Mayor Resigns, Claims Abduction By Satan Worshipers*

POSTED: 6:08 pm CST November 21, 2007
UPDATED: 6:22 pm CST November 21, 2007

CENTERTON, Ark. -- The mayor of an Arkansas town resigned on Wednesday,
claiming he was abducted and brainwashed by Satan worshippers nearly
three decades ago.

Centerton Mayor Ken Williams said he has been living under an assumed
name for nearly 30 years. He had been mayor since 2001.

Williams told authorities he was born Don LaRose and that in the
mid-1970s, he was a preacher in Indiana. He said he was abducted and
brainwashed into forgetting all about his life as Don LaRose.

It was a double-life he had never acknowledged, Williams said, because
he didn't even realize it existed until he had recently taken a
truth-serum injection.

As Williams regained his memory, he said, he realized that he had a wife
and two kids but that he had decided to leave and take on a new identity
to protect them.

"I had no choice. The choice was to watch my family killed before my
eyes or go with these people, and I chose instead to run," Williams said.

He wouldn't explain from who he was running, saying only that he had
been brainwashed.

"I had multiple shock treatments," Williams said. "It took five years to
get my memory back."

Williams said he took his current identity in 1980 when he moved to
Centerton. His full name -- Bruce Kent Williams -- was taken from a man
who died in a car crash back in 1958, he said.

"What happened in 1980 -- whether it was right or wrong -- I did it
under the threat of my family and for my own survival," he said.

The information went public, Williams said, because he runs a Web site
about Don LaRose and his disappearance. LaRose's former family found the
Web site and started inquiring about its author. They found the site
registered to a Ken Williams and went from there.

Williams said his current wife is standing by him and the two of them
want to continue living in Centerton. He said he plans to continue
living as Ken Williams.

Also, his resignation was signed with two names, he said.