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The Fall River murders were a series of three homicides that took place in Fall River, Massachusetts, from October 1979 to February 1980 allegedly by a satanic cult. [1] It was the onset of a period in American history known as the Satanic panic. [2] The first murder, that of 17-year-old Doreen Levesque, was committed on the night of October 13 ...
The West Memphis Three are three freed men convicted as teenagers in 1994 of the 1993 murders of three boys in West Memphis, Arkansas, United States. Damien Echols was sentenced to death, Jessie Misskelley Jr. to life imprisonment plus two 20-year sentences, and Jason Baldwin to life imprisonment. During the trial, the prosecution asserted that ...
Murder of Mark Kilroy. On March 14, 1989, University of Texas at Austin student Mark James Kilroy was kidnapped in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, while vacationing during spring break. He was taken by his abductors to a ranch where he was tortured and sodomized for hours before being murdered in a human sacrifice ritual.
What happened in the Fall River 'Satanic cult murders' In 1979 and 1980, Doreen Levesque, 17, Barbara Raposa, 19, and Murphy's girlfriend Karen Marsden, 20, were murdered in the Fall River area.
During the 1980s and 1990s, a moral panic [1] about alleged satanic ritual abuse occurred, mainly in parts of the English-speaking world. This was propagated by certain psychotherapists, social workers, Christian fundamentalists, and law enforcement officials. Some of the cases ended in prosecution and imprisonment; all but one of those ...
Hampstead hoax. The Hampstead hoax was a series of false allegations starting in 2014 that a Satan-worshipping paedophile ring of about "175 parents, teachers and religious leaders" had been abusing children in the Hampstead area of north London. [1] Police found no evidence of paedophilia or abuse, let alone of murder or Satanism, but the ...
The Oak Hill satanic ritual abuse trial occurred in Oak Hill, Austin, Texas, in 1991 when Fran Keller and her husband Dan, proprietors of a small day care, were accused of repeatedly and sadistically abusing several children. The Kellers were convicted of multiple charges and sentenced to 48 years in prison, but were freed in 2013 based on ...
The Altamira child emasculations refers to a series of crimes that occurred in the municipality of Altamira, in Pará, Brazil, which involved boys aged 8–14. They were kidnapped, maimed and killed between 1989 and 1993. [1][2] According to the Pará authorities, the crimes were committed for the purpose of satanic rituals and black magic ...