestic
assault. Bellot is accused of punching his wife in the stomach and her
head. Vega says the wife also believes in voodoo and feels her husband
can put a curse on her family. (AP)

2008 June Lusaka, Zambia Police in Lusaka have arrested a Zambian
conman and Satanist claiming to be a South African accountant by the
name of Ricardo de Klerk, police spokesperson, Bonny Kapeso has said.
The conman earlier stole media headlines when he claimed that he was a
Satanist who had been sent to kill a Reformed Church of Zambia (RCZ)
pastor in Lusaka. At the time the man was arrested, he was claiming
that his names were Ricardo de Klerk and that he was an accountant from
South Africa. Before the man's arrest, members of the RCZ had started
mobilising resources to help the man travel back to South Africa after
he confessed having failed to kill the pastor. The whole thing might
have just been a way to scam Christians out of money, still a Satanic
act. (AP)

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2009 August Anadarko, OK - On 8-23-09 Residents of the small town of
Anadarko (65 miles from Oklahoma City) were horrified after the grizly
discovery of the mutilated body of Rev. Rev. Carol Daniels, 61, in what
appeared to be a staged in a "crucifix" position. Brent Professor
Turvey, criminal profiler and crimonologist working on the case, said
"It could have been deliberate. They’re in a church; they put her in
this position, perhaps a defiant way of saying, ‘Screw you and your
God. Look how your God didn’t help you.’" The killer had stripped
Daniel's body nude and took the clothing with him. The killer also took
time to spray a chemical over the crime scene to eliminate DNA
evidence. Investigators said they are haunted by the methodical nature
of the killing of the woman inside the Christ Holy Sanctified Church,
once an old grocery store that sits on the edge of a predominantly
black neighborhood. Rev. Daniels, who died as a martyr for Christ, was
a graduate of the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond and a
mother. Investigators have ruled out the possibility the act was done
by a serial killer. Investigators have not ruled out the possibility
the act was an occult related crime. The killer or killers still remain
at large. Anyone with information should contact the Anadarko Police
Department at (405) 247-2411. (NewsOK)

2009 June Bridgeport, CT — Police in Connecticut have confirmed that a
skull found in a bloody basement where they believe sacrificial rituals
were performed is a human skull. Bridgeport Detective Keith Bryant says
the medical examiner's office made the determination. Now there is an
anthropological review to try to determine the sex and age of the
person and when he or she died. Bryant says a headless body was found
in Bridgeport about a decade ago, but it's not clear if there is a
connection to the skull found during a drug raid Tuesday. Five people
were charged with drug and gun crimes. Police believe Santeria or some
kind of voodoo religion was practiced there. They also found Satanic
writings and a beheaded chicken with its blood draining into a bowl.
(The Connecticut Post)

2009 June Queens NY A 29-year-old Haitian immigrant and practioner of
Voodoo has been accused of trying to drive evil spirits out of her
6-year-old daughter by setting her on fire. Prosecutors say Marie
Lauradin poured an accelerant over her daughter during a Haitian
practice known as Loa and made her stand naked in a ring of fire,
engulfing her in flames.Queens District Attorney Richard Brown says
Lauradin and the girl's grandmother washed her and put her to bed
despite life-threatening burns over 25 percent of her body. He says
another relative found her the next day. Lauradin was ordered held on
$50,000 bail at a Thursday arraignment on assault and child
endangerment charges related to the Feb. 4 incident. Defense attorney
Jeff Cohen says she denies the allegations. The grandmother faces a
later arraignment. The girl went into foster care. (USA Today 6-19-09)

2009 March Palm Harbor, FL Palm Harbor University baseball coach Jeremy
Albrecht was suspended after his team participated in the sacrifice of
a snake to improve the team's performance. According to second baseman
Zach Sobel."We were on a losing streak and Coach said we were
snake-bitten," Sobel said, "So we just kind of went with it." Albrecht,
34, was relieved of his duties while the Sheriff's Office investigates
allegations that he was involved in the incident, Pinellas County
schools spokeswoman Andrea Zahn said. Sobel, a senior, said the players
fed the snake a rat to make it more docile, killed the snake with a
shovel and buried it on the pitcher's mound, and that Albrecht was not
present. Sobel would not say which players bought the snake or killed
it, but no one objected. Unremorseful for the sacrifice, Zobel said
"It's unfortunate because our coach could lose his job over this and he
shouldn't. We don't deserve this".

2009 March-Nation of Gambia In the Muslim nation of Gambia 1,000 people
were rounded up and forced to drink hallucinogens in a
"witch-hunting campaign" that is terrorizing the tiny West African
nation according to Amnesty International. Authorities began inviting
"witch doctors," (Shamans) who combat witches, to come from nearby
Guinea soon after the death earlier this year of the president's aunt.
Jammeh "reportedly believes that witchcraft was used in her death," the
London-based rights group said. Victims are being "forced to drink
unknown substances that cause them to hallucinate and behave
erratically," the rights group said in a statement. "Many are then
forced to confess to being a witch. In some cases, they are also
severely beaten, almost to the point of death." Hundreds fled to
neighboring Senegal after their villages were attacked, Amnesty said.
In 2007, Jammeh declared he had discovered a cure for AIDS and began
treating patients inside the presidential palace, using herbs and
incantations (in other words, witchcraft). His dictatorial regime has
cracked down harshly on critics, especially the press. On March 8,
authorities arrested Halifa Sallah, who has written about the "witch
doctors" for the main opposition newspaper, Foroyya. Sallah, who was a
presidential candidate in 2006, has since been charged with sedition
and spying, Amnesty said. (Ruters)

2009 February Indian River Co. FL A bag containing headless animals and
pocket change found outside the Indian River County Sheriff's Office
was apparently someone's attempt to place a curse on the Sheriff's
employees, according to investigators. IRCSO reported that
someone found a black bag outside the office on the morning of Friday
February 13. Inside the bag were a white baby goat and a brown
chicken, both decapitated. Deputies found a quarter, a nickel and four
pennies on the goat's belly. Tags with numbers and the date Nov.
11, 1996 were found on the ears of the goat's severed head, according
to the police report. (Tampa Tribune)

Jan. 2009 Mordovia, Russia The leader of a Satanist sect in Russia's
Republic of Mordovia that included more than 60 members has been
arrested and the group shut down, investigators announced. According to
the Federal Investigative Committee's reports, the cult leader, whose
name has not been released, is a 24-year-old medical student from
Belarus. He was arrested on Saturday on charges of organizing an
illegal group that infringes on the rights of an individual. He faces a
sentence of up to two years if convicted.Investigators said the members
rented a house where they "conducted cult ceremonies, including illegal
acts of alcoholic binge drinking, sexual practices and antisocial
behavior." "During the probe, investigators confiscated a large amount
of cult and Satanic literature, documents of a religious character in
Latin, as well as the organization's charter and member list," the
report read. (RIA Novosti)

Jan. 2009 Lagos, Nigeria Police in Nigeria are holding a goat on
suspicion of attempted armed robbery (really, no kid-ding).
Vigilantes took the black and white beast to the police saying it was
an armed robber who had used black magic to transform himself into a
goat to escape arrest after trying to steal a Mazda 323. "The group of
vigilante men came to report that while they were on patrol they saw
some hoodlums attempting to rob a car. They pursued them. However one
of them escaped while the other turned into a goat," Kwara state police
spokesman Tunde Mohammed told Reuters by telephone. "We cannot confirm
the story, but the goat is in our custody. We cannot base our
information on something mystical. It is something that has to be
proved scientifically, that a human being turned into a goat," he said
(Right, and since the cops over there don't believe in such things, the
reason the police are still holding the goat is...?) (Reuters)

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