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of 300 fires for which he was allegedly responsible Aleister Crowley and Eliphaz [sic] Levi. It was (still is) around New York. In his conclusion, Dr. Abrahamson totally blood oriented and I am certain you know just described his subject as a homicidal exhibitionist who what I mean. The Coven’s doctrine are a blend of meant his crimes to be a public spectacle and harbored Druidism, the teachings of the Secret Order of the fantasies of “dying for a cause.”
Golden Dawn, Black Magick and a host of other There is another side of David Berkowitz, however, unlawful and obnoxious practices.
and it surfaced shortly after his arrest, with allegations As I said, I have no interest in revealing the Coven, of his membership in a satanic cult. In letters mailed especially because I have almost met sudden death on from prison, Berkowitz described participation in a several occasions (once by half an inch) and several oth-New York cult affiliated with the lethal “Four P Move-ers have already perished under mysterious circum-ment,” based in California. He revealed persuasive stances. These people will stop at nothing, including inside knowledge of a California homicide, unsolved murder. They have no fear of man-made laws or the since 1974, and wrote that “There are other Sams out Ten Commandments.
there—God help the world.”
According to the story told by Berkowitz in prison, The latest near-death experience for Berkowitz had two of neighbor Sam Carr’s sons were also members of been a July 10 prison assault that left his throat slashed, 18
BIANCHI, Kenneth Alessio, and BUONO, Angelo, Jr.
requiring fifty-six stitches to close the wound. Less talk-tain that police suspected him of involvement in ative following his narrow escape, Berkowitz still Rochester’s brutal “alphabet murders,” though in truth, agreed to a January 1982 meeting with attorney Harry it took six more years before detective realized his car Lipsig. In that conversation, he referred to the killer cult resembled one reported near the scene of one “alpha-as follows:
bet” slaying.
Meanwhile, in January 1976, Bianchi pulled up
Q: You had some connection with the Church of Scien-stakes and moved to Los Angeles, there teaming up tology, did you not?
with his adoptive cousin, Angelo Buono, in an amateur A: It wasn’t exactly that. But I can’t go into it. I really white-slave racket. Born at Rochester in October 1934, can’t.
Buono was a child of divorce, transported across coun-Q: Were you connected in any way or an adherent or try by his mother at age five. By 14, he was stealing cars convert of the Church of Scientology?
and displaying a precocious obsession with sodomy.
A: No, not that way. It was an offshoot, fringe-type thing.
Sentenced for auto theft in 1950, he escaped from the Q: Were John and Michael [Carr] with the Church of California Youth Authority and was recaptured in Scientology?
December 1951. As a young man, Buono idolized con-A: Well, not really that church. But something along demned sex offender Caryl Chessman, and in later that line. A very devious group.
years he would emulate the so-called red-light rapist’s Q: Did this devious group have a name?
method of procuring victims. In the meantime, though, A: I can’t disclose it.
he fathered several children, viciously abusing various Q: Roughly, how large would you say its membership wives and girlfriends in the process. Somehow, in defi-was?
ance of his violent temperament and almost simian A: Twenty.
appearance, he attracted scores of women, dazzling Q: Were they all residents of the New York metropoli-cousin Kenneth with his “harem” and his method of tan area?
recruiting prostitutes through rape and torture.
A: No.
Q: Were they spread across the nation?
A: Yes.
Q: Did they meet on occasion?
A: Yes, but I really can’t say more without counsel.
As Maury Terry noted, both the satanic Process Church of Final Judgment and its spin-off successor, the
Golden Dawn, Black Magick and a host of other There is another side of David Berkowitz, however, unlawful and obnoxious practices.
and it surfaced shortly after his arrest, with allegations As I said, I have no interest in revealing the Coven, of his membership in a satanic cult. In letters mailed especially because I have almost met sudden death on from prison, Berkowitz described participation in a several occasions (once by half an inch) and several oth-New York cult affiliated with the lethal “Four P Move-ers have already perished under mysterious circum-ment,” based in California. He revealed persuasive stances. These people will stop at nothing, including inside knowledge of a California homicide, unsolved murder. They have no fear of man-made laws or the since 1974, and wrote that “There are other Sams out Ten Commandments.
there—God help the world.”
According to the story told by Berkowitz in prison, The latest near-death experience for Berkowitz had two of neighbor Sam Carr’s sons were also members of been a July 10 prison assault that left his throat slashed, 18
BIANCHI, Kenneth Alessio, and BUONO, Angelo, Jr.
requiring fifty-six stitches to close the wound. Less talk-tain that police suspected him of involvement in ative following his narrow escape, Berkowitz still Rochester’s brutal “alphabet murders,” though in truth, agreed to a January 1982 meeting with attorney Harry it took six more years before detective realized his car Lipsig. In that conversation, he referred to the killer cult resembled one reported near the scene of one “alpha-as follows:
bet” slaying.
Meanwhile, in January 1976, Bianchi pulled up
Q: You had some connection with the Church of Scien-stakes and moved to Los Angeles, there teaming up tology, did you not?
with his adoptive cousin, Angelo Buono, in an amateur A: It wasn’t exactly that. But I can’t go into it. I really white-slave racket. Born at Rochester in October 1934, can’t.
Buono was a child of divorce, transported across coun-Q: Were you connected in any way or an adherent or try by his mother at age five. By 14, he was stealing cars convert of the Church of Scientology?
and displaying a precocious obsession with sodomy.
A: No, not that way. It was an offshoot, fringe-type thing.
Sentenced for auto theft in 1950, he escaped from the Q: Were John and Michael [Carr] with the Church of California Youth Authority and was recaptured in Scientology?
December 1951. As a young man, Buono idolized con-A: Well, not really that church. But something along demned sex offender Caryl Chessman, and in later that line. A very devious group.
years he would emulate the so-called red-light rapist’s Q: Did this devious group have a name?
method of procuring victims. In the meantime, though, A: I can’t disclose it.
he fathered several children, viciously abusing various Q: Roughly, how large would you say its membership wives and girlfriends in the process. Somehow, in defi-was?
ance of his violent temperament and almost simian A: Twenty.
appearance, he attracted scores of women, dazzling Q: Were they all residents of the New York metropoli-cousin Kenneth with his “harem” and his method of tan area?
recruiting prostitutes through rape and torture.
A: No.
Q: Were they spread across the nation?
A: Yes.
Q: Did they meet on occasion?
A: Yes, but I really can’t say more without counsel.
As Maury Terry noted, both the satanic Process Church of Final Judgment and its spin-off successor, the
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