Rich & powerful occult behind spate of missing/dead children

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Rich & powerful occult behind spate of missing/dead children

It is my opinion that satanic cult activity is
far more prevalent than is readily accepted by the general public or
reported
by the media, and that this due to a concerted effort by the rich and
powerful
occult from the highest political and social and economic strata of
western society.

I have been researching the Paul Bernardo murders and found evidence
that Bernardo
was a secret member of the Freemasons, a highly secretive organization
. The link
to that information: http://freemasonrywatch.org/paulbernardo.html

There were occult and satanic aspects to the Bernardo and related
killings that remain covered up. Leslie Mahaffy was abducted the
evening of the day that she attended a funeral wake for four high
school friends who had burned alive in a car crash on 1st side road in
Burlington. Her body was buried in a cemetery bordering 1st side road.
Kristen French was then abducted in a city far away, St. Catharines.
murdered, and her body transported all the way from the City of St.
Catherines, through the City of Hamilton, and then left in a ditch in
the City of Burlington, a ditch on 1st side road, right exactly beside
the cemetery where Mahaffy was buried, and not far from where the teens
had burned alive in the crash. People connected to the deaths have
been 'suicided', including the father of one of the teens who died in
the fiery crash, and including Johnathon Yeo, who allegedly committed
suicide in police custody after being pursued to a mall parking lot and
cornered by police. (Yeo was the chief suspect in a pair of killings
that have at times been linked to Bernardo, incuding the murder of teen
Laurie Anderson )
Numerous articles and books have mentioned that a far larger series of
similar murders (location, M,O., time period, victim type etc.) have
oddly not been included in the official investigations and records of
the Bernardo killings. It has come out that police had enough evidence
to arrest Bernardo long before Karla Homolka turned him in, and some
speculate that Bernardo received some level of police protection during
the investigations.

Is all of this the work of one person? Or was Paul Bernardo the fall
guy, the patsy who took the rap in the coverup for a far larger group
of people and far more numerous series of crimes?
Why was Homolka able to bargain her way out of dangerous offender
status? What does she know about the true nature of the videotapes and
Bernardo's plans and potentially the others involved? Others with the
power to influence police investigations, silence witnesses, Why the
Corrections Canada media ban on Paul Bernardo, that prevents him from
being interviewed by media and remains in effect to this day? Just
what is it that is being kept quiet here?

I have begun to look into a remarkably similar crime to the Bernardo
killings that occurred in Belgium during the exact same year. In this
case, a married man (Dutroux) was caught with two female teenaged sex
slaves caged in his basement and the bodies of four other victims
buried concealed beneath his property.

His wife was charged as an accessory to the murders. Like Dutroux,
Bernardo was married, and assisted by his wife in the killings, and.
like Dutroux,
buried the body of one of his victims beneath his garage floor.
The police also found videos of rapes at the Belgian man's home,
exactly as had been the case with Bernardo. Bernardo had intended to
sell these tapes, and he had made them exactly the
same year as these tapes had been made in Belgium . Bernardo made
these rape tapes with the intention of selling them, so he probably
already had a buyer in mind. (the same buyers
who had made Dutroux wealthy over the preceding decade ?)
In the course of the Belgian trial it was disclosed that the
unemployed, uneducated Dutroux had for ten years had an undisclosed
source of lucrative income, and in fact owned a nice house and owned
several properties, including six or seven houses.

What is alarming is that emerging evidence reveals the source of his
income to be involvement in a wide-scale child prostitution/sex slave
ring, sadistic child pornography videos, including torture and rape,
and incredibly, satanic child-sacrifice. All of these services
provided to the wealthy occult upper crust of Belgium and Europe.
Dutroux was occult, and Dutroux was mafia. Dutroux had accomplices, and
customers.
Was this Bernardo's secret too?

The coverup of this ring has reached to the highest echelons of Belgian
society. Politicians and witnesses have died for threatening to expose
the full extent of the sect, and the powerful, famous
and rich people involved.

This has wider-reaching implications for western society in general,
when one notes the secrecy that money can buy, and when one sees such
similarity of circumstances as such that surround the Bernardo case.
Botched investigations, lost evidence, secret deals, and of course
Bernardo's largely concealed connection to secret societies. Do we
really know the full Bernardo story?
Do we know the truth about occult activity in Canada? In North America?

Please read and enjoy the following information, be warned that it is
graphic.

Defence raise satanic cult
03/03/2004 09:19 - (SA)

Dutroux trial told of depravity

Media frenzy in Dutroux trial

Lawyers blast 'monster' label

'Most-hated man' goes on trial

Arlon - Lawyers for alleged Belgian child killer Marc Dutroux on
Tuesday evoked satanic cults, unreliable or missing witnesses and
troubling forensic evidence in their defence of the serial rapist.

Presenting a nine-page written statement at the trial in Arlon,
southeast Belgium, Dutroux's lead lawyer Xavier Magnee insisted that
his client could not have acted alone in the abductions, rape and
murders of several girls.

"Can people make you believe that there wasn't a paedophile ring? Would
we be the only country in the world where paedophiles are isolated
perverts?" Magnee told the court on the second day of hearings in the
long-awaited trial.

He said police forensic analysis had found traces of DNA from "a least
two or three unknown people" in the dungeon-like cellar at Marcinelle,
near the southern town of Charleroi, where Dutroux allegedly held six
girls captive.

Four of the girls died, and two were rescued, in a sequence of
discoveries in August 1996 that traumatised Belgium.

Opinion polls suggest that nearly 70% of Belgians are convinced that
Dutroux was part of a broader paedophile network than the four people
on trial in Arlon - Dutroux himself, his wife, a drug-addict friend and
a businessman.

"We see clearly in the (prosecution) dossier material proof that other
people than the accused here present frequented the cellar at
Marcinelle at the same time as the victims," Magnee said.

"The jury is only being presented with selected slices of the case."

Satanic cult

The lawyer also returned to an allegation - dismissed by prosecutors as
groundless - that a satanic cult was involved in the girls' abductions.

Police in August 1996 found a note at the home of Bernard Weinstein, an
accomplice who Dutroux has admitted murdering, which led them to
investigate the "Abrasax" organisation led by "high priestess"
Dominique Kindermans.

The Belgian press at the time speculated that the organisation was a
devil-worshipping sect that procured young girls for human sacrifices
at black masses.

Police, however, dismissed the apparent lead and said there was no
evidence against Kindermans to warrant such allegations.

The defence team also urged the court to consider the disappearance, in
sometimes violent or suspicious circumstances, of several witnesses
they said could shed better light on the fate of two eight-year-old
girls who allegedly starved to death in Dutroux's dungeon.

De Morgen, 8 January 1998
THE GIRL WHO GAVE BIRTH IN SECRET
by Annemie Bulté and Douglas de Coninck

The body of Carine Dellaert was found on 24 September 1985 in a septic
tank in Ghent. According to XI, the young girl had lived secretly
inside a network for a year after her disappearance. The autopsy report
and the investigation carried out at the time confirm XI's story on
several crucial points. The old investigation has been reopened, but
how long it will stay open is still uncertain.

Early in the morning a workman drove his bulldozer into the backyard of
"Le Neptune", an old café once frequented by sailors. The café,
situated along the Ghent-Terneuzen canal, had been abandoned for years
and was to be demolished that day, 24 September 1985. The work had just
begun when the workman lost control of the vehicle. The back wheel sank
into a hole by the side of the old toilets. When some Rhône-Poulenc
workers rushed over to help to right the bulldozer, the lid of the tank
caved in. They scrutinised the bottom out of curiosity. "We saw
something float to the surface," one of them recalls. "It was a knee."
A few hours later, Quai Kuhlman was swarming with nervous policemen.
The remains of an unidentified young girl had been found in the tank.
The body was in foetal position, bound with white electric wire, the
feet and hands tied. "The body was in a very advanced state of
decomposition," says another policeman. "We had to take the skeleton to
the lab in fragments." Not much remained of the young girl's clothes.
A gold ankle chain and a pearl necklace had been preserved. The
jewellery set off a signal in the mind of the Ghent deputy public
prosecutor Nicole De Rouck. She thought immediately of Carine Dellaert.

It was a strange case. She had disappeared on 30 August 1982.
Unexpectedly. Her older sister was ill in bed, her brother was playing
in the street, her mother was at work. Her father, Emile Dellaert, had
left home at 2 p.m. When her mother got home, Carine had left. There
was no trace of a struggle, no farewell letters. Nothing. A week went
by before Emile Dellaert reported his daughter as missing, on 7
September. This is why he was immediately regarded as a suspect. Hardly
any searches were made. The child protection unit of the public
prosecutor's department followed the most plausible hypothesis, that
Carine had run away due to conflict in the family . For there had been
conflict. Her parents would get divorced soon after. In December 1983,
the Ghent investigating magistrate Pieters opened a criminal
investigation against Emile Dellaert. He was arrested and spent two
months in prison. In January 1986, he was released through lack of
evidence. In 1989 he was considered free of all suspicion. The file was
closed.

XI recognises Clo, her best friend.

At the end of 1996, some strange things went on in the financial
section (3rd Criminal Research Section) of the Brussels BSR.
Investigators from the Neufchâteau unit questioned witnesses until
late into the night. Occasionally the officers saw their colleagues
leave the room pale-faced.

The main cause of the trouble was witness XI. The young woman claimed
to have been the victim of a network that raped, tortured and killed
children in the seventies and eighties. "Many girls, like myself, never
knew anything different," she explained. "We grew up with it. We lived
in a sort of concentration camp." XI rejected the term
'paedophiles'. "The men who raped us weren't particularly
attracted by children. The only thing they were interested in was to go
beyond all limits from a sexual point of view. And children were
perfect for that. They kept quiet and did what was asked of them."

One of the girls XI got to know in the network was Clo. XI mentioned
her name during the first session of questioning, on 20 September 1996.
Clo, she explained, was no older than herself and also came from Ghent.
She was her best friend and comfort in this secret world. Just like XI,
Clo led a double life. She went to school normally, and couldn't
speak to anyone about the places she was taken to during the weekends.
XI met Clo regularly during orgies in Ghent and sometimes in Brussels.
XI couldn't say much more about Clo, except the name of her school.

During the fourth session of questioning, on 25 October, XI recounted
that the young girl had died thirteen years ago. XI gave a detailed
description of a scene she would have preferred to forget, but that
will mark her for the rest of her days. She situated the events between
June and December 1983. Clo was very heavily pregnant, she stated. XI
met her from time to time at a "party", but always at a certain
distance. None of the girls could have any contact with her.

On 25 October, in statement no. 116.018, XI said: "One day my procurer
came for me and blindfolded me to take me to a house near Ghent. There
were three other people in the house (XI gave the names of her
procurer, T.; a lawyer from Brussels and a Flemish burgomaster). T.
left me in a room where Clo was lying on a bed in the middle of labour.
I had to help her to give birth. She was bleeding a lot and suffering
terribly. I panicked because I was alone with no-one to help me. The
baby was only born a few hours later. It was a boy. I cut the umbilical
cord and placed the baby on Clo's belly. At that moment, T. returned
to the room and took the baby, while I stayed with Clo. She was losing
a lot of blood."

XI can only guess what happened then to Clo, because she had to leave
the house. Some men who had been in the back of the house all evening
took her to a Chinese restaurant in Bruges. XI thinks that her friend
died in her arms but she cannot be sure that she didn't live a little
longer and that the horrific scene did not continue.

Thanks to research carried out at "Clo's" school, the BSR
investigators managed to guess who she was. After that, BSR officers
Patrick De Baets and Philippe Hupez showed XI a series of class photos
from the year 1981-82. XI not only pointed to the photos of Carine
Dellaert, but also to another photo. According to XI, it was V. (she
gave her first name). She added: "They killed her, too. Clo told me
that she was called V."

During questioning on 25 October, statement no. 116.018, XI said: "This
happened in a house in Ghent. Clo was there, too [...] They tortured
her with knives and scissors. Someone broke a bottle and rubbed the
fragments into her vagina. Then they cut her in various places with
razor-blades."

After this session of questioning, they no longer knew where they were
at the 3rd Criminal Research Section. From a series of twenty photos,
XI had managed to pick out two girls who had died shortly afterwards.
After further research, the investigators not only came across the old
file on the murder of Carine Dellaert, but also information concerning
the second young girl. She was, in fact, called V., and had died in the
middle of 1983 in Ghent. As regards the list of people present
according to XI, some of the details were remarkable. As well as Michel
Nihoul and a woman who was arrested in the Dutroux case, XI named her
procurer T., the lawyer and the burgomaster mentioned above, and a
businessman from western Flanders and his son. XI could not establish
any links between all these people, except the fact that she had met
them on various occasions at orgies. The investigators carried out
research which showed that all the people present had professional
links of one sort or another, links that were not apparent at first
sight. The name of the man she indicated as Clo's "procurer" was also
remarkable. He had already appeared as a suspect in the old file at the
Ghent Public prosecutor's department. The man was known to the police
for a series of sexual crimes.

The Timperman report

When politicians today make comments and observations about the split
between "believers" and "non-believers", they are reviving a debate
that was born at the end of October 1996 within the 3rd Criminal
Research Section. XI's story triggered reactions that were far from
being rational. The public prosecutor Michel Bourlet invited the
investigators not to stop at the matter of whether they believed the
story or not, but to carry out their work in an objective manner.
According XI's statement, it seemed that Carine Dellaert had lived
one year after her disappearance, pregnant and hidden away. This must
be provable in one way or another. One detail is disturbing. Carine
Dellaert disappeared the day before the end of the school holidays in
1982. To "place" a girl in a network, this seems to be an ideal time.

If the search for the murderers of Carine Dellaert didn't lead to
very much at the time, it certainly wasn't because of Dr. Timperman.
In his 40-page autopsy report, he listed all the details of his
findings regarding the remains of the body. He was unable, due to the
state of the body, to estimate the date of death. One of the details he
noted initially caused some doubts about the identity of the victim.
The girl in the tank was much heavier than Carine Dellaert. She was
wearing a 90 cm. cup bra - a few sizes bigger than Carine. Dr.
Timperman found an explanation for this anomaly. The following extract
is taken from his report of 24 September 1985:

"At the level of the pelvis there is a small piece of soft, woody
tissue. It is a piece of "crayon laminaire", an old medical instrument
used to dilate the neck of the womb in order to facilitate the delivery
of a baby. This instrument is now rarely used because it causes great
pain for the mother."
"Presence in the bra of a small square of gauze, which indicates a
swelling of the breasts and a loss of liquid. This is frequent in women
who are pregnant for the first time."
Everything pointed to the fact that the young girl lived another eight
or nine months after her disappearance. Timperman also described the
objects found in the tank. There were a total of nineteen objects,
mainly coins and pieces of jewellery. But there were also:

"Two Gillette razor-blades."
When the BSR officers received the Timperman report at the end of 1996,
they immediately analysed what the press had written on the subject of
the discovery of the body of Carine Dellaert in 1985. Not a word about
her pregnancy. Not even in the shortest paragraph after Carine's
disappearance in 1982. No-one had mentioned a pregnancy.

XI had spoken of razor-blades in her testimony about V., but not on the
subject of Carine Dellaert. It is worth pointing out that long before
the Timperman report landed at the 3rd Criminal Research Section, XI
had described other sadistic scenes in which razor-blades were
mentioned as the customary modus operandi. "For some of them, it was
clearly their favourite toy."

The death of V.

XI also described a series of addresses where she and Clo had been
raped at the beginning of the eighties. On 29 September 1996, during
the second of her seventeen hearings, she described a bar in
Drongensesteenweg, very near the home of the Dellaert family. The bar
no longer exists. The investigators found a list of the owners. Later,
XI named a house in Waarschot as the place where Clo died. Nothing
indicates that fifteen years later a firm occupies this address.
Whether it is a coincidence or not, among the partners is the name of
one of the owners of the bar in Drongensesteenweg.

At the end of 1996, the Dellaert file was reopened by the public
prosecutor's department of Ghent. Meanwhile the death certificate of
V., the second girl, had been found. It states that the girl died as
the result of a tumour. The C3 form was filled in by two neurologists
accused by XI of being part of the network. While watching T., XI's
procurer, the investigators noticed that he is in contact with the
father of V.

On 28 October 1996, the investigators applied for authorisation to
exhume the body of V. This authorisation would never be given. At the
beginning of the summer holidays, the public prosecutor's department
of Ghent received some news from Brussels. Investigating magistrate Van
Espen and Gendarmerie Commander Duterme had expressed serious doubts
about the manner in which XI had been questioned. The Ghent public
prosecutor Soenens was informed of the matter, and launched an appeal
for calm. He wanted to see the credibility of XI confirmed, for example
through the further development of the Van Hees case. The wait began.
The Ghent public prosecutor's department transferred the case to the
Ghent BSR, but two camps quickly formed there and the rumours about XI
began to fly. The announcement of the article in De Morgen caused a
stir within the Ghent public prosecutor's department. Public
Prosecutor Soenens has assured us that "the investigation duties have
been drawn up" and that for the end of January a "co-ordination meeting
is planned" for all the public prosecutor's departments where
inquiries have been opened on the basis of the testimony of XI.

THE CREDIBILITY OF JUSTICE
Marc Reisinger

The day when Sabine and Laetitia were liberated will undoubtedly remain
a turning point in the history of Belgium. Before then, children
disappeared, their bodies were found, and occasionally a murderous
sadist was arrested. This took up a few lines in the "news in brief"
columns. It was as if we were seeing a few fixed frames of a horror
film so far from our daily life that we no longer paid them much
attention. Suddenly, on 15 August 1996, we witnessed the liberation in
real time of two young girls abducted and locked up by Marc Dutroux.
The emotion I felt that day as I watched the TV was shared by millions
of people in Belgium and all over the world. It was at the origin of
the "marche blanche", which itself led for the first time to the live
TV broadcast of the parliamentary committee of inquiry into the
disappearance of children. I am not surprised today to discover in the
testimony of Regina - known as XI - the importance that the
liberation of Sabine and Laetitia had for her: "The policemen who
escorted Sabine and Laetitia into a car were the white knights I had
dreamed of throughout those years" (De Morgen, 10 January 1998). It was
at that moment that she decided to testify in Neufchâteau.

But the arrest of Dutroux and Nihoul also marked the appearance of a
split between the "sensitive" and the "insensitive". Most people felt
total empathy for the children who were victims of cruelty. However, a
certain number of strong spirits immediately began to criticise
Connerotte and Bourlet, the Neufchâteau "cowboys". The removal of
magistrate Connerotte was applauded by the conservative establishment,
but also by a certain number of left-wing intellectuals. For reasons
that we would have to analyse, the latter distrusted the emotion and
the excessive media attention surrounding the case. As a
psychotherapist, I fear that these people feel difficulty entering into
contact with their own suffering, and that they thus take sides
unconsciously with the aggressors. It is also likely that hidden
influence was set into motion by figures who, rightly or wrongly, felt
compromised by the disclosures. How many people who simply took part in
Nihoul's orgies tremble in fear that their names will be cited?
Regina stated in her testimony that some of the "parties" of the
network were organised with the aim of blackmailing.

A further split gradually appeared in the media. Most of the press
began to describe Dutroux as a lone wolf, a psychopath, demented and
brilliant. Nihoul was painted as a businessman and a swindler who had
recently met Dutroux and had had the unfortunate idea to have his car
repaired by him. This thesis was the object of a press campaign that
culminated in the TV programme "Au Nom de la Loi" (RTBF, 17 September
1997). Immediately afterwards, a "campaign of silence" developed around
Nihoul: his name hardly appeared in the francophone press - with the
exception of Télé Moustique - in the following six months.

It is to react to all this that we have created the "Pour la vérité"
association, made up of people of various backgrounds anxious to
preserve their critical spirit in the face of a premature attempt to
dismiss claims that Dutroux and Nihoul had known each other for a long
time and that Nihoul benefits from protection. We formulated twelve
questions with regard to the investigations in progress and we
purchased an entire page in Le Soir to publish them under the title
"Nous ne laisserons pas passer". Our aim was to address a message to
the public and to try to wake up the media. We have had little success
on the second point.

The campaign of silence was finally broken only by the publication of
the testimony of Regina. For more than six months, she gave evidence in
Neufchâteau about the network of which Dutroux and Nihoul were
members. Her testimony describes very clearly the murder of young girls
and children. According to the BSR (Brigade Speciale de Recherche) team
which heard it, this testimony should have led to fresh inquiries and,
in particular, to further searches. Instead, the team was removed from
the investigation in July 1997. Since then, a "re-examination" of the
file has been taking place. This re-examination, accompanied by the
suspension of the investigation, constitutes a new development in
judicial procedure. It is as if a doctor stopped treating a patient in
a critical condition in order to calmly re-read the medical records.
When we realise that this re-examination has already lasted longer than
the investigation and that its end is postponed every time the date of
the conclusion of the parliamentary committee of inquiry is put back,
we might fear that the re-examination actually serves to hush up the
investigation.

The unconfessed desire to halt the investigation seems evident to a
careful observer. This desire is disguised behind the "scandal" of the
leaks. The public prosecutor's department and certain sectors of the
media are disturbed by the leaks without being disturbed by their
contents, while organising further leaks that call into question the
testimony of XI (like the publication of a summary of the
re-examination and of extracts of the psychiatric report on XI). The
discussion of the contents of the testimony of XI has also been avoided
by focussing the media debate on her credibility: is she traumatised,
mad, or suffering from mythomania?

It seems to me to be more interesting to question the credibility of
justice than that of XI. Rather than turning to psychiatrists to find
out whether what Regina says is true, it would be better to attend to
the precise facts described and continue the investigations. We know,
for example, that Regina gave details about the murders of Christine
Van Hees and Carine Dellaert that match the file and sometimes surpass
it in terms of accuracy (like the nail hammered into Christine's
hand). She also named as a victim a young girl from Ghent, Véronique
D., who officially died of cancer. This is a perfect opportunity to
find out whether XI is reliable: the medical records should be
analysed, the two doctors who signed the death certificate should be
questioned and the body exhumed. These evident duties of the
investigation have been requested by the investigators since January
1997, but up to now they have been rejected by the public
prosecutor's department in Ghent.

Should we not begin to give serious consideration to a different
hypothesis from XI's lack of credibility to explain the delay in
inquiries? Is it not simply the fact that her testimony calls into
question important figures such as industrialists, politicians, and
even a former prime minister?

A promising indication of the Satanic conspiracy could be found in
Belgium last year, when links between a series of grisly pædophile
killings and an active Satanist society shocked the nation. Throughout
the summer, the gradual revelations of the murders of at least four
children led to the arrest of Marc Dutroux, an unemployed electrician
and convicted paedophile, his wife Michele Martin and other
accomplices. They are suspected of other pædophile killings around the
city of Charleroi but, so far, no other bodies have been found. Two
attempts - in November 1996 and January 1997 - to drain and search
abandoned mine shafts in the suburb of Jumet proved equally fruitless,
despite separate suggestions by Dutroux and his wife that police would
do well to look there.

The presence of a Satanic conspiracy became a distinct possibility
when, in mid-December, while investigating the Dutroux's pædophile
network, Belgian police stumbled upon links to a college of Black Magic
called the Institut Abrasax, in a village near Charleroi. The building
served as the offices of a number of pagan organisations, including the
Belgian Church of Satan and the Luciferian Initiation Order. According
to Peter Conradi, reporting for the Times, "five witnesses described
black masses [there] at which children were killed in front of
audiences said to have included prominent members of Belgian society."

In early January 1997, a Flemish newspaper disclosed that three
policemen (and possibly a fourth) of the Charleroi municipal force had
admitted to being members of Abrasax, claiming it was all quite
harmless. Mindful of the allegations that some babies were sold to the
group by their parents while others were abducted, more than 100
investigators searched the building for eight hours. As well as the
expected ritual paraphernalia, police found a bottle of frozen blood in
a refrigerator. High priestess Dominique Kindermans - who described
the search as terrifying - managed to prove she bought the blood from
a butcher.

To make matters worse, police also uncovered evidence of a separate
locus of orgies in a dilapidated chateau. Organised by Michel Nihoul, a
known accomplice of Dutroux, a group of judges, senior politicians,
lawyers and policemen have been implicated in the orgies there. This
too, panned out; just sleaze as usual. To the dispair of the
witch-hunters, so far the associations have proved circumstantial, the
allegations have remained unproven and there have been no further
arrests.

Article Info
'The Devil Worshipers' by Bob Rickard

May 1997

FT 98A promising indication of the Satanic conspiracy could be found in
Belgium last year, when links between a series of grisly pædophile
killings and an active Satanist society shocked the nation. Throughout
the summer, the gradual revelations of the murders of at least four
children led to the arrest of Marc Dutroux, an unemployed electrician
and convicted paedophile, his wife Michele Martin and other
accomplices. They are suspected of other pædophile killings around the
city of Charleroi but, so far, no other bodies have been found. Two
attempts - in November 1996 and January 1997 - to drain and search
abandoned mine shafts in the suburb of Jumet proved equally fruitless,
despite separate suggestions by Dutroux and his wife that police would
do well to look there.

The presence of a Satanic conspiracy became a distinct possibility
when, in mid-December, while investigating the Dutroux's pædophile
network, Belgian police stumbled upon links to a college of Black Magic
called the Institut Abrasax, in a village near Charleroi. The building
served as the offices of a number of pagan organisations, including the
Belgian Church of Satan and the Luciferian Initiation Order. According
to Peter Conradi, reporting for the Times, "five witnesses described
black masses [there] at which children were killed in front of
audiences said to have included prominent members of Belgian society."

In early January 1997, a Flemish newspaper disclosed that three
policemen (and possibly a fourth) of the Charleroi municipal force had
admitted to being members of Abrasax, claiming it was all quite
harmless. Mindful of the allegations that some babies were sold to the
group by their parents while others were abducted, more than 100
investigators searched the building for eight hours. As well as the
expected ritual paraphernalia, police found a bottle of frozen blood in
a refrigerator. High priestess Dominique Kindermans - who described
the search as terrifying - managed to prove she bought the blood from
a butcher.

To make matters worse, police also uncovered evidence of a separate
locus of orgies in a dilapidated chateau. Organised by Michel Nihoul, a
known accomplice of Dutroux, a group of judges, senior politicians,
lawyers and policemen have been implicated in the orgies there. This
too, panned out; just sleaze as usual. To the dispair of the
witch-hunters, so far the associations have proved circumstantial, the
allegations have remained unproven and there have been no further
arrests.

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'The Devil Worshipers' by Bob Rickard

De Morgen, 7 January 1997
DUTROUX AND NIHOUL SUSPECTED OF THE MURDER OF CHRISTINE VAN HEES IN
1984
By Annemie Bulté and Douglas De Coninck

On 13 February 1984, the horribly mutilated body of 16-year-old
Christine Van Hees was found in an old Champignonnière (mushroom bed)
in Auderghem. Thirteen years of investigations led to nothing. Three
months before the beginning of the Dutroux case, the Brussels public
prosecutor's department classified the case as closed. At the end of
1996, witness XI testified to the Neufchâteau public prosecutor's
department, accusing Marc Dutroux, Michel Nihoul and others of having
committed the murder. Thanks to extremely precise information, XI
proved that she was present at the time of the murder. Despite this,
the investigation is now completely blocked.

Since 27 January 1997, the Brussels public prosecutor's department
has been leading an investigation into the alleged involvement of Marc
Dutroux and Michel Nihoul in the murder of the young Christine Van
Hees. The work of the Neufchâteau unit (3rd Section of Criminal
Research, Brussels BSR) led to the reopening of the 13-year-old
investigation. The first reason was the statements of witness XI. The
28-year-old women contacted the magistrate Jean-Marc Connerotte in
Neufchâteau on 4 September 1996. XI stated that she was present at the
time of the murder. She was able to prove this by a precise description
of the places, details of the injuries inflicted on Christine Van Hees,
and information regarding the private life of the victims and the
accused. In some respects XI's statement proved to be more complete
than the autopsy report made by the forensic surgeons.

XI's version was confirmed after an analysis of the old investigation
file. This investigation, led from 1985 onwards by the Brussels
magistrate Van Espen, already contained evidence pointing to Dutroux
and Nihoul. In 1984 a friend of Christine Van Hees stated to the
Brussels CID that the young girl, during the weekend preceding her
death, had a rendez-vous with "a certain Marc in the region of Mons".
At the end of 1996, it appeared that Dutroux frequented the same
ice-skating rink as Christine Van Hees in 1983 and 1984. Moreover, it
turned out that not long before her death the young girl went to a
party held by the free radio station in Etterbeek, Radio Activité, run
at the time by Michel Nihoul.

In the course of the new investigation, around 300 witnesses were
questioned. These confirmed the statements of XI on a number of crucial
points. And yet the investigation has now come to a halt. On 25 August
1997, the team of investigators following up XI's statements was
removed. This happened on the insistence of magistrate Van Espen, who
had doubts about the objectivity of the investigators. On the request
of Van Espen, his colleague Langlois (Neufchâteau) and police
commander Duterme, a "re-examination" of all the inquiries based on the
testimony of XI was begun. Initially this re-examination was to last a
few weeks, but it has dragged on for over six months. Since September,
XI has had to deal with a new group of investigators. In a letter
addressed to the Verwilghen Committee, she complains - like her
therapist - of the manner in which she is treated. XI says that she
feels they want to "break" her emotionally.

It is not only the Van Hees investigation that has nearly come to a
halt. The same is true of five other inquiries which were opened (or
reopened) on the basis of the statements of XI to the public
prosecutor's departments of Antwerp, Brussels, Ghent and
Neufchâteau. XI describes many murders of children which she says were
carried out in the context of a very extensive network of child
prostitution. Despite a triple "re-examination" of XI's statements,
it cannot be demonstrated that this information can have any source
other than her own memory.

The information published by De Morgen with regard to these inquiries
are the result of five months of research.

Dutroux and Nihoul suspected of the murder of Christine Van Hees in
1984

"It's the nail in my coffin," stated the Brussels magistrate
Jean-Claude Van Espen when asked about the Champignonnière file. The
expression was not a particularly happy one. At the end of 1996, it was
because of a nail that the officers of the Brussels BSR probably found
the key to the mystery that surrounds the horrific murder of Christine
Van Hees in 1984. Very soon it also turned out that even without the
Dutroux affair and the testimony of XI Van Espen would have been able
to find the trail of Marc Dutroux and Michel Nihoul as early as 1985.

That evening, the fireman Norbert Vanden Berghen experienced the most
dramatic moments in his professional life. "The phone had not stopped
ringing all day. We had had a lot of fires and accidents, even three at
a time." The date was Monday 13 February 1984. At 8.47 p.m. another
emergency call came. A cloud of smoke had been seen in a ruined family
mansion on the land of the old Auderghem Champignonnière, near the
campus of the Free University of Brussels (VUB). Before the fireman
reached the scene, a second fire was reported nearby. Smoke was coming
from the basement window of the Champignonnière. While one team
searched the abandoned house, the other team plunged into the cellar
with torches. Lieutenant Vanden Berghen was part of the second team.
"We saw a fire smouldering under a pile of wooden boxes. As the fire
had almost gone out, we looked inside."

Cause of death unknown.

What then appeared will remain impressed on the fireman's mind for a
long time. He saw a charred human trunk. Part of the head had been
devoured by the flames. Feet and hands, there wasn't much left. "It
was a young girl. She was lying on her stomach. She was naked. Her legs
and arms were tied together with a length of wire, which was also
twisted around her neck. Her legs were bent backwards. Horrible."

In the smouldering pile, the experts from the Brussels police found
personal items belonging to the victim: jewels, the charred remains of
a T-shirt, a bra. The detectives were faced with a puzzle. Their first
impression was that the victim had accompanied her murderers
voluntarily. Before the group had gone down into the basement, they had
evidently been in the house, where objects were found that seemed to be
related to the crime.

The next day, when Pierre and Antoinette Van Hees heard the news of the
discovery of the body of a young girl a few blocks from where they
lived, they were overcome by fear. Their 16-year-old daughter Christine
had not come home the day before. Another day and a half passed before
the Brussels CID could give the managers of the newsagent's in Avenue
du Diamant a definite answer: the body was that of Christine. Her
parents had to go and identity bits of exercise books and jewellery.
They were not shown the body. There were reasons for that. In their
autopsy report, the forensic surgeons Rillaert and Voordecker did not
hazard an opinion on the cause of death. Before being burnt, the young
girl had been so badly abused that it was impossible to tell which act
of torture had been fatal. In his first report, Dr. Voordecker
mentioned traces of strangling. Later the doctors included another
observation in their report: the victim was not undergoing menstruation
- a detail which would only assume full importance thirteen years
later. The girl's parents had another shock to endure. Their daughter
had not been to school that morning. Apparently she had missed school
quite often.

It was the period of new wave music. Christine Van Hees was a dreamer.
She loved U2, and in the months before her death she had argued with
her parents more than once about her clothes and her social life.
Christine also loved sport. Once a week she would go skating or
swimming. She went to school in Anderlecht, where she had many friends.
That afternoon, towards 5.20 p.m., she was last seen alive by two of
her friends in Rue Wayez in Anderlecht. She had a bit of a chat with
her friend Chantal and showed her the boots she had bought (or got from
someone) that morning. During this conversation, she noticed Didier,
her old scout chief. Chantal and Didier saw Christine walk towards the
Saint-Guidon underground station. From there it was half an hour's
journey to the Pétillon station, near her home. It must have been very
quick. At 6.50 p.m. some people in Rue de la Stratégie heard a young
girl screaming. What they heard seemed to be: "No, not that! Stop!
Mum!".

The punk trail

Those who were students at the Free University of Brussels in the
mid-eighties knew the urban legend. Some screwy punks had organised a
Satanic mass. The case seemed simple. In 1984 the deserted
Champignionnière was a pile of ruins. Some punks used to go there
regularly to smoke joints, before returning to the Kultuurcafé. To the
extent that he had time for this case, that was the trail followed by
the Brussels investigating magistrate Eloy. Eloy was also in charge of
the investigation into the left-wing C.C.C. terrorist group. A lot for
just one man. Eloy had a heart attack, and later a nervous breakdown.
On 1 October 1985, the case was placed in the hands of another
magistrate, the up-and-coming Jean-Claude Van Espen.

Van Espen inherited a file that already contained a principal suspect:
Serge C., one of the punks who had been seen frequently at the
Champignionnière. C., nicknamed 'l'Iroquois", was a striking
character. A bright red Mohican, military boots, drugged up to his
eyeballs. In 1983, C. had served two months in prison for violent
theft. Later he was prosecuted for desertion. On 13 September 1984 he
was arrested and charged with the murder of Christine Van Hees. During
a search one of her exercise books was found at his house. C. denied,
confessed, denied, confessed... His lawyer attributed the fickleness of
his young client to the fact that the CID rewarded his confessions with
drugs. Without drugs, C. said he knew nothing. There was only one
constant in his statements: he had no idea how the exercise book had
ended up in his room. He suspected someone had put it there "to get
him". C. was heard a total of sixteen times and would remain in custody
for three years, two months and four days. In the psychiatric reports
we read that Serge C. was "heavily mentally deranged" and that "he has
no control over his actions". When C. was released on 17 November 1987
without any further charges, Didier de Quévy became his lawyer. De
Quévy took the case to the European Court of the Human Rights, where
Belgium was condemned in 1991 for keeping C. in custody for an
unreasonable length of time. During this period de Quévy was also
defending other "drop-outs". He was the defence lawyer of a certain
Marc Dutroux from Marcinelle. At the beginning of 1992, the Brussels
CID resumed the investigation into the murder of Christine Van Hees
from the beginning. For the first time, Christine's mother Antoinette
Van Hees was questioned, and a local investigation took place. This led
to a new trail. For four years police searched for the owner of a black
car with a golden eagle on the bonnet. Some local residents had seen
such a car patrolling the area. This trail also led nowhere. In June
1996, Christine's parents learned from the Brussels public
prosecutor's department that the case had been closed. "In their
letter, they wrote your daughter Claudine," recalls Pierre Van Hees.
"To give you an idea of the intensive manner in which they dealt with
the case."

Witness XI comes forward in Neufchâteau

Wednesday 4 September 1996: investigating magistrate Jean-Marc
Connerotte of Neufchâteau was talking to Warrant Officer De Baets of
the 3rd Criminal Research Section of the Brussels BSR. De Baets was
furious. He was leading the investigation into the financial situation
of Marc Dutroux. The telephone rang. A certain "Tania from Ghent" tried
to explain something to Connerotte, but her French was as
incomprehensible to him as his Flemish was to her. He handed the phone
to De Baets. Through Tania, De Baets was put in contact with a young
woman who wanted "to say some things about Michel Nihoul". It quickly
appeared that the young woman had a lot to say. Since she asked to
remain anonymous, she was called XI in the statement.

"We are faced with ruin," said Marc Verwilghen when he heard about the
testimony of XI at the end of 1996. During a TV debate, a journalist
from Le Soir predicted that Belgium would not exist for much longer.
The Dutroux case, he said, was just a detail. Who is XI? A small,
27-year-old woman, surprisingly self-confident, with an incredible
history. As a baby she was entrusted to her grandmother, who lived in
Knokke. There she was raised as a child prostitute. Until the age of
ten, she was handed over like goods for sale in hotel rooms in Knokke.
XI explained that as an adolescent, while watching TV she would
occasionally see those who had raped her. Ministers, burgomasters,
barons, or the managing directors of banks and important companies.
That these men raped her was OK, said XI, that was bearable. The
murders, that was the real problem. The pleasure of these clients was
accentuated by the anguish of the child. Their greatest pleasure
matched the greatest anguish, that of death. According to XI, for the
organisation and the protection of their debauchery, these well-known
figures turned to small-time criminals like her own procurer Tony, or
characters like Marc Dutroux, Michel Nihoul and Bernard Weinstein. What
should they do with a testimony like this at a time when the whole
country was baying? Investigate, ordered Connerotte.

One thing surprised Warrant Officer De Baets from XI's first hearing
on 20 September 1996. She did not hesitate. With disconcerting ease,
she was able to name old classmates who could confirm her story (which
they would do), she gave the secret addresses of well-known figures and
described the inside of their houses (correctly). She spoke of "Marc",
the poor oaf who, at the beginning of the eighties, passed over her
body with others including "Miche". "Dutroux had two alsatians," she
said. "They were called Brutus and Sultan." Later, during police
questioning, Dutroux was asked about his dogs. He got frightened and
refused to answer. Michelle Martin was suspicious. One of the two dogs
was still alive - it guarded the house in Marcinelle when Julie and
Mélissa were imprisoned there. "It was called Sultan," said Martin. A
lot of information about Dutroux was disclosed by the press in those
days. The dog's name was never mentioned. How could XI have known it?

The secret diary

XI would be heard a total of seventeen times. Each of these hearings
was filmed from the first minute to the last. This was done on the
advice of experts. XI suffers from what is known in psychology as
dissociation. In order to remember a traumatic event, she has to look
in a corner of her memory that she has locked up. Speaking about it
makes the victim relive the traumatic event. But XI knows how to
protect herself. When it became too difficult for her, she fell silent
--for hours, if necessary. She never cried. "They never taught me to
express my grief," she apologised.

On the evening of the 13 November, during her fifth hearing, XI
mentioned Christine's name. She told how the young girl, after being
tortured at length, was burned in the basement of a ruined building, in
the Brussels area. This happened in the wake of an orgy that had lasted
a whole weekend, during which - she would add later - her own
5-month-old baby was killed. As a punishment. Among those present, XI
named Michel Nihoul, Marc Dutroux, Michelle Martin, Annie Bouty, Tony,
Bernard Weinstein, a lawyer from Brussels, a couple from Ghent, and a
"stranger".

>From the hearing of 13 November, statement number 116/990: "They killed
Christine [...] Dutroux and Nihoul tied her up in a special way. I had
to plunge a knife into her vagina [...] They told me I had to make her
shut up. Christine was tied up first of all on a table [...]. They
guided my hand, I was forced to strangle her, otherwise the same thing
would happen to me. Christine was raped several times. Then they untied
her, in order to tie her up again. Her feet and hands were tied
together on her back. Then they burned her." At the end of the
questioning, XI described the house where this took place. Later, she
gave further explanations about what had led to the punitive execution:
"In the network, there were some experienced girls, like me, whose
parents had left them at a very early age. There were also girls who
were approached by adults and gradually introduced into the network. We
had to take these girls under our wing. If they committed a mistake, it
was we who were punished. That's the way it worked. With Christine it
didn't work at all. She was lost. Three or four months before her
death, she had met Nihoul. He made all sorts of promises. It was only
at the end that she realised the truth. She wanted to leave, she told
me. She told me that she had a secret diary hidden away somewhere. I
told her to speak to her parents and ask them to protect her. I then
made the stupid mistake of speaking about it with another girl. She had
just received a beating because of Christine and she went to tell
Nihoul about the secret diary. They planned the execution straight
away. She had to die, as an example to the rest of us."

>From the eighth hearing, 18 November 1996, statement number 116/991:
"We were both pushed naked into a car. After a journey of twenty
minutes we came to a place with lots of weeds and rubble. There was a
funny smell, the ground was cold and damp [...] We arrived in a house,
upstairs. Then we went down into a big cellar. There Christine was
untied and tied up again like a rabbit. She was raped again and cut
with a knife. [...] There were some candles. [...] One of the people
present stabbed her on various parts of her body with a piece of metal
heated over a candle. Then, someone mopped the blood from her vagina
with a tampax, [...] Finally the lawyer pierced her hand with a piece
of metal. Then they poured petrol on her and set her alight."

At the end of the hearing, XI drew a plan of the house where she said
the torture had taken place. What she drew was a rather classic plan of
a family mansion in Brussels, a pile of rubble that must have been a
garden, and the entrance to a cellar. Some of the details are striking.
Three little loops in the kitchen represent meat-hooks. The little
squares are two wooden tables that were left by the former owners. In
what must be the hall, XI drew a big line that crosses it diagonally.
This was a heavy metal pipe that she tripped over when she arrived, she
explained.

"She has been there"

For those who want to form an opinion of XI's credibility, it is
useful to know that the investigators of the 3rd Criminal Research
Section of the BSR had no knowledge at the beginning of November of the
investigation carried out in the past by the CID. After hearing XI
speak about Christine for the first time, some of the BSR men searched
in the archives. They found a few old press cuttings on the subject of
the murder of Christine Van Hees. This is not where XI could have found
her story. The newspapers give very different accounts of the situation
in which the body was found.

On 4 December, the investigators of the Brussels public prosecutor's
department went to look for the 84/85 file of the magistrate Van Espen.
What they discovered made them sit up. They found a detailed
description of the objects found at the scene of the crime. There was
mention, among other things, of some candle ends and a blood-soaked
tampax. These are just a few lines of a file which, piled up, measured
six feet. On certain points XI's version seemed more precise than the
old file. In the file it is stated several times that Christine Van
Hees was tied up with barbed wire. Barbed wire was also mentioned in
most of the newspaper articles. "Wrong," said XI, "it was electric wire
with the covering melted. The investigators rushed to the clerk's
office of the Brussels department and found the wire. It was an
electric wire with the covering melted.

In the autopsy report there was no mention of a metal object hammered
into Christine's wrists. After leafing through the file for days on
end, the attention of the BSR men was drawn by report no. 30.14.321/84,
drawn up by the Auderghem police on the evening of 13 February 1984. It
states: "A nail is hammered into her left wrist." A short while later,
they found the nail in the clerk's office. It was an enormous nail.
During further checks carried out by the BSR men at the beginning of
1997, it emerged that the nail was the object of an argument at the
time between the forensic surgeons and the first men to arrive on the
scene. The Auderghem policeman De Kock said he attracted the doctors'
attention to the nail, but they allegedly replied that they knew how to
carry out an autopsy. The fireman Norbert Vanden Berghen and his
colleague Yvan Leurquin were heard, thirteen years after the events.
They too spoke of a nail and said they couldn't understand how the
forensic surgeons could have forgotten it.

On 21 January 1997, 59-year-old José Ginderachter was heard. He is the
son of the man who once farmed the Champignionnière, and had lived in
the family mansion. When presented with XI's statement, all he could
say was: "This person must have been there."

Whether it was a matter of the three meat-hooks in the kitchen, the
pattern of the floor-tiles, the two wooden kitchen tables, a rainwater
barrel in the courtyard or the entrance to the Champignionnière,
Ginderachter could only confirm. On twelve concrete points, her
description matched what he could remember about the house. He was also
able to explain what XI had tripped over: "That pipe in the hall was a
piece of the old floor heating in the Champignionnière, which had been
left bare when the floor had been removed."

If we played the devil's advocate, we might suppose that XI had spent
a day in Auderghem by chance, in the former Champignionnière, and that
she had visited it. It is worth mentioning that at the time of the
events XI was 15 years old and lived in Ghent. The Champignionnière
was destroyed a year later to make way for a block of flats. Even if we
only trust material evidence, it is difficult not to conclude that XI
must have been present at the time of the murder. But isn't what she
has said about the authors of the murder too incredible? Dutroux and
Nihoul, committing a murder together in 1984? Didn't they meet in
1995?

"Ladies and gentlemen, we do not need XI to solve this crime," said an
investigator from the 3rd Criminal Research Section to the members of
the Verwilghen Committee, overwhelmed by astonishment when he was heard
in camera in October 1997. The man has spent months leafing through the
old CID file. His conclusion was as follows: "The names of the
murderers provided by XI have been indicated indirectly in the file
since 1984."

What follows is based on the testimonies from 1984.

Together at the skating-rink.

In the first few days after her murder, the police learned from her
classmates that Christine Van Hees had been leading a double life in
the months before her death. She had been missing school, not just on
the morning of 13 February 1984 but also the whole week from 20 to 25
January 1984. Without her parents knowing about it, she had received a
medical certificate from Dr. Hallard. According to her friends,
Christine often went out at night. All her friends pointed to the trail
of the Poséidon ice-skating rink in Woluwe-Saint-Lambert. At the rink,
Ariane M. remembered that Christine had met "a certain Marc from the
Mons region". Her brother met Christine not long before her death in a
café with a certain Marc (later he would recognise him almost
certainly as the younger Marc Dutroux) During the weekend before her
death, Christine had a rendez-vous with " a certain Marc", according to
another friend. This Marc rode a motorbike. The CID never managed to
identify this mysterious figure. Françoise Dubois, the former wife of
Marc Dutroux, was able to tell the investigators at the beginning of
1997 that he often used to go the skating rinks in Forest and in
Woluwe-Saint-Lambert. "He often stayed all weekend in Brussels."
Michelle Martin met her husband at the rink. At the end of 1983 she was
at the end of her pregnancy. She confirmed in a statement given on 4
December 1996 that Dutroux often went alone to make contact with young
girls. At that time he used to ride a big motorbike.

Christine also used to go swimming a lot. Afterwards, according to her
friends, she would go to the cafeteria for a drink. On the first floor
of the Etterbeek swimming-pool were the premises of a free radio
station called Radio Activité. At the end of 1996, the radio station
was one of the key elements in the investigation of the Neufchâteau
public prosecutor's department. Because the leading character at
Radio Activité was none other than Michel Nihoul. Radio Activité
appeared on several occasions in the old file. Not long before her
death, some of Christine's friends saw her at parties organised
there.

At the time of the investigations about Serge C., in 1984, there was a
Radio Activité worker who came forward to offer "information" to the
CID investigators. This information often pointed in the direction of
the punk trail. This man received more attention from police officers
than the discotheque porter Freddy V. He advised them "to go and have a
look at the café Les Bouffons, a habitual meeting place for Radio
Activité people". The porter noticed Christine there not long before
her death. It wasn't really a place for a young girl like her,
according to Freddy V. Especially when we discover that Patrick Haemers
was also considered a habitué.

In the middle of the eighties, investigating magistrate Jean-Claude Van
Espen was obviously not to know that terms like "a certain Marc" or
"Radio Activité" would one day become enormous alarm signals in this
case. And yet there are other clues that point to Nihoul and his
circle. On 27 April 1987, the Etterbeek police received a phone call.
The conversation went as follows: - "Is that the Etterbeek Police
Station? Excuse me, sir. If you want some useful information, go and
have a look at the café Dolo, at 140 Rue Philippe Baucq." The police
officer: "What's going on there?"

"You might find out more about the Champignionnière."
"What do you mean?"
"On the corner of Rue Philippe Baucq, the Dolo. If you go there from
time to time, you'll find out more about the Champignionnière."
"Why do you say that, sir?"
At this moment the caller was cut off. The conversation, recorded on
tape, can be found in the old 64/85 file (statement 33797, Etterbeek
Police). No investigations were ever made into the café Dolo. And yet
there were also other reasons for doing so. Shortly after the murder,
Muriel A. learnt that Christine had told her parents that she slept at
her house every now and then - which was not true. Nathalie G.
recalled that after a night out, two weeks before her death, Christine
had begged her to accompany her home, "because she was afraid of
someone".

Then there was Fabienne K. She stated to the Brussels CID that she saw
Christine every day on the bus, and that Christine had told her she was
part of a group of people "older than her" who held "secret meetings".
K. stressed the fact that Christine did not mention punks or skinheads.
On 20 February 1984, Fabienne K. stated as follows (from statement no.
7112):

"Christine never spoke about this to the girls in her class. She told
me more or less that this group practised free love [...]. She told me
that the group attracted her and worried her at the same time. She said
she wanted to make a break from them because some serious things had
happened [...]. Christine had a personal diary that she kept hidden
somewhere [...]. She had clashed with another girl in the group. She
felt very attracted by one of the members. That's how she described
the group: 'They're pigs, but I feel good with them.' She told me
that when you had become part of these circles, you would never be able
to leave. If she spoke about it, they would kill her and set her house
on fire. [...] She said there was no point talking about it because
no-one would believe her."

Fabienne K. confirmed her story to the CID in 1993, and again at the
beginning of 1997 to the officers of the 3rd Criminal Research Section.
So there was no real need for new clues. Meanwhile, XI had listed the
addresses where Annie Bouty and/or Michel Nihoul lived in 1984. The
addresses were checked and found to match. The BSR officers also
resumed the search for cars with the eagle. And Marlène De Cockere, a
friend of Nihoul, had bought a Mitsubishi Celeste in April 1983 with an
eagle painted on the bonnet. This piece of evidence is the least
certain of the series of checks carried out by the team of Warrant
Officer De Baets. In the middle of the investigation into this car, De
Baets and three other investigators were removed from the Neufchâteau
unit in mid-August. (see inset).

XI wasn't always so precise, true. And De Baets and his team
sometimes worked in a hasty manner. But the small errors that the
"re-examination" charged them with are not important enough to call the
value of the investigation into question. At the transcription phase,
things didn't always go smoothly. Warrant Officer De Baets and
Philippe Hupez have her say in a statement that "Bernard Weinstein" was
also present at the time of the murder. On the original video, it is
rather different. XI speaks of a man "I think might have been
Weinstein". Neither XI, nor Hupez, nor least of all De Baets made this
correction. And yet it is of immense importance. Bernard Weinstein was
in prison in France until the end of 1985. Just before they were
dismissed, the investigators made another discovery about Marc Dutroux.
On 15 February 1984, he opened a current account at the Crédit
Professional bank in Hainaut. In the next three days, a total of
200,000 Belgian francs were paid into the account. 15th February, that
is two days after the murder of Christine Van Hees.

While awaiting the results of the "re-examination", investigating
magistrate Van Espen has been following a new trail for the last few
weeks: that of the Brussels punks...

How the re-examination has "broken" the 1997 file

Well before the beginning of the debate about the possible transfer of
the annexed files of the Dutroux case to other judicial districts, such
a transfer had already taken place on 27 January 1997 for some parts of
the file 96/109 of the Neufchâteau public prosecutor's department.
File 96/109 was the file opened by investigating magistrate Connerotte
to gather together all the statements by the victims of paedophile
crimes. When a testimony proved to have some link with an investigation
in progress into the murder of a child, this part was transferred to
the district concerned. In the case of the Champignonnière, the
district concerned was Brussels.

"You will have trouble," X predicted when the investigating officers
thought she would be pleased at the news of the transfer. And yet
everything indicated that the withdrawal of the file from Neufchâteau
would be beneficial in terms of efficacy. If one of XI's statements
can be considered significant, it is exactly this prediction.

Things become difficult for XI

The trouble would begin with the leaks concerning the letter sent by
investigating magistrates Leys and Van Espen on 29 October 1996 to
various judicial authorities. The two magistrates, specialised in
financial cases, complained that the financial section (3rd Criminal
Research Section) of the Brussels BSR was now working only on the
Dutroux case and hardly at all on financial investigations. The reason
why Van Espen complained at the end of 1996 of a lack of staff for his
financial cases, but at the same time took back a file that he
described as "the nail in my coffin" is not clear. The first thing that
Van Espen discovered, on this occasion, was a thorough analysis of the
old Van Hees file by a conscientious member of the BSR. In this
analysis, Van Espen's investigation is described as erratic. It could
be seen that he had constantly neglected all evidence that led to the
trail of Dutroux and Nihoul.

On 20 June 1997, a meeting took place between Van Espen, the
Gendarmerie Commander Duterme (at the head of the Neufchâteau unit of
the 3rd Criminal Research Section since the end of 1996) and several
investigators. Warrant Officers De Baets and Mertens, who co-ordinated
almost all the work of the unit, were not invited. There was a reason
for this. The meeting was about them. Duterme and Van Espen claimed
that De Baets had falsified a statement. What had happened? At the end
of the hearing of 18 November (see above), De Baets showed XI a series
of photos. One of them was that of Christine Van Hees. "Is she among
these photos?" asked De Baets. XI nodded. "Would you point her out?".
XI said no. She wanted the hearing to end and she didn't want to look
at the photos any more "because everything comes back to me". De Baets
insisted. XI got angry. She wanted to go home. She didn't want to
testify ever again, she said. She deliberately pointed to another
photo. In his report, De Baets wrote that "XI recognised the photo of
Christine", because during the course of a later hearing she pointed to
the photo without faltering.

Duterme, however, accused De Baets of "false transcription". Van Espen
added another complaint. He had discovered that De Baets had provided a
piece of information about Nihoul to Councillor Marique of the
Verwilghen Committee. A procedural fault, claimed Van Espen. De Baets
should have asked for his permission. On 22 June, in a long letter to
the public prosecutor Benoît Dejemeppe, Van Espen declared "his
concern about the contamination of this investigation".

The path taken by Van Espen's letter is a clear sign of the
environment in which the 96/109 file rests. Dejemeppe sent the letter
to the national magistrate Van Oudenhove, who sent it on to the
Minister of Justice De Clerck. He sent it to the Public prosecutor of
Liège, Thily, who judged it to be a matter for Brussels. Thily sent it
back to Dejemeppe, who finally instructed investigating magistrate
Pignolet to carry our an investigation for false transcription "against
unknown parties". Meanwhile, various complaints began to pour in. At
the CID, Superintendent Marnette accused Superintendent Suys, and vice
versa. Due to a statement by Suys to the Verwilghen Committee, quoted
wrongly in the press. Chief Superintendent De Vroom raged against the
Brussels BSR because he thought it was the source of the mad incest
story regarding his daughter. Within the 3rd Criminal Research Section,
Duterme added a complaint against De Baets for the question of the
photo. In some newspapers all this became a carry-on with De Baets
indicated as the great orchestrator, also of the ridiculous search of
the Abrasax Satanic sect, the Jumet searches and the Di Rupo affair...

Pan publishes a "scoop"

Pignolet was instructed to separate the wheat from the chaff. He looked
mainly at the chaff. De Baets had nothing to do with Jumet, Abrasax, De
Vroom or Di Rupo. If we study file 96/109 closely, we discover that on
6 December 1996, in report no. 117.487, De Baets noted carefully that
on 18 November XI had pointed to the wrong photo because she was
breaking down. Van Espen and Duterme do not seem to have noticed this
report. The deluge of complaints soon made people forget that there was
an investigation into the murder of Christine Van Hees. It seemed, in
fact, that the murder investigation was only secondary. At a certain
point it was only a case of "faulty and suggestive methods of inquiry",
and investigating magistrate Jacques Langlois ordered a
"re-examination" of all the investigations that had been opened on the
basis of file 96/109. This "re-examination", which was to take no more
than a few weeks - was to find out whether De Baets and his team
really influenced their witnesses.

On 21 August, the weekly magazine Pan (owned by the former Prime
Minister Paul Vanden) wrote that De Baets and three of his officers at
the Neufchâteau unit had been removed from the investigation. The
headline was "Verwilghen, Knokke-out" - whatever that means. The
strange thing is that no decision had yet been made. It was only on 25
August that the four officers were informed by Colonel Brabant that
they had been removed from the unit, "temporarily" until the completion
of the re-examination. Today, 7 January 1997, the re-examination is
still in progress. File 96/109 has already been re-read twice. After a
first (unofficial) re-reading, then a second, a third was begun at the
beginning of July. According to the latest news, this has almost
reached completion and does not in any way suggest that XI was "helped"
during questioning. Meanwhile, the 3rd Criminal Research Section is
divided into two camps which are at daggers drawn, and no-one believes
that the four officers will be able to rejoin the Neufchâteau unit. It
seems that nothing will ever come out of any investigation. After the
many examinations and re-examinations of the confidential file 96/109,
so many copies have circulated that the authors of the crimes described
by XI must by now know the contents better than anyone. At the end of
November, one of the Gendarmerie analysts left the whole Van Hees file
lying around in the boot of his car, where it was stolen.

To the vast majority of Americans, the name Marc Dutroux does not mean
much. Drop that name in Belgium though and you are likely to elicit
some very visceral reactions. Dutroux - convicted along with his wife
in 1989 for the rape and violent abuse of five young girls, the
youngest of whom was just eleven - now stands accused of being a key
player in an international child prostitution and pornography ring
whose practices included kidnapping, rape, sadistic torture, and
murder.

Dutroux was sentenced in 1989 to thirteen years for his crimes, but was
freed after having served just three. This was in spite of the fact
that, as prison governor Yvan Stuaert would later tell a parliamentary
commission: "A medical report described him as a perverse psychopath,
an explosive mix. He was an evident danger to society." The man who
turned Dutroux loose on society, Justice Minister Melchior Wathelet,
was rewarded with a prestigious appointment to serve as a judge at the
European Court of Justice at The Hague.

Shortly after Dutroux's release, young girls began to disappear in
the vicinity of some of his homes. Though technically unemployed and
drawing welfare from the state, he nevertheless owned at least six
houses and lived quite lavishly. His rather lucrative income appears to
have been derived from trading in child sex-slaves, child prostitution,
and child pornography. Many of his houses appeared to stand vacant,
though at least some of them were in fact used as torture and
imprisonment centers where kidnapped girls were taken and held in
underground dungeons. Some of Dutroux's homes were used in this way
for several years following his early release, with a growing body of
evidence to indicate that fact to the police. Authorities nevertheless
failed to act on the information, or acted on it in ways that implied
either complete incompetence (according to most press reports), or
police complicity in the operation (according to any sort of logic).

Officials seem to have routinely ignored tips that later proved
accurate, including a report from Dutroux's own mother that her son was
holding girls prisoner in one of his houses. In addition, key facts
were withheld from investigators working on the disappearances and
lines of communication were unaccountably broken, inexcusably hindering
the investigation. Police did search one of Dutroux's homes on no less
than three separate occasions over the course of the investigation. On
at least two of those occasions, two of the missing girls were being
held in heinous conditions, imprisoned in a custom-built dungeon in the
basement. Nevertheless, according to the Guardian, the police searches
came up empty - even though the investigating officers reported
"hearing children's voices on one occasion."

It was not until August 13, 1996, four years after the disappearances
began, that authorities arrested Dutroux, along with his wife (an
elementary school teacher), a lodger, a policeman, and a man the
Guardian described as "an associate with political connections" -
elsewhere identified as Jean-Michel Nihoul, a Brussels businessman and
nightclub owner. One of those taken into custody - Michel Lelievre,
described in a May 2002 BBC report as a "drug addict and petty
thief" - reportedly told his interrogators that at least some of the
girls abducted by the ring "were kidnapped to order, for someone
else." This was just one of many statements by suspects and witnesses
that would later be dismissed by Belgian officials.

Two days after the arrests, police again searched Dutroux's home and
discovered the soundproof dungeon/torture center. As CNN reported,
three years earlier "police ignored tips from an informant who said
Dutroux was building secret cellars to hold girls before selling them
abroad." In addition, in 1995, the same informant had told police
that Dutroux had offered an unidentified third man "the equivalent of
$3,000 to $5,000 to kidnap girls." Incredibly, it was later reported
by the Guardian that police actually had in their possession a
videotape of the dungeon being constructed: "Belgian police could
have saved the lives of two children [who were] allegedly murdered by
the paedophile Marc Dutroux if they had watched a video seized from his
home which showed him building their hidden cell." The tape had been
seized in one of the earlier searches.

At the time of the final search, two fourteen-year-old girls were found
imprisoned in the dungeon, chained and starving. They described to
police how they had been used as child prostitutes and in the
production of child pornography videos. More than 300 such videos were
taken into custody by the police.

On August 17, 1996, the story got grimmer as police dug up the bodies
of two eight-year-old girls at another of Dutroux's homes. It would
later be learned that the girls had been kept in one of Dutroux's
dungeons for nine months after their abductions, during which time they
were repeatedly tortured and sexually assaulted - all captured on
videotape. The girls were then left to slowly starve to death.
Alongside of their decimated corpses was the body of Bernard Weinstein,
a former accomplice of Dutroux who had occupied one of the houses for
several years. Weinstein had been buried alive.

A few weeks later, two more girls were found buried under concrete at
yet another of the Dutroux properties. By that time, ten people
connected to the case were reportedly in custody. As the body count
mounted, the outrage of the Belgian people grew. They demanded to know
why this man, dubbed the 'Belgian Beast,' had been released after
having served such an absurdly short sentence. And they demanded to
know why, as evidence had continued to mount and girls had continued to
disappear, the police had chosen to do nothing. How many girls, they
wanted to know, had been killed due to this inaction?

Adding further fuel to the fire, as a Los Angeles Times report
revealed, were claims by "a highly regarded children's activist,
Marie-France Botte ... [that] the Justice Ministry is sitting on a
politically sensitive list of customers of pedophile videotapes." The
same report noted, "the affair has become further clouded by the
discovery of a motorcycle that reportedly matches the description of
one used in the 1991 assassination of prominent Belgian businessman and
politician Andre Cools. Michel Bourlet, the head prosecutor on the
pedophile case, meanwhile, has publicly declared that the investigation
can be thoroughly pursued only without political interference. Several
years ago, Bourlet was removed from the highly charged Cools case,
which remains unsolved."

A report in Time magazine alluded to murky links between the Dutroux
operation and organized crime figures. Marc Verwilghen - the chief
investigating magistrate on the case - stated the case more bluntly:
"For me, the Dutroux affair is a question of organised crime." Also
mentioned in the Time article was the use of secret "underground
tunnels," not unlike those described by children a decade earlier at
the infamous McMartin Preschool.

Outrage continued to grow as more arrests were made and evidence of
high-level government and police complicity continued to emerge. One of
Dutroux's accomplices, businessman Jean-Michel Nihoul, confessed to
organizing an 'orgy' at a Belgian chateau that had been attended by
government officials, a former European Commissioner, and a number of
law enforcement officers. A Belgian senator noted, quite accurately,
that such parties were part of a system "which operates to this day
and is used to blackmail the highly placed people who take part."

According to the BBC, Nihoul has brazenly claimed: "I am the monster
of Belgium." He has all but dared the state to prosecute him,
claiming that he is beyond the reach of the law because he has
information that, if made public, "would bring the Government and the
entire state down."

In September 1996, twenty-three suspects - at least nine of whom were
police officers - were detained and questioned about their possible
complicity in the crimes and/or their negligence in investigating the
case. As the Los Angeles Times noted in a very brief, two-sentence
report, the detainments "were the latest indication that police in
the southern city of Charleroi may have helped cover up the alleged
crimes of Marc Dutroux." The arrests followed raids on the police
officers' homes and on the headquarters of the Charleroi police force
and were based on information supplied by police inspector Georges
Zicot, who had already been charged as an accomplice. Three magistrates
had also reportedly been interrogated by police investigators.

Just days before the arrests, police had also arrested five suspects in
the Cools assassination, including a former regional government
minister named Alain VanderBiest. Strangely enough, the News Telegraph
reported that: "Police investigating the Cools murder in 1991 ...
have been given helpful leads by some of those arrested in the Dutroux
case." The Telegraph also noted that Cools "had promised
'shocking revelations' before his death."

On October 14, 1996 came the straw that broke the camel's back:
Jean-Marc Connerotte, who had been serving as the investigating judge
on the Dutroux case, was dismissed by the Belgian Supreme Court.
Connerotte was viewed by the people as something of a rarity: a public
official/law enforcement officer who actually appeared to be pursuing a
prosecution, rather than a cover-up. The News Telegraph described him
as: "the only figure in the judiciary who enjoys the nation's
confidence." As the New York Times reported, Connerotte "became a
national hero in August after saving two children from a secret dungeon
kept by a convicted child rapist and ordering the inquiry that led to
the discovery of the bodies of four girls kidnapped by a child
pornography network." He had also arrested three men in 1994 as
suspects in the Cools assassination - just before the case was
transferred to the jurisdiction of another magistrate.

Victimized as a child by top-level perpetrators who today claim she is
insane. The detail of Regina's testimony is extraordinary. In 1996, she
named and described in great detail, to a specially assembled police
team, the people and places involved in the paedophile ring. Senior
judges, one of the country's most powerful politicians - now dead - and
a very influential banker were included. One of the regular organisers
of these parties, she said, was the man she knew as 'Mich', Jean Michel
Nihoul. The sessions not only involved sex, they included sadism,
torture and murder; and again, she described in detail, the place, the
victims and how they were killed. She also claimed the young Marc
Dutroux was there. "At these parties Nihoul was a sort of party beast
while Dutroux was more on the side." SEE VIDEO CLIPS ON THE "BELGIAN
X-FILES"

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/correspondent_europe/1962244.stm

A May 2002 BBC report revealed that, after Connerotte's removal, a
"special team of police officers interviewing Regina Louf and the
other 'X' witnesses, as they were called, were the next to be
sacked." The "X" witnesses were victims of the pedophile ring who
had come forward to tell harrowing tales of their victimization.

A woman named Regina Louf was the first of eleven such victims to be
interviewed by police officials. Louf claimed that she had been
victimized by the ring - which included her parents and her grandmother
- from the time that she was a very young child. She described the
operation in detail to authorities, supplying them with names - names
that included "senior judges, one of the country's most powerful
politicians - now dead - and a very influential banker." According to
Louf, the operation "was big business - blackmail - there was a lot
of money involved." Many of her victimizers, she said, were secretly
filmed for blackmail purposes.

Louf identified Michel Nihoul as a regular organizer of 'parties.'
These parties, she said, "not only involved sex, they included
sadism, torture and murder." She described in detail the murdered
victims, and how and where they were killed. The BBC reported that when
police checked into Louf's claims, they were able to verify "key
elements of Regina's story and found [that] at least one murder that
she says she witnessed matched an unsolved murder." Nevertheless, the
same BBC report revealed that, "today in Belgium Regina Louf's
reputation is destroyed. The Prosecutor General of Liege, Anne Thilly,
declares she's completely mad despite numerous statements from
independent psychologists to the contrary." According to the judges
now on the case, "her testimony has been declared worthless" and
will not be presented in any trial of Dutroux or his associates.

Connerotte's removal from the Dutroux case fanned the smoldering
flames of public outrage; as the Times reported, "Hundreds of
thousands of people had petitioned the high court to retain the
judge." Adding yet more fuel to the fire, prosecutor Michel Bourlet
was claiming that evidence indicated a pedophile ring, composed of the
wealthy and powerful, had been protected for twenty-five years. With
the families of Dutroux's victims calling for a general strike, men and
women all across the country walked away from their jobs in protest as
railway workers and bus drivers shut down public transportation,
bringing some cities to a virtual standstill. The Telegraph reported
that, "in Liege, firemen turned their hoses on the city's court
building" to symbolize the massive clean-up that was in order.

On October 20, 1996, 350,000 citizens of the tiny nation of Belgium
took to the streets of Brussels dressed all in white, demanding the
reform of a system so corrupt that it would protect the abusers,
rapists, torturers, and killers of children. The political fallout from
the case ultimately brought about the resignation of Belgium's State
Police Chief, Interior Minister, and Justice Minister, who became
sacrificial lambs tossed to the outraged masses to avoid what could
easily have exploded into a full-scale insurrection by the people,
particularly after police 'incompetence' allowed Dutroux to
'escape' and remain at large for a brief time in April 1998.

There were in fact calls from the people for the entire coalition
government to step down. Months later, an opinion survey by Brussels'
Le Soir newspaper found that only one in five Belgians still had
confidence in the federal government and in the nation's criminal
justice system. As the Los Angeles Times reported in January 1998,
"the conviction remains stubbornly widespread that members of the
upper crust - government ministers, the Roman Catholic Church, the
court of King Albert II - belonged to child sex rings, or protected
them."

A formal denial by King Albert II will go into every book
FLASHBACK: Belgian king wins paedophile rebuttal. The French publishers
of a book about paedophelia in Belgium have been ordered to insert a
formal denial by the Belgian King, Albert II, of some of the
allegations it contains. King Albert and the Belgian Government went to
court in Paris because they said the book, The Paedophile Dossier,
contained a series of unfounded libels. The book, by two French
journalists, is a sensationalist account of the case of Marc Dutroux,
the alleged sex offender and killer whose discovery five years ago
caused such trauma in Belgium and the country's political
establishment. Apart from general accusations of government cover-ups,
the authors personally connect the name of King Albert with the
scandal, saying that as crown prince he attended parties at which
paedophiles were present.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/1609411.stm

The lingering distrust of the people was not alleviated by the fact
that a parliamentary inquiry had identified, in April 1997, thirty
officials who had, as the Times tactfully put it, "failed to uncover
Dutroux's misdeeds." Nearly a year later, none of them had yet
suffered any repercussions. Additionally, at least ten missing children
suspected of having fallen prey to Dutroux's operation have never
been found.

Just a few months before the parliamentary commission issued its report
on the Dutroux case, viewed by many as a shameless cover-up, the
Telegraph reported, "grim rumors ... have been circulating that a
second paedophile network at least as appalling may have been operating
in parallel to that said to involve Dutroux." The bodies of seven
children were believed to have been hidden by the ring, which was
thought could be linked to Dutroux through Michel Nihoul. Two months
after that, a man named Patrick Derochette and three of his family
members were arrested following the discovery of the body of a
nine-year-old girl. Rumors quickly began circulating linking that crime
to Dutroux as well. Like Dutroux, Derochette had previously been
convicted on multiple counts of child rape. He had been committed to a
psychiatric institution from which he was released after just six
weeks. Authorities quickly denied that there was any connection between
the cases. In January 1998, however, the Telegraph reported, "new
evidence from a lawyer involved in the investigations blows a hole in
previous police claims that there was no link between the cases
involving the alleged child murderers Marc Dutroux and Patrick
Derochette." Once again, the connection was said to be through
Nihoul.

In April 1999, the Guardian weighed in with this report: "the highly
respected chairman of a parliamentary inquiry into the [Dutroux] case
claims that his commission's findings were muzzled by political and
judicial leaders to prevent details emerging of complicity in the
crimes ... Mr. Verwilghen claims that senior political and legal
figures refused to cooperate with the inquiry. He says magistrates and
police were officially told to refuse to answer certain questions, in
what he describes as 'a characteristic smothering operation.'"

As of May 2002, nearly six years after Dutroux was taken into custody,
his trial had yet to begin. Parents of victims continued to loudly
shout of a cover-up, and the Telegraph was reporting that: "It was
recently learnt that scientific tests on 6,000 hairs found in the
[underground dungeon] began only this year." Those tests, of course,
could reveal how many victims passed through Dutroux's chamber of
horrors. Perhaps more importantly, they could also, as a BBC News
report noted in January 2002, "establish whether the girls had any
other visitors."

Anne Thilly, the aforementioned Prosecutor General of Liege who
dismissed as "mad" a key prosecution witness, has been quoted as
saying, "there was no need to get the hairs analysed as no one else
entered the cage. There was no network so there was no need to look for
evidence of one. In any case, the hairs have all now been analysed."
Thilly gave no indication of how she knew there was nothing to find
before even bothering to look. And contrary to her claims, the BBC
reported in May 2002 that the hairs had "still not been analysed,"
according to "sources central to the investigation." Thilly has
also claimed "the bodies [recovered from Dutroux's properties] were
too decomposed to test for DNA." The BBC though noted "the autopsy
states quite clearly that the bodies were not decomposed. Samples were
taken. It is just that no one seems to know what has happened to the
results." It would appear, alas, as though Anne Thilly is a rather
brazen liar.

The January BBC report came on the heels of an interview that the
imprisoned Dutroux granted a Flemish journalist and a Belgian senator.
Therein, Dutroux was quoted as admitting, "a network with all kinds
of criminal activities really does exist. But the authorities don't
want to look into it." He also acknowledged the existence of "a
well-grounded [paedophile] ring. I maintained regular contact with
people in this ring. However, the law does not want to investigate this
lead."

If the Marc Dutroux case were some kind of aberration, it would still
be a disturbing story for the level of unspeakable corruption and
depravity of the Belgian political and law enforcement establishment of
which it speaks. Far more disturbing is the fact that it does not
appear to be an isolated case at all.

As 1999 drew to a close, the nation of Latvia was rocked by a child
prostitution/child pornography scandal that reached to the very top of
the political power structure. The case first broke in August, when
police uncovered a massive operation involving as many as 2,000
severely abused children. When media reports began linking top Latvian
officials to the case, a special parliamentary commission was assembled
to investigate the emerging allegations. In February 2000, the chairman
of the commission delivered a report to Parliament linking the
country's Prime Minister and Justice Minister, the director of the
State Revenue Service, and a number of army and law enforcement
officers to the case. A campaign was immediately begun to discredit the
committee chairman, including allegations that he is tied to the former
KGB - a classic case of red baiting that enabled the allegations to
be dismissed as 'Communist' propaganda.

On November 27, 2002, The Guardian reported that many among
Portugal's elite were linked to a pedophile ring as well: "A
scandal over a paedophile ring run from a state orphanage gripped
Portugal yesterday as it threatened to engulf diplomats, media
personalities and senior politicians. Photographs of unnamed senior
government officials with young boys from Lisbon's Casa Pia orphanage
were among the evidence reportedly available to police after they
arrested a former orphanage employee called Carlos Silvino." One
revelation in the case was "that systematic sexual abuse of children
at the home had allegedly been going on for more than 20 years and had
been known to police and other authorities for most of that time."
Teresa Costa Macedo, a former secretary of state for families, has said
that she sent a dossier to police twenty years ago containing
"damning proof" of the abuse, including photographs and eyewitness
statements. The information was not acted upon, and, for her trouble,
Macedo became the victim of a campaign of threats and intimidation.

In June 2003, the Independent reported that police "at first denied
her reports existed," but then later produced them. Macedo has
testified before parliament that the former president, Antonio Ramalho
Eanes, the former foreign secretary, Jaime Garcia, and elements within
the police all knew of the ongoing abuse. An official report claims
that, "among the children still living at Casa Pia, at least 128 had
been subjected to sexual abuse. Many are deaf and dumb." Countless
other victims have passed through the facility over the last thirty
years. Among those detained or questioned in the case were Carlos Cruz,
known in Portugal as "Mr. Television"; Manuel Abrantes, a former
director of Casa Pia; Joao Ferreira Diniz, a doctor at Casa Pia; Jorge
Ritto, a former ambassador to UNESCO; Hugo Marcal, Carlos Silvino's
former attorney; Eduardo Ferro Rodrigues, Portugal's Socialist Party
leader; television talk show host Herman Jose; and Paulo Pedroso, a
former Labour minister.

A follow-up report in the Independent noted that Casa Pia, founded by a
police superintendent, first "came under scrutiny 20 years ago when a
young inmate died ... Officials found the home's doors open all night
and youngsters in a cruising area for male prostitutes. Four children
aged between eight and 12, missing for a fortnight, were found in a
luxury flat in nearby Cascais owned by a diplomat." That diplomat was
Jorge Ritto. It is now alleged that Silvino, an employee and former
resident of Casa Pia, acted for years to procure young boys for rich
and powerful pedophiles, including Ritto. Adolescent witnesses have
claimed on Portuguese television that they were offered enticements and
"then raped ... and recruited for sex parties with powerful
'friends.' Others, now adult, have told of chilling experiences
long suppressed." A Portuguese organization calling itself Innocence
in Danger has been working for years to publicize the problem of child
abuse and child abductions in the country, but have been unable to
penetrate what they describe as a "media blackout."

As of February 2003, a campaign was underway in Scotland to unseal
records that have been sealed for 100 years under special order. The
records concern the activities of Thomas Hamilton, a notorious child
molester/murderer who was credited with killing sixteen schoolchildren
and a teacher, and then himself, in 1996. One police report sealed
under the order "concerns Thomas Hamilton's activities at a summer
camp in Loch Lomond in 1991, five years before the shootings," and
allegedly links Hamilton to "figures in the Scottish establishment,
including two senior politicians and a lawyer," according to the
Guardian.

A report in Scotland's Sunday Herald, from March 2003, revealed that
106 documents had been sealed. These included "a letter connected to
Hamilton, which was sent by George Robertson, currently head of NATO,
to Michael Forsyth, who was then Secretary of State for Scotland," as
well as "correspondence relating to Thomas Hamilton's alleged
involvement in Freemasonry." A deputy justice minister, Michael
Matheson, was quoted in the article questioning the official
justification for sealing the documents: "The explanation to date
about the 100-year rule was that it was put in place to protect the
interests of children named in the Central Police Report. How can that
explanation stand when children aren't named?"

On September 29, 2000, The Irish Times reported that yet another
pedophile network had surfaced: "Eight people were arrested in Italy
and three in Russia, and police said 1,700 people were being
investigated in Italy." The images traded by this ring were
"divided into several categories ... The most gruesome, police said,
was coded 'Necros Pedo,' in which children were raped and tortured
to death."

And so it is that we first confront that most disturbing of topics -
snuff films, which most people assume do not actually exist. As
recently as February 1999, the New York Post assured readers that:
"Snuff films are the stuff of urban legend ... how did this legend
get started? No one knows." The unfortunate truth though is that
snuff films do actually exist, and they likely have existed for as long
as film has existed, though they were not always known by that name.
According to the Post: "The term 'snuff' was actually coined
during the Charles Manson case, when press reports repeated a rumor
that the Manson 'family' had filmed home movies of the brutal
slayings." Other reports hold that the term was coined in 1976 by a
writer for the New York Times who was in need of a phrase to describe
reports of murders following sexual activity being captured on film.

In the late 1970s, as Carl Raschke noted in Painted Black, the "Texas
House Select Committee on Child Pornography disclosed ... that
investigators probing leads to organized crime in Houston, Dallas, and
other major cities found that 'slave' auctions for sixteen- and
seventeen-year-old boys were routinely held in Mexico. Some of the boys
were featured in brutal snuff or 'slasher' movies." Raschke also
quotes from a study by U.S. mental health professionals that claims
that a child from Mexico "can be packaged, delivered, and sold deep
within [the United States] in a short time," and that many are
purchased solely "for the purpose of killing."

In Enslaved, Gordon Thomas reported that: "At the start of the year
[1991] Britain's Scotland Yard was continuing to investigate reports
that up to twenty children in London had been murdered last year in
[snuff films] and the video tapes sold on the Continent." Journalist
Nick Davies, writing for the Guardian in November 2000, revisited that
investigation, which was centered on a group of British pedophiles
living in Amsterdam. The investigation revealed that the men were
running gay brothels that were essentially 'fronts' for trafficking
underage boys, many purchased from the streets of economically ravaged
Eastern Europe, and others collected from the streets of London.
Prominent among the group of pedophiles were a man named Alan Williams,
known as the "Welsh Witch," and another named Warwick Spinks, who
according to Davies, "pioneered the trafficking of boys as young as
10."

The men used the boys in the production of child pornography and,
according to several witnesses, in the production of snuff films.
Davies wrote: "not just once but repeatedly, evidence had come to the
attention of police in England and the Netherlands, that, for pleasure
and profit, some of the exiled paedophiles in Amsterdam had murdered
boys in front of the camera." Indeed, witnesses had independently
given descriptions of snuff films that were remarkably consistent in
the details of the types of torture used and the manner of death,
though the descriptions of the victim and the filming location
differed, indicating that a number of such films had been made. One
witness claimed to have seen five such films.

In the fall of 1998, British detectives flew to Amsterdam to
investigate a particularly detailed account provided by a witness. The
investigators had in their possession: a detailed description of the
apartment where the witness had viewed the tape; the name of the owner
of the apartment and videotape; the name of the man who committed the
murder; a detailed description of events on the tape; and the first
name and approximate age of the victim. With all that in hand, says
Davies, the detectives "hit a wall." Dutch police "said it was
not enough" to warrant launching any sort of an investigation. By
that time, investigators had been hearing accounts of the snuff films
for nearly eight years. At one point, they had recruited an undercover
officer "to pose as a child abuser and befriend Warwick Spinks,"
who acknowledged to the officer that he was actively involved in
trafficking boys. He also revealed that he knew "some people who were
involved in making snuff movies and how they did it was, they only sold
them in limited editions, made 10 copies or something, 10 very rich
customers in America, who paid $5,000 each or something like that."
There is no indication that any thorough investigation was ever
conducted, or that any arrests were ever made.

In September 2002, the Chicago Sun Times carried a brief report of two
brothers who were arrested and charged with possessing an enormous
collection of child pornography. Seized from the brothers were 5,000
photographic images, along with about 100 videotapes and 8mm films.
Among this evidence were images of "young girls apparently tortured,
raped and killed." The American media has shown no inclination to
shine any additional light on the case.

An account of the recent Italian case carried by the Guardian affirmed
the existence of snuff films: "Police have discovered a massive
international paedophile network selling violent child-pornography
videos to clients in Italy, the US and Germany ... (authorities are)
trying to identify 5,000 people who are suspected of attempting to
purchase the videos, some of which appear to contain images of children
being tortured and murdered." The UK's Independent, in a follow-up
published in November 2000, also confirmed that the seized materials
included child snuff films: "Horrified investigators gathered images
of more than 2,000 children who were filmed while being abused, raped,
and ... killed." By that time, close to 1,500 people had been charged
in the case, but not - as the Guardian noted - "those in high places
who are believed to form a 'paedophile lobby.'"

As in the Belgian, Latvian, and Portuguese cases, there were
indications in the Italian case of high-level complicity and a strong
belief among the people that the facts of the case were being covered
up. And as with the other cases, the Independent reported that the
magistrate heading up the inquiry "provoked a furore by denouncing a
'paedophile lobby' supported by politicians which he said openly
obstructed the investigators and worked to prevent tougher sanctions
for the consumers of child pornography." The New York Times reported
in March 1997 that there is "growing public indignation in France and
elsewhere about the recurrent reports of kidnapping, rape or incest
involving the very young." The same Times report revealed that French
police had "detained more than 250 people and confiscated some 5,000
videocassettes" in conjunction with an investigation into a massive
child pornography ring. Those detained by police were described as
"mainly married professionals." A dozen of them soon turned up
dead, allegedly by their own hand.

The BBC filed a brief report on a 1996 case that was otherwise almost
completely ignored by the English-language press: "Mexican police
broke up an international child pornography ring based in the resort of
Acapulco which they said had at least four thousand clients in the
United States," (emphasis added). A UN envoy investigating the case
said that the "child pornography sometimes involved babies of less
than one month old."

In June 1997, the News Telegraph spoke of over 800 French homes being
raided and 204 suspects being taken into custody. Among those detained
were "more than 30 teachers ... and a number of priests," as well
as the deputy mayor of the town of Saint Mihiel. By the end of the
week, four had committed suicide, including a school headmaster. Three
years later, the BBC filed a very brief report noting that a verdict
was due "in the trial of more than sixty people accused of possessing
child pornography. One of the judges hearing the case said examining
the video evidence made him feel physically sick." In a familiar
refrain, it was reported that: "the French courts have been accused
of attacking the easy targets -- porn consumers -- rather than
producers and distributors. And one children's rights group has
alleged that senior public figures were among those investigated -- but
their cases were dropped before coming to court."

In 1998, another large-scale international ring was discovered
operating out of the Netherlands and Berlin, Germany. The New York
Times reported that investigators called the case "nauseating," in
that "images of abuse of even babies and infants were peddled via the
Internet and other media." Police discovered "voluminous records of
what appear to be clients and suppliers from countries including
Israel, Ukraine, Britain, Russia and the United States." The ring was
first uncovered when a key member was found dead in Italy. According to
the Irish Times, he was murdered by another member of the ring. His
apartment in the Dutch town of Zandvoort was found to contain
"thousands of digital images stored on computer disks," as well as
"hundreds of addresses of suspected suppliers and clients,"
according to the New York Times. The images shocked even veteran
sex-crimes investigators, one of whom stated that the seized evidence
"left [him] speechless ... It looks like the perpetrators are not
dealing with human beings but with objects."

The BBC reported in June 1999 that two unnamed German men had "gone
on trial, accused of running a child pornography ring in Germany,
Poland and the Czech Republic." The pair, along with at least eleven
identified but unindicted accomplices, "made video recordings of the
gang sexually abusing children between the ages of three and 14 since
1993." A large but unspecified quantity of "videos, photography,
magazines and CD-ROMs containing child pornography were confiscated."
Also noted was a possible connection to the Dutroux case: "There have
been cases of Slovak children being taken to Vienna to make
pornographic films. The Belgian paedophile Marc Dutroux ... was a
regular visitor to one Slovak town."

In September 1998, another ring had been raided - one that the BBC
described as "a larger and more sinister paedophile network called
Wonderland." The San Jose Mercury News reported, "police in ... 22
states and 13 foreign countries conducted coordinated raids ... aimed
at breaking up an Internet child-pornography ring ... The ring involves
as many as 200 people around the world, who exchanged over the Internet
thousands of sexually explicit images of children as young as 18
months." The Independent later reported that the ring "shared
pictures of children being abused -- in some cases live via web-cam
broadcasts over the internet." The raids included homes in
"Australia, Austria, Belgium, Finland, France, Germany, Italy,
Norway, Portugal and Sweden," according to the New York Times, which
added that: "Several dozen people were arrested, but officials said
they expected more than 100 to be charged." The Independent later
reported that 107 suspects were ultimately arrested. The Mercury News
implied that that was only the tip of the iceberg: "The ring actually
extends into 47 countries."

The case was described by a British official as "stomach-churning."
The Times reported, "Wonderland Club members are believed to have
posed their own children for pictures ... In other cases ... parents
may have taken money to let their children be used." The Guardian
reported that over 1,250 children were featured in the photos and
videos, "many of whom suffered appalling injuries and were seen
sobbing uncontrollably as they were being sexually violated." The
Independent added that the victimized children were "mostly under
[the age of] 10." A BBC report held that the combined raids resulted
in the seizure of more than "750,000 computer images of children."
A Detective Superintendent with the British National Crime Squad called
these images "disgusting" and added that "the behavior that has
been carried out is absolutely appalling." The BBC also took note of
the fact that, while ignored by the American press, "Wonderland
originated in the United States."

Among the scores of U.S. homes raided in connection with the case, one
yielded a "database of more than 100,000 sexual photographs of naked
boys and girls." Interestingly enough, the Times also noted that
another raid, "in Missouri, turned up a cache of weapons as well as
child pornography in a heavily fortified trailer" - illustrating
once again, as did the Dutroux case, the close ties between organized
pedophilia and other terrorist assaults against society.

As with the earlier raids in Europe, a rash of 'suicides' followed
the Wonderland arrests. By October 24, 1998, the Mercury News was
reporting that no fewer than four of the thirty-four American suspects
had killed themselves. These included a retired Air Force pilot, a
microbiologist at the University of Connecticut, and a computer
consultant in Colorado. In the UK, the Wonderland raids - dubbed
Operation Cathedral - resulted in the indictments of eight suspects.
One of the eight turned up dead four months later - another alleged
suicide. The other seven were given ridiculously light sentences in
February 2001 for their complicity in inflicting unfathomable abuse on
countless children. Sentences ranged from 12 to 30 months. Just a few
weeks before the sentences were handed down, the Guardian was reporting
that: "Police today arrested 13 suspected paedophiles in the largest
ever UK operation against child pornography." Once again, a massive
amount of appalling evidence was seized, with most of the material
featuring "scenes of children being raped and sexually abused."

The Independent reported in February 2001: "Detectives working on the
[Wonderland] case discovered that many of the paedophiles were also
members of other child pornography groups." One of the groups most
closely tied to Wonderland was a ring known as the Orchid Club, which
had been exposed by a 1996 investigation in San Jose, California. That
investigation had led to the indictment of sixteen men on charges of
conspiring to produce and exchange child pornography. Members of the
club were identified in at least nine states and three foreign
countries. By the time of the Wonderland raids, the Mercury News was
able to report that the purported ringleader of the Orchid Club and
"twelve others either have pleaded guilty or have been convicted in
connection with that case." Their crimes included recruiting "young
relatives and friends of their own children to be molested and
photographed."

The club was also, like Wonderland, involved in "real-time
exploitation of children" on the Internet. Club members were able to
send in requests and have them acted-out on live feeds. The club also
held a pedophile 'summit,' at which members "traded stories about
pre-teen girls they had molested and photographed in sexually explicit
poses." The summit was held, appropriately enough, on April 20 -
the birth date of Adolph Hitler and a significant occult holiday.

In late March 2001, yet another interlinked, global pedophile network
was exposed. That month, the Independent reported, "US authorities
announced the arrest of four American citizens for involvement in an
international child-porn ring called Blue Orchid." The Los Angeles
Times added further details: "the United States and Russia have shut
down a Moscow-based international pornography ring that used the
Internet to sell videotapes of children engaged in sexual acts."
These tapes were said to sell for "between $200 and $300." As an
Associated Press release revealed, "police seized some 600
videotapes, 200 digital video disks and many boxes of photographs."
Video duplication equipment and sales and shipping records were also
seized, leading to "criminal inquiries in 24 nations ... Many of the
tapes were bought by people in the United States; others went to
Germany, Britain, France, Denmark, China, Kuwait, Mexico and scores of
other countries."

The Times reported that nine people had been arrested and fifteen
search warrants had been issued in the case. The AP report noted that
four of those arrests were in Russia, where two suspects, alas, had
"committed suicide." The ring was also said by the Times to offer
what were cryptically referred to as "custom-made videos" for the
hefty price of $5,000 each. The contents of these videos were not
revealed, but it was revealed that the "prevalence of child
pornography has increased dramatically with the growth of the Internet.
There are approximately 100,000 web sites worldwide associated with
child pornography."

This point was reinforced the next day when the British press reported
police raids on yet another pedophile ring. A report in the Guardian
held "more than 30 people, including a ... man working for a national
youth organization, were arrested yesterday in dawn raids on the homes
of suspected paedophiles." Once again being sold and traded were
images "which showed children being abused." A report on the case
in the Independent quoted a law enforcement spokesman as revealing,
"that those arrested included members of 'some interesting
professions,'" though the source demurred from revealing what those
professions might be. The official did say that they had "a
disturbing scenario of one or two juveniles who have been caught in
this way. One of them appears to be a 13-year-old boy." The police
acknowledged that the arrested boy was "also a potential victim and
would be treated in that light," which seems rather obvious.
Nevertheless, a follow-up to the story that the Independent ran in May
held that the boy had become "one of the youngest people to be listed
on the sex offenders' register."

The next month, the Guardian carried a report on Eric Franklin Rosser
- accused child pornographer, one of the FBI's ten-most-wanted
criminals, and a former keyboardist for John Cougar Mellencamp's
band. According to the report, "investigators believe Rosser's
material is among pornography circulated by a British paedophile ring
... More than 1,800 members are thought to belong to a club called
Teenboys. Its website features boys aged around 12 ... Teenboys is
considered bigger than the notorious Wonderland Club."

In September 2001, the Scottish Daily Record reported that a
"Salvation Army couple working on a British army base have been
arrested in a massive paedophile crackdown." Seized from the
couple's home were "some 400 videotapes ... computers, discs,
photographs and other material ... images of children as young as two
have been found." The same report claimed "a massive vice probe
into kiddie porn in the USA would expose some of the biggest names in
Hollywood as paedophiles. A federal investigation, codenamed Operation
Avalanche, has already resulted in over 100 arrests - and the US
Department of Justice say there will be hundreds more, including
celebrities." Lori Rabjohns, identified as a Justice Department
spokeswoman, was quoted as saying: "These are people who appear
upstanding members of society ... We're talking doctors, lawyers -
and celebrities."

The investigation came about as a result of a raid on the Ft. Worth,
Texas home of Thomas and Janice Reedy, who had been operating a
business called Landslide Productions, which offered child pornography
for sale over the Internet. The Reedy's website, according to the
Independent, functioned as a portal to "more than 5,700 websites with
names such as Child Rape and Cyber Lolita." The Reedys had made
millions of dollars from their child porn business, which "employed
more than a dozen staff, including a customer service representative
and a receptionist." This financial empire was built with "money
raised from the torture, rape and sexual abuse of children as young as
two."

The raid on the Reedy's home, conducted in September 1999,
unexpectedly yielded a database of the names and addresses of a
reported 75,000 subscribers around the world. According to a report
carried in February 2002 by TechTV, "more than 35,000 [of those]
individual subscribers [were] in the United States." Nevertheless,
only 100 arrests had been made at that time of the report - a number
that remained unchanged in the months after the initial arrests. By
early 2003, the story had dropped out of sight with little indication
that there would be any further arrests, despite Chief Postal Inspector
Kenneth Weaver's earlier insistence that the initial arrests were
just "the tip of the iceberg."

More than 7,000 subscribers to the site were British citizens. Their
names, addresses and credit card information were provided by the FBI
to British authorities, who launched an investigation paralleling
Operation Avalanche that was dubbed Operation Ore. As in America, only
a few of the known offenders have thus far been arrested. Included
among those questioned by police have been television personality
Matthew Kelly and legendary guitarist Pete Townshend.

Rushing to Townshend's defense was The Nation columnist Alexander
Cockburn, who earlier played a prominent role in denouncing the
McMartin prosecutions. In a posting on his Counterpunch website from
February 2003, Cockburn grossly misrepresented the nature of the
charges against Townshend. He charged that, according to the Supreme
Court, "'porn' encompass[es] even clothed images of children if
they are construed as arousing. 'Child' means anyone under 18."
Cockburn labeled Townshend's arrest "absurd," and claimed that if
you "have a photo of a kid in a bath on your hard drive, and the
prosecutor says you were looking at it with lust in your heart, [then]
that is tantamount to sexually molesting an actual kid in an actual
bath."

Cockburn was clearly trying to convey the impression that Townshend and
others are the innocent victims of overzealous prosecutors. It will be
recalled, however, that the images that the Landslide website was
offering to Townshend and other subscribers were images of "the
torture, rape and sexual abuse of children as young as two." Those
are not the types of images that would easily be mistaken for innocent
pictures of a child taking a bath.

Also included among the 7,272 suspects in the United Kingdom, according
to the Observer, were "hundreds of child welfare professionals,
including police officers, care workers and teachers," all of whom
were "identified as 'extremely high-risk' paedophiles."
Particularly well represented on the list were law enforcement
personnel: "Investigators now believe as many as 90 police officers
have so far been identified from an initial trawl of 200 of the British
names found in the U.S. Many of the other suspects work in other
sensitive professions, often linked to the criminal justice system."

On November 4, 2002, the Independent carried a brief report that noted
that virtually all of the British suspects had "yet to be
investigated despite the police having their details for four
months." All the information on the suspects was sent in July 2002 to
the fifty-one police departments throughout Great Britain, but
"despite detailed intelligence, nearly all of the suspected
paedophiles remain at large." No mention was made of why it took U.S.
authorities nearly three years to get the information to their UK
counterparts. In January 2003, the Sunday Herald announced that the
"police inquiry which plans to arrest a further 7000 men across the
UK ... is set to end in disaster with many suspects walking free."
Detective Chief Inspector Bob McLachlan, the former head of Scotland
Yard's paedophile unit, told the Sunday Herald, "the lack of
urgency in making arrests will lead to suspects destroying evidence ...
before they are arrested." McLachlan also told the Herald that claims
made by police chiefs and the government that they are prioritizing
pedophile crime are nothing but "smoke and mirrors."

The final line of the Sunday Herald article revealed that, according to
police, there were enough "rich and famous Operation Ore suspects
[to] fill newspaper front pages for an entire year." According to The
Register and the Sunday Times (which reportedly obtained, but did not
publish, all 7,272 names), the list of suspects included "at least 20
senior executives, ... services personnel from at least five military
bases, GPs, university academics and civil servants." Also on the
list were a "famous newspaper columnist ... along with a songwriter
for a legendary pop band and a member of another chart-topping 1980s
cult pop group, along with an official with the Church of England."

It is unlikely that any of those suspects, nor the "high-profile
former Labour Cabinet minister" mentioned by the Sunday Herald, will
ever be prosecuted. In August 2003, Scotland on Sunday reported that
the Scottish arm of the "massive internet child pornography
investigation Operation Ore has ended ... without anybody being charged
with sex abuse." An unnamed Scottish police chief said that that
outcome "would not trouble us if we thought that all the men who were
looking at child porn on their computer were just sad creeps who did
not pose a risk to the children in their lives, but that is not the
conclusion that was drawn from every raid." To the contrary, what
investigators repeatedly encountered was evidence that suspects were
engaged in the ongoing abuse of children.

In March 2002, Knight Ridder carried a report that stated: "Postal
inspectors, the FBI and Canadian authorities have broken up an
underground network of adults who traded pornographic videos of
children - sometimes their own - being brutally beaten." At the time
that the report was filed, ten perpetrators had already been convicted
and "more arrests are expected in the ongoing investigation of what
authorities described ... as a unique case." According to Raymond
Smith, head of the Postal Service's child exploitation
investigations: "We've seen organized networks of sadomasochistic
beatings with adults before, but this is the first time we've seen it
with children."

In an apparent attempt to downplay the appalling behavior uncovered by
the investigation, a postal inspector named Michael Galuppo described
the ring as "a bizarre group of people obsessed with spanking
children for sexual gratification." "Spanking," it should be
noted, is a rather odd way to describe what in fact were brutally
sadistic beatings involving "whips, hairbrushes, canes and wooden
paddles." The abuse was so severe that at least one of the children
depicted on videotape "suffered permanent disfigurement from beatings
that investigators said went on for 'years.'" Among those
convicted in the case were "a middle school teacher ... a nurse and
former Boy Scout leader ... [and] a former Sunday school teacher."

Just months later, in August 2002, the Independent reported that U.S.
authorities had "announced the discovery of a 'despicable' child
pornography ring stretching to Britain and continental Europe, in which
parents sexually abused their children and distributed photographs of
them over the internet ... Robert Bonner, The Customs Commissioner,
said he was particularly shocked to see the degree of collusion by
parents. 'If this isn't unusual, God help us ... I've rarely seen
crimes as despicable and repugnant.'" Of the sixteen suspects
arrested in the U.S., one "committed suicide shortly after being
arrested."

These cases were not, of course, in any way "unique" or
"unusual," as veteran Customs and Postal Service officials, with
experience investigating cases of child exploitation, should know.

In September 2003, the International Herald Tribune carried a report
from Berlin concerning "an international police investigation [that]
had uncovered an immense child pornography ring involving 26,500
suspects who swapped illegal images on the Internet in 166
countries." More than 500 homes in Germany were searched and hundreds
of computers were seized, along with tens of thousands of CD-ROMs,
diskettes, and videotapes. One seized image "showed a baby of four
months being abused." A statement issued by the German Interior and
Justice Ministries warned that many of the suspects, a number of whom
are reportedly teachers and police officials, "are extremely
dangerous pedophiles and are from all walks of life." About 800 of
those suspects reside in the United States.

Curt Becker, the justice minister for the German state of
Saxony-Anhalt, called for tougher laws to contend with the growing
market for child pornography. He also directly challenged the notion
that mere possession of such images is largely a victimless crime.
"Every case of child pornography is a document of the sexual abuse of
a child," Becker noted, and "every look at that image kills a
child's soul."

A January 2003 Sunday Herald article revealed that police investigators
had discovered "that images of Fred West abusing one of his children
are among child pornography available for downloading from the
Internet. It is unclear whether the child was West's murdered
daughter Heather." Fred West was one of the UK's most notorious,
and most prolific, serial killers. Shortly after being charged with
twelve counts of murder, he died while in police custody, allegedly by
his own hand. Like Dutroux, West had constructed a torture chamber in
his cellar where his victims were filmed being raped, tortured,
murdered and mutilated. The remains of nine of his victims, minus some
missing parts, were discovered buried under his house and in his yard.

While we are on the subject of serial killers, The Irish Times carried
the following report in July 1998:

Police suspect a series of gruesome gay hate killings in the Sydney
region could be the work of a serial killer whose victims might be
linked through a notorious paedophile ring. The latest mutilation
murder was that of Australia's longest serving mayor, Frank Arkell,
aged 68, who was bludgeoned to death in his flat and who had previously
faced 29 child sex charges. In the past few months two other men, one a
convicted child sex offender, were attacked in their homes in similar
circumstances and also suffered horrific injuries. Arkell, the former
Lord Mayor of Wollongong, 50 miles south of Sydney, was a key witness
in a royal commission into police corruption which uncovered a network
of paedophiles.

Those serial killers sure come in handy sometimes.

"The case of abduction and murder against Belgium's infamous
paedophile Marc Dutroux remains unresolved. He has not been brought to
book for these heinous crimes. There appears to be a steel veil drawn
over the facts at the highest level and no one is prepared to expose
those involved in this blatant cover-up ... The official answer is that
a series of hysterical conspiracy theories forced investigators to
search for paedophile networks, which didn't exist. But for observers
of this debacle, that's exactly what didn't happen. Far from being
investigated, leads pointing to a network seem to have been blocked or
buried."

Olenka Frenkiel for the BBC, May 2, 2002

"... several prosecutors, policemen and crucial eyewitnesses have
committed suicide. Important evidence has also disappeared. So maybe
Dutroux is being protected from on high. What other explanation can
there be for such a disgraceful chain of events?"

Andrew Osborn in the Guardian, January 25, 2002

"Bruno Tagliaferro, a Charleroi scrap metal merchant who knew
Dutroux, claimed to know something about the car in which Julie and
Melissa were kidnapped. But he was soon found dead, apparently of a
heart attack. His wife Fabienne Jaupart, refused to accept the verdict
and arranged for his body to be exhumed. Samples sent to the USA for
analysis showed he'd been poisoned. Soon after, her teenage son found
her dead at home in her bed, her mattress smouldering. Publicly it was
declared suicide, or an accident. There have been 20 such unexplained
deaths connected with Dutroux."

further reading :

Google web:

Jack the Ripper: Freemasons

Son of Sam: Process Church of the Final Judgement

Charles Manson: Scientology and the Church of Satan

Laci Peterson, Chandra Levy,satanic ritual murder.

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[Lars Eighner]

In our last episode,
<1162628737.8...@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
the lovely and talented causeway...@hotmail.com
broadcast on alt.true-crime:

> Rich & powerful occult behind spate of missing/dead children

> It is my opinion that satanic cult activity is

Stuck in the '80s, huh?

--
Lars Eighner <http://larseighner.com/> <http://myspace.com/larseighner>
Quoting me will give your meaningless drivel a little color, no pun intended.
-- "Fineous"

[causeway...@hotmail.com]

Lars Eighner wrote:
> In our last episode,
> <1162628737.8...@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> the lovely and talented causeway...@hotmail.com
> broadcast on alt.true-crime:
>
> > Rich & powerful occult behind spate of missing/dead children
>
> > It is my opinion that satanic cult activity is
>
> Stuck in the '80s, huh?

-----------
Not at all. This information is as relevant today as it was in 1998.
What makes the Belgian case so compelling is that it is a microcosm for
what can occur among the so-called 'respectable' classes in any
society. We are speaking here of everyone from police to coroners to
politicians and judges.

The rich get richer, and ever more bold and powerful, and the poor get
poorer , and ever more vulnerable. Financial and political corruption
is at an all-time high, from hedge-fund stock-shorting ripoffs to phony
terror attacks and poisoning of the water supply.

Occult activity is stronger than ever, but so is the cloak of secrecy
surrounding it.
Children and young adults are still going missing in the thousands each
year. Prostitutes are still turning up dead. The pedophile and
prostitution rings of Washington D.C. are still going strong. Pimps
and 'street gangs' and satanists are still procuring school girls for
'escort services' and porn and heaven knows what else. Madonna is
still trying to get laid.
The CIA is still shipping opium in from Afghanistan in record
quantities.
There is still a largely occult agenda of global population reduction
and economic slavery.
China is still killing its citizens. Africa and North Korea are still
starving. The 'war on terror' continues its hundred year long dance of
death for the thousands of young innocent men on both sides.

The most enduring common denominator of all: the apalling ignorance
and naivety of the general public.

[MI Wakefield]

"Lars Eighner" <use...@larseighner.com> wrote in message
news:slrnekok6r....@goodwill.larseighner.com...

> In our last episode,
> <1162628737.8...@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> the lovely and talented causeway...@hotmail.com
> broadcast on alt.true-crime:
>
>> Rich & powerful occult behind spate of missing/dead children
>
>> It is my opinion that satanic cult activity is
>
> Stuck in the '80s, huh?

The real question is "How can they see to type with that much tinfoil
wrapped around their head?"

[Frodo]

Lars Eighner use...@larseighner.com said:
> In our last episode,
> <1162628737.8...@f16g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>,
> the lovely and talented causeway...@hotmail.com
> broadcast on alt.true-crime:
>
> > Rich & powerful occult behind spate of missing/dead children
>
> > It is my opinion that satanic cult activity is
>
> Stuck in the '80s, huh?
>
>

Jim Bakker is innocent!

[Messalina]

causeway...@hotmail.com wrote:
> Rich & powerful occult behind spate of missing/dead children
>
> It is my opinion that satanic cult activity is
> far more prevalent than is readily accepted by the general public or
> reported
> by the media, and that this due to a concerted effort by the rich and
> powerful
> occult from the highest political and social and economic strata of
> western society.
>

-snip-

I know all about it. Its called "the Pentavirate" and is composed of
the Gettys, the Rothchilds, the Vatican, the Queen of England and
Colonel Sanders before he went tits up.

Mez

[causeway...@hotmail.com]

MI Wakefield wrote:
> "Lars Eighner" <use...@larseighner.com> wrote in message
> news:slrnekok6r....@goodwill.larseighner.com...

?
>
> The real question is "How can they see to type with that much tinfoil
> wrapped around their head?"

----------
no, the question is why people like you spend their lives cruising
usenet
and posting derogatory comments about things that they do not
understand.

The Bohemian Club, Skull& Bones, the Freemasons, the list goes on,
are forcing homosexuality and war and satanism on the nation.

Our naive christian populace of blindly trusting sheep cannot put
two and two together when someone points out that thousands of healthy
normal children go missing each year, and that it is a proven fact that
the
rich and powerful are both into human sacrifice and have the means,
connections, and
authority to conceal it from the public.
If you want to see how it is done, ask the likes of Dutroux in Belgium
and Bernardo in
Canada, and Rumsfeld in the U.S.

[Peter White]

causeway...@hotmail.com wrote:

Causeway clubhouse ..... is that a type of blt with a submarine format?
A 'Billy Joe' specialty, I suspect.

[Lars Eighner]

In our last episode,
<1162696276.3...@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com>,

the lovely and talented causeway...@hotmail.com
broadcast on alt.true-crime:

> MI Wakefield wrote:
>> "Lars Eighner" <use...@larseighner.com> wrote in message
>> news:slrnekok6r....@goodwill.larseighner.com...
> ?
>>
>> The real question is "How can they see to type with that much tinfoil
>> wrapped around their head?"
> ----------
> no, the question is why people like you spend their lives cruising
> usenet
> and posting derogatory comments about things that they do not
> understand.

> The Bohemian Club, Skull& Bones, the Freemasons, the list goes on,
> are forcing homosexuality and war and satanism on the nation.

Breathtaking run of the nutcase table! Get back on your meds.

[MI Wakefield]

<causeway...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:1162696276.3...@m73g2000cwd.googlegroups.com...

>
> MI Wakefield wrote:
>> "Lars Eighner" <use...@larseighner.com> wrote in message
>> news:slrnekok6r....@goodwill.larseighner.com...
> ?
>>
>> The real question is "How can they see to type with that much tinfoil
>> wrapped around their head?"
> ----------
> no, the question is why people like you spend their lives cruising
> usenet
> and posting derogatory comments about things that they do not
> understand.
>
> The Bohemian Club, Skull& Bones, the Freemasons, the list goes on,
> are forcing homosexuality and war and satanism on the nation.
>
> Our naive christian populace of blindly trusting sheep cannot put
> two and two together when someone points out that thousands of healthy
> normal children go missing each year,

Oh, they can put two and two together, alright. And the answer is that
you're off your meds.

[causeway...@hotmail.com]

interesting factoids:

re: Bernardo

Paul Bernardo's grandfather was an Italian stonemason and marble tile
craftsman
Paul Bernardo himself was a master mason of the masonic lodge

re: Dutroux

one of the ancient Babylonian human sacrifice rituals involved
parents burning their children alive as a sacrifice to 'Molech'
Christine Van Hees was ritually sacrificed and burned by Dutroux and
his cult.
According to people in the area on the night of the murder, who heard a
young
woman screaming, one of the last utterances Van Hees is said to have
issued:

"No, not that! Stop! Mum!"

Van Hees was murdered not far from her parents home, in the basement
of
an abandoned farm house, and as part of her torture was doused in
kerosine
and lit on fire.

also of interest:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1-1024319,00.html
Dutroux reveals that police helped in teens' kidnap
BY AGENCIES IN ARLON, BELGIUM

Marc Dutroux, whose face in court cannot be shown under Belgian law

Marc Dutroux, the Belgian paedophile, revealed today that police
officers helped him to abduct two young women whose bodies were later
discovered buried in his garden.

Testifying for the first time at his trial, Dutroux said that he
abducted An Marchal, 17, and Eefje Lambrecks, 19, with the help of a
heroin-addicted friend, who is also on trial, and two other men.

"I later found out they were members of the police force," he told the
court, without identifying them.
Dutroux, 47, a convicted paedophile, is testifying on the third day of
his trial in the small town of Arlon. He is accused of kidnapping,
imprisoning and repeatedly raping six girls in the 1990s, and killing
four of them.

His defence team says that he was part of a large paedophile network
that reached into the legal establishment.

Dutroux told the court: "It is regrettable that four people can never
come back. I cannot repair that. If I hadn't agreed to do what I did
they would probably be alive.

"I cannot accept all responsibility, but take responsibility for the
role I played."

Dutroux told the court that one of the police officers and his alleged
drug-addict accomplice, Michel Lelièvre, raped Ms Marchal after the
teenagers were kidnapped while on holiday near the Belgian coastal town
of Ostende.

But Dutroux denied murdering the two young women, who according to a
post-mortem examination, were most likely to have been drugged until
they were unconscious and then buried alive.

Dutroux said that he left the two young women with Mr Lelièvre and a
French accomplice, Bernard Weinstein, whom Dutroux has today denied
killing, after previously admitting to murder while in custody. The two
men planned to force the women into prostitution.

Dutroux told the court: "I never thought that they were going to kill
them. I find it a great shame that these girls died. It's a disaster."

Their bodies were discovered by the police in September 1996, buried in
the garden of a property belonging to Dutroux.

A month before, the brutally abused bodies of Julie Lejeune and Melissa
Russo, two eight-year-old girls, were unearthed from another Dutroux
property, along with that of Mr Weinstein.

Post-mortem examination reports showed that the children had starved to
death after being raped and beaten.

[causeway...@hotmail.com]

Correspondent: Belgium's X-Files

Tx Date 5th May 2002

This script was made from audio tape - any inaccuracies are due to
voices being unclear or inaudible

Olenka Frenkiel says:

In 1996 this woman came forward to tell the Belgian
authorities she'd spent her childhood years as the victim
of a paedophile network.
She described a world of organised sexual abuse, torture
and even murder.
It was terrible, you didn't believe your eyes and I didn't
believe that humans could do that.

She talked of violent child sex orgies with politicians,
judges and influential businessmen; a Belgian
underworld in which the establishment has refused to
believe.

Claude Eerdekens says
Voice over

Regina Louf is a pathological liar; she's a woman who's
invented a series of scenarios, which just don't stand up.

Olenka Frenkiel says:
A campaign followed to discredit her evidence. But now,
in an exclusive interview, the policeman assigned to
investigate her claims has broken his silence.
He says the enquiry was blocked because it threatened to
reveal too much.

Rudy Hoskens says
I'm convinced that she has been a victim - that's for sure.

Olenka Frenkiel says:
In June 1996 this Belgian slum revealed a bitter secret
that would come to haunt the nation.
The eyes of the world watched in horror. Into the light
emerged two young girls.
Laetitia, aged fourteen and Sabine just twelve were the
latest in a long line of girls who'd gone missing.

Marc Dutroux, a convicted rapist and kidnapper, had led
the police to where he'd imprisoned them.
Relief swept Belgium as their tearful homecoming was
caught on camera.
But it soon turned to horror when police revealed the
secret cage hidden in the cellar of Dutroux's house.

The girls had been kept here, drugged and repeatedly
raped.
But what of Belgium's other missing children. Eight year
olds Julie and Melissa who were missing for more than a
year and twelve others who'd vanished mysteriously.

Was this a new lead in the hunt for them?

The hopes of their parents were soon dashed. Within
days Marc Dutroux led police to the site where the bodies
of Julie Lejeune and Melissa Russo were buried.
The parents were informed but when the Russos asked to
see their daughter, Melissa, for the last time, they were
refused.

Mother of Melissa
Voice over

We begged, we were crying to see her. Really we insisted
with our lawyer, we really cried. They said no, it's not
possible, that's the law. But we said what's the point of
the law. And they said it's for your own psychological
good.

Carine Russo
Voice over

It's not up to them to know what's good for our
psychological well-being. What would have been good
for us was to be certain.

Olenka Frenkiel says:
It's six years since the police unearthed the bodies of
Julie and Melissa buried in the garden of this house.

What's extraordinary to me is that though Dutroux's in
jail, he's never been tried for these crimes. It's as though
the judicial system froze when faced with having to bring
him to trial.

Officially Dutroux lived on benefits yet this house, now
derelict, was one of five that he owned.
The bodies of two more missing girls were found at
another of his houses- Efje Ambrecks and An Marchal.

Aston
PAUL MARCHAL
Father of Victim

I didn't believe that it was possible that children were
kept in, in a cellar and were raped and, and kept there,
until that Dutroux was, taken to prison and that he, that
he could see the cellar. At the moment I had to believe.

Olenka Frenkiel

Before the murders Marc Dutroux had already been
convicted of five charges of rape and kidnapping. Yet
somehow he'd served only six years in jail before he was
released back into the Charleroi underworld.

This was once Belgium's industrial heartland but today
its most famous industry is crime.

Dutroux melted back into this realm of prostitution, drug
traffic and stolen cars and began to plan his next project -
the kidnap of children.
For the parents now burying their murdered daughters
after more than a year of fruitless searching, this was not
the end of their nightmare. They would soon find out
that Dutroux had been a prime suspect from the start, yet
nothing had been done to save their girls.

Melissa's father is still asking why his daughter was
allowed to die.

Aston
GINO RUSSO
Father of Melissa
Voice over

"Ten days after the kidnapping of Julie and Melissa in '95,
three witnesses said it was Dutroux who was kidnapping
children. But they don't go looking for Julie and Melissa
at his house straight after the kidnapping. It's
inexplicable. And he continues to kidnap other children.
They put a special surveillance unit to watch Dutroux
and he continues to kidnap children. It's inexplicable;
the whole thing is inexplicable from start to finish."

Frenkiel says:

What is known is that Dutroux was finally caught when
his white van was identified. It had been used to snatch a
sixth girl, miles away from his home patch.

The man who arrested Dutroux was Jean Marc Conerotte,
an investigating magistrate. He became a national hero,
uniquely respected by the parents of the murdered
children.

Paul Marchal
"He is someone who want to know the truth. You can feel
it when you talk to him, you can feel that he want to
investigate, the he want to have the truth. He is a very
good magistrate."

Conerotte arrested Dutroux's associates. Among the first
was Jean Michel Nihoul.
Nihoul and Dutroux had been seen at the site of the latest
abduction the night before. They'd been in constant
phone contact the day it happened. And the next day
Nihoul gave ten thousand pounds worth of drugs to an
accomplice of Dutroux.

One witness claimed, Nihoul had ordered a girl.
Conerotte knew Nihoul had influential friends, he
suspected he was the brains behind a network supplying
clients with children to abuse. It's a charge Nihoul
denies.
Conerotte appealed to the public for information.

"When I saw him walking down the stairs, I thought that I
knew everything about him. It was a shock; I thought
finally they stopped him.
Regina Louf was one of the first to come forward. She
said that as a child she'd been abused for many years in a
paedophile network involving Nihoul and Dutroux.
I remember Jean Michel Nihoul as a very cruel man; he
abused children in a very sadistic way.

She says that at the age of twelve she was taken with
other children to sex parties. And, she told investigators,
Dutroux was there, working for Nihoul.

REGINA LOUF
"Dutroux was a boy who brought drugs, cocaine and
something like that, to these parties, who brought some
girls, watched girls at these parties. Nihoul, he, he was a
sort of party beast. Dutroux was more on the side."

Nihoul denies he's ever met Regina Louf. But her story's
never changed. Nihoul, she said, was one of those who
organised the parties and invited the cream of Belgian
society - judges, politicians and influential businessmen
in order to compromise them.

"It was big business, yeah and it was very well organised
too. There was a lot of money going on there and a lot of
blackmail also. They had a lot of parties; they filmed it
even. So, yes, yes, it exists. I know it sounds crazy and I
know that there is a big taboo on everything like that but
it exists."

Regina Louf's story was horrific. But her account of a
violent paedophile underworld was by now reinforced by
new witnesses, some of whom also named influential
people.

The investigation began. The witnesses' identities were
protected. Each was given a codename beginning with X.
Regina was X-1. They went up to X-9. Their testimonies
became known as Belgium's X-Files.

The task of trying to verify them fell to a young police
investigator.

RUDY HOSKENS
Team Leader, Police
investigation

"They were telling stories we hadn't heard before in our
lives. Things we couldn't believe at first. So we told
ourselves, is this true? Could this be true? And when it
is true it's very, it's very, it's frightening that things like
that could happen".

Rudy Hoskens
"We had a special room for the interviews. It was
specially kept for people who had been victimised by
such matters. There was a camera in the room. They
were done mostly in the evening or the early hours.
When the interviews were finished, they were written
down by a few people of my team, all the way from the
first word to the last, literally."

Frenkiel
But before the investigation could get under way there
was a bombshell.

Jean Marc Conerotte, the man who'd arrested Dutroux,
who'd saved the imprisoned girls, was sacked from the
case.

His removal caused a public outcry. Belgians lost faith in
their judicial system: Crowds descended on the Palace of
Justice and accused the courts of colluding with the
killers.

Crowds shouting

The father of one of the murdered girls spoke for all.

Gino Russo
Subtitles

"This decision is like spitting on
the graves of Julie and Melissa."

Gino Russo
Voice over

"As an investigating magistrate, Conerotte, who arrests
ten people and they sack him and they appoint another
investigation magistrate, Langlois, who's never done the
job before. It's his first appointment in the most
important investigation, in the biggest file of the century.
You're going to put in an investigating magistrate who's
never done the job before - can you understand that?"

Three hundred thousand outraged Belgians marched
through Brussels in a demonstration of grief and
solidarity. This White March was the largest protest the
country had ever seen.

Frenkiel
Belgians felt that the dismissal of Conerotte was a
betrayal of Dutroux's victims, that it signalled the end of
any real search for a network.

The two rescued girls were overwhelmed.

Laetitia
Subtitle

"Thank you for coming in such large numbers."

Sabine
Subtitle

"Thank you all for coming."

Olenka Frenkiel
The country's highest legal authorities had removed the
only judge in which the public had any faith because he'd
attended a fund raising dinner for the families of missing
children. A conflict of interest they'd called it; a lack of
judgement. The government feared a revolution.

Aston
VINCENT DECROLY MP
"I think there were a kind of insurrection climate, a kind of
pre-revolutionary climate here. You know, the big
powers in Belgium so the magistrates and the political
circus, the government, the parliament, everything was
totally discredited, everything was totally discredited."

No one knew what to believe anymore. Rumour and
speculation spawned a variety of wild theories.

Actor
"You will instigate ultimate fear."
A full length feature film suggested the whole affair was part of an
extreme right wing plot to destabilise the country.

Aston
'Blue Belgium'
by Rob Van Eyck

"I'm very pleased Victor. Three hundred thousand idiots
marching in Brussels and an ocean of white balloons -
magnificent! Pathetic and impressive at the same time.
We really got them exactly where we want them."

To appease the public's concern, parliament set up the
Dutroux Nihoul Commission.
subtitles

I propose that the commission
observe a moment's silence.

00.15.22
Aston
VINCENT DECROLY MP
Commission member
As the pressure grew more and more they decided, in a
kind of panic climate, to create the commission because
the political world had to try to find an answer.

00.15.35
Olenka Frenkiel
But what the commission revealed was incompetence that
beggared belief.

Police had been told of Dutroux's plans to make money
by kidnapping children. They had his house under
surveillance throughout the abductions.

They even searched inside and heard the sound of
children but failed to find the dungeon.
What it established beyond doubt was that the girls could
have been saved.

Aston
CLAUDE EERDEKENS MP
Commission member

They had everything they needed to arrest Dutroux.
That's the scandal of this affair. Dutroux was known; he
had previous form. They had valid intelligence that he'd
built the hiding place in the cellar for the little girls.
There was information from Charleroi that the children
could be at the house.
But when the parliamentary commission began to ask
why, was it incompetence or had someone in authority
protected Dutroux, co-operation with their investigation
stopped.

Aston
GINO RUSSO
Father of Melissa
Voice over

"It was completely sabotaged to the point that all the work
they did has been locked away in archives for thirty
years. It was parliament that voted that on itself. Can
you imagine?"

If the commission's job had been to restore stability, to
clear the air of insurrection, it worked.

Olenka Frenkiel
The danger to Belgium's establishment was over. But
there was still no answer to the most important question -
was the catalogue of failures pure incompetence or had
Dutroux and his friends enjoyed protection?

Were they protected?

Aston
CLAUDE EERDEKENS MP
Commission member
Voice over

"On the question of protection we didn't discover much,
unless you count the best protection that Dutroux could
have had and that's the incompetence of Belgium's police
and judicial system."

Olenka Frenkiel

But Jean Michel Nihoul, the man suspected of hiring
Dutroux to kidnap children, was released from jail after
just five months. It's still unclear if he'll ever come to
trial and some members of the commission remain
convinced he is protected.

Vincent Decroly
"We succeeded in demonstrating that Nihoul was really an
artist in protection, really a specialised man in
manipulating enquiries, policemen and judges. We had
proof about that."

Olenka Frenkiel
Nihoul's release just left more unanswered questions for
the families. The mother of Melissa, Carine Russo, has
access to the legal evidence the court will bring against
Dutroux.
She's found no answers, nothing to clarify who stole,
raped and killed her daughter. All charges Dutroux
denies.
Carine Russo
Voice over

"Five years on there's still no admission from Dutroux.
There's no material evidence, no witness statements,
which state that it was Dutroux who really kidnapped the
children, who really raped them and who really killed
them."

00.18.57
Gino Russo
Voice over

"It's a catastrophe because nothing is anymore clear
today. Nothing is clear."

Olenka Frenkiel
The parents suspect Dutroux was not acting alone. That
others were involved in abducting and hiding the girls.

When he was briefly imprisoned for car theft in
November 1995, Dutroux claims to have left the girls in
his cellar, in this specially constructed cage with a little
food and water.

Olenka Frenkiel
On his release, after nearly four months, Dutroux claims
he'd found the children barely alive, that he tried to save
them but they died in his arms.

But for the Russos, this story can't be true.

Carine Russo
Voice over

"Four months incarceration of two little girls of eight
years old in a cellar in the middle of winter. But when I
say cellar it's a little hide built inside the cellar, so it's
tiny, three metres by two, even less. No windows,
completely dark, they cut off the heating."

Gino Russo
Voice over

They cut the electricity and heat.

Carine Russo
Voice over

And no food - for four months. Then he says when he
came out of prison four months later, they're still alive.
Well then they're superhuman. It's unimaginable two
children of eight holding out, alone, with nothing to
sustain them - no food, no heat, no human, no
psychological contact. Nothing. In a little cage like that
for such a long time and survive.

Olenka Frenkiel
So how did they survive so long? Did someone else keep
them alive?

The Palace of Justice in Liege is the seat of one of
Belgium's most powerful figures - Prosecutor General
Anne Thily, who's in charge of the case.

She says there's no evidence to contradict Dutroux's
version of how the children died.
So how did the children survive so long? Nearly four
months, until Dutroux was released from prison.
00.21.12
Aston
ANNE THILY
Prosecutor General
Voice over

No, no, Julie was dead. Melissa was nearly dead and
then she died. I think it was the next day.

But Melissa, how could she have survived nearly four
months?
Anne Thily
Voice over

Survive in what condition? In a lamentable state, she
was so weak she could not get up. That's according to
Dutroux of course; no one else was there.

Dutroux was acting alone. This is the mantra repeated
again and again in Belgium with a certitude that for the
victims' parents is inexplicable.

They believe that investigators have blocked every lead,
rejected every clue, which would reveal that Dutroux was
kidnapping girls for someone else.

Most painful perhaps is the autopsy report, which shows
Melissa had been repeatedly raped about two weeks
before her death, while Dutroux was in jail.

So who raped this child? Dutroux denies he raped the
girls.

But isn't it simple to find out if Dutroux raped them or
someone else - scientifically?

Carine Russo
Voice over

"Normally yes, in principal, yes. But in fact the most
elementary scientific tests, like DNA tests, the traces of
the culprit on the body of the child, were just not done."

Back in the Palace of Justice they say the DNA tests were
done but the results were inconclusive.

Can you explain why there was no DNA analysis done?

Anne Thily
Voice over

DNA analysis was done Madame!

Olenka Frenkiel
And the results?

Anne Thily
Voice over

Nothing.

Frenkiel
What does that mean? That there was no trace of sperm?
Anne Thily
Voice over

They were in a very putrefied state. It did not allow us to
make an analysis of that type, of sperm or anything.

Olenka Frenkiel
That's not what's written in the autopsy report. Again
the story doesn't square.

The bodies weren't severely decomposed. DNA can be
identified from samples taken long after death. The
question remains unanswered - why is there no DNA
result, might it have shown that someone else had raped
Melissa?

Other forensic tests that should have been routine were
just not done. Human hairs collected from Dutroux's
dungeon weren't sent for analysis.

The logic was strange. They claimed that as there was no
evidence anyone else had entered the cage, there was no
need to analyse the hair.

In five years Conerotte's successor has shed no light on
the abduction, imprisonment or death of the girls.

Jacques Langlois refused to be interviewed.

PAUL MARCHAL
Father
"Langlois don't believe in a sort of network. For Langlois,
Dutroux is the only one who used the girls. For Langlois
it's, it's simple; there's one raper, Dutroux, a closed case."

Frenkiel
By the Spring of 1997, evidence of a paedophile network
linked to the Dutroux affair was emerging from the
testimony of the X witnesses.

Regina Louf had provided investigators with details of
her childhood abuse, which they'd begun to check.

RUDY HOSKENS
Team Leader, Police
investigation
"In one of her testimonies she explained how a certain
person had been murdered in a certain place. So, we
went to look for that case, that old case, she described it,
where it happened more or less."

REGINA LOUF
"I remember it like it's a film in my head. I can close my
eyes and see every little detail of that house she was
murdered."

Olenka Frenkiel
Regina Louf described a house where in 1984 she said
she saw the torture and murder of a young girl. The
house was connected to an underground mushroom farm.

The building has since been demolished. But Rudy
Hoskens' team identified it and matched Regina's story
to an unsolved murder - that of fifteen year old Christine
van Hees.

Rudy Hoskens
"She gave us some details that made us think it's
impossible to give without having been there at that
place, or without having, yeah, lived that in the way the
body was found at that time and the way she described
the person was, was killed. There were some things that
were exact."

Regina Louf
"It was a sort of bondage, so her legs and her hands and
her throat were connected with the same rope and when
she moved she strangled herself, yeah."

Frenkiel
The credibility of Regina Louf's testimony hinged partly
on whether she really knew the house where Christine
Van Hees was killed.

This man grew up there, though his family sold it before
the murder.
It was two houses knocked into one with a unique
passage of stairs and corridors. No one, he says, could
describe it unless they'd been there.

Man
Voice over

"There was the corridor here between the two houses.
And she drew a picture of the doors inside. They were
antique doors and she drew the mouldings. She
described the wallpaper and the front step. I don't know
how she could have described it all so faithfully if she'd
never entered the house."

Man
Voice over

"I don't know Regina Louf; I've never even met her. All I
know is from her description of the house, of the
mushroom farm, my brother and I agreed, I'm sure, it's
certain she entered the mushroom farm. It's certain. "

Frenkiel
The police were now convinced they were on to
something. That Regina Louf's testimony was credible.

What's more it gave them a new link between Marc
Dutroux and the man accused of being his boss, Jean
Michel Nihoul.

In the year before her death, Christine Van Hees was a
regular visitor to the Brussels ice-rink where Marc
Dutroux also went.

He'd already been banned from the rink in Charleroi
where he was notorious for molesting girls. The manager
remembers it well.

Ice rink manager
Voice over

"And then I saw him with a young girl who was up against
the lockers like this. And Dutroux, who was in front of
her with his hands all over her like this."

So I grabbed him and pulled him back and brought him
over here. At that moment my father-in-law turned up
and when he found out what was happening he wanted to
hit him. So I grabbed his arm, otherwise he would have
punched him."

Frenkiel

When she wasn't skating Christine Van Hees used to
spend time in the building of a pirate radio station. It
belonged to Jean Michel Nihoul.

Both men, Dutroux and Nihoul, were at Christine Van
Hees's murder, according to Regina Louf.

And Dutroux was involved in the murder?

Regina Louf
"He watched it and he didn't do something, anything and
also he abused her that night, so, yes, he was involved."

How many people were there?

Regina Louf
"I still don't know for sure. But around eight."

Nihoul, Dutroux?

Regina Louf
"And a lot of others. So. But everybody except Dutroux
is free."

Oenka Frenkiel
Nihoul denied it. But her testimony was dynamite. If
true, it meant Dutroux and Nihoul were linked with
another murder. But then out of the blue the
investigation was stopped.

Rudy Hoskens
"We received a message that we couldn't investigate
anymore just like that. We were sent home. Just like
that, without an explanation because our work hadn't
been done all right. Very strange."

Olenka Frenkiel
Why were you taken off this case?

Rudy Hoskens
"I wish I knew. Perhaps we were touching something we,
we couldn't touch. Some people say this, we didn't have
the proof at that moment to say things like that but
perhaps we were coming closer to some things, yeah,
perhaps."

Olenka Frenkiel
Like what things?

Rudy Hoskens
I don't know, something Belgium or the world shouldn't
know about.

Olenka Frenkiel
Patric De Baets, the head of Hoskens' team, had been one
of Belgium's most respected police investigators. It was
he who'd taken Regina's testimony. Now he too was sent
home, accused of manipulating her evidence.

Patric De Baets, who questioned her, was accused of
planting some of the information so that she would
reproduce it. You watched that investigation. Was that
true?

Rudy Hoskens
No, no way. No way. We even had some magistrates,
judges and superior gendarmerie officers watching how
we interviewed and they watched it from the first to the
last moment and if we did, hadn't done it right at that
time, they should have said to us, don't work that way.
But they didn't tell us anything.

Olenka Frenkiel
For De Baets and his colleagues, charged with
manipulating an enquiry, a Kafkaesque battle now began
to clear their names.

They were suspended and Regina Louf got a call from a
member of the new team assigned in their place. His
motive was clear.

Regina Louf
"He said well, we have to search for mistakes you made
now and you have to prove now that you were right. I
said no, I don't have to prove that I'm right. You have to
investigate if I'm right or not. I'm not a police officer, I
can't do house search and I can't interrogate my abusers,
you have to do that. I just can tell my story and, and
make testimony, that's all I can do. He said wrong, you
have to prove it."

Olenka Frenkiel
News about Regina's story began to leak out.

When the media took it up, it was to destroy her.

Voice over
Subtitles

"X-1 and her fantasies -
an investigation beyond the real."

Presenter
Madame, Monsieur, bonsoir...

Olenka Frenkiel
The flagship programme of the government funded
French language channel was unequivocal. De Baets was
guilty they declared and Regain Louf, a sinister and
deranged liar.

Claude Eerdekens
Voice over

I think Regina Louf is a pathological liar. She's a
woman who's invented scenarios that don't stand up to
scrutiny. It's all been shown to be fiction.

Olenka Frenkiel
Well no, not according to the investigators who were
sacked. They don't agree with you, they say they weren't
even allowed to investigate.

Claude Eerdekens
Voice over

No, that's not accurate. I continue to believe these men
did not do their jobs properly and that they let the public
think that what Regina Louf and the other anonymous
witnesses said was partly true. That's all a tissue of lies,
stories verging on the pornographic. They make no
sense.

Oenka Frenkiel
Weren't you manipulated? I mean people have said she
was completely mad; she invented the whole thing.

Rudy Hoskens
"Well some people fear, some people say this but they
weren't there. We lived all the testimonies, we've seen
them, we did the investigations. So, for ourselves, we
know what should have been right or what could have
been wrong. But when you don't, when you haven't
lived it, when you haven't seen everything, you can't give
an opinion on this, it's impossible. But we found some
things that should have been investigated more."

Regina Louf
"I am married for thirteen years, I have four children, I live
a normal life. I have a business of my own so I am not
crazy. We are labelled as crazy, we have a stigma, we are
stigmatised as crazy persons because we had the courage
to talk about things that happened in our past. With
person who played a role in the Belgian economy or
politics or something like that. It was easier to make us
crazy than to believe us."

Olenka Frenkiel
Despite its earlier investigating zeal, Belgium's
parliament now stood by as Regina Louf's testimony was
declared worthless. The judiciary announced it would
not be used in any trial.

Snf that might have been the end of it had the files of the
entire Dutroux investigation not been leaked.

Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck and two other investigative
journalists had access to every witness statement, every
police report in the Dutroux affair.

Their book on Belgium's X-Files shook the country.

Frenkiel
How did you get the information for the book?

Aston
MARIE-JEANNE VAN
HEESWYCK
Journalist
"We had the opportunity to see the whole police file on
the, the affair and the problem is that we wanted to be
sure that there was no manipulation between, behind that
because it's, it's always possible. So, we decided to meet
a lot of people who were named in the files, who were
witnesses in the file. And we met those people, without
saying that, what we knew already. And we listened to
their story."

Olenka Frenkiel
They found the new team had rewritten Regina Louf's
original statements. Testimony had been changed.

Marie-Jeanne Van Heeswyck
"We began to check it. And we began to read again all the
questioning of Regina Louf to see how they did that,
rewrite it. And one by one we discovered that the
gendarmes, police of De Baets, had pretended that De
Baets manipulate, had manipulated the investigation. So
everybody was tricked."

Olenka Frenkiel
To this day no evidence has ever been produced to
support the allegations against De Baets. Yet he
continues to be accused.

I met him and his colleague in a Brussels café.

Their careers are in ruins and the investigation into
Regina's story is dead. And yet two separate inquires,
cleared them of every charge that they manipulated her
testimony.

Patric De Baets
"I show you the final report of the internal inquiry of the
gendarmerie. It was made twenty-sixth June 2000."

Frenkiel
So what does this mean?

Patric De Baets
"That I'm not a bad policeman."

Olenka Frenkiel
But now that's cleared you, you face new, new charges,
new allegations, new accusations against you.

Patric De Baets
I'm not afraid, I'm not afraid of that because I know the
conclusions will be the same.

Olenka Frenkiel
But why this constant barrage of accusations?

Patric De Baets
I don't know. I can imagination things but I can't explain
them.

Olenka Frenkiel
For six years the parents of the murdered girls have
grappled with the inexplicable. Why were their
daughters left to die? Why has Dutroux never come to
trial and why has every lead that might have revealed a
network behind Dutroux been blocked or ignored?

But Belgium's lost interest in their struggle. Today
anyone who talks of a network, even the parents, is
dismissed as deranged.

Paul Marchal
I talked in press about children who were raped and so on
and they started again with saying that I'm a little bit
foolish and that I'm fantasising. I'm sure that in several
years everyone will believe that networks will exist then
they have to accept.

Olenka Frenkiel
Since Marc Dutroux's arrest anyone who's questioned
the official line has been attacked. Every lead that might
have widened the net has hit the buffers.

Dutroux meanwhile has sat in jail. But outside, in the
shadowy circles in which he moved, potential witnesses
in the Dutroux affair have died in strange ways.

A police informer with links to the Charleroi underworld,
Jose Steppe, told a journalist he had explosive
information on Dutroux. Two days before they were due
to meet he died. His family believes he was poisoned.

Jean Paul Tamino was up to his neck in the Charleroi
underworld of stolen cars and prostitution. He was
summoned to see the Charleroi police and disappeared.
The day of Dutroux's arrest his foot was fished out of the
canal.

Regina Louf
"It's quite a coincidence that they die just before they want
to testify, you know, that's strange."

Olenka Frenkiel
Social worker, Gina Pardaens worked with abused
children. She'd identified the paedophile members of a
pornography ring who'd threatened her. When she
reported the threat to the police she was killed in an
unexplained car crash.

Francois Reyskens told a friend he'd seen one of the
missing girls, Melissa, alive in Holland. Before he could
tell the police his body was found crushed on the railway
line. (sound of Train).

Olenka Frenkiel
Some twenty people, all potential witnesses in the
Dutroux affair, have died in mysterious circumstances.
Regina Louf
"I survived it all, I don't know why. I survived my
abusers, I survived my testimony just because I said it all.
Why kill me now, you know, I'm mad."

Olenka Frenkiel
An uneasy peace has returned to Belgium. The streets
are calm; the danger of insurrection has passed.
The paedophile networks persist. Sometimes there are
even arrests. Earlier this year nineteen men from one
village were charged with child rape.

But the Dutroux affair has paralysed Belgium's judiciary.
After six years in jail, there is still no date for his trial.
When it comes, it will satisfy no one.

Paul Marchal
The trial of Dutroux, it will be a theatre, circus and I
don't want to be part of a circus. The truth is that there is
a network and that they have to search for that network so
that you can save other children in the future.

Carine Russo
Voice over

"In this country we will never get to the truth. There is
just too much truth that needs to be exposed. I am
certain that the people want to understand; they are
capable of understanding a lot more than the politicians
and judiciary want to tell them. They treat the public like
children."

Regina Louf
"I did what I could do. I testified, I spoke up to the police,
to the judges, I spoke up to the press, you know, I yelled
it out. What can I do anymore now, I can't."

Olenka Frenkiel
Children continue to go missing in Belgium. Dutroux's
arrest has made no difference. Last year it was more than
two thousand.
Fifty-two of those cases remain unsolved.

Voice over
Olenka Frenkiel is live on-line now. Express your
opinions and e-mail her your questions at:

www.bbc.co.uk/correspondent

Reporter
OLENKA FRENKIEL

[causeway...@hotmail.com]

if you think this sort of coverup only occurs in Belgium,
you are an idiot.
This is happening in America as you read this. Young adults and
children
are disappearing, and the powerful 'establishment machine' is in
overdrive
to cover it up. They even financed an organization called the 'False
Memory
Syndrome Foundation' to propagandize the American public into
ignoring the testimony of abused survivors as 'false'.
Slowly, people are waking up to what is happening around them.

[causeway...@hotmail.com]

The pig farmer, Pickton, in British Columbia, who allegedly managed
to abduct and murder 63 women SINGLEHANDEDLY without so
much as a whisper of suspicion during the first 62 murders, well,
isn't that a bit fucking ridiculous? We are expected to believe this?

Are we to believe that the cult was not in on this? That the police
were not told to 'look the other way' on these murders?
Someone, way up there, with enough money and power to play
god, wanted it that way. And so it was. And so it is. People
disappearing in the thousands every year.

And guess what? The guy was a butcher of animals, tortured animals
in his barn in satanic rituals, and owned a bar/restaurant called
'Piggy's Palace' . Want to bet they served some pretty special
hotdogs at Piggy's Palace? I bet the police even ate there.
(hence the name)
This stuff is so strange it defies belief. Again, if it can happen
there,
in modern-day British Columbia, and supposedly fine upstanding
establishment figures can help cover it up, even enable it and
participate
in it, then it can happen anywhere. As a matter of fact, it is
happening
everywhere in North America.

Our society is in a collective state not so much of disbelief, but
denial, about this stuff.
Actually , not quite true. Three main characteristics make up the
collective psyche
regarding the general state of things:

1. first and foremost, mass ignorance due to corrupt and evil
leadership/ownership/ media

2. disbelief: "It is too strange to be true. Anyone speaking of such
things is lying, and
I am too lazy to check out the evidence presented to me. My motto is
'If it is important enough for me to know about it, then I will be
informed of it by the usual channels.
Until then, shut up, fuck off, do not bug me, I would rather think
about sex."

3. denial. "You can show me all the proof you want. If its not on the
local evening news, being read by a bisexual masonic newsreader on
tranquilizers. it does not exist."

[causeway...@hotmail.com]

Check out this information on the cult killings in Burgundy, France (a
medievil village full of ancient castles, including some owned by the
Rothschild family)

This case began with the 1991 discovery of a dungeon with imprisoned
and tortured slaves, led to the discovery of several buried bodies, and
involved emerging evidence of a network that had killed possibly
hundreds of people.
(It also featured a massive coverup, a deluge of destroyed evidence,
compromised judges, an investigator murdered. Sound familiar?)

http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/auxerre/index.html

Joanna

On the morning of May 17, 1990, Patrice Bardot, an unemployed dustman,
traveled from his home in the French village of Monteau to the nearby
Yonne River for a day of fishing. Not long after he arrived he noticed
something floating in the water. Initially, he believed it was a
bobbing barrel, but as he drew nearer he was shocked to realize it was
a nude human body.

Bardot immediately flagged down a woman jogging on a nearby path and
alerted her of the gruesome find. The jogger then ran toward a caf?,
where the police were called. The authorities soon arrived and
conducted what would later be considered a terribly bungled
investigation.

The police cornered off a small section of land close to where the body
was found and began searching for clues. However, investigators ignored
a large portion of the surrounding area, most of which had been
trampled by police, emergency personnel, onlookers and vehicles.
According to an Expatica.com article by Graham Tearse, the secured area
was "released to the public just several hours later" and the following
day it was further trampled by children on a field trip. Had there been
any evidence, it was likely lost from the contamination of the crime
scene.

The body was withdrawn from the river and taken to a nearby hospital
for identification and autopsy. The woman was identified as 20-year-old
Joanna Parrish, who was from Gloucestershire, England. Joanna was
enrolled in a modern languages work/study program at Leeds University
and took a position as an assistant English teacher at a secondary
school in the nearby town of Auxerre. She was working on a bachelor's
degree in modern languages at Leeds University. At the time of her
death she was only one week away from completing her posting.

An autopsy revealed that Joanna had been drugged, tied up, raped,
beaten and strangled before being dumped into the river. It was
suspected that her body had been in the water only several hours prior
to it being found. Even though the body was discarded in broad
daylight, police were unable to find any witnesses. They believed that
whoever murdered Joanna was probably familiar with the area and could
have even resided in the immediate vicinity. Yet, police were unable to
produce any suspects.

According to Tearse, Joanna had a friend named Janet visiting from
Canada around the time of her death. Janet claimed that Joanna placed
an advertisement in a local newspaper offering English lessons. She
planned to use the money to fund a holiday trip with her fianc?e.

Investigators learned that a local man responded to Joanna's ad by
phone and was interested in hiring her to teach his teenage son. They
made arrangements to meet at 7 p.m. on May 16 at the town's square in
Auxerre. Tearse suggested that on that day, Janet joined Joanna on her
trip into town and they walked around for a while before they separated
at about 6:30 pm.

Joanna went to meet the man at the town square. It was the last time
Janet ever saw her again. Tearse said that Joanna never told Janet the
name of the man she was planning to meet.

Several weeks after her body was discovered, Joanna was buried in
Gloucestershire. Her parents, Roger and Pauline, went to Auxerre and
hired a lawyer to assist them in their gaining access to information
concerning the case from the magistrate and the police detectives. They
wanted to closely follow the investigation, hoping that it would
eventually lead to the apprehension of their daughter's murderer. Their
expectations were quickly shattered when they realized how inadequately
the case was being handled.

At the time, Roger and Pauline didn't know that their daughter's murder
was not an isolated case. In fact, there were many unsolved murders and
disappearances in the Burgundy region, most of which were grossly
mismanaged, completely ignored and even discarded. Many suspected that
high-level officials were trying to cover-up the fact that Burgundy had
an unusually high murder rate for such a tiny province. It was
something that could not be hidden for long.

Negligence

The investigation into Joanna's death was bungled from the beginning.
The crime scene was turned into a forensic disaster. Moreover, much of
the information gathered during the investigation was kept from
Joanna's family, who desperately tried to learn what advances were
being made in the case.

Tearse suggested that during a British inquest into Joanna's murder,
critical evidence was discovered that was ignored or overlooked by
French coroners. He claimed that a second autopsy, conducted by the
British, revealed several bite marks on Joanna's body. From a forensic
standpoint, bite marks are vital clues that can reveal information
about the killer because teeth, bite and jaw formations are
individually unique and can be easily matched. The revelation shocked
Joanna's parents who couldn't comprehend how something so obvious and
important could have gone unnoticed.

During the autopsy, medical examiners were able to obtain sperm
samples. It took two years for the samples to be analyzed, but the
results led to a genetic print. The DNA evidence was one of the biggest
clues in the investigation and Roger and Pauline hoped that it would
lead investigators to the killer. However, they were not so fortunate.

Tearse said, "investigators refused to call for voluntary DNA tests of
the local male population and continued to refuse to make a media
appeal for witnesses." It was another blow to the investigation and a
major disappointment for Roger and Pauline. Frustrated at the
incompetence of police, Joanna's family decided to take measures into
their own hands.

They family offered a reward for information into Joanna's death and
handed out leaflets in and around Auxerre and Mon?teau. They even
appealed to the British government for assistance. Even though they
were unsuccessful in getting help from the British government they did
manage to get some interesting responses to their leaflets.

Several people called offering some information directly concerning
Joanna's death. Roger and Pauline eagerly presented the new leads to
the French authorities. However, for some unknown reason the
investigators failed to pursue the tips.

Isabelle Laville, victim
Isabelle Laville, victim
The family members of other murdered victims in Burgundy responded to
the leaflets. Roger and Pauline learned that three other young women,
Isabelle Laville, 17, Danielle Bernard, 39, Sylvie Baton, 24, were
murdered near or in Auxerre between 1987 and 1990. Their families were
angered because they also felt as if the investigators were mishandling
the cases of their deceased loved ones.

Eventually, Roger and Pauline discovered that there were approximately
13 more unsolved murders and disappearances of women in the Auxerre
area over the last 30 years. Interestingly, investigators working on
Joanna's case never told them about the spate of murders, two of which
occurred within months of their daughter's death.

Roger and Pauline tried to obtain Joanna's case files so they could
bring in outside help to assist in the investigation. However,
investigators continued to deny them access to the documents. Even
though it seemed as if they were battling a lost cause, they refused to
give up in their search for evidence.

Among the 17 girls missing or found murdered were seven pupils from the
Medical-Educational Institute, a special needs school for handicapped
young women in Auxerre. The girls, 16 to 22 years old, were accounted
for in December 2000, when a former bus driver of the school made a
startling confession. Emile Louis, 68, admitted to police that he had
sex with the seven pupils and then murdered them sometime between 1977
and 1979.

When the girls first began to disappear, the police interviewed Louis
because he was known to have a history of sex offenses. However, they
did not pursue him for long and eventually he was disregarded as a
potential suspect. Eventually, the cases were dropped and the girls
were listed as runaways.

Emile Louis, mugshot
Emile Louis, mugshot
Louis continued to drive female pupils to and from school. It is also
believed that he continued to rape and kill them indiscriminately. He
would not be looked at as a suspect for almost another two decades.

Hugh Schofield's article Mystery of France's Missing Girls suggested
that there were similarities between many of the cases. He quoted
Corinne Herrmann, a French lawyer and author of the book The
Disappeared of the Yonne, stating that the girls were either mentally
handicapped, "or like Joanna far from home." Moreover, according to
Stuart Jeffries 2000 article for The Observer, witnesses were able to
place Louis near the spots where many of the victims were last seen.

Scene where bodies found
Scene where bodies found
Louis was caught almost two decades later when his daughter found items
in his house belonging to several of the victims. During his
confession, Louis told authorities that he buried the girls near the
Yonne River. Only the skeletal remains of two girls were ever
recovered.

Not long after his admission of guilt, Louis changed his story. He
claimed that he was pressured into giving false testimony and that he
actually didn't commit the murders. In a January 2002 article in The
Guardian by Jon Henley, Louis insisted that "the girls were routinely
abused and finally abducted and killed by a nebulous ring of men 'of
some standing, locally and in the region." Not surprisingly, Louis'
story was met with skepticism by local investigators.

Louis could not be charged with the murders anyway because under French
law it was considered unlawful to convict anyone of a murder 10 years
after a crime was committed. According to Jeffries, Louis was instead
"convicted for kidnapping, for which there is no statue of
limitations." The authorities believed Louis could have been involved
in some of the other murder cases, yet there was not enough evidence to
convict him.

One thing was for certain: Louis could not have been directly
responsible for Joanna's death. At the time of her murder, he was
serving a prison sentence for sexually assaulting a minor.
Nevertheless, Schofield suggested that a private investigation
conducted for 13 years by French police agent Christian Jambert, 56,
"clearly established that Louis was linked to all the women." It was
believed that he was affiliated with a sex ring operation that
prostituted, abused and even murdered many girls in the region,
possibly including Joanna.

Christian Jambert, victim
Christian Jambert, victim
Initially the authorities ignored Jambert's theories, but an incident
in 1984 led them to reconsider the idea that there was indeed a sex
ring in the area. That January, a 19-year-old girl was found wandering
the streets of Auxerre in a confused state. When the police picked her
up and questioned her she claimed that she was held captive in the
basement of a nearby house, where she was sexually abused and tortured.

The girl's testimony led the police to the home of Claude and Monique
Dunand, known friends of Emile Louis. Stuart said that when they
searched the house, they found another girl in the cellar, "naked and
suspended from a ladder by her wrists." He further claimed that for
approximately 15 years, local handicapped girls were lured to the
house, locked up, fed dog food and repeatedly raped and tortured by
invited guests. However, there was no indication that any of the girls
were murdered.

Claude Dunand was eventually convicted of kidnapping and given a life
sentence in 1991. His wife Monique received two years for accessory to
the crimes. According to Andrew Alderson and Kim Willsher's article 'I
Want Justice for Joanna,' Yonne crime reporter Ludovic Berger stated,
"Claude Dunand has always said that politicians, industrialists and
magistrates were involved but he has refused to name them." The article
further suggested that a list of at least 50 clients "rumored to
include several French 'notables' who paid to torture and abuse"
captive girls was discovered by police and handed over to the Auxerre
Courthouse. However, the list mysteriously disappeared from a courtroom
and has never been found.

It was not the only document that went missing. In fact, there were
more than 100 murder and missing person case files from between 1958
and 1982 that vanished from the courthouse. Moreover, the court ledger
documenting the investigations also vanished. It became increasingly
clear that someone was either trying to cover up the crimes or the
Auxerre Courthouse had a serious management problem.

Christian Jambert was almost certain he knew who was behind Burgundy's
rash of murders and missing person cases, and he was convinced that
Louis was one of the primary culprits. However, he also believed that
Louis was only one of many involved in the crimes. Jambert kept
meticulous notes and diaries concerning the cases, along with the
evidence he collected over the years. In 1997, he made preparations to
present his findings during a new inquiry. Yet, he never got the chance
to reveal what he worked so hard to acquire.

In August of that year, just several days before the inquiries were
scheduled to begin, Jambert was found dead in the basement of his
Auxerre home. An autopsy revealed that he died from a single gunshot
wound to the head. Medical investigators claimed that Jambert had a
history of depression. It was believed that his poor mental state
prompted him to end his life. His death was listed as a suicide.

Marylise Lebranchu
Marylise Lebranchu
By the late 1990s, the mounting scandal in Auxerre gained international
attention. People were shocked by the negligence exhibited in the
investigations and the fact that more than 100 files, mostly of missing
women, had gone missing from Auxerre's Courthouse. According to Harry
de Quetteville's January 2002 article in The Telegraph, the scandal was
"taken so seriously in Paris that Marylise Lebranchu, the French
justice minister, ordered a series of internal investigations."
Joanna's murder case was one of those selected for re-examination and
it was further linked with the inquiry into the seven girls Louis once
claimed to have murdered.

Not surprisingly, Joanna's parents welcomed the decision of a new
inquiry. They waited more than a decade for her investigation to be
reopened. BBC News Online stated that Roger, "was hopeful there would
be progress in the investigation and the potential capture of the
killer."

Investigators working on the case quickly realized that there was a
possibility someone tampered with Joanna's murder file. Witness
statements, which were obtained at the time of her murder, were missing
from her dossier. Moreover, important DNA evidence taken during the
autopsy also disappeared from the file for more than a decade before it
was found again.

Madeline Dejust, victim
Madeline Dejust, victim
During the investigation, it was suggested that Joanne and many of the
other girls that were murdered or missing were likely the victims of an
organized sex gang operating around Auxerre. Yet, because so many of
the facts were missing, there was not enough evidence available to
convict anyone.

The only exception was the case of the seven missing girls Louis
initially claimed to have murdered before retracting his confession.
Investigators continued to believe he was involved in their
disappearances and murders. A re-examination of his case was ordered,
with the hope of uncovering more evidence linking Louis or anyone else
to the girls.

Seven missing girls, victims
Seven missing girls, victims

Many in the community believed that the murder cases were deliberately
ignored and the files stolen or destroyed because they implicated
high-level officials. Investigators re-examining the cases determined
that it was more likely that gross negligence on behalf of local
magistrates was to blame for the mishandling of the cases. In all
likelihood, it was probably a combination of both theories that
prevented anyone from being apprehended for the crimes.

In March 2002, four magistrates from Burgundy faced accusations of
gross negligence in the cases of missing and murdered women in their
region. The judges included former chief prosecutors Rene Meyer and
Jacques Cazals and former deputy prosecutors Daniel Stilinovic and
Bertrand Daillie. The men were ordered to appear before a panel of six
senior judges, who would review the cases over a three-day period.

According to a 2002 article by Susan Bell in The Scotsman, accused
magistrate Stilinovic admitted that "there were people who allowed
information to be stifled." He was further quoted saying "magistrates
tampered with procedures on behalf of people they wanted to protect. It
is a conspiracy at the very top." However, he maintained his innocence,
suggesting that he did not stifle any of the investigations. His peers
thought otherwise.

The panel returned a verdict in late March and found Stilinovic guilty
of negligence. He received the severest penalty and was dismissed from
his position. Cazals was also found guilty and transferred from his
prestigious post in Paris. Meyer, who was retired at the time of the
inquiry, was stripped of his honorary title after he too was found
guilty. Daillie received no punishment.

New Evidence

In August 2002, investigators found new clues during their inquiry into
Joanna's murder. They revealed that recently recovered DNA evidence
pointed to two men being involved in the rape and murder of Joanna. The
BBC News further stated in their article "Fresh Clues in Joanna Murder
Hunt" that new documents were found which indicated that police
arrested a suspect in connection with Joanna's murder early in the
investigation. Yet, he was released because of lack of evidence.

Investigators are continuing to follow up on the new leads, hoping that
it might result in the arrest of her killers. However, a great deal of
time has passed since her death and the chances of solving the crime
have significantly decreased over the years. Regardless, Joanna's
family and law enforcement officials re-examining the case have not
given up hope.

In April 2004, more new evidence arose concerning the suicide of
Jambert. According to Alderson and Willsher's article, Corinne Herrmann
received access to Jambert's files while she was conducting research
into the case of the Burgundy's missing and murdered girls. She became
suspicious of his death and believed he might have been murdered. She
just had to prove her theory.

Herrmann, author of Les Disparues D'Auxerre, convinced Jambert's
children to exhume their father's body so that another autopsy could be
conducted. After several days of examining the remains, the medical
investigators made a startling discovery. Alderson and Willsher claimed
that Jambert had been shot not once, but twice in the head making it
almost impossible for him to have committed suicide.

Herrmann's suspicions were proven correct and she persuaded area
magistrates to begin a murder inquiry. It was believed that his murder
was directly linked with the investigation on which he was working.
Even though investigators interviewed several possible suspects, no one
has yet been convicted for the crime.

Jambert's case, like Joanna's, is being pursued with more vigor than
ever before. Moreover, investigators continue to review the Louis case.
They are hoping to put an end to the disappearances and murders that
have plagued Burgundy for so many years. Moreover, they hope to restore
the reputation of the beautiful, medieval town that has attracted
visitors from around the world for centuries.

Emile Louis Trial

Emile Louis

On November 2, 2004, Emile Louis' murder trial finally began in
Auxerre, France despite repeated attempts to throw out the case.
According to a November 3, 2004 AP Worldstream article, Louis' lawyers
requested that the case be delayed until after the European Court of
Human Rights ruled "on their bid to dismiss the case" because they
believed "the crimes took place too long ago for the case to be legally
valid." However, the court rejected the defense request and ordered the
resumption of Louis' trial.

The 70-year-old retired bus driver, convicted of the murders of seven
mentally handicapped women, continued to deny he was responsible for
the murders even though he confessed to them years earlier. It is hoped
that the trial will finally reveal the truth as to how the girls died.
The trial is expected to last four weeks. If convicted, Louis could
face life imprisonment.

The case is considered one of France's most controversial scandals
because the investigation was bungled and many of the case files
dealing with the girls' disappearances, as well as other cases of
murdered and missing women went missing from the Auxerre Courthouse. It
is believed that the files were destroyed in order to cover up a
high-level sex ring, which allegedly involved some prominent French
officials.

Auxerre Courthouse

AP Worldstream reported that, "more than 90 witnesses including
magistrates, social workers, police officers and family members of the
victims are to testify at the trial." Many other family members of the
victims are expected to fill the courthouse, in the hopes of seeing
Louis brought to justice after escaping prosecution for the murders for
approximately twenty-five years. The father of British student Joanna
Parrish, who was murdered in Auxerre in 1990, is also expected to be in
attendance.

Inside court, security measures

Since the onset of the trial there has been an upsurge of media and
public interest, which has led to security concerns. Moreover, there is
concern for Louis' personal safety and the authorities want to prevent
the possibility of someone taking justice into their own hands. In
response, safety measures were taken to secure the perimeter around the
courthouse, Mie Kohiyama reported for Agence France-Presse. There is no
doubt that Louis is considered by many to be one of France's most
reviled citizens.

Rachael Bell

Rachael Bell has completed master's degrees in clinical and health
psychology and is currently working on her PhD in the field of
psychology. On a part-time basis, she instructs bachelor and master's
level courses in psychology. She lives in Europe with her husband and
two children.

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[gornk]

I see that you hope this thread will die if you run and hide, now that
you know that I am not going to go away.

A lot of these inter-family killings are tied up with satanic and
criminal networks and life-insurance fraud.

In occult cases of insurance fraud homicide, we have a profit
motive for the crime, accompanied by the murderer being 'self-forgiven'
for the crime, using spiritual and ritual mumbo-jimbo about it being
'the will of so-and-so,
'a service to humanity', 'a mercy killing, 'a personal sacrifice to the
greater good' etc.
In other words using spiritual/ritualistic means either to help them
deal with the guilt themselves, or as a way to convince cult members to
carry out these crimes.

"We are/I am doing the will of satan. I am sacrificing my loved one for
him."
etc.

(oh btw, don't tell anyone I also get $500 thousand dollars insurance
money and we
in the cult will split it together among us)

This is may be what happened with this guy who killed his pregnant wife

Lianna White. Maybe he had the goods on the cult, knew too much, had
helped in
a drug deal or something, and knew they were killing people like him,
who outlived their usefulness and might talk. His way out of it was to
let them off his wife, in a ritual murder, on the promise that he'd
share the insurance money with them.

This way, instead of being snuffed by the cult/mob/gang himself, (in
which case his wife cashes in on the insurance) he offers his wife and
some cash, and at the same time gets in even closer with the group,
makes some money, and goes further into the occult insanity . (increase

his 'power' etc.) If he does this, he could go places in the group,
and be in on the big stuff. This is how some people's heads work.

Similar to how the military industrial complex operates. These arms
dealers, drug dealers, and war mongers like the Bush family, and their
empire of overlords, kill thousands of innocents while pushing war
and weapons and dealing drugs.
They richer , but they also get older, and when they start to feel
old, then they start to look for things that make them feel better
about themselves. They are mass murderers and they know it.

They start to look around for support, They find an entire
network of people like them, looking for forgiveness, spiritual unity
among their kind, etc.

They find solace in Satanism , or some new-age eugenics-based
variation of it , fits the bill. It tells them that what they do is the

best thing.
They kill the weak, they feed on the weak to benefit everyone else.
Their god is pleased, they will be rewarded , etc., etc. etc.

They combine this with 'good works' in their communities, things that
make them feel warm n' fuzzy about themselves, and feel that at least
some of their money is being used to good purpose.

Also, a lot of alleged 'spousal murders' are actually frameups. This
is
a primary purpose of collecting the blood of a 'sacrificial' (insurance
money)
victim. Convince someone to sacrifice a wife, husband, son, or
daughter
for the insurance, then to cover your tracks , be sure to keep some of
the
blood from the ritual , a nice quantity, so that you can break into the
family
home, pour blood all over the place, then have a friend find the body
when
the time is right, send the cops to investigate, and have them find the
blood
evidence you placed there in the basement carpet or wherever.
Remember, we are dealing with organized criminals on the competence
level of
CIA operatives in may, many, many of these cases.
This is commonplace. This is what happended to Scott Peterson and his
wife Laci Peterson, btw. Google it.

also read this:

"Dr Hal Pepinsky is a professor of criminal justice at Indiana
University in Bloomington. I know this because a few days ago I
discovered a paper he'd presented in 1999 at S.M.A.R.T.'s ninth annual
conference on the subject "How I Bring the Voices of Survivors of
Ritual Violence and Mind Control Experimentation into My Classrooms."

It's interesting reading, but more than that, it's also one of those
strange comforts to find professional and academic support that says
things may be as bad as I suspect, and I may not be as crazy as I hope.

Know what I mean? There are a number of things I'm persuaded of about
which I like to think I'm wrong. (Speaking of which, remember the 1993
interview False Memory Syndrome Foundation board members Ralph
Underwager and wife Hollida Wakefield gave Paidika, the Dutch journal
of paedophilia? Well here's something that feels like a kick in the
head: Dr Vern Bullough, board member of the debunking Committee for the

Scientific Investigation of Claims of the Paranormal and its Skeptical
Inquirer, served from 1988 to 1998 as Paidika's consulting editor.)

One thing I appreciate about Pepinsky's paper is his wrestling with the

implications of a hidden crime, the scope of which invites incredulity:

You know, you could believe every now and then that maybe an official
engages in a little political corruption. But if you talk about the
drug war for example, how easy it was it for people to believe. We used

to talk about this a fair amount. The evidence indicated that the CIA
was probably the biggest actor in the legal drug trafficking in the
world, and the US military. What do you do with that? It becomes really

almost impossible for people to conceive of that. And so this is what I

ran into when I tried to convey to others that there might be such a
thing as people in high positions, maybe even including presidents, who

maybe occasionally even killed and ate people and got away with it? Or
who consistently molested children, or who trafficked in child
prostitution; who did all the kinds of worst things, that if you
haven't lived through the experiences that so many in this room have
lived through, then you may never imagine? Worse things than are in a
movie. And that maybe the people who are in trusted positions - police,

therapists, any one you might want to turn to, teachers, principals,
politicians, business leaders - that at all of those levels, you could
have worse crimes being carried out than you have ever allowed yourself

to imagine before. That is the hardest thing, the hardest thing to
accept.

Another is Pepinsky's description of how the abstract became immediate,

and what it did to him:

It hit me particularly hard when, three years after I started teaching
the seminar, I wandered through some woods. I'd lived in Bloomington
for twenty years and a couple of blocks from where I lived, I'd walked
through these woods. I was enjoying an early spring day in March and as

I was out in the woods I suddenly saw what looked to me, now that I've
heard so much and seen so much about ritual abuse, like what used to be

a ritual altar. And I went exploring further. It went on for hundreds
of yards down the creek bed. I called a survivor and had him walk
through it with me. We came upon what appeared to be a human grave
covered over with cement in the creek bed. We found a bag of
anti-coagulant that was in the creek bed. We tried talking to a police
detective. Then I saw helicopters go over for a couple of days. And
then he told me, "The Deputy Chief of Police said that there is really
not much more that they can do to pursue it."

The people who own that particular property kind of own it in little
packages. They all live on one-half street and this included some
pretty prominent people in town. Then I found out that one of the
co-owners of that property was my someone I had sought for professional

services. I got scared. It was scary enough to begin with, but suddenly

it got really personal. And it became further validated by the fact
that people were leaving calling cards around the house regularly, once

I began to try to talk about it.

People knew that I was on to something. Once I tried to pursue the
history of this. Actually, once I worked out the geography I said,
"There are some other high spots in town. Let me go get 'em." And the
next one I went to, there was a ritual site. So all of a sudden it was
right here. It wasn't just something that survivors from out of town
were bringing to me; it was right next to me. It could involve people
who were very close to me.

Pepinsky adds that "people said at the time that they thought that I
might be going psychotic and they probably weren't far wrong. But what
I do know is that I became deeply depressed."

Linda Blood tells in The New Satanists of being called in to help
counsel a 14-year old girl and her family in 1988 after they had been
forced to flee their comfortable home in the "suburb of a major
southeastern city that is a center for scientific research and military

operations." The girl was trying to leave a cult that had ritually
raped her and forced her to participate in animal sacrifice. When Blood

contacted a police source, she was told she had "stumbled into an
ongoing investigation that traced back to similar complaints 20 years
before, indicating that the cult was probably generational." Further
police consultation informed Blood the cult was "engaged in serious
criminal activity ranging from drug trafficking to pornography and
prostitution to multimillion-dollar white collar crimes such as
insurance scams"... and its members included "doctors, lawyers, judges,

police, engineers."

In her 1985 report on ritualistic child abuse, reprinted in Cults That
Kill, Detective Sandi Gallant of the San Francisco Police Department
included synopses of then-current investigations in California to
substantiate its credibility.

Cases included

A 17-year old male in Atherton who claimed to have been drugged by
injection and forced into S&M pornography by his stepfather, compelled
to drink blood, witness animal mutilations and a murder.
A 5-year old boy in Fremont who claimed two men repeatedly injected him

with something that made him drowsy and forced him into sexual activity

in what might have been a church with black candles. Said he was
sometimes photographed, and forced to watch the mutilation of animals
and human beings.
Seven children between 5 and 7 who claimed that at a day-care in Fort
Bragg run by a church they were forced to drink blood and urine,
witnessed the killing of dogs and cats and one infant, "saw things and
possibly animals" suspended from the ceiling, and were injected and
then photographed in sexual acts. Black candles and pentagrams were
observed.

Two children, 13 and 8, claimed to have been injected with drugs and
photographed having sex with adults chanting in black robes, and to
have witnessed the murder of a small child. Room was lit with black
candles, and eldest child claimed room "really stunk."
Six months after submitting the report, with the request that it be
forwarded to federal authorities, Gallant's chief returned it, saying
"Do you really want me to send this to the FBI? Do you really believe
this stuff goes on?" They thought that I might be going psychotic....

Like Pepinsky suggested, it's crazy-making to see this stuff when the
same material is there for others to see, yet all most see are people
who must be crazy or uneducated making impossible claims for a
phenomenon long since debunked by respectable and well-funded
institutions such as FMSF and CSICOP. (And let's acknowledge this:
sometimes all the crazy-making makes us see things that really aren't
there. When this happens and we know it, we need to act like we know it

and revise our judgement.) But the phenomenon, like so many others that

aren't supposed to exist yet do, like unaccounted for cattle
mutilations, never went away. The abuse continued, but below the
surface of general perception. And as anyone who's paid attention to
even the mainstream news should know, the surface of perception has
been broken again and again this year.

But this time, maybe, it's different. There will be no Geraldo
specials, no Oprah, no hyperbolic evangelism and hysteria about
black-clad teens. (Though, on the other hand, there is still Ted
Gunderson.) This time it doesn't sound so incredible to suggest that
"there might be such a thing as people in high positions, maybe even
including presidents, who maybe occasionally even killed and ate people

and got away with it." This time it makes a certain kind of sense,
because we have something approaching a hermeneutic to interpret occult

politics' intersections of power and perversion.

One other difference: this time, there seems less a regard on the side
of the High Perps for maintaining appearances. The mask slips more
readily, even proudly. And one of the things these days I'm not crazy
about is the implication of that. "
********

I have a feeling about the Hells Angels true activities as it relates
to the CIA. The CIA is prohibited by statute from spying or carrying
out intelligence operations' against American citizens.

Quote:
http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/17292prs20030502.html

"In its 1947 charter, the CIA was prohibited from spying against
Americans because, among other things, President Truman was afraid that

it would engage in political abuse. During World War II, the Office of
Strategic Services - the CIA's predecessor - had become known for its
skill at blackmail, extortion and the collection of information through

other dubious methods. President Truman feared the implications of such

behavior during peacetime on America's basic democratic institutions.
The policy against military involvement in law enforcement
investigations is even more venerable. The Posse Comitatus Act of 1878
forbids military involvement in civilian policing, keeping troops
focused on their military mission.
"We keep the FBI in check because agents generally want to make sure
that information they gather about American citizens can be introduced
as evidence in a court of law," Edgar said. "Military and CIA snooping
would have no such natural firewall against the abuse of power."

It could be that the Hells Angels are a 'way around' this sort of
limitation.

As mentioned before, the Hells Angels has had from its inception close
ties to military intelligence. Hell's Angels sell the CIA's drugs for
them,
intimidate witnesses, 'silence' witnesses, etc.
*****

video:
Satanic ritual-abuse, drug trafficking, and the international
trafficking in children by the CIA: http://tinyurl.com/ya86ey

video:
Former narcotics investigator Mike Ruppert was forced out of the LAPD
in 1977 when he exposed the evidence of drug trafficking by the CIA.
THis is one of his first appearances caught on video in 1997 at the
Granada Forum in California.
Topic is CIA Drug Smuggling: http://tinyurl.com/yjugzk
----------------
Looks like we are not the first to stumble down this
very path!

Quote:
http://tinyurl.com/y2ucut
'Anonymous said...
An accessible book for everyone who made it this far is Dave McGowan's
recent one, _Programmed to Kill: The Politics of Serial Murder_ (2004).

The book starts off with the Belgian case of Detroux's network, then
moves into the USA.

The Amazon.com review states:

The specter of the marauding serial killer has become a relatively
common feature on the American landscape. Reactions to these modern-day

monsters range from revulsion to morbid fascination--fascination that
is either fed by, or a product of, the saturation coverage provided by
print and broadcast media, along with a dizzying array of books,
documentary films, websites, and "Movies of the Week".

The prevalence in Western culture of images of serial killers (and mass

murderers) has created in the public mind a consensus view of what a
serial killer is. Most people are aware, to some degree, of the classic

serial killer 'profile.' But what if there is a much different
'profile'--one that has not received much media attention?

In Programmed to Kill, acclaimed and always controversial author David
McGowan takes a fresh look at the lives of many of America's most
notorious accused murderers, focusing on the largely hidden patterns
that suggest that there may be more to the average serial killer story
than meets the eye.

Think you know everything there is to know about serial killers? Or is
it possible that sometimes what everyone 'knows' to be true isn't
really true at all?

I would add that his claims, which are simply an annoying stream of
facts is well documented, shows that there is a quite visible skien
through the so called "separate" "serial killer" trials and claims by
the authorities: that skein is CIA, MKULTRA, ritual abuse, pornography
sales, military base connections, and using the public scaremongering
invention of "random serial killer" cover stories to both kill off
victims challenging FBI/CIA consolidation of the drug trade, the porn
trade, and the child slavery trade, combined with the total railroading

without actual evidence (quite interesting to read) of the presumed
serial killer who is the real sacrificial victim to cover up and craft
a legal "solution" for the multiude of clearly related satanic ritual
kill and child kill crimes of the rich murdering pedophilic elites, in
particular areas.

....

you can go to http://www.iuniverse.com, search for the book, and read
the first 30 or so pages for free.

Additionally, I would add: it will give you a whole different
perspective on the strategy of using this to increasing "justifiably"
(sic) militarize the police of the USA (i.e., "we will protect you"
lines of legitimation). Serial Killer mantras have been the fascists
best friend, whether it be the selling poing of SWAT teams, or 365-24
monitoring, prison expansion, etc., which these evil people wantg to
push the civilian police into an occupying force.

And it's all a lie--a "misty watercolor memory" of serial killer lies
one after the other for 30 years as the CIA and the U.S. military
consolidated the MKULTRA driven porn/drug/child slavery trades.

So you thought you knew something about this? Or you though you have
some established grounds for critiqing what is written above? Then
attempt to poke holes in McGowan's book.

I expect that the grounds of what you thought was happening over the
past 30 years will be seriously altered--and even connected--with other

things you did know, as the serial killer lie will be seen all as one
piece of increasing post WWII fascism into the U.S.A.

Some of you may wish there really WERE 'serial killers' after reading
this book--as a form of comfort--to avoid the even colder reality
McGowan describes.

[Uncle Clover]

On 14 Nov 2006 17:53:31 -0800, "gornk" <causeway...@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I see that you hope this thread will die if you run and hide, now that
> you know that I am not going to go away.

I dunno' about anyone else, but I didn't even remember that you had ever posted
here. Your posts just didn't make a very big impression, possibly because they
were a good bit longer than what I like to read for what -sounds- like baseless
paranoia.

However, I'm willing to suspend disbelief. But I need to see something a little
more concrete and easier to digest. The article I'm responding to now was way
too long, I only skimmed it and stopped less than halfway through because all I
was seeing were a lot of "maybe"s and "might have"s - guesses and speculation.
If there was something more substantial in your post, I'm sorry, but I just
don't feel like wading through 500 lines of near-psychotic rambling just to find
it.

I am psychotic, btw, so I'm not dissing you for that - just saying I know what
psychotic ramblings generally amount to, and I have more than enough to do just
trying to comprehend my -own- psychotic ramblings. Difficult as it may be, try
to filter the uneeded discussion, the guesswork and anything else you have no
evidence for, and stick to what can be independantly verified. Sometimes I
forget to take my own advice in that regard, and I find -those- sort of posts
rarely if ever get any useful response.
--

L8r,
Uncle Clover

************************************************

In my experience, one's degree of wisdom tends
to bear an exponentially inverse relationship
to one's outpouring of words.

Clearly, I've a _long_ way to go... ;-)

************************************************

The true mark of a civilized society is that its
citizens know how to hate each other peacefully.

************************************************

[David Johnston]

On 14 Nov 2006 17:53:31 -0800, "gornk" <causeway...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>

>I see that you hope this thread will die if you run and hide, now that
>you know that I am not going to go away.

<shrug> Who cares?

[gornk]

Uncle Clover wrote:
> On 14 Nov 2006 17:53:31 -0800, "gornk" <causeway...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> I just don't feel like wading through 500 lines of near-psychotic rambling just to find
> it.> I am psychotic, btw, so I'm not dissing you for that - just saying I know what
> psychotic ramblings generally amount

---------------
I grant that it might seem a bit confusing, contextually, as it was cut
and pasted from
within a thread that was already deeply immersed in the subject matter.
Another thing,
I am not being paid for this, so I hardly spend a great deal of time
on editing and polishing .

You should have read more, and I suspect that you would have if the
topic were of interest to you. If you had been sufficiently patient to
overlook the imperfection of the presentation,
you may have been able to better understand it.
The whole thing was not written by me, btw. so I would humbly state
that the quality of the article improved farther into the post.
Judging from your gesture of responding
to something that you refuse to even read. my guess is that you entered
into the act of reading it with the intention of sneering in stubborn
ignorance to begin with.

> I have more than enough to do just
> trying to comprehend my -own- psychotic ramblings. Difficult as it may be, try
to filter the uneeded discussion, the guesswork and anything else you
have no
> evidence for, and stick to what can be independantly verified. Sometimes I
> forget to take my own advice in that regard, and I find -those- sort of posts
> rarely if ever get any useful response.

----------------------
There was nothing psychotic about the post whatsoever.

[gornk]

you obviously care enough to post opposition. Something about this
topic
gets so many people so upset, that I have to think that there are a lot
of
people who want the subject banished from public view. They do not
want
this information shared or discussed, and they post in angry response
whenever and wherever they see it. That much is clear.

[Uncle Clover]

On 14 Nov 2006 21:38:27 -0800, "gornk" <causeway...@hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> Uncle Clover wrote:
> > On 14 Nov 2006 17:53:31 -0800, "gornk" <causeway...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> > I just don't feel like wading through 500 lines of near-psychotic rambling just to find
> > it.> I am psychotic, btw, so I'm not dissing you for that - just saying I know what
> > psychotic ramblings generally amount
> ---------------
> I grant that it might seem a bit confusing, contextually, as it was cut
> and pasted from
> within a thread that was already deeply immersed in the subject matter.
> Another thing,
> I am not being paid for this, so I hardly spend a great deal of time
> on editing and polishing .
>
> You should have read more, and I suspect that you would have if the
> topic were of interest to you. If you had been sufficiently patient to
> overlook the imperfection of the presentation,
> you may have been able to better understand it.
> The whole thing was not written by me, btw. so I would humbly state
> that the quality of the article improved farther into the post.
> Judging from your gesture of responding
> to something that you refuse to even read. my guess is that you entered
> into the act of reading it with the intention of sneering in stubborn
> ignorance to begin with.

I didn't refuse to read it, I tried to read it. Otherwise, I wouldn't have
bothered to respond. But see whatever motivations you must where you must, I
was interested in seeing if you could make it a little more easily digestible.
Otherwise, you can't blame people for ignoring you. It was practically
unreadable as it was, no matter where you got it. No one's going to bother
reading through an entire mish-mash like that. If I weren't interested in
hearing what you had to say, I wouldn't have responded at all - I'm not like
that. I don't bait people into arguments and the like - or at least, when I do,
it's because I've slipped back into behavior I recognize as childish and
immature, and generally try to make amends for it very soon thereafter.

If you don't want to re-word it to be more reader-friendly, I understand. It
was just a suggestion because you apparently felt people were "running away"
from the issue, and to me, at least, it was pretty clear that isn't the case at
all. Perhaps there are other better-written articles you could us instead?

>
> > I have more than enough to do just
> > trying to comprehend my -own- psychotic ramblings. Difficult as it may be, try
> to filter the uneeded discussion, the guesswork and anything else you
> have no
> > evidence for, and stick to what can be independantly verified. Sometimes I
> > forget to take my own advice in that regard, and I find -those- sort of posts
> > rarely if ever get any useful response.
>
> ----------------------
> There was nothing psychotic about the post whatsoever.

If you say so, but it looked like it to me. Whether you think it's accurately
called "psychotic" or not, it is rambling, and rambling is just not something
most people are interested or able to get into, and you can't fault anyone for
that. The reason I responded is because I've occasionally wondered if things
such as what you state in the subject actually go on - I'm sure such things must
happen at least -once- in awhile. But virtually all the reading I ever see on
the matter is paranoid rambling, and that's just not very convincing. It may
even be 100% accurate, but as written, that kind of writing is usually not. So
if it -is- accurate, it's a rarity. I can ramble sometimes due to various
"issues" I have, and when I ramble like that, I fully expect people won't take
me very seriously. It's understandable. I was hoping perhaps you had something
a little more "literate", something that most people can read and actually see
as even just somewhat convincing. If you do, I'd be more than glad to check it
out.

I'll read the original post again, maybe you're right that I just needed to read
further. If so, and I come across more reliable-sounding portions of the post,
I'll be glad to read them. But don't assume someone is being "stubborn" and
"sneeringly ignorant" just because they don't collapse at your feet and tell you
how brilliant you are for opening their eyes to a subject upon which they had
been blind and misguided for so long. You shortchange yourself when you resort
to that sort of thinking.

[gornk]

----------------
Exactly, these people change the subject from the original topic to
a discussion on something completely different, usually childish
name-calling.
They do not want the TOPIC discussed.

The information has to keep flowing , so read on:
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Video:

Ted Gunderson shows the link between Satanic ritual-abuse, drug
trafficking, and the international
trafficking in children by the CIA.
http://tinyurl.com/ya86ey
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quote:
'I have been reading along, watching the videos, and it is very
interesting, especially, about informants being used, while they are on
a killing spree.There are indeed some nasty things being done in high
places.

I am uncertain, maybe because I grew up in Montreal, Angel Territory. I
know the gangs have had rival fights, etc, over turf, drugs.

It bothers me also, pedophiles, and the HA, getting along. So many are
married with kids, or have sisters, etc..

A lot is spoken of happenings in the USA, I wonder if you have any info
on the hub, or triangle, in the Province of BC,as this lady wrote, that
she worked with victims from there. Also, have you heard of the Process
Church cult? . I do believe in cults, and I fear this is widespread,
and may end up reaching into the states.

PS: Say there has been a long time cult going on, then they would
probably take something from the victim, to the people they obey., to
show it was done. It is very confusing to say the least

_________________
osted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:26 am Post subject:
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Quote:

'I have not had time to visit all these links and watch all the videos,
but I was googling cult activity and Satanism in BC. Came up with an
article about a 30+ year member of the VPD who used to investigate
child abuse cases ... Detective Constable Charles Ennis, aka Kerr
Cuhulain who is also head honcho of an organization called Officers of
Avalon (policeman, firefighters, EMTs, etc. of Wicca and the Pagan
religion). He notes that Dr. Willi Gutowski, a psychiatrist who worked
out of Chilliwack General Hospital, had some patients who committed
suicide, and the article indicates that it was possibly related to
Gutowski's treatment received while undergoing therapy due to Satanic
cult involvement. I can't help but wonder if the suicides might just be
more related to the cult activity/involvement rather than Dr.
Gutowski's treatment??

http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:1kctPz0ktxEJ:www.witchvox.com/va/...

I have read a couple of the Ennis/Cuhulain articles and note that he
appears as bigoted towards Christians as he claims Christians are
towards Wicca. He has authored The Law Enforcement Guide to Wicca,
Wiccan Warrior and Full Contact Magick: A Book of Shadows for the
Wiccan Warrior, and Witch Hunts: Out of the Broom Closet (Spiral
Publishing).
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Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:05 pm Post subject:

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Fantastic Quigley. This is nearly THE most important find so far.
Kerr Cuhulain is based in Surrey, B.C. He has started an occult police
officers association called Officers of Avalon.
Piggy Palace (and Robert Pictons farm) is very near Surrey, B.C. , just
N.E.
of Surrey in Port Coquitlam. Ironically, Cuhulain was a child abuse
investigator
for the Vancouver Police Dept.

This also fits the pattern of the cult putting their own people in key
positions of authority re: police, child abuse, missing persons.
(remember disgraced teen fondler, Congressman Mark Foley was chairman
of the House Caucus on Missing and Exploited Children.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Foley_scandal

Some info on the Picton pig farm cult:

Quote:
http://www.crimelibrary.com/serial_killers/predators/robert_pickton/6...

Late in 1998, task force detectives got their best lead yet from
37-year-old Bill Hiscox. Widowed two years earlier, Hiscox had turned
to drugs and alcohol after his wife died, rescued from the downhill
slide when his foster sister found him a job at P&B Salvage in Surrey,
southeast of Vancouver. The proprietors were Robert William "Willie"
Pickton and his brother David, of Port Coquitlam. Hiscox's helpful
relative was Robert Pickton's "off-and-on" girlfriend in 1997, and
Hiscox picked up his paychecks at the brothers' Port Coquitlam pig
farm, described by Hiscox as "a creepy-looking place" patrolled by a
vicious 600-pound boar. "I never saw a pig like that, who would chase
you and bite at you," he told police. "It was running out with the dogs
around the property."

Robert William (Willie) Pickton

Hiscox had grown concerned about the Picktons after reading newspaper
reports on Vancouver's missing women. Robert Pickton was "a pretty
quiet guy, hard to strike up a conversation with, but I don't think he
had much use for men." Pickton drove a converted bus with deeply tinted
windows, Hiscox told authorities. "It was Willie's pride and joy," he
said, "and he wouldn't part with it for anything. Willie used it a
lot." The brothers also ran a supposed charity, the Piggy Palace Good
Times Society, registered with the Canadian government in 1996 as a
non-profit society intended to "organize, co-ordinate, manage and
operate special events, functions, dances, shows and exhibitions on
behalf of service organizations, sports organizations and other worthy
groups." According to Hiscox, the "special events" convened at Piggy
Palace--a converted building at the hog farm--were drunken raves that
featured "entertainment" by an ever-changing cast of Downtown Eastside
prostitutes.

David Francis Pickton

Police were already familiar with the Pickton brothers. David Francis
Pickton had been convicted of sexual assault in 1992, fined $1,000 and
given 30 days' probation. His victim in that case told police Pickton
had attacker her in his trailer, at the pig farm, but she managed to
escape when a third party came in and distracted him. Port Coquitlam
authorities sought an order to destroy one of David's dogs in April
1998, under the Livestock Protection Act, but the proceedings were
later dismissed without explanation. Pickton had also been sued three
times for damages, resulting from traffic accidents in 1988 and 1991,
settling all three claims out of court.

Soon after Piggy Palace opened, the Pickton brothers and their sister,
Linda Louise Wright, found themselves in court again, sued by Port
Coquitlam officials for allegedly violating city zoning ordinances.
According to the complaint, their property was zoned for agricultural
use, but they had "altered a large farm building on the land for the
purpose of holding dances, concerts and other recreations" that
sometimes drew as many as 1,800 persons. Following a New Year's Eve
party on December 31, 1998, the Picktons were slapped with an
injunction banning future parties, the court order noting that police
were henceforth "authorized to arrest and remove any person" attending
public events at the farm. The "society" finally lost its nonprofit
status in January 2000, for failure to provide mandatory financial
statements.

Other charges filed against Robert Pickton were more serious. In March
1997 he was charged with the attempted murder of a drug-addicted
prostitute, Wendy Lynn Eistetter, whom he stabbed several times in a
wild melee at the pig farm. Eistetter told police that Pickton
handcuffed and attacked her on March 23, but that she escaped after
disarming him and stabbing him with his own knife. A motorist found
Eistetter beside the highway at 1:45 a.m. and took her to the nearest
emergency room, while Pickton sought treatment for a single stab wound
at Eagle Ridge Hospital. He was released on $2,000 bond, but the charge
was later dismissed without explanation in January 1998.

The stabbing had crystallized Bill Hiscox's suspicion about Robert
Pickton, whom he called "quite a strange character." Aside from the
assault, Hiscox told police, there were "all the girls that are going
missing, and all the purses and Ids that are out there in his trailer
and stuff." Pickton, Hiscox told detectives, "frequents the downtown
area all the time, for girls."

Police recorded Hiscox's statement and a detective accompanied him to
the pig farm, afterward vowing "to push the higher-ups, all the way to
the top, to investigate." Subsequent press reports indicate that the
farm was searched three times, apparently without result. The brothers
would remain on file, "persons of interest" to the inquiry, but no
surveillance would be mounted on the farm.

Back in Vancouver, meanwhile, the list of missing women grew longer,
with no end in sight.

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I checked Google Maps for an aerial view of the general area where
Piggy Palace and the Picton pig farm is located:

It is in Port Coquitlam, which is just NorthEast of Surrey, B.C. where
our Officers of Avalon cult friends are headquartered.
Notice the big nearby rail yard. Port Coquitlam appears to be a massive

inland river /rail port, from what I can tell the biggest such port in
the Vancouver area.
This would mean a preponderance of international shipping (particularly
Asian) This would be the same area/source for the stories of women
disappearing onto ships.
If anyone can find any reference to tunnels or mines or Hells Angels
etc. in the Surrey or Port Coquitlam area
that might be useful.

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Joined: 05 Nov 2006
Posts: 76
Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 7:47 pm Post subject:

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Check this out: the Hells Angels entire Vancouver chapter is also
located
in Port Coquitlam. So we have Officers of Avalon (police), the Pickton
pig cult,
and the Hells Angels all headquartered in the same area immediatelly
surrounding
this massive rail port:

http://tinyurl.com/srtaa

Quote:
Neal Hall, VANCOUVER SUN
Published: Tuesday, October 17, 2006
A high-profile member of the Vancouver Hells Angels says people have
been rude to him and he has experienced "fear and loathing" from the
public at supermarkets, restaurants and other places after an Ontario
court ruling last year that found the Hells Angels is a criminal
organization, a Vancouver judge was told Monday.

In an affidavit filed in B.C. Supreme Court, Rickey Ciarniello, 61, the
president of the Vancouver chapter, who has been a member of the Hells
Angels since 1983, says he has always proudly worn his Hells Angels
insignia, known as colours, but since the Ontario ruling he has
experienced "harassment, stigma and ostracism that membership would now
seem to entail."

He was wearing a black jacket in court Monday that said in small
letters on the front: Vancouver Hells Angels.

His affidavit, obtained by The Vancouver Sun, claims he is a
law-abiding Hells Angels member who is "not responsible for the
criminal acts that have, at times, been committed by some of its
members."

His affidavit recalled that after the Ontario ruling, Ciarniello went
to a restaurant called Joey Tomatoes wearing his colours and overheard
a couple asking to be moved because they didn't want to sit next to a
criminal.

"Following that I was quite uncomfortable and decided to leave the
restaurant," said the affidavit.

"I have noticed a marked difference in the way that people respond to
me when I am wearing my colours," Ciarniello said in his affidavit.

"The mood has gone from friendly and casual curiosity to fear, loathing
and avoidance such that I am now made to feel uncomfortable wearing the
HAMC [Hells Angels Motorcycle Club] insignia."

Since the Ontario judgment, his affidavit says, staff members at the
local Safeway near his PORT COQUITLAM home -- where he has purchased
groceries for 20 years -- are not as friendly as they used to be, and
he's received similar treatment at a Shell gas station.

His affidavit also states that John Bryce, president of the East End
chapter of the Hells Angels, was refused as a customer of the Bank of
Nova Scotia, after two decades of business with it, after the Ontario
ruling.

And Ciarniello says while he regularly spoke to the media on behalf of
the Hells Angels in B.C. and nationally, he has generally refrained
from speaking out to the same extent after the ruling because he is
concerned that "I may be charged with participating in the activities
of a criminal organization...."

He said the effect of the Ontario ruling "is to declare me a member of
a criminal organization notwithstanding that I have never engaged in
the promotion of criminal conduct."

His affidavit was filed as part of his constitutional challenge of all
the sections of the Criminal Code making it illegal to participate,
direct or instruct people for the benefit of a criminal organization.

He claims the Ontario Superior Court ruling in the case known as
Lindsay and Bonner has caused a stigma to belonging to the Hells Angels
in B.C., which infringes his section seven rights of life, liberty and
security of person.

n...@png.canwest.com

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http://www.thenownews.com/issues05/112105/news/112105nn2.html

Quote:
Hells Angels members get four years

By Jennifer Saltman - Staff Reporter

Two senior members of the Vancouver chapter of the Hells Angels - which
is based in Coquitlam - were each sentenced in B.C. Supreme Court
Monday to four years in jail for drug trafficking.

Surrey resident Norman Edward Krogstad, 58, who police say is the
president of the Vancouver chapter, and 55-year-old Langley resident
Cedric Baxter Smith, a senior member of the chapter, had pleaded guilty
earlier to 11 counts of cocaine trafficking.

The two were sentenced by Associate Chief Justice Patrick Dohm for
their role in trafficking almost 10 kilograms of cocaine bought by a
former biker who was working as an undercover police agent.

Smith was also fined $100,000 for his role in the trafficking
operation, during which the police agent bought nine kilograms and 24
ounces of cocaine between June 2003 and September 2004.

When police raided Smith's home, they seized $73,000 in cash - and Dohm
ordered Smith to pay $27,500 on top of that to satisfy payment of the
fine.

Krogstad and Smith were among 10 men arrested on the Lower Mainland and
in Prince George in January after a 20-month-long joint police
investigation.

The investigation resulted in firearm and drug-trafficking charges
against six members and associates of the Prince George Renegades
motorcycle club and four members and associates of the Hells Angels'
Vancouver chapter.

Undercover police officers bought large quantities of drugs, stolen
property and illegal guns were purchased from various members of
Vancouver- and Prince George-based Hells Angels, and their associates.

In Vancouver and Prince George, investigators seized more than
$100,000, 25 pounds of marijuana, 14 kilograms of cocaine and
restricted and prohibited weapons.

The Angels' COQUITLAM clubhouse was not searched during the operation.
The Vancouver chapter has approximately 16 members
.
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From:

Quote:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=16079

"A special team investigating the cases," reported the New York Times
on Saturday, November 23, 2002, "arrived and found body parts in a
freezer, as well as purses and other personal effects later linked to
the missing.... Not one body has been found intact, and a wood chipper
and Mr. Pickton's pigs are believed to have devoured much of the
evidence."

The Scene of the Crimes

"There are no whole bodies at the pig farm," says Elaine Allan, a
former coordinator for a DES drop-in center for sex workers. While
employed there in the late '90s, she worked with almost 20 of the women
who are believed to have been murdered by Robert Pickton, dismembered,
and fed to his pigs. In her late 30s with medium-length hair, an
intelligent air, and attentive eyes, Allan's voice expresses an almost
aching sensitivity for the victims.

"I can't tell you exactly what they have found on the farm because of
the ban on that information. You know about the ban?" I say that I do,
but the local papers have reported about the feet, teeth, and bones.
Everyone knows about the body parts, the pigs, the wood chipper, the
freezers. Indeed, the animal rights organization PETA had planned to
place a large ad in the Province describing the murders in horrifying
detail. ("They were drugged and dragged across the room," the PETA ad
began. "Their struggles and cries went unanswered.... [b]They were
slaughtered and their heads were sawed off.... Their body parts were
refrigerated.... And their bones discarded. [/b]It's Still Going On.
Please remember that this scenario is a reality for more than 640
million sensitive individuals who lose their lives every year in this
country for nothing more than the taste of their 'meat.'")

What detail could Allan possibly tell me that wasn't already known? Was
there more than dismembered women in the meat freezer, in the teeth of
the wood chipper, or the guts of the pigs? Were there worse details,
more horrifying details?

"Yes," she says. "It's worse than you can imagine."
Now for the truly sickening part, if this were not bad enough

I followed the street address provided in the above news article, the
street address for the pig farm: 953 Dominion Avenue (Dominion
Triangle)
on Google Maps, and I found that the swatch of farmland actually
borders the massive rail yard and inland sea port. The above article
also mentions that women from Seattle started disappearing at the same
time, and my guess is that this is not the only other city involved.

Now it starts to get truly strange:

I did a Google on the most famous Hells Angel in history
Sonny Barger
During the course of my search I came upon a biker-connected band
known as Spiralarms.
The bass player for Spiralarms, known as 'Spiralbass' (has a Myspace
page)

http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&frie...

and on his page I found this:
http://i64.photobucket.com/albums/h186/MANTIS11/enemy/gutsyjm3io9.gif

(edited by Hazel, sorry TD just too graphic for me, and if too graphic
for me I am sure its too graphic for others. However, I left the link
intact, if anyone wants to see this image, cut and paste away. Thanx)

I got curious about this guy , and found that he is from Benicia,
California.
I did a Google Earth on Benicia, California.
Benicia is literally just across the river from Mount Diablo, on the
north side , and not far geographically from Bohemian Grove (approx. 70
miles SE). It is another port city, this time for Concord Naval Weapons
Base.
http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/bohemian_grove_maps.h...

Now back to our friend Kerr Kuhulain (detective constable Charles
Ennis):

Kuhulain and his books are prominent on this site:
http://spiralpublishinginc.com/osCommerce/

this is Kuhulain's publisher : Spiral Publishing.

Spiral Arms
Spiral Publishing

The goddess depicted above is Kali

>From http://tinyurl.com/yxjms2

"Cannibalism (more precisely, anthropophagy) is an age-old tradition
that, judging by a constant stream of flabbergasted news reports, is
far from extinct. Much-debated indications exist that our Neanderthal,
Proto-Neolithic, and Neolithic (Stone Age) predecessors were cannibals.
Similarly contested claims were made with regards to the 12th century
advanced Anasazi culture in the southwestern United States and the
Minoans in Crete (today's Greece)."

The Britannica Encyclopedia (2005 edition) recounts how the "Binderwurs
of central India ate their sick and aged in the belief that the act was
pleasing to their goddess, Kali." Cannibalism may also have been common
among followers of the Shaktism cults in India.

Now , are not many of the ships into Port Coquitlam from India?
Is Kerr Kuhulain himself not from India? Remember, if you look at
the Pickton farm on google earth, it right beside both an asian
shipping port and a massive rail yard . This is a colossal scale rail
yard. This is valuable land, and lots of it.

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:39 pm Post subject:

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http://newsfromrussia.com/world/2005/10/27/66369.html

Indian cannibal sect eats human corpses, believing it give them
supernatural powers

Quote:
16:42 2005-10-27
A new Indian documentary seeks to shed light on a secretive sect of
Hindu ascetics who allegedly eat human corpses, believing it will make
them ageless and give them supernatural powers.

The 10-minute movie "Feeding on the Dead" delves into the little-known
world of the 1,000-year-old Aghori sect, whose sadhus, or holy men,
purportedly pull bodies from Hinduism's holy river, the Ganges, in
northern India.

The sect has been written about, but rarely filmed performing its
rituals. Cannibalism is illegal in India.

Director Sandeep Singh, who shut down his transport business to pursue
film-making, said it took him more than three months to gain an Aghori
sadhu's trust and persuade him to be filmed while performing a
cannibalistic ritual.

"When we first met the sadhu, he said: 'Rubbish, we don't do this,"'
Singh told The Associated Press in an interview. "It took months before
he admitted to the rituals."

There are about 70 Aghori sadhus at a given time, Singh said. They
remain with the sect for 12 years, and can then return to their
families, he said.

Unlike other Hindu holy men, most of whom are vegetarians and
teetotalers, the Aghoris also drink alcohol.

But it is their consumption of human flesh, a practice whose origins
remain a mystery, which has earned them the condemnation of other
Hindus and relegated most of them to living around crematoriums in the
hills around the northern holy city of Varanasi, where the documentary
was made.

While filming, Singh and three cameramen waited with an Aghori holy
man, whose name is not mentioned in the film, for 10 days in June
before the sadhu found a corpse floating in the Ganges.

Hindus generally cremate the dead, but sometimes ceremonially dispose
of bodies in the Ganges.

"The body was decomposed and bluish in color, but the sadhu was not
afraid about falling sick," Singh said. "He sat on the corpse, prayed
to a goddess of crematoriums and offered some flesh to the goddess
before eating it."

Singh said the sadhu ate part of the corpse's elbow, believing the
flesh would stop him from aging and give him special powers, like the
ability to levitate or control the weather.

The filmmaker said he did not see any such powers displayed, and plans
to continue his research into the sect by filming ascetics at various
intervals during their 12 years as Aghoris, reports the AP.
I.L.

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Thunkerdrone

Joined: 05 Nov 2006
Posts: 76

Posted: Wed Nov 15, 2006 11:46 pm Post subject:

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http://tinyurl.com/vvrlq

Quote:
The cruel rites of Kali in no way belong to the past. As the Indian
press currently reports, in recent times more and more incidents of
human sacrifice to the goddess have accumulated, in which it is
primarily children who are offered up. The ancient and universal myth
of the Earth Mother, who consumes her own progeny and fattens herself
with their corpses, who greedily laps up the blood-seed of humans and
animals, who lures life into her abyss and dark hole in order to
destroy it, is actually celebrating a renaissance in contemporary India
(Neumann, 1989, pp. 148-149).

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willow

Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Posts: 1793

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 12:35 am Post subject:

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Quote:
this was an operation on an industrial scale Now I am beginning to
understand why the media ban.

Trevor Greene mentions in his book Bad Date 2001, that there was a
Farmer Willie possibly involved, but rather than concentrating on that
aspect, he followed up a lot, on the fear of a lot of the ladies that
women were being taken aboard ships, used as "entertainment" and dumped
over board.

Until now, I did not realize the property bordered the port.

http://www.heraldsun.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5478,9024098%255...

Quote:

21mar04

CANADIANS horrified by the discovery of an alleged serial killer in
their midst have been confronted with even worse news -- they may have
eaten animals that ate the victims.

The farmer suspected of killing at least 22 women is feared to have
disposed of their bodies by feeding them to his pigs.

The pigs were then slaughtered on his farm, 30km east of Vancouver, and
the meat given to hundreds of locals.

Police this week confirmed samples of the pig meat probably contained
human DNA, raising the prospect that those living near the farm of
suspected killer Robert William Pickton "ate" his victims.

Pickton, 54, apparently had a habit of slaughtering pigs, wrapping up
the meat and distributing it to associates and friends.

Many of Pickton's victims were prostitutes. The killer regularly gave
pork from his farm to other sex workers.

"Those are my friends that he served up," said one prostitute this week
after learning she may eaten meat contaminated with her friends' DNA.

Families of the missing women expressed shock at the news, with one
telling a Vancouver radio station: "I'm not eating dinner tonight."

Police have asked anyone with frozen pork products from the farm to
turn them into authorities immediately.

Health officials are examining whether human pathogens and diseases
such as hepatitis and HIV could have been transferred through the meat
products.

Police arrested Pickton in February 2002, but only announced this week
they had found human remains and other DNA samples at the farm.

Pickton has been charged with 15 counts of first-degree murder in the
disappearances of women over the past 20 years.

Many of the victims vanished from Vancouver's drug-ridden areas. More
than 60 prostitutes went missing over the past decade and are feared to
have been murdered at the farm.

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So here we have a biker band Spiralarms, and the cover of their
CD contains Kali , the cannibalistic goddess of death, whom is
worshipped in cannibalistic rituals.

The drummer for Spiralarms is from the Mount Diablo/Bohemian Grove area
(where sacrifices are done to Mol-luk , Condor Man, eater of human
flesh) and the drummer also has the cartoon of a human flesh
slaughterhouse on his page.

Then further up the coast in B.C. we have Port Coquitlam, the central
headquarters of the Hells Angels for the entire region, and a gigantic
cannibal restaurant/hall called Piggy Palace, with a slaughterhouse
next to it, situated right next to what could be the most gigantic rail
yard in NA,
and a port servicing ships from Asia.

Finally, we have child-abuse squad occultist Kerr Kuhulain who lives
just SW of Port Coquitlam and publishes occult books
at a publisher by the name of Spiral Press. He has also formed an
occult police organization called The Officers of Avalon.

Now we wonder why the police did nothing for so long?
Quote:
http://www.twpt.com/cuhulain.htm

Kerr Cuhulain A former Air Force officer, Kerr Cuhulain (Vancouver) has
been a police officer for the past twenty years, and a Wiccan for
thirty. He's served on the SWAT team, Gang Crime Unit, and hostage
negotiation team. He travels throughout North America as a popular
speaker at writers' conferences and Pagan festivals, and he has been
the subject of many books, articles, and media interviews. He is the
author of The Law Enforcement Guide to Wicca.

"As a child I was a seeker (though, at the time, I couldn't have told
you what I was looking for). I remember leaving libations from my lunch
box for various Greek Gods while I was in elementary school. I found a
book on Wicca in my high school library 31 years ago and realized that
there was a name for what I believed. There was no turning back after
that."

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Posts: 76

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 1:42 am Post subject:

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Quote:
http://tinyurl.com/yg8oov

Vancouver Sun
16 September 1989,

Gutowski, who at that time claimed to have treated five "ritual abuse
survivors in the last four to five years,"(2 is quoted as follows:

"We, as psychiatrists, don't want to believe it at all. But the weight
of evidence about hypnotic regressions convinces us that these things
are actually true. And when you see the reality of the impact it has on
their minds and bodies and emotions, it becomes much more
believable."(29)
"According to Gutowski, at these [occult crime] conferences,
psychiatrists are hearing that survivor's disclosures are pointing to
the fact that prominent people are involved in cult activities.
`They're mayors, lawyers, police, church people- upstanding citizens.
These people are not from Skid Road,' he says."(30)
"Gutowski says evidence gathering is nearly impossible because cults
`go to extreme detail in covering up the remains of people that are
murdered, especially of babies. But I don't think anything is being
done because of the difficulty of getting evidence'".(31)
"Chilliwack's Gutowski estimates that up to half of the one in 3,000
people with multiple personality disorders in Canada have been ritually
abused. The other half have experienced extremely sadistic sexual,
physical, mental, or emotional violence. `The typical memories (of
those who have been ritually abused) are of being tied down,
mutilations in the secrecy of night in graveyards, bushes and forests.
Wounds are inflicted where they're not seen and they are not
deep.'"(32)
"Consistency in the way patients retell the details of their stories
while in trances, as well as cross-patient consistencies in the
recounting of typical cult activities, convinces Gutowski further."(33)

Gutowski's name appears again in the Ottawa Citizen, on March 3, 1990.
Gutowski is quoted as follows:

"Dr. Willi Gutowski, a psychiatrist at the Chilliwack General Hospital
in British Columbia, has dealt with 20 cult survivors since 1985.

"Drugs are a frequent thing that happens, used to confuse (the victims)
so they don't really remember what's reality. That's a purposeful
technique so (memories of the event are) actually blocked out of the
conscious mind and this is where the development of the multiple
personality starts.

"The cult's activities, he says, 'are so gross, that most people who
aren't familiar with the field would say, 'that's not possible'.
Secrecy is one of their biggest weapons."(34)

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willow wrote:

At second Glance I realize Kerr Cuhulain is an alias as you already
mentioned. All I can tell is he is Canadian, doesn't seem to have an
Indian (as in the continent) name or appearance (to me).
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yes, his real name is Charles Ennis. He is not East-Indian.
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Kim Rossmo was treated completely infairly. Instead of getting a medal
for figuring out the geographic evidence suggesting a serial killer was
to blame for the growing number of missing women in the DTES, he was
let go! After being treated like an outcast for quite some time by his
own department and fellow officers.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/story/2006/06/19/bc_child-porn20060619.html
Quote:
Earlier this year Vancouver police Sgt. John Dragani - who has since
retired - was charged with possession of child pornography after
allegations surfaced in 2005 that he had child porn on his home
computer.

http://hazel8500.wordpress.com/2006/11/12/9-year-vetren-of-rcmp-fired...

Quote:

Tristan Johnson, 35, a nine-yearvetren of the force came under
suspiscion due to an annonymous tip he was accessing child porn from
his home computer. In another stunning display of interdepartmental
cooperation the tip was passed on to the Vancouver police (the suspects
jurisdiction, Surrey.) After 4 months of investigation, they determined
there was enough evidence supporting the tip to fire him, they
approached the suspect and let him know, he chose to resign in the face
of dismissal. The matter is before the Crown.

http://www.canada.com/vancouversun/news/story.html?id=65c84a7b-1efc-4...

Quote:

2nd ex-cop faces child-porn probe Prosecutors study report from
Vancouver police department on allegations involving nine-year
veteran's home computer

http://www.mindytran.com/rcmp_sanctioned_killers.htm

Quote:
The RCMP have been aiding a known group of killers to avoid justice for
many years in Canada. These killers were all later identified as
protected police informants. The Police have gone to great lengths to
protect their informants from prosecution and aggressively obstruct the
victims families from having any recourse to justice. These "special"
informants are functioning as Police agents, above the law and in
certain cases, virtually licensed to kill!

Little about the laws governing these "untouchables" is known and
little is ever willingly disclosed by the RCMP. In most cases, Canadian
laws will prohibit you from knowing, or the media from publishing, the
identities of police informants . see- justice department quiz
(question #1)

What is known is that the number of these "informants" is constantly
being increased and they are involved in criminal activity, while at
the same time, the RCMP is urging the public to inform them of any
criminal activity.
see- RCMP website- number of informants (final paragraph)

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Thunkerdrone

Joined: 05 Nov 2006
Posts: 76

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 2:35 am Post subject:

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So now we may find out the real reason Clifford Olson was able to
sell information on the bodies location to the RCMP?

What really happened? Did Olson do it alone after all? Or was he paid
to take the fall and shut up?

http://www.mindytran.com/canadian_informants.htm

Quote:

Canadian informants

Examples of Canadian informants:

This man confessed to having committed 43 murders in 1986, supposedly
before turning police informant, and assuming a new identity under the
witness protection program.
quote from serial killer index:
hey there! love the sight but have you ever heard of Yves "Apache"
Trudeau? he is a Hells Angel, now under the protection of the Canadian
government due to his turning in his biker cronies. In return for
ratting his buddies out he recieved immunity for some 43 murders he
committed, mostly for revenge and / or money. A pretty prolific killer
I would say
What was Trudeau doing?
see- story
see- short version
full story- the complete story has now been removed from CBC website.
This information is rapidly disappearing from the public domain.

Cory Patterson, another admitted member of these informant/ killers,
claimed that there were others like him. He was never charged, just
relocated. Patterson was found dead after he informed on his police
handlers and disclosed his protected informant status to a journalist.
The CBC fifth Estate investigated and aired the program.
quote-Justice Paul Hermiston couldn't believe what he was hearing.
Never in his career had he heard of such a bizarre case. He was at a
loss to even speculate why the RCMP would hire such a wicked man.
see story

Clifford Robert Olson, Canada's most notorious serial killer, was an
informant and received hundreds of thousands of dollars from the police
following his arrest. He was a suspect when there was only one victim,
was heavily implicated when there were three, but went on to kill
eleven innocent children before the authorities finally decided to stop
his killing spree. Before any of these murders began, Olson was well
known to police as 'Bobo" the prison informant, a brutal serial rapist
of young male inmates.
see- Clifford Olson named as informant.
see- Bobo the prison rapist

Olson had also committed approximately eighty rapes around Vancouver
without ever being apprehended!
quote-This is a fellow that committed approximately eighty rapes in
Greater Vancouver. We know from undercover policewomen who were in his
home when he was identified as a suspect that he actually had a map up
on the wall of his apartment, his flat, and on the map he had marked up
the locations of his attacks.
see pg/4- Kim Rossmo
Quote: Since 1981, questions have been raised about the search for
Canada's first known serial killer. This account shows in meticulous
detail, how the investigation unfolded from the outset. It is possible
that Olson might have been stopped early in his rampage, when two
officers, each working separate cases, identified him as a suspect.
see- Olson's full story
To this day, an ex police member, Kettle is continuing to be vocal
about his attempts to have Olson investigated at the time. The RCMP
blocked all attempts. There never was a court case.
see- The best Olson story

The murder of Leo LaChance disclosed the complicity of the Crown and
the RCMP in a cover-up to benefit this killer, a known RCMP informant.
Information regarding this killer's protected informant status was
prohibited from being made known during the court case and even
withheld from the subsequent inquiry.
see- story

This informant was on the RCMP payroll when he killed two people. He
confessed, yet no charges were ever laid. This story has now been
removed from news site- www.montrealgazettemay17_2002.pdf Contact them
for information as to why this has now been removed from their website.

Danny Kane was involved in many murders and was authorized to receive
two million dollars from the RCMP at the time of his death.
Quote:
Serious questions are being asked as to why the RCMP looked the other
way when they knew that their informant, Danny Kane, was personally
involved in almost a dozen different murders.
see- story

Recently, CTV W5 looked into another suspicious case in Kenora Ontario.
A suspect was arrested and charged with murder. Years later the charge
was stayed when another suspect surfaced. The other suspect, a police
informant, the police investigator, his uncle! The police refuse to
investigate further or to charge the cop.
see- W5 story

This dangerous RCMP agent was permitted to move right in with his next
victim. There were no warnings. It took years of enduring judicial
obstruction for the mother of the murder victim to find out that her
son's killer was an RCMP agent

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quigley

Joined: 21 May 2006
Posts: 727

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 3:09 am Post subject:

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Quote:
Port Coquitlam appears to be a massive
sea/rail port, from what I can tell the biggest port in the Vancouver
area.
This would mean a preponderance of international shipping (particularly
Asian) This would be the same area/source for the stories of women
disappearing onto ships.
If anyone can find any reference to tunnels or mines or Hells Angels
etc. in the Surrey or Port Coquitlam area
that might be useful.

The boundaries of the Dominion Av and Burns Rd properties owned by the
Picktons are in fact north of the Lougheed Hwy and the massive rail
connections are to the south, but all in very close proximity to both
the farm and Piggy's Palace. There are certainly no major ports
adjacent to either of the Pickton properties, but it is interesting to
note that the Burns Rd property leads eastward to the Pitt River.
Doesn't take much stretch to visualize smaller logging or fishing
vessels being able to transport things from the Pitt River location
down river to the major ports around Surrey, New West and Richmond.

There is one major port on the Fraser River in Richmond where I was
involved in a private investigation/search (body ultimately recovered
from the Fraser). One of the things we talked about at the time was a
massive "chute" that goes about 100' up in the air and appears to have
something to do with the logging industry (massive wood chipping
operation??). The particular location we were in is called Mitchell
Island. It is a very industrial type area with a lot of transport
trucks, containers, auto parts places, reputed chop-shop locations,
etc. I'm pretty steely, and it was one of the blackest, scariest places
I've ever been with weird people in the shadows, watching what we were
doing and ducking out of sight. Long story ... another time.

Just mainly trying to point out where the water runs from and to in
relation to the Pickton boys.

BTW ... while you are looking at that same area west of the Pitt River
bridge, further west around the corner of Lougheed and Shaughnessy is a
hotel called "The Shaughnessy" (I think) ... I do know that it is
reputed to have heavy HA patronage.

Just to the east of the Pitt River bridge is a hotel that used to be
called "The Wild Duck Inn" and used to be referred to as "The
Gilnetter". Also known for lots of HA attendees.

Thunkerdrone, FWIW ... the Pitt River bridge is the dividing line
between POCO and Haney. There was previous mention of a HA clubhouse
across the road from the Pickton property in POCO. Don't know whether
it ever was determined if it was the Domion Av or Burns Rd property.
There is also a Haney chapter of the HA, so looks like there is a lot
of HA activity in that general area.

quig

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Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:32 am Post subject:

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I can't remember the name of the bike club in Edmonton, it used to be
the Rebels. The fortress was on 83 street and 115 ave if I remember
correctly, and was still there when the other one took over from the
Rebels. It moved after that, 1990's I think. I don't know where they
gather now. Is HA in Edmonton?
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see the whole staircase, just take the first step.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

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willow

Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Posts: 1793

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 4:54 am Post subject:

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Hi Des, Yes, they're in Edmonton, Winnipeg, Ontario, Quebec, don't know
about Saskatchewan, but if they aren't there then that's probably the
only place they aren't. I am pretty sure they are in the maritime
provinces too.
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willow

Joined: 30 Apr 2006
Posts: 1793

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 5:27 am Post subject:

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Quote:
So now we may find out the real reason Clifford Olson was able to
sell information on the bodies location to the RCMP?

What really happened? Did Olson do it alone after all? Or was he paid
to take the fall and shut up?

Thunkerdrone you may be interested in this site as well

http://www.injusticebusters.com/06/RCMP2006.shtml

Also check out our Olson thread if you havn't already.
http://www.freeforum101.com/edmontonsk/viewtopic.php?t=981&highlight=...

There's some hair raising stuff here, and yes I think its related to
the death cult stuff you've been edumacating us on with your wonderful
links.
You may be able to help tie some of this together with your POV.
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quigley

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Posts: 727

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:46 am Post subject:

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Re HA in Saskatchewan ...

A few years ago there were definitely "prospecting" clubs (I think aka
"puppet" clubs) for HA in Saskatchewan. They are clubs that go by other
names, but supposedly do the dirty work for the HA.

I read an article on it recently about the heirarchy and the various
affiliations, but can't recall all of it. Will try to find the info
again and post it.

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Posts: 727

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 6:51 am Post subject:

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Re Vancouver Ports, and a post recently about Stan Hennessy being
linked to the HA:

Quote:
The Vancouver Sun published the picture last week prompting questions
about the link between the union and the Hells Angels - the most talked
about organized crime outfit in B.C. but the one with the least number
of members in jail.

Local 31 in Delta led by Hennessy represents more than 6,000 workers in
B.C. and the Yukon, including about 230 civilian employees of the
Vancouver police, 80 civilian employees of the Abbotsford force, about
350 inside workers at the Greater Vancouver Regional District, and
several hundred truckers who haul containers at the Port of Vancouver.

Vancouver civilian police employees have access to highly sensitive
information, ranging from the Canadian Police Information Centre (CPIC)
to criminal records. They liaise with Crown attorneys, deal with the
public at front counters, assist victims, and perform secretarial work
in all sections of the department.

Let's not even talk about the Vancouver Port which is internationally
renowned for being a gateway for contraband.

from:
http://www.asianpacificpost.com/portal2/402881910674ebab010674f4ad0a1...

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adrian

Joined: 13 Apr 2006
Posts: 675
Location: ALBERTA
Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 7:18 am Post subject: Thunker:::

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YIKES

It has also taken years and years for the murders here, to be looked
at, and the surrounding areas. BTW Saskatchewan, Alberta, and B.C.
there are a hell of a lot of missing and/or murdered. The task force,
is being quiet, but they have some great profilers, and investigators,
of the homicidal sexual sadist.

There could actually be a brotherhood of sorts, and that could contain,
many types of people.The way the gals are killed are not disclosed,
other than then, the obvious burning to some, and one with full body
trauma. Unless someone has learned more info., I wonder if any are
secretly held, and used, tortured, till deemed disposable.Twisted sick.

Plus with bodies splintering out all over, there are a lot of different
jurisdictions.I hope the police from each place is keeping in touch
with each other.There could even be a cop who has knowledge, who knows?

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quigley

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Posts: 727

Posted: Thu Nov 16, 2006 9:13 am Post subject:

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Re HA in Saskatchewan ...

Um ... I guess hellsangelssaskatoon.ca with www. in front of it might
give us a bit of a clue here

and from a Criminal Intelligence Service Canada 2001 report at
http://www.cfdp.ca/crint01.htm

Quote:
Trafficking in cocaine and marijuana continues to be the primary
activity of the HELLS ANGELS Saskatoon chapter. The gang manages
numerous marijuana grow operations and is also involved in strip clubs
and escort agencies

from Injusticebusters "Gangs of Saskatoon"
http://www.injusticebusters.com/04/Gangs_of_Saskatoon.htm

Quote:
The Hells Angels are using street gangs to deal illegal drugs such as
"crystal meth," a highly addictive stimulant popping up everywhere on
the streets of Saskatoon, say police.

"There is a tonne of crystal meth in town here. It's appeared in huge
quantities over the past year," Saskatoon Police Services Sgt. Gavin
Morgan told the Saskatchewan News Network.

"We do have intelligence that there are connections in the drug trade
between the Hells Angels and the Native street gangs."

quig

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The Hells Angels seem to be the missing link between the CIA drug lords
and the various street gangs, be they the black , Italian, or native
gangs
not to mention the fact that the CIA has been known to plant their own
in key positions at many police departments:

CIA importing cocaine into U.S.: Dateline NBC

video
http://tinyurl.com/yxs4wf

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I watched that and drew the conclusion that the CIA denies it,
So no, they did not admit dealing drugs.

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A Los Angelas Police narcotics detective
said it. I believe him. btw, he is not the only one to come
forward) He was recruited by the CIA , but turned them down
to work for the LAPD instead.
found another video on this:
video:

Former narcotics investigator Mike Ruppert was forced out of the LAPD
in 1977 when he exposed the evidence of drug trafficking by the CIA.
THis is one of his first appearances caught on video in 1997 at the

Granada Forum in California. Topic is CIA Drug Running.
http://tinyurl.com/yjugzk

[Uncle Clover]

I'm going to be dissing the Christian church, here. But just for the
record, I know there are plenty of perfectly decent, upstanding Christians, that
those who are of the type I'm about to talk about here are the minority and not
representative of either the Christian religion in general or any Christian
denomination in particular. I'm curious what you, given your interest in
ritualistic abuse, think about the kind of abuse I'm about to discuss.

That said... This is regarding the subject of ritualized abuse. I know
for a fact that occurs because I've witnessed plenty of it occurring publicly in
the Christian church, particularly the churches where I grew up. That such
abuse occurs is undeniable. I -don't- know how much of it goes on under the
auspices of Satanism or non-Christian cults, however. I have some serious
doubts that much of it is being done in the name of Satanism, not because I
don't believe there are people like that in the world (or in high places), but
because one can almost -freely- perpetrate such abuse publicly in the Christian
church already. The majority of Christians do not perpetrate such abuse, but
that same majority often fails to speak out against those who do. I just don't
understand why someone would bother to go around doing such stuff in darkness
and shadows when they could do it right in front of the news media and so long
as they said it was in the name of "God"(TM), most of the world would just sit
back and let them do it. So if I seem incredulous at the claim of -RAMPANT-
_Satanic_ ritual abuse (I'm sure -some- of it goes on), it's only because I know
how lazy humans are. If someone wants to engage in ritualistic abuse, there are
plenty of small-minded "mainstream" churches in the world (amongst those
churches which are -not- so small-minded) that would be more than glad to let
them do so without fear of condemnation or persecution. Secrecy and coversion
take so much effort, and it's effort that an abuse-oriented person does -not-
have to take in much of today's world. At least in the modern U.S.A.

Again, I know the majority of Christians are not like that. But the majority of
Christians -are- all too often silent on such matters. And if you want details,
I'll be -glad- to give them to you. But as I said before, I try not to "ramble"
if it can be helped. ;-)

[gornk]

http://tinyurl.com/bkudn

The Dutroux arrest unraveled an international pedophile ring involving
Belgium, the Netherlands, Portugal, the U.S., Great Britain, Japan and
the United Nations and its agencies.

The names found on the computer disks reached into the highest levels
of politics and society in the various countries and institutions,
including some of the very members of the Belgian government who had
originally been implicated in the assassination of Andre Cools.

Ritto has been implicated and jailed as a major figure in Portugal's
Casa Pia pedophilia scandal. Another leading figure dredged up in the
widening circle of the Dutroux pedophilia operation, Jean Michel
Nihoul, managed the group's finances out of posh offices on the Avenue
de Louise in the heart of the Brussels business district. He managed a
string of Dutroux's properties which functioned as pedophilia clubs in
various countries, including a sumptuous and secluded villa in the
Caribbean at which leading U.S. political figures, governors and
members of Congress could satisfy their pedophile perversions safe from
media sleuths.

Another major newspaper, LE SOIR, opined in an editorial that Judge
Connerrote had to be removed "because he was unwilling to refrain from
subpoenaing major U.S. diplomats and high government officials.
as well as key figures in the Dutch and Portuguese pedophilia cases."
Both editorials linked the pedophile case with the recently solved
Cools case, a case that highlighted official bungling, corrpuption and
lies.

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More talk of ancient occult tunnels, this one the setting for the
Hellfire Club
in England.

aerial map view:
http://maps.google.com/?ll=51.647378,-0.805296&spn=0.004227,0.008605&t=h

video:

http://tinyurl.com/yytmns

West Wycombe is a picturesque town in Buckinghamshire, forty miles
north-west of London, which was in its entirety acquired by the
National Trust in 1929 to protect its 16th and 18th century
architecture against modern times. The stately home and gardens of West

Wycombe Park are often used to provide splendorous backgounds in
movies. The area is dominated by a hill, under which are tunnels and
caves, excavated in the 1750s by Sir Francis Dashwood for the
construction of a private meeting place for his friends of the Hellfire

Club. Lord Saanich and Benjamin Franklin are said to have been regular
visitors. On the top of the hill is an Iron Age hillfort, and a church
going back to the 13th century can be seen from miles around. The
church was refurbished inside and out to emulate an Egyptian temple,
the tower ending in a golden sphere, large enough to hold several
people. Who Sir Francis invited here, was treated to a breathtaking
panorama.

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