Satanic cult murders

(list is of the tiny %% that are both solved & reported. There is a
massive coverup by police and media re: occcult activity)

Richard Ramirez is a famous case of a serial killer professing to be a
Satanist. Here are some stories about other killers professing the
same.

*July 197O - Steven Hurd and four other California Satanists are
charged with two murders involving ritual dismemberment and
cannibalism. Hurd is declared insane and remains in a state hospital
"his accomplices are duly convicted and sentenced."

*July 1970 - Satanist Stanley Baker is convicted in the cannibal-
slaying of a Montana resident. He confesses other crimes, committed as
a member of the "Four P" cult - a spinoff from the Process Church of
Final Judgment - and bloody fingerprints link Baker to another homicide

in San Francisco, but California courts bar prosecution on a claim that

he has been denied a "speedy trial." Paroled in 1985, he is at large
today.

*December 1979 - The mutilated bloodless corpses of Carol Marron and
Howard Green are found by police, outside West Paterson, New Jersey.
Both victims are known to be involved with the occult, and while the
crimes remain unsolved, authorities say of the case, "It was definately

a satanic murder. And it wasn't a one-man job"

*April 1981 - Self-styled Satanist Kimberly Goytia, age 13, is
convicted of manslaughter for the shooting death of her sister in
Sacramento, California. She informs police that Satan orderd her to
fire the fatal shot (Newton, 1993a).

*October 1981 - Robin Gecht and three fellow Satanists are arrested
following a series of cannibal murders in Chicago. Gecht escapes
prosecution for murder, but is sentenced to 120 years in prison for
mutilating a prostitute who survived the attack. His accomplices are
convicted of multiple murders, with two sentences to death and one to
life imprisonment.

*July 1984 - Teenage Satanists Richard Kasso and James Troiano are
arrested for the ritual slaying of a fellow "stoner." Kasso hangs
himself in jail; Troiano is acquitted in 1985, after a key prosecution
witness admits using drugs on the night of the crime (Newton, 1993a).

*January 1986 - Satanic "priest" Harold Smith and four disciples are
jailed following a series of murders in Houston, Texas. All are
convicted and sentenced for the ritual torture-slaying of a young man
at a local cemetery.

*February 1986 - Dana Jones admitted member of a "sex magic" cult
founded by Aleister Crowley in 1907, is arrested for the ritual
mutilation-slaying of a man in Denver, Colorado. Acquitted on grounds
of insanity and confined to a state hospital, she escapes in June 1988,

with aid from a nurse on the staff, and flees to New Mexico, where she
commits suicide.

*March 1987 - Tim Erickson and two other Minnesota teenagers, admitted
members of a "vampire cult" inspired by the movie The Lost Boys, murder

a 30-yr old drifter and drink his blood. Erickson is sentenced to life
in prison.

*September 1987 - Ohio Satanist John Fryman is convicted in the
dismemberment slaying of 21-year old Monica Lemen, whose severed legs
are found outside a rural Indiana church. Discovery of a black- painted

ritual chamber in Fryman's mobile home, including a gravestone employed

as an alter, prompts the defendant to admit, "I'm involved with the
occult. I think everybody knows that. You don't have a room like that
in your trailer if you're not."

*December 1987 - Three teenage Satanists in Carl Junction, Missouri,
bored with sacrificing cats and dogs, beat classmate Steven Newberry to

death with baseball bats while chanting, "Sacrifice to Satan! Sacrifice

to Satan!"

*May 1988 - Satanists Clifford St. Joseph is convicted in the 1985
murder of an unidentified man, whose mutilations include an inverted
pentagram carved in his chest. Despite the victim's injuries,
confiscation of ritual paraphernalia, and testimony from another
participant in St. Joseph's rituals, Ken Lanning describes the case as
a "sadistic" murder with no occult overtones.

*May 1988 - Teen Satanist Terry Belcher is convicted for the ritual
murder of Theresa Simmons, in Duglasville, Georgia. A month later,
co-defendant Robert McIntyre is likewise convicted, and both are
sentenced to life. (A female accomplice is jailed for three years.) On
the witness stand, Belcher describes animal sacrifices for the court:
"We ate their eyeballs and innards and drank their blood. We toasted
the devil by drinking the blood."

*June 1988 - Satanists Jason Rose and John Jones are indicted for
murdering 19-year-old Melissa Ann Meyer "while deliberately effecting a

human sacrifice." A videotape of the murder in progress earns Rose a
death sentence in May 1989, while Jones is sentenced to life a month
later.

*October 1988 - Joseph Bradsberry, age 22, is sacrificed by California
Satanists as part of an initiation ritual. A 15-year-old cultists
confesses his role in the murder, leading to the arrest of several
adults who deny responsibility on grounds that they were "stoned" when
the murder occurred.

*March 1989 - Alleged Satanist Tony Hall is convicted and sentenced to
death for the 1987 murder of victim Ngoc Van Dang near Orlando,
Florida. Accomplice Danny Bowen is convicted in May and sentenced to
life. Two male participants in the crime, including outspoken Satanist
Bunny Dixon, plead guilty on reduced charges and are sentenced to
prison (Newton, 1993a).

*September 1990 - Daniel Rakowitz, self-styled leader of the "Church of

966" (his own peculiar variant of "666") is convicted and sentenced to
life in New York City of the murder of Monika Beerle. Cult member Randy

Eastherday is arrested in 1992, charged with helping Rakowitz dissect
and boil Beerle's corpse, after which Rakowitz carried her skull and
bones around in a bucket. (Cawthorne, 1995; Ryder, 1994)

*July 1991 - Michigan Satanist Jaime Rodriguez is convicted and
sentenced to life for beheading a teenage runaway and severing one of
her fingers, to wear as a charm around his neck. Accomplice Augustin
Pena, who kept the victim's head in his refrigerator, is also charged
in the case.

*July 1992 - Two Satanists are sentenced to die for the 1990
decapitation murders of four cult defectors in Salida, California. Two
more defendants are convicted and sentenced to life in January 1993.
(Modesto Bee, 1990-93)

*February 1994 - Jessie Misskelly, Jr. is convicted and sentenced to
life plus forty years in prison for the mutilation-murders of three
eight-year old boys at West Memphis, Arkansas, the previous year. A
month later, accomplices Damien Echols and Charles Baldwin are likewise

convicted, with Echols sentenced to death and Baldwin sentenced to life

without parole. Echols is an admitted practitioner of black magic, and
prosecutors describe the triple murder as a ritual slaying.(USA Today,
March 21, 1994)

*April 1994 - Self-described Satanist Carey Grayson, 19, and three
younger defendants are charged with the murder of a female hitchhiker
in Birmingham, Alabama. Police say the victim was mutilated "in an
apparent ritual that involved cannabilism" (USA Today, April 28, 1994)

*May 1996 - Three teenage Satanists in San Louis Obispo, California,
are charged with raping, torturing and murdering 15 year old Elyse
Pahler. Prosecutors say the defendants hoped a virgin sacrifice would
earn them "a ticket to hell." (Indianapolis Star, May 3, 1996