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ONE
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T, all started with an unusually hot spring when two brothers where encountered by a man. One of the boys was playing alone on a slide, and man succeeded in convincing the boy to come with him. The eldest boy had gone home, so the man promised the young boy that he would drive him back to his house. He managed to bring boy to his apartment apparently unnoticed, and he ordered the boy to undress. Then the man tied boy to his bed and molested him, taking photographs of the abuse. The man kept the boy as prisoner overnight while he continued to molest him, all the while sketching his victim. The torture was so bad that the boy seek death, and shall not find it; and had prayed to die, and death fled from him. It was only until the next morning, he was strangled to death with a rope and his body hung in the closet by the man while he photographed it as a macabre "trophy". This was the marked the beginning of the most baffling case in the crime annals’ in America and before the end of the ordeal, an entire town would go crazy. And no one who touched the case will ever be the same again.
Adam Watts, a fourteen year old boy was last seen by his brother in the company of Daniel Watts walking toward the exit of the church they had attended. Witnesses have claim to seen the two boys getting into a white 1970 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser with either one or two men. The witness's description of the car matched a description of a similar car implicated in the earlier disappearances. In early August 4, 1983, a body found on near a creek is strongly believed a further victim. The scattered skeletalized remains were discovered within and close to plastic sheeting near an eroding sandbank, along with sections of rope.
Then a few years later, three friends, all twelve-year-old boys (Robert “Bobby” Krauss, Matthew “Matt” Kenney and David Quintero Jr.), were reported missing. The first report to the police was made by Kenney's step-father, Donald “Don” E. Rasmussen, around 7:00 pm. The boys were allegedly last seen together hiking on the remote, vast, dark, archaic, and gloomy woodlands in the mountains. Preliminary police searches made that night were limited and it was initially thought that the boys all ran-away. Friends and neighbors also conducted a search that night, which included a cursory visit to the location where the bodies were later found. Originally there was little media coverage of the killings but it soon intensified when the FBI predicted that the killer might dump the next victim into a body of water to conceal any evidence. Police staked out near every woodlands and body of water, including near the mountain where the boys disappeared. During a stakeout, detectives got their first major break when an officer heard a splash amongst the hodgepodge of animal sounds, which were caused by birds, resonated through the air and inundated and the infrequent sounds of birds of prey gliding in the air. And it was from afar, another officer saw a white 1970 Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser turn around and drive back across the river. A more thorough police search for the children began around 8:00 am, led by the County Search and Rescue personnel. Searchers canvassed all of the mountains. Despite a shoulder-to-shoulder search of by a human chain, searchers found no sign of the missing boys.
Around 3:15 am, Daniel Bonet, a police recruited, spotted a boy's black shoe floating in a muddy creek that led to a major drainage canal. A subsequent search of the ditch revealed the bodies of three boys. They had been stripped naked and were hogtied with their own shoelaces, their right ankles tied to their right wrists behind their backs, the same with their left arms and legs. Their clothing was found in the creek, some of it twisted around sticks that had been thrust into the muddy ditch bed. The clothing was mostly turned inside-out; two pairs of the boys' underwear were never recovered. Matthew Kenney had lacerations to various parts of his body and mutilation of his scrotum and penis. A forth unknown body was found. The mangled and deformed carcass had spewed brown bloody chunks, and entrails as a result of the horrible torture endured afore his brutal demise. There was a gallon of weeping pus and an ebony viscous goo that oozed out of several wounds. The fourth corpse had a broken, crooked, and bloody nose, but it's the mouth exhibiting terror, pain, and screaming on his face below that takes all the attention. The only clue police found was a stranger carved into a post, as well as the letters "O.T.O." carved into a tree. There were a lot of rumors and whispering among the community that the murders were part of a satanic rite.
