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PRELIMINARY INQUIRY - ALLEGATIONS
10/29/93
OF ORGANIZED CHILD ABUSE BY A GROUP KNOWN AS "FINDERS"
+ on 10/28/93, a representative of the Violent crimes
Unit met with George Bergasser, Section Chief, and Attorney~!--~~
!child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Department of
~J~u-s~t~i~c-e~. Bergasser noted that DOJ had received a three-ring
binder from Special Agentl 1u.s. customs Service
(USCS). This binder contains uses briefing material on
"Finders." They requested that the FBI contact uses to obtain a
copy of the material contained in the three ring binder.
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the Finders search, had been contacted by a I _ lwho
had told him to step away from the Finders case. 11eged1y,
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information will be subsequently reviewed.
+ on 10/28/93, George Bergasso, Section Chief, Child
Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Department of Justice
advi$ed that the DOJ has a book of material on the "Finders" and
additional mater~al that will be made available for review by the
FBI. Representatives of the Violent crimes Unit will meet with
him on 10/28/93.
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ce epar ment (TPD) on
m~s emeanor ch ld abuse charges. The two subjects were arrested
after a complaint was made that six children were playing in a
park seemed to pe unkept and· neglected. The two subjects with
the children could not initially provide sufficient information
as to their ~egal custody of the children and were uncooperative
regarding their identity or the children identity.
· After the subjects were arrested TPD obtained
information from the children that they were from the Washington,
D. c. area. TPD and FBI Jacksonville contacted the Youth
Services Division in Washington, D. c. in an effort to further
identify th~ cnildren. The FBI got involved in the investigation
at this time due to the possibility that the children had been
kidnap~d. The vehicle registration records for a van the men had
in their possession when arrested reflected that it w~s
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A joint investigation by the Washington Metropolitan
Police Department (MPD) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation
lead to the identification and interview of the mothers of the
six children in question, two of the fathers, and several other
key members of th~ 11 finders 11 group. All persons interviewed
claimed their group consisted of an alternate communal type life
style made up of intellectuals who have chosen to live the way
they do. The mothers were all aware that the children had been
taken to Florida on a trip, they were familiar with and
thoroughly trusted the men in whose care the children had been
placed, and all insisted the children were well cared for.
On 2/18/87, The United States Attorneys Office, WDC,
declined prosection in this .matter for the violation of usc,
Title 18, Sections 1201 and 125+.
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Serial #2 - Photos of subjects and children
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t e1r is no evidence of a
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(Classroom 4, Ray Buckey's classroom).
under west wall of the "Do£" room
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3" to 6" in from en~rance an;d under fo:undation, ~lassroom 4.1
• Tunnel procecdc:q soutp. then. ~nst 45 feet through Cl,assrooms 4 and 3, and north,
then cast 10 feet '!'lith~ Classr9om 4. j i
- Tunnels were ~0" wjde, 44" to 46" d~e , with top. of the tunne 30" under lh~
, classroom Ooor. i .
The footing be~ee~.Classrooms 3 an 4 ~·as ar~ped where thT tun~d t1assed
underneath and 12~:shorter f.n ~epth a th1s locat10n than same,footuH! 12 feet
to then north. · ·l · · ;: J
• Four large. upright containers wrre found the tunnel under the arch, fl
o~viouslr ha!lf! placecf, . ,
• A 9 foot wJde ch~b~f was found along he tunnet·under Classrpom 4. Top of
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• Tunnel e.xrended from 'the batl~rooms offjthe office and Classroo 1 to the front
yard of the triplex ne.~t door. Front \'1rd concealed from street by three-car
garage. : ~ f · ' ~· ~ j I
. Ch.ildren described eiitrance. and exiting t nneI in tdplex yard exactlv where tunnel
and exit were fo~nd. · ! ~ .· . ; ,.
. l ~9" x 41" area .under a hoi¢ cut .11} th s ne1ghbo(s bathroom [..oor had been
excavated and subsequently fi.ll.ed: 1
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piastic~ plate with three entagrnm~ hand drawn ,on to~, of light
green paint was found. by the ~rctiaeolo~ts in th~ 4rati..fied dirt ip the play yard.
- Per historical archaeologist~ pcntagr:trs were hand drawn by
part of the manufacturer's ~esjgn. ~
adult and not i"
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extent of the tunnel networks. AbQ~e documc ted through photograph~. notes. graphs,
diab'Tams and charts. For more cJemils call (2 3) 854-5172.
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z:•lationshipa with the Oepart=cnt of Justice throuqh tne Child
ExploitAtion and Obacanity Sacticn, the Nationa1 csntAr tor
Mia•ing an~ Exploitad Children, the FBI, the o.s. Postal servict,
and v~rious Military Invastiqation· commands. The Office of
Entorcemant alao con~inuao to wo~k in oonjunoticn with tho
Cu•tomm Otfioe ot lnspection and control in ueekinq out and
diacovaring new ana unique methods of amuqqlinq onild PQrnography
in~o ~ba Unitad Stotes t~Qm other oountriaA.
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AWARE THAT THE CHILDREN HAD BEEN TAKEN TO FLORIDA ON A TRIP,
WHOSE CARE THE CHILDREN HAD BEEN PLACED, AND ALL INSISTED THE
SATANIC CULT, AND THAT THE CHILDREN ARE IN FACT THE OFFSPRING
TESTIMONY.
ON 2/18/87, THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE, WDC,
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ON 6/14/93, THE UNITED STATES ATTORNEY'S OFFICE FOR THE
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DECLINED PROSECUTION OF THIS MATTER AND
THIS CASE WAS CLOSED.
WMFO CONTACT WITH U.S. CUSTOM SERVICE, WDC, INDICATES
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INTERVIEW UNTIL MONDAY, 11/8/93.
WMFO IS SCHEDULED TO REVIEW THE MPD FILE CONCERNING
"FINDERS" ON 11/4/93.
INVESTIGATION CONTINUES AT WMFO.
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· suiclling, blue Dodge van with Vuginia ~ ThclcidS, between the qes of2 and 7, . Suchocki had respooifed to a Code 13P, suspiciws llti<. • Gfi>e
wete"bug-biam, bad scratches on their Jcgi,'·and:wat: ~dirty .dothcs.- . ......,. . : - $00S, and amvea as·~ back-up to the first offica- Ql1 tl!cf news? Why cfHI the
. - -··QDe.offia:r'intervicwedthemeu~~~<a~~-~p, =. Tony~bum; Masbbam qUC5tioocd Holwell·: •
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1hd Holwdl 'and Ammerman lilktlfle·~~Wailrom ·a-i>.C.-:basCd c:Cmmun- : two girls in the Dodge van.. · · .. drag the case out
al group, had they' explaincd ~ C!!l· •:~ping trip,'bad they ~-in the -~ were.~ .of us,. which -h llOt unusual for for week after
. glove compzrtment and iomd over the 1efrers:o(-consent from the cl;illdren s mothers, kids, says Suchocki. ·· • · • ·, .• · week? And who
bad they DOt acted so evasive andwrird, lbey.wdl might have licco tb.anked for their "My .first impression ·was ' that .d!ey were dirty, but I •
time and kft alone. But there are too" many 'wbat-ifs in the Finders saga, too m;my would DOt say that they were WlliSUally dirty for kids," are the finders,
~ that could have been the lMt ooe. • . - ·.· • · •· · . · ·. . she ssys. "The -van smciJcd )ike urine and there were ...,
"Instead, :wha bippened is'lbis:Jiollyell and -~ were arrested on misde- blankt:u an aier the back. They defini!ely were sleePing anywa_,. .
IDC2IlOl' child-lbuse chargts. Within a daY the natiaoal oews rocict took off, fueled in the VII_!· I asked ~e kids. where they were from, why. they were here, where they
.-itb the wont kind of off-the-teaxd in!IUCDdo, ~ c:oart documents, and were coing. Mary was the~ who was tallting. She was real talkative."
wide-eyl:d prooouncemcn!$ froin .~ womng· the case. If yoo believed the rc- 'Mary, 7,_said they were~ Washington and sbe recited their Glover Park address
p;cns, Holwell and Ammerman were satanic D.c.:Cultists that swiped ~ -~ aDd pbooe number. Sbe gaVe all the "kids' IWI!CS and their ages: Max Livingston, 6;.
~ parerus, sc:xually abused tbem, aDd peddled ldddy Porn acrou the globe. Ben~ Franklin, 4; Honey Bee, 3; John Paul Pope, her brother, 2; and B.B., 2.
~ Waslzintt.on Post ran Pase·Onc Stories three days in a row. Washington TV .sta· They didn't &0 to school; though they bad been taught bow to read and bow ~o play
lions dispatcbcd reportets to Tallahasa:e to broadcast·live fC:IJIOieS. The Miami Herald games. One of t&c two men wu·ber daddy, Mary Said, but they hadn't seen their
. quoted parmts oi Finders WOIIdcrin«"if the group was &Oing to pull a mass suicide, a mommies since before Cbristmas-whicb the Fmdcrs don't eelcbr2te. She explained
· Ia jonestown. The staid NerD Yri Tunes reported that "some bftoe desaibed [the that they haV~: lots of mommies and daddies and that the adults do what the Game
Fmdets) as a bizarre cult of devil ~-" EvtryODC got in on the act. Th= wen: Caller-says. Right uow, they were bc:iug "weaned'" from their mOOunies and just "SG- ·
stOries broadcast by R.itll Bma-, Coalic Ch11113, Lmy King, CNN, even the BBC. ing different places;" sleeping in campgrounds.
The Law pulled out all the stopS, tao. ~ Tallahassee and D.C. Police boolccd up "I was worried about the kids being kidnapped," says Suchocki. "For ber to tell me
wi$ the FBI, the U.S. Customs Scm:e, Interpol, the ·florida Department of Law they wm.bcing w=lcd was odd." ·
. Euforccment (m FBI-like unit), and pc&e in Vu-ginia, .Scm ·Fzmcisco, and Nr:w York. After questiooing the kids for 20 minutes, Suchocki compan:d notes with Mashburn.
Holwell and Ammennan sat in stir • 'JallahasseC•s Leon County jlil and the itlte of Ammerman 'and Holwell had told Mashburn they were D.C. teachers en route to
Flcrida hdd the children- in ~ ~- Meanwhile, police raided Fmdm: Mexico where they were going to StJrt a scbool for brilliant children. The kids' par-
homes in D.C. md Vuginia, investigMiDg everything from the men's sexual habits to cnts, they said, were bade in Washington. Then Ammerman beame evasive, refusing
their finances. . to cbim any of the kids as his own, 2!ld HolweiJ dammed up entirely.
· Tbc ooly trouble was, they hadn't llnJkeD any laws. After lix weeks in jail, the "I'm not sure what's going on," M2shbum told Suchocki. They radioed their higber-
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ww..: ror thl:ir llipcrvilcr tQ arrive, 'Su<:b- Tclt if we let d.cm go a n loamed lla:r tba didn't have OQ any. ~••••Thr: child- Mary t~ ber they~ "di&r,mt."
ocki alalinued ber iniCI'Yiew witb the kids. • tbcsr: m kids wtte Jddoappcd1 Thizlk :ibcut reo's dolhiDg were cxtmDdy fillhy aDd !bey t:>iffcrmt il>deed. ODe of the bays peal 00
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The Guile CalLer was big &! Jmn wbo sit • iL ·u i t - yourdlild who- ticllllpped.••" ·mcs on mjsmordwhocb... . the 1111 in \Vtipod's office. Other kids Died
on a pedestal and threw pcnmcs at them, Vlb= &>formed tbat tbq wen: UDder mar. lnnstigator Chei'yl Weicand of the Sell: dleir s-ots. Sx-y=-<id Max ~abe
Mary said. Suchocki lqm to tbin1: the kids Holwdl fell Ill the arowxJ. Crimes aDd Juv=ile Ullil •MJrmdHd" Hoi- J:IOUd, had I poor IJildmtaodiuc cS time. He
had bcal bniuwasbed. : ~ PF just did a fake &mt.,• D)'S Such- wdl aDd Ammerman in 1 boldiDc oe!1 1114 •· c!ido't seem to na>gDize a suplcr, a cypewrit·
Mary n:Coantcd a reoeat trip to a coiD-op · '~"l'ft tea~ il sevas! 'times. Womal ue • • tanptcd to ini'a-riew them. InSttad c:L IDS'ftl'· er, md otbe:r <XltilD>Oil office cbjeas. \VcisaDd
lauDdly: Tbcy hadn't put mough ooap in the tai 'iood at dcinJ it. Usually wben a pmon iD1 Weipnd'i Questioas; Ammerman ~ led the kids back 10 the vao to Ff some food
machine aDd same of the c1o1b<s didn't ame really &ints Yoo don't beDd ,lbe Jmea. This about the c:1wtu while Ho!Well laid oc the and oae of. the 2-year-olds ate ei&ht b;oazw
dan. TheY Did tbq rea:ivcd food in reword JUY did a 'Scarleu O'Hara dq. · cell's 11occ Wim his ~ slmt tight; jcri:ing his mdacartOL
for worit, ivcd on a,diet of raw vqetables md . "1 cbedced him. I loolccd at his .,a to body. "Hoowdl was doing the ftOc," s;ys WQ. "These tblldm. were oot properly taken
&uil, aDd hadn't eaten since IIIOI'IIing. As they •ma~z sure·be wzm't cliabaic: oc sometbing. I pncl, who was appointed the casc's le:ld in- arc d," says Weigand, who boils from New
talli:ed. May took OI'2JI8CS and bananas from a aid, 'Get up. I kDow you're fmDg this mess.' • YCSiigatoc. ' Yorit. "Bei:ng a poli<e of!icer is ftfY much. a
boz in the wn and pcdcd them fer the other ' •Alld'be wouldn't aet up. ••.It .ns like a daild ~u they 1..t said wbo they were, sims 111 a lean>ed bebzriQr. Yflll see one incident and
ldds. · · • playins; like wbeo you so io to ~ if DWDber wheR - could have c:ontatted the -say 'wbal if?' We see huodrods aDd btmdtals
•Stuff like that m&de me WOilder if the 111021 chcy're asleq) llnisbt." • · modien, I'm 1101 Aying the lituatioo wwldo't . aod we learn what ~ reasonable for a pareot
"WCre W:ins care of the kids properly-eYCD if • A few ~ bsngioc cxst in the park 'oo- ~ cooccmcd m---it milbt llill bm: bcr:o a II) do and wba1 is ooc reasooable."
they weta~'t being kidmppcd," says Such- tiocd tbe DJIItii)Otioo IDd felcbed their home little bard foe us10 tmdemaDd-I:IUt il would . Weipod spoke with Olle of the girls about
odd. Wleo cari.en to cape the mcsc. Holwdl wu bm: lifted a large clood," Weipld says. "We scsuol abuae. "[S]he ~ very evasive,"
Florida child-abuse bws make it a-misde- boislcd by his liinbo, put in a ptro1 car with bad aiz cbildreo, and we did.o't knO'II' who Wcipod wrote in ber repoct. "Sbe deoicd acy
me:mor to deprive childn:n c:L food, clolhins, Arnmttman, and driven to the ltllion. Such- · thCr motbc:rs were." 'bad tou.bes,' or any inappropriate behavior
sbdter, or medial can: or to ouse them men- ocld clraft the kids over in the YID. Weipod liSbered the kida lbrou&b the sec- by the adul!a .. [Sbe) beanie very fodgely, and
tal injmy. On arrival, SuchOc:kl and Moab· Ammerman, who had a valid driver's Ji. ODd of tbe m:my interview~ they would Cli- W2tltcd to eod the iolerv:iew." •
burn's supervisor decided, if ootbins else, ceose, was boolccd UDder his mme and a1sc dure. • •. Laler, two af the !00s desaibcd a pmc in
these laws had be= b1o1<eo and ·be told the lltlde1- an aliu, ~ Roam. HolweU had Mary laid the .Game Caller'a oamc was Mar· wbich tbq ripped o6 an adult's dotba. Ap-
offioers to anal the mco. 110 ID and was booked as jolm Doe, with the ion Pettie. She aid be forbade the children pareody, the kids ClCIIy tore off a mao's jacUl
Sucboclti didn't put U.P aoy arJumeot. a.k.a.'a Micbael,lamcs Houlihan and ,lame$ frocn entering the Glom- Pari: bouse and tb:n aod then fUDIDII&cd tluou&b bis pocli:ets for
"There was 110 'llrJ I -..as aoill8 10 let these Micbacl Holwdl. be lived on the rool'. Wnile 01) the ro.d, abe chana•· They cold Weipnd about 2110tber
men allllioue with the kids if I ·could help it," "The tbildreo w= caremdy huopy wbeo crpbined, they WIOIC to Ptuie oo a modem- pme where women walked around naked.
me says. "'m you imagine bow I would haw they COl to tbe police deparuneot," off>CU equipped c:omputet- 'J'RS-80 laptop-and "Both cbildreD fdt that this - ftfY fuDny,"
Moab bum wrote in his tbree·paae report. then be .....Wd tell them what to do. wrote WeiJaod, "and went alone witb tbe
..._.. far . . 1111c:1ot - ...., .,. a pa11t "Tbe children appeared as if they bado't I don't understand, lovntiptor Wcipnd CCD<ZJX of it beinc I pme."
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serve them later this date." responded to the area of Glover Par\ in the hn>ad.:nt thrir lir>t Fioom stori<s anJ Fri·
Oct. Bradley filed an allida,it for the search ~ of the 3900 Block of W Slroet, N.W. day's War/ungton l'rm ran a "'nail stury m
warrants at the U.S. Disuie1 Court for the Oct. Bradley observed a dearing approximate- Metro.
District of Columbia on Thursday afternoon, ly seventy yards behin<! the hou~e anJ ~raJ On Friday, Weigand, another Tallaha"""'
explaining lh.ot he was looking for evidence of slumps surrounding the oren area. Several 1nve>ligator, and an FRI agen1 1ri<>l 10 imer-
1ook 1hdr mug shoa afler agents from Flori· kidnapping, a federal aime, or any related of· round s1ones had been galheml ae:ar the cir· viow 1he men at lcun County Jail, \1-hcn: they
da's Department or Health and Rthabiliutiw: fenscs described in the alfldavi1. cle, this pnctice is sorne1imcs used in Saunic w.:n: kept in isclatinn. To 1he in\TStiptors'
Services (HRS) arrived 10 place the kids in "Prior 10 Febnwy 5th, 1987 your alfW>t, rituals, and evidence !hat SC\'Cnl pers<li1S had surprise, when they arrived at the jail they
protective custody. Detective ]ames E. B<2dley, Jr. received in· gathered in the clearing recently. The rear of bumped into Dotlg Ammerman's brother,
lnvcstiga1or Weigand phoned the D.C. Met· fonnation from a cmfidential source of infor· the residence is covered from the alley by David. •
ropoliWI Pot;a, Oc:partment and explained the mation," wro1c Bradley. "This source staled heavy bamboo grow!h, &ave a smaU entnnce David told the office111 0.."'8 hod visi1c:d
si1112tion, giving them the Glow:r Park phone lh.ot a group of subj<cts calling themselves the to the ~ yard. In the rear ~unl(sic] was a their parents in Gainesville a few "~ h<fore
number and address Mary had memorized. F"tndm, A (sic) cult, --., conducting 'brain· small very ornate gnl'estooc propped up the arrest with a boy he dailll<\l '''as his.
D.C. Police reported back to Weigand, &aying washing' tccltniques at the above described against the support pillar for the pcl(tb.~ . Doug Anuncmtan hod told his parents he was
they bad reached an answering machine with two locations ill Dist of Columbia. The -'OUttC Like other members of the MetrOpOlitan Po- heading for Miami.
a "weird" message on it, some kind of biblical stated tl!at members ol the 'cult' artempted on lice, De(. B!11dtey did 1101 rerum phooe calls Though David said he hadn't seen his
passage. D .C. said it was going to send a numetilus ocxas:sioiiS (sic] to introduce it into· and did 1101 reply to a wrineo rtqUeS~ for an . brother in !hree or four yean, !he year before
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rests and nlids "m,.tak<>." Not \iolations of "Cult Member Defends 2 Men in Olild telling our chief, 'We don't ha~·c an)1hing.
civil libenies. Not a humiliating pain in the Abu."' Case." Bye.'"
ass. Not a wholly unn<'I.'<SSAI)' burcaU<ratic "We are all in a Stile ri~ht now where we Monday was aiMl the day 1illlaha""" got
fuck-up. Mistakes, that's all. His memo in- .m afnlid. We've been made almost dysfunc- first 1\ind of Marion Pcnic's whereab.lUts .
cluded his phone number and 111 offer to help tional by the repons," Terrell told the l'usr in l.t. La: Han of the Culpeper (Virginia\ 1"-
authors can be seen scribbling madly as she in any way he could. what the paper called 1 length)· telephone in- lke Dcp.~nmcnt informed Tallaha"cc that he
peers through a iam·paeked plastic bag a cop Reponers and police never poked a hole in. ttrview. 1emll des.:ribed the "bll'.><llerting had a conta.."t with the Finder... Hian '<lid this
hauls away.) Terrell's e\'m·toned and cordial lener. From ritual" "" the slaughter of two go:ots kept on a conta<t told him Pettie put out the "''I'll
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The Mwmi Htro!J's ~ One story quoted Berea, Kentucky, the Rev. jim Wyker con- farm in Virginia. The goats had been killed members to Jla: and hide. and l'cnh: would
Off=r Scott Hunt, "It is our belief these kids firrool that the men and children had stayed for food, he said, and the kids had watched probably go to Andrews Air Fon:e Base am!
were not kidnapped but that their parents with him for a week in januar)'. The 86-year· the slaughter as an edu~tional experience. ouch a miliwy plane flight to Oliru. This
gave them away, because one of the rites of old retired non-denominational minister wa.• a The Post's conversation with T<rrell came was plausible: Pettie, a retired Air Fon.-.: mas·
passage into this satanic organir.atioo is that rock-solid source. He told the Lowr:illt Cora- shortly after police nlided live Finders' prop- tcr sergeant, ha_d the right to free, stand·b)'
you have to give up your rights to your child· kr-]mtmal he met the Finders at a "meeting erties in two =all Virginia to\\ns near Old military transpon.
ren, and that the leaders of this organization of commune proponents" a few years before. Rag Mountain, Etlan and Nethers. ~n, the Monday also saw a visit to the Washington,
can do what they want to with your c:hildren." 11at pasi November, he told them about his Post satisfied the readers' longing to peer be- D.C., Field Office of the FBI "by one of the
In the TalJahasste Dartoaafs Page One . New Hope plans, and january 9 they popped hind the curtain-no maner wbit might be Finders mothers and the thrcc men from the
story, Hunt was quoted, "As far as we're con- in to help. "The only thing we discussed was there. "The door of one cabin W1S open yes- white van. .
cr:med, this goes from coast to coast and from the land and the building .tid c:hildrea's ~ Imlay, revealing large amounts of food, dotb- An FBI report of the interviews pves the
Canada to Mexico ....There is no doubt in our . ter," be said. "I'm DOt trying to upheld the q, dcqiing bags, books and pADIIlhlets from impressio!) that Herbst,· Van Deusen, and
·mind that this will have at least national, if Meyer had remained calm until they read the
• DOt international, rq>etCUSSions." newspaper I<XXlUnts on Friday morning, Feb-
The FBI had joined the case to look into ibe ruary 6th. "fl1hcy tcali?.ed they· were being
"transportation of children across state lines ponrayed as child abusers and stWtists.
for immoral purposes or kidnapping." U.S. Frightened, tire three decided to return to
Customs was cootnoutini its satanism and WDC and fiSOR out what to do." .
~ pornography expc:rtise. Interpol was investi- In Mooday's:Washington Post, Terrell ez.
gating a tip about H~. · • .. · pJained the men's silence and passivity
The Tallahassec Police Department was (" 'Finders' Member Labels Arrests 'All a Big
awash in the media Oood. "I had 75 reponers Mistake.' "). Sbonly before the Tallahassee ar-
waiting for me in the lobby," says HunL 'We ~ lbey bad been stopped by police in Mar·
logged 450 telephone' calls to me in two days. ion County, Florida, and that incident com·
They were bringing in overtime people. to help l>ined with 10 yean of being hassled by D.C.
take messages." Hundreds of qlls were from cops COilvinccl the men that it would be bet-
pan:ots claiming the children. Can\oassing the ter 11;1 deal wilb a judge than unreasonable 1'0-
nation for·the.IQds' porems wen: me National· ,lice. ·~·· ' : . .
·Center for Exploited Children; the Flodda · , 'Ari,;be{F. mother ~ the T:illahas-
Department Of Law Eoforcement, Olild F'md, see ~ Mooday and asked whether the ·
Orikl='s Oeanng House, the National Olild mothers· WOIIId be arrested if they came to
Sofety Council, and the Natiooal Association claim, their DIS. "We couldn't give the moth-
r:J: Missing QUidren. ~ from a -bomb . ~Pie~· that they wouldn't be arrest-
threat_pbooed to the bodSc boldinj; the kids, • ed,~ Van Meter:
~·they -were pbysicallY. safe - ..~'<'"'"'·.,..,.
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Rather, the tvar~rD~gtort Wah ren. ..:n.:y iny way, shape or form
stab at wit mil humor, the Finders' trar!C- practice 'satmism; and all are eager for the
muk, Terrell beaded the memo "SUBJECT: · return of their c:hildren. Everyone interviewed
In~ Leads." . agreed to be; polygraj>hcd by the FBI should
·.:"This niemo is~ offered in • the.need arise.~.Two more mothers were to be
-~lilt next d:.y, the-report cplains,
hope that it will dc2r up some ~~~:::;,J
cling ·c:ooceining the cum:nt 'missing -~ ~that the mothers wen: planning to •
~. case recdving so ·much media coverar.e." be
wrote. Terrell explained that in wly JanuarY,. '~1=:.e":""~ any~ of
Ammerman, a "laDascape gardener, and Sw>- ' violaiion r:J: a li:dera1 staiue," the report con-
ley Berns, m architect, 'had taken. the SCYell • _dudCO. - ~ . .
children to Berea, Kt:otoeky, to help the Rev. "We had pmty much iied up the c=," In·
Jim Wyl:er build a retirement community •-.estigatoi- Wci!:znd says. • ·
caDed New Hope. Terrell gave the name ·and . By Tuesday, the Post had consigned the
phone number r:J: a Berea couple who bdped F'mders story 10 the Metro section-"D.C.
care for the kids during their visit, ·and said Police: Finders Odd, Not Criminal."
the plan had bccu to enroll tbcm in the CXJU- That night, Terrell invited itponers into the
ple's ~tesorri sdJool ~.the c:onununity F'mders' ......tx>use for an interview. Sitting
was being built.- •,.:."'·,·~· with his back Iii the cameras, a Ronald Rea·
Beausc the: aev. wy~<er m. DOt ·readY to · gan -.-Jc c:ooaing the hind pan of his head,
bmk uound for New Hope, !l'rixe Tmell, be explained that the mothers hadn't come
"the men tool< the . children 011 a vaeatiool · forrrrud beame they were waiting out the
camping trip to the wormei climate of Florida . uorm.
with tbc full applansc and approval r:J: the Terrell also IDid reponers that be was "play-
children's !llOih=." Terrell wrote that be ing the role r:J:Gbingiz K. Plato."
drooe to Florida with Holwell, computer pro- • Ullahastee l?blice spokesman Hum was
grammen Ouistian Herbst and Thomas R. flabbergasted. "Why are we doing this joust-
Van Deusen, and Robert M. Meyer. Herbst, ing in the nxdit? I believe Mr. Terrell could.
DOted Terrell, b3s a . Harvard M.A., while go a long wq in doearing this case if he pro-
Meyer "is a Prin<:doo and Oxford M.A." duces the mothers of these ehildrea as be says
"Wbcn we were satisfied that the six child- be can," be IDid the TallizJuusu DtmOCNl oo
ren (were) safely in tbc hands of five capable TueSday.· ~ ,
adults, Mr. Meyer and I' left Florida." On lire "Up till that point, people said tire ol' police
day of tbc :urest, Holwell and Ammerman deportment did some pretty dumb things,"
toOk the kids to the park while the three otbct recalls lnvestiptor Rick HulTman, who inber·
men looked f« "accommodations." ited the case &om Weigand when she Jdt for
"The motbers bad fully authorized tbcx vacation. "TTa there's this down oo TV say-
men, in writins, to care for tbcir c:hildrea and ing all theoe Slllpid thihgs. People Etarted say-
expressed full confidence in tbcm," wro1e Ter· ins that's 100 ltl!pid to be any kind of a cult.
rell, referrirq: to the authorizatioit letters in In Taflahas=, it turned out that this whole
the van's glove cornporunent. "All o( the thing was beiac perceived as a joke."
mothers are now in San Francisco worl<ing in Though Wc:ipnd believed the case was
business oft'.a:s, earning money to help pay wrapped up T....Jay, she still wondered why
for 'New Hope.' " · the mothcn bal1101 hi8htailed it down to Tal-
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In Search of the •rpk pie on tho otlw:r. 1l> hun. th<'Y worr Ill'·
ing wrun~ and li\'ln~ l>.'kl. The HRS ,.. .,...
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· "pn1j'-"ttin~ llUf ''""" lTh'mJs on lhio; ~;mur:'•
~'Jik(r, wh1.1 i' nmmng f,,r sial!' .-.enarr.
lahasscc the da)· the)' learned of 1he arre<t. doesn't bihl mouth \'\'illi< M=· She thinks
"Seems to me that people who baw n..-wr he was doirq: his i<>l' a< an ek.,~ro offidal.
done anything wrong .ba\·r nothint< 10 r...-," "1il1Jha"""" is 1'<1)" C\lflsef\,.til'<. Anythirq:
says Weigand. "\X'bat were they hiding? If it not Southern 8a!'list is fcn1ul tu people. In
'""• me, I'd bli~dly go get my cbild." this cun'IOrv:ltiw cn,ironment, it lookru tikc
tho mother.> wm: unfit. \\'c belie'" that kid'
ex, confusion, small-mindedness, fear,
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1n Search of the over the case, uys pUblicity
meant f<I'\"Cf·money-promotion to some on
!he st>IT. Othen, he says, like Hunt, had pur·
Cot C~ Pllf>tt'. I inrom'l.·tly rtp.lfloo !hat the '
men fal'OO sexual ahu,;c du.rg.:s, I inl\lrn..:tly
state<! !heir bood, and I incwt'el.~ly said !hey
W'~S t~!F name ,I( • OOMn<.'» th< ~n>Up no •~~
<r nm. That's ri~hf, Mc.,.,r ,..;,\, IJ"!lhil~. _\,
wr '!"Ike, I c~\UI<I hear the l'tlll(\\J.IIN <~nrr
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er lll<lli=. "They wen: like, wow, we may be were ..,...tr<l r-cbru1ry 5. And l unly fac-.11 a of a '"mputer kevt>.>:ml: W"' Me,-.r kcv·
!he i!l1j1erus lo bfin8 down pedophilia all over weekly <lead line. hoanfing tJUr ""m\'(Ntton?
the world. We'n: the snowball a1 !he top of Talld!oustt Dmt«rat n:poner )an l'udluw, tRt....-•us.· the Finders n:l<r to them"'\'"' ._,
the moanain. Maybe we can do some good." who did "''"'• of the best reponmg lln !he hnth tlw "Finder>" anti the "><>-<.-.llcJ FmJ·
But Hullinan didn't believe this was a credible group and stuck with it long af1cr the pack ""'" I call them the Finders thruughnut th"
in\"<Siig:ation without the press." case. had gone home, sa)-s the Finders h3\•e to. aniclc fur ~o.'tln~iMcnc\'\ ~k('.)
Nearly everyone who I2DgOed with the "They had no experience dealing ~>ith a =e should..- some of the blame for the media's I uiTcred to '<nd the gn1up dip.,, io<lwiug
Finders affair slagg<d the media-including of this scns;tivity," Huffman says .. "They goofs. my pr= critiQue. A few da~'< liter. Juh· !,
!he med"'-"<f blamed them for. protracting """' pasoing along circumstantial e•idence 10 "If you're looking at the mooia's.n:sponsi- they left a mc:o.age on my hnmr an,·,wriug
the cases. Some attacks were, of c:owse, "kill the medii." bilily 1o capttlre !he truth aoour 1hcse people. machme. I had not given .\\c~-.r my ll\\111\:
the messenger." Others whipped reponcrs for Hunm.o was particubrly rankled by the al· I've got to admit I've got a linle bit of biner· number. though 11 is li>tl'\1. .
all the right reasons. Some were more in- leg21ioos tl sexual abuse. ness lingering becauS<O th= peo(lk Jid no! "l!cllo." the message hcg-m. "Thi• is 1he ..,_
trospecth-c complaints. Others lamente<l the "I told !hem, You people are dealing with make it easy for rcponers to !ell lh<' !ruth called Finders c'alling for jon Cohen on Satur·
ccnsrraints of !ale-20th century ioumalism, fin:. For you 10 mention possible sc:xual bat· aboul them," ""ys Pudlow. "You kn"" what· day •t 8:30 in 1he e\-.ning. Sorry we <lidn'1 get
where it's the McMedium, not the rn:ssase. tery to tbe media, they don't bear 'possible.'· they call wir and humor? I was pan of their 1hrough to you. Maybe wt'U gel together lat·
"This became a big strxy because the press You are p-oposing the idea. This is when: the wit and humor. The wit is being deceitiul and cr."
made ir a big deal;' Scott Hunt say.. Hunt,
who took JlaJc for announcing sexual abuse
~ bun them. They should have
perronaiJr gone to the doctor and bad a good ·
downright lying and what they call humor
isn't rtal fllnny.
J calle<l them beck at the warehoust to
about an inlerview. I got a rhyming mcssag.
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and satanism in the ase, is red in,the face ~-tete to find out bow far we were·going "I've been in the businesi about 10 years that weill wme~ like this:
DOW. "How do :YQU think Lgot this~ . 10 so wi1!1 this. If the doctor said we had se- -and I realize that when you interview some-
tion? By osmosis? Somebody told me:' men Slaics co the gUI, they should have body, ~Y uses a little manipulation. Could wt: bui another's year
One report that cspeciaJiy irks HtlDl was ·aslced, U\:!1, did Y\>11 find a little? 1t. lot? We aD know that. But I ha~ never been so Our windy salutations here
originated by WVSA and rebroadc:ost by the Wbere di.f you find it? If it was inside the w- blatantly manipulated IS by this group." 'Twould make. us meet
Tallahassee CBS affiliate. "They Plefac:ed lhe gina it WOIIId be different than on the foot. • . Pudlow, the first reporter to interview the Be quick lh<!l
strxy, 'Fact: Tallah2ssec Police l;>ep;utment "I just !link we jumpe<lto conclusions."· • mothers when they came to'Tallahassce, says, · As our Lord requests
has botched this investigation,' "· says Hunt.· · l)le·ordioarily toothless Post ombudsman,
The local Sllltion invite<! Hunt to tbe stud;o to J=pb Uitin, was critical of his paPefs F'md·-
"If the Finders told me today that they were
coordinating the second coming of Olrist and
•A truthful foal of wit and =
We bid thee spak
rebut.. . ers co~ He chompe<l into his colleagues. there was Jesus at their right hand I still
"I went live oo the air and called the D.C. "The .,..... stories wen: laced with. unnamed ·wouldn't 'Want to get a quote from them.'' ·. I left a message.
lfliliate ·a bwl:h of liars," he ~ with satis-;
factloo. "I didn't· bare any hon;es. l let the'
CBS affiliate have it. right between the eyes."
sources; ioau.ndo abounde<l" be wrote.
"F.cts we~~: in
Post wasn't." ,
suppiy, b~ space in The
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first called the Glover Park home in late
June, dialing one cL the many Finden'
The next· day, City Paptr's rec:epoorust
buzzed me and said Steve lisdin """' here 10
sec me. Since hfid,n't recognize the name. I
Ride Huffman doesn't let Hunt or odaers in In the ~ :Jounw1isi,r RtiitW's F'JDd.' . phone numbers listed in the Tallahassee Po- asked her to pUt him on 'the phone. "This is
. his.d~ o« so easily. Part of the prol>- em critiqt, the news director OC .lice doc:wnents. "Goooen ag," said the an- . Ste\-c Usdin from the so-callcd Flll<lets," be
lem, he says, is that the .Tallahassee J>olice· was asked if.his reponets ~-·, -· ...·~- ::.swering maChine. "Ni H.au. Kcruchi wah?l I said. I ran downsuirs ••
Depanmcnt wasn•t used to ·natiooaJ attention. • trust the :llllbociti<s. "Wdl rc: ·•!Pwwy.,, .1.·, 'didn't Jc::i,-e a message. .·· Usdin, dea!Khaw. and dressed in a COO· •
. "We bad Connie Chung ~- u$ up," .fie re- : yoUr sottnr;' be .sald, "and ~ !eng then calle<l thC Nonheist Wuebouie Aid sen-alive coat and tie, wis' naybe in his mid-
members. WQur old PIO .{ptlblic information port it .. Such you're member Bob· Meyer onsweiCd. J· ...,: • 20s. I told him I W2S swamped and asked if
olli=-tluntl is flappiJ:lg his gills a1r oYt. the.si!JIY.... l · we're interview and tcild Meyer 1 ·we could meet the next day. • ·
department." • • . <- ·,.: .n:cords, ·I !lro.PPed a deWl .wi·don'l know," he .said. •
'According to Huffman, Hunt 33id, "Tbis i1 ' not many people know. lnltlO(r()w . and wait in the fL.
it folks! This is my day! Connie go;
to interview me." . :·
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"'\(,'dl, I'll be here," 1 said.
1<• )on Cohon
Fr M.D. ("SIUd<nt" is "'natched out)
Dt 10 )uly 1988
Rc Mutual!knelit
"NO! on my account I hope,'' Usdin said. End!K<d are some infortlUition gifts. l
There was more sincerity than sternness in his am planninc to d" a.n in-depth study of
vole.:. jon Cohen. his asrociatc:. and .his fda.
H< took out a. reponer's notebook and asked tives. How do you sug~l l go ah<>ut
rn< lor my phone num~ . it? .
" \'oo alreoJv have them." I saX!.
"Oh yes," he answered. "Wdl, I look for· I \old Knau1h I didn't think lhry nc:<ded my
wan! to nuking this work." That was the last help to do an in'<lrplh stud)· of me, in~ ·
l saw of !;sdin for a month. studies being !heir spccialil}'. I quickly fliprcd
0\-.:r the weekend of July 16, the through the other PQpers as we chatted. Along
hand-ddi~rcd an envelope to City Paptt's o(. . wilh what are essentially book reports, there
ficc. Inside was a photocopied !IIXe that reads: was a smattering of dectronic mail dispatches
from members worlting in· Japan, at the Dcm-
TO: JON COHEN ., ocntic National Com-entioo in Atlanta, and
FR.: M.D. (last name inl<td owl San Francisco. A blurb in ooe of the group
RE: FINDERS memos ~ught my eye:
OT: 17 JULY 1988 "'n panidpGtory joumali=: I have heanl
it mentioned in conjunction with 'New Jour·
If you want to do an in-depth study .X . OD July 19, I kh :anodltt IIIOSU8C oo (he Knauth said. She lnvill:d me 10 pick it up at nalism' of the Tom Wolfc:IHunter Thompoon
the F"mdcn, it would be best to do an warehOuse answering machine. later that day, the Glover Pari< houSe. vairery (sic} where the journalist becomes an
in-depth stUdy ·.of the Troubodoun, Kristin Knaulh, -.bose son Bc:a Fnmklin was "<An we meet for an interview?~ I asked. actor in the drama he or she is reporting oo.
uouvcres, and .unibr movements, ·or ··held in Talbbassee;alled me bock. . "After yoU read this, you'!! probably have But what the srudent means by it is hard to
you woa't understand what .,.,•re lldlt· "Two people are in Adanta Cll'ltrin& the tnorequestioos," ~hi said. · say-maybe ~ tenet is Mao's 'No investip·
ing aboul. · c:Onventioo, two are in Japan, ml ooc had 10 When· I arrived at the Glover P&tk house, tion, no right to speak' so I'll quil guessing."
· go to San Francisco oo an emergency," Knauth led me to a ~ that hi$ a wOOd Knauth proceeded to win the upper hand in
The F"lllden often use ·theE~ lJrl.. l<nauth said .. ''Can we m<et la!tt?" map covering one W2ll and made me a cup of the interview game, offering no inforaiatioa
~ as a source book. The 1987 edition « On July 26, I c:al\td the wanhouse )>et again tea. She was l:ind eoough, striking me as yet still gerting me to talk.
the Briurrrnial describes troUbodoun and trOU- and asl<ed for Sttve Usdin. . mote nervous than iom~· SIIe n:miDcled •. Before I left, 1 told bcr I was running out uC
= JtS closdy rdall:d lyric poet-musicians . , Bob Meyer- answered and said Usdin WllSn't . me of an aaress doing an improvisatioa whO timi and if lhey wanted to speak with me it
who traipsed through Fnnce, ·Spain, '!¢ ~~ . thefe. •. ~ .~- w;s .tbe ·fim penoo 1 . wu uyiog a little too bird.to maintain a tbar· would have to be soo= ratherthan later. 9>e
.in the 12th and 13th c=iurics."A:dored by thi . spoke with'a maoth lld"ore, 1 II!Rd.bim what ICier. ··" ~ , ~ • ~ • · Mid Usdin wouid be the best one 10 lpC2k
·CllllrU, their verse typially expkmi:l ~ow.- itwugcing-totalceti,.iran&rmilmniew. 1 W.S acnous, too. In allliDmc:ss, 1..... . with me and . that he'd be badt ·from San
." Their poeuy also SCI Up lytial conversatiaos !;Is there .a lime·that's best ior yooi'!" be : also in.d=octcr aDd hard to maintain 'Franc:i='indcw<lays••
about "maalers ufa rdigious;'UieUphyoicaf, or asked. • · . ·" , .;, · d . 'it. F.ran my readings wi1h gioop "He's wdcome to all me at bomc:t I said
utirial characlcr." . ... •• . 1 told him my scbedule and be assuted-. ·;·IDC!Abcrs, ·t knew ihat 10 intc"· attl!C doOr. _, • . :' : . . • . • ..
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FINDERS
On August 2, Steve Usdin carne b)' my of.
fn.'<' orpnic meals and phih,.•rohic:~l I~>W·
"'"'"' oo tho front ~>n:h. l'l:ltio's !O.lll h>kl the
/'r>st that his father l><gon a new lifr an>Und
1971 wht-n h<' swtcd a c"Onunune with hi• fol·
lowers in th<' Gkwcr l'uk bouse.
1l>day, mcmben look much more yuppie
fico for ~ second time. than hippie, a turnabout that swted in the
"I'm here bcc:luse our clcacd tc.dcr for !he euly 'llOs. Though they have changed with
day asked ax to come down bcre," Usdin tho times, they still don't blend in.
said. Th<-)"'ve turned heads in rural CuiJli'I'Cf,
I asked him if I could llpe record the con- where they often show up ar town meetings in
versation and he said I was ....tccmc to, but bu•iness suits. John Davies, a CuiJli'I'Cf anor-
hc hadn't come here to Jive an interView. ney wbo represented 1 former group member
· "Then why arc you bcre?n I asked. in a dil'llC'Ct proceeding five years ago, says
"Two reasons. One, to tdl JOU that we'll they IIC\U say anything but always take notes.
answer all your questiom. Two, we 1i1ce you. "From my perspective, they can have 1 sig-
We think you're 1 l<indred 1001!. We tbouabt nif1C31'1t iml*t oo a community like Culpe-
there mi~t be~ big:r _...., could do per," says Davies. "I think pan o( thcir goal
together. , is ~ coatrol o( the local govcrnmc:nt." 1u
"Like what?" I asked. .-idctn, [)Qvics says he l<nows o( 1 srock·
"I don't know," said Usctin. "Maybe stan • broker l1ll1llins for local offra: with whom
·paper tOgether.";- ·-- ··- - · · they tried to invest $25,000. And they're aJ.
.Usdin told me that be WIS a rcportcl', IDO, Mys rc:seardUng tDWnspeople.
and that he covered the Democratic Conveo- The Fmders have combed local I'CII estate
iion foJ a Ja~ ·TV -m. (I later titles to 10e wbo owns what. and bow much
checked this our and it was wo.) We jolood they Owe, says Davies. He's also ooticed
about the Tallahassee case 11ime. Fmders men walking dov.(n the sttec1 in coots
"You·know that POlS Story 'Nice Soy F'lll<l- and tics and making DOleS oo every house
m Odd, Not Criminal'?" be askal. "1. ~. they pass.
"'Police Criminal, Not Odd." Davies says be thinks there's m old·fash·
Then Usdin said that be 111:\U undc:rstood ioocd mccmtion behind their game playing:
Why police were goirii,~ for satan-· Doll2rs. "Basally, they're doing eollcctively
ism, saying he tbougbtllws,opinSt devil wor- : -..bat an individual investor Would do," be
shipping were abolisJicil Cta- lb: Salem witch · , Ays. _ · . , ·
hunL --:;~. f~~:~\1. ;; .'.,-f · ·. . In Washington. se=a) people have posited
"Not that rm inti! smnisin," be said. "fm thor the F'l!ldeR ptber informatioo because
_no lll<li'C interesf:cd i!' satmiscubm !be J?tm= . they are <pies. .' .• ~·-··'·- . .
ocrat?c Convention. Acrua1ly, llllt~> · Daniel Bnndt, who has pw together 1 data-· .
•• estcd iu the J• bank of~ owioos be sdls as spy-
get Pa!£1 foe BASE, says'be'first met Sieve Usdiu md Jefl'
: -Usdin • 1lbois,aDOCber;~~.in.the~
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with lb: ~'Bank. '~ the
dl:pth tbe lnfocmation llank's t,nowledge a(
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the mother and kids.
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nounctd that they we~ all moving to Tall1·
ha...:c. "The Finders are always looking for
signs and symbols," !hey wrote. "Since: M:bru·
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tie. WimtSseS Holwell and Ammaman
showed ur in prison garb and shaclr.Jcs. ''Talk
about 1 drcus," say& Walbonky. "Wt could
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said, 'Fire your attorney.' If )'OU ailed him
and begged him and he told you to do it, you
can't say no. She was in agony. She ~lly
lo\'es her soo and she knew what Yo"OU!d hal"
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co. "We told them that they would havo to they want to keep some Finders members, so Right before !he hearing, Walborsky learned fi~ my attome)'-it wouldn't be in the best
physically take the childn:n away from us. We now the rest are coming." that the Finders men she had been working interest of the children."
v.'t~ not going to get up and walk away from Another issue of Tilt Daily Findtr, "Come v.ith had left town and were ~laced by 51.-ve Arko understood l'l:ttic's logic. If Y\'U'rt in
our children. to Tallahassee," in•ited friends to rome join Usdin. She also got thC news that l\:ttic had a confronlational situ:.ation, in some ways,
"John Paul is in my arms and he's saying, the drama and featured the song, "Old Tall•· rut a gag order on Ammerman and Holv.-.:11 you·~ cn:o!ifl!: it. Po what c.. ndhi and Am·
'But I wan! to go home with you.' And I'm hassec": and that she wa.< going to be fi~. morman and Hulwell and <>thot> have done
sa)ing, 'Well, I want )'OU tu go home v.ith "I said ooooh-kay. The First Amendment when ana.:kcd: Don't fogh!.
me, too.' I just sat !he~ with him crying my Weill came to Tallahas.<ce issues haven't c:ven been argued and !hey On another lcl'd !here we~ the teachings of
.-yeballs out, and he's crying his eyoballs out, In a ,..., so full of glee stand ur and fire: me," she says, Lao Tzu. Planning. Strategy. Tac~ks. Loyalty.
and !hey c:ame and took him away from me." The)' put me in the jailhouse In coun St.-ve Usdin do:Jivercd a prodama· "Those ideas are really !he crux of !he
During !he nat f.-w weeks, the Finders set• With a chain upon my knee lion from Pottic. Our interests and !he sttte's grour," says Arico, "and they are what keep
·tied into the media saddle and dispbyed what interests are the same, .he said, so we don't !he group functioning at !he high level that it
may be their fmest v.it and humor of !he af. You get !he idea, n«d counsel. does.'' P,ttk wanted !hem to go before !he
&ir. But it ultimately drovo Arico and two BefOR !he trial, Ammerman and Holwell "Some 'people practice law 20 or 30 :years judge and tell him in onison !hat he could end
olher mothers from the group. • • spoke frody with Walborsky, who was assist· and never get fired on televisioo," Walborsky all !his right now, he could be the game call·
A memo attn'boted to "M.D. Pottic" deliv· ed by se~'cral rtnders men. "They all had jokes. _ cr. "Think if you v.= a judge, and !here
cred to !he TciWtantt Dmwcr.u said he was handlebar mustaches and dressed aliket Wal· l'l>ttie's strategy of nonresistance split the were fi•·e women in your ,-ounroom, and in
resigning as leader of !he Finders-a position borsky says. · mothers. Knau!h and Livingstoa gave· Wal· all of your experiences with !hem you knew
he said be didoi know he held. "I thought I . "I sent them 10 FSU library to &<t me borsky !he boot, as instructed, while Arico, ~~ !hey n:ally loved 1heir kids and were
was justa consultant on Wit Mid Humor," !be books for the case 10 ccplain !heir philosophy. E1'a11s, and Said re12ined her. trying to do the right things," says Aiico.
memo said. "If I C\"ee' was !he leader, I ~ They came back with books on psycbology, Arko describes the behind-!he-sc:enes drama "That's the position Pottic wanted the judge
rc:siglt 10 devote myself full-time to Zen Walk· India, American Indians; Samoan tribes, of that morning. ,put ln."
lng." .•. OUnese philosophy'M• . Livingston had called Ptttie. "She begged Arico couldni accept Pottic'• advicl:. "The
The F'mders also .wted publishing a llCWS- · Juvenile .CXltllt was' packed with on-loolcers him to tell her what to do," says Arico. "He group told me to choose beiW<ell Ptttie and
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Hours after tbe Mud! tS ~It: case end·
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their educations .~' they had disbanded. It wun'! true, of course. would be proving wrongful intent. " E\'Cf)'•
John l'aul, B.B., and Honeybee, the th= But it did sigNI the en<! of Arico, Said, and thing they did Wa< 11ithin the limits of the
yoWlgest children, wen: ~turned to their Evans' membership in the group. law,'' she says.
mothetS-Arieo,' Said, and Evans. Tile judge Arico cites many personal reasons for leav· Arico's final analYSis of what went wrong:
didn't free the older three because he wanted ing the group that ha'" little to do with the "You jwt can't ha\i: a highly discijllined life-
my kids. I chose my kids." their mo!l><n to dononstnte that they would Florida incident. A r.,.. years before, she says, style and have kids. You just can't. It just
Tile hearing lasted WItil Wednesday. Waf· adequatdy educate them. "I saw the writing 011 the wall, but I didn't doesn't work."
borsky lwnme~ on the CIKIStitutional issues Arico agreed 1o cross every 1 and dot every read it." Make no mistake, though •. She loved being a
and appealed to the judge's experience. "This i, and after two R>onths of sute supervision, She spolce with attorneys about suing the Finder. " It's a very magnetic situation," she
is a judge who has seen thousands of juvenile she was given full custody of Muy. Uvings- authorities and decided there were too many says. "But the mystery's gone now, the whole
cast!S,'' Walborsky says. "I told him if tbe lon and Knauth's children were put in footer obstacles. "I "'OU!d hate had to put my child· mystique that nobody knew what we reall)·
walls could talk they ..,'OUld ay. This wasn't homes, but the state fmally rdinquished Cll$o ~n into therapy immediatdy to P"?ve that did." CP
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Memorandum • •
To SAC, MIAMI (145-0) (P) Date 10/26/93
Subject: UN SUBS;
ALLEGATIONS CONCERNING POSSIBLE
CHILD ABUSE & CHILD PORNOGRAPHY,
STUART, FLORIDA AREA
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the letter to on 7/21/93. While not going into as
much detail a J. se orth in the letter ,1 I did allude to
u.s. CUSTOMS SERVICE not following through on investigation. He
did mention allegations of computer chips being planted in
children's heads, an organization in Stuart, Florida involved in
Satan worship and possibly child abuse, and the fact that
individuals involved in such activities were at the highest
levels of government. When pushed for any substantive evidence
concerning these allegations,! lcould not provide any and
2 - Miami (Enc.2)
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including SAl _was advised by SAl lthat b6
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or any other evidence to substantiate his allegations, he should
contact SAl I To date, he has not done so.
At the time of the contact withl lno
documentation of this meeting occurred by SAl ~ue to the
fact that S~ lfelt his allegations to be extremely broad,
!far-fetched and unsubstantiated in any way. It should be notld
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school are aware of individuals within the Stuart and Port st.
Lucie, Florida areas involved in Satan worship. To date, he
advised, neither he nor anyone else to his knowledge has revealed
any evidence that these practices are in any way related to
sexual child abuse.
All individuals contacted above were advised that were
they to obtain any information concerning sexual abuse of
children, they should immediately report it to the authorities.
In view 5f the lack of any evidence of, or substantiation of,
I _allegations as set forth in the attached letter as they
relate to the Stuart, Florida area, no further inquiries are
being made concerning this matter at this time.
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PRELIMINARY INQUIRY - ALLEGATIONS
OF ORGANIZED CHILD ABUSE BY A GROUP KNOWN AS "FINDERS"
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concerning the FINDERS and had obtained this information.
I lhad nothing to do with the children
or his investigation into the alleged child abuse. I I
stated that he was never instructed by anyone froml IFBI<
state Department, or any other organization to end the FINDERS
investigation, and that his investigation ran its normal course
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believe that 0 on the person of or{] on. the premises known as (name, description and/or location)
I am satisfied that the affidavit(s) and any recorded testimony establish probable cause to believe that the person
or property so described is now concealed on the person or premises above-described and establish grounds for
the issu~nce of this warrant.
(not to exceed 10 days) the person or place named above for the person or property sp~cified, serving this warrant
and making the searqh (in the daytime - 6:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M.) (at any time in the qay or night as I find
reasonable cause has been estaolished) and if the person or property be found there to seize same, leaving a copy
of this warrant and receipt for the person or property taken, and prepare a written inventory of the person or prop-
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On February 5,1987 Your affiant received information from the United States
Custom Service that the Tallahasse, Plorida policP department had received a
call from a unidentified woman in Tallahasse who stated that two (?) men werP.
keening six(6) children in the back of a van in a specific location in
Tallahasse, Florida. The oolice in Tallnhasse responded to the location of the
van in the evening hours of FAbruarv 4,1987 and located the childrP.n and
arrested two male ~ubjects later irlentified asl I b6
I land another Sllb.iect who refusP.d to R:ive his name to
the police in Florida. Both subjP.cts were charged with child abuse and according
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children were all examined for sexual abuse at a hosnital in Tallahasse, but the
results of the examination werP not available at this time. When the children
were interviewed thPy were unable to tell investigators who thier parents were,
where· they lived or where they had come from. One of the childrP.n stated that
they wereon thier way to Mexico. On February 5,198~ I
an investigator with the Tallahasse polife wbo is the case agent stated that she
interviewed the children who stated that I
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Lastly, the sour~e in this investigation told your affiant that information
concernin~Zthis "cult" is kept in comnuters stored at the addresses listed in
this affidavit. ·The TallahassA policA advisAd that they recovererl a computer in
the van that was seized in Florida alon!Z with disk'~. T.hP Florida authorities
are attempting to obtain a search warrant for the information on the rlisk's and
in the computer. The two defendants are currentlv bAing held ~n ~5n,oon.no cash
bond under the direction of Florida States attorney ~ordham.
Based on the information contained in this affidavit your affiant renuests the
issuance of two search warrants for the entire premises known as 3g18-20 W
Street N.W. Washington, D.C. and 1~07 4th Street N.E. Washin~ton D.C. so that we
mav go forth and seize all evidence of kidnanping which is a violation of the
United States Code Title 18 section 1201, including but not limited to records,
files, computer software and hardware and any instrumentalites of a criminal
offense.
On December 15, 1986, responded to the ar~ b6
Glover Park in the rear of the 3900 Block of W Street, N.W. L___j b7C
I ~observed a clearing approximately seventy yards behind the
hous~.-ci d severa-l -'stumps s~rrounding the open area. Several round
. A"·;.:;.......;:.., t.~'j.-".L/,1/ .j-::r..~-<' ...:'. .,. t~ ··stones had been gathered near the circle,
~ ·, -r this practice is sometimes used in
··- .:;. \ Satanic rituals, and evidence that several
persons had gathered in the clearing recently. The rear of the residence
is covered from the alley by heavy bamboo growth, save a small entrance
to the rear yard. In the rear yeard was a small very ornate gravestone
propped up against the support oillar for the porch. ~
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I am satisfied that the affidavit(s) and any recorded testimony establish probable cause to believe that the person
or property so described is now concealed on the person or premises above-described and establish grounds for
the issuance of this warrant. (;
(not to exceed 10 days) the person or place named above for the person or property specified, serving this warrant
and making the search (in the daytime - 6:00 A.M. to 10:00 P.M.) (at any time in the day or night as I find
reasonable cause has been established) and if the person or property be found there to seize same, leaving a copy
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!links to Finders
By Paul M. Rodriguez
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
training operation but that it had few years ago and no longer lives in
'gone bad?" the Washington area, could not be
A senior Customs Service official reached. But a friend confirmed
confirmed the content of the memos that he worked for Future Enter-
and said the agency "only had a prises while a member of the Find-
small role in the case?' ers.
A CIA official who asked not to be Current and former members of
named confirmed that the agency the group said Mr. Terrell's work for
had sent personnel for computer ·Future Enterprises was separate
training to a company called Future from the group's other activities.
Enterprises Inc. Current members of the Finders
But he cautioned, "I'm not sure if said they did not have any int:er.c~st
that was a Finders organization" as Future Enterprises and
suggested by the Metropolitan Po- working for the CIA or any
lice and Customs Service reports. intelligence organization.
Joseph Marinich, the presidept of "I guess you could say we're odd;'
Future Enterprises Inc., said he saidBteve-Usdin, a free-lance writer
once had a contract to train CIA em- associated with the Finders. "But
ployees in computers. we're not criminal?'
But he denied that he or his firm .
had any involvement with the Find- J
ers or acted as a front company for
' the cult on behalf of the CIA. "I'm
shocked and appalled that our com-
pany's name exists in any" law en-
forcement files.
Mr. Marinich said that when the
news reoprts on the Finders broke in
February 1987, he discovered that
his tax accountant, R. Gardner Ter-
rell, was a member of the group.
"It was a total surprise to us;' and
Mr. Terrell's employment was
, ended, Mr. Marinich said.
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matter, and stated that he knew the FBI
investigation into the "FINDERS" Group.
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provided writer's name tol las the FBI po1nt of contact for
this investigation.
r---~W.riter briefed SSAS I IWMFO media representati~e,
SSAI I WMFO C-4, and ~~-------~-FBIHQ, CID, VCU concern1ng
this.
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about the Finders case now have Dem-
ocratic Rep. Charlie Rose of North
Through a glass, Carolina, chairman of the House Ad-
ministration Committee, and Florida's
Rep. Tom l~wis, a Republican, more
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Subject: Finders
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identified by the indices search as follows:
1. his is a main file concernin the investi ation in
1987 wherei~~--~----~~--------~~--------~--~--~~~----~
were arrested by the Tallahassee Police Department, Tallahassee,
Florida and charged with misdemeanor child abuse. A review of
this file is as follows:
on 2/4/87,
~...-~_______.I were arresteL..d~=-b-y--=T=-a-=1-=l~a-:'h_a_s_s_e_e--=P-o-::l-;i-c-e---=o=-e-p_a_r_t-:-m--e-n-:-t--(~T=p=-=o=-):---lon
misdemeanor child abuse charges. The two subjects were arrested
after a complaint was made that six children were playing in a
park seemed to be unkept and neglected. The two subjects with
the children could not initially provide sufficient information
as to their legal custody of the children and were uncooperative
regarding their identity or the children identity.
After the subjects were arrested TPD obtained
information from the children that they were from the Washington,
D. c. area. TPD and FBI Jacksonville contacted the Youth
Services Division in Washington, D. c. in an effort to further
identify the children. The FBI got involved in the investigation
at this time due to the possibility that the children had been
kidnaped. The vehicle registration records for a van the men had
in ~eir possesr~on when arrested reflected that it was
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This file deals with a Freedom of Information Act
(FOIA) request froml I
r-----------~s~e~r~ial #1 is a letter from Isabelle M. Pettie
to the Records Management Division, Federal
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This file contains two serials and the subject of the
file isl !Finders; Finders Transnational; Ragged
Mountain Research Center;~~--------------~1- Victim; Extortion;
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BY LIAISON
Secretary of state
Attention: Office of the Legal Advisor
9. Pettie
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16. Diane Sherwood
17. Barbara Sylvester
Should you identify records or files containing
information, please notify the FBI and arrangements will be
made to review this information. In the event that there is
no record of the "Finders," please advise as soon as possible.
r-----------•Y~o~u~r~p~o~l~·rtof contact is supervisory SQecial Agent cssj)
FBI Headquarters, telephone: I
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Your cooperation· in this matter is appreciated.
Enclosures (2)
BY LIAISON
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Secretary of state
Attention: Office of the Legal Advisor
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Division, discussed with Deputy Assistant Attorney General CDAAG)
J:h~eenev concern in requesting thel
! D e p a r t m e n t of state (DOS) to conduct a search
one1r recor s o r the "FINDERS" when .they could potentially be
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Secretary of State
Attention: Office of the Legal Advisor
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THE FINDERS
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During a usc review of the "Finders" investigation, usc
representatives noted that an MPD report, dated February 19, 1987,
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1307 4th Street N.E ••• "
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f' SUmmary Exact -This will perform an exact name search
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response to Ms. Sherwood's FOIA request concerning Barbara F.
Sylvester.
3. Barbara Sylvester
190-2-87619 (section 905)-this serial is a 4-837 FOIA request
dated 2/3/83 from Ms. Diane Elizabeth Sherwood, 3918 W s., N.W.,
Washington, D.C. 20007. This form listed the subject of the
request as Barbara Sylvester, Date of birth 12/9/36 at Chicago,
Illinois.
105-0-7171 (section 139)-not identifiable as Barabara Sylvester
DOB 12/9/36. This serial is a memo dated 3/8/60 to Director, FBI
from SAC, New York and is captioned I I Security
Matter; IS-PO; Miscellaneous Information Concerning."
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serial #29-this is a teletype dated 2/7/87 from FBI, Jacksonville
to Director, FBI and dummarjzes inyestiqatton to date. The
information concernin s the same as
information contained in serials #11 and #15.
Police Department
1-HQ-30106-This file is captioned "John Henry stitcher, Jr.,
Sergeant, Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, D.c.;
Applicant 51st Session, FBI National Academy" and concerns his
nomination to attend the FBI National Academy.
7. ~there were no indices references to L . . l_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ .
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lpage 3-this is an airtel dated 2/13/87 to
~D~1r'r_e_c~t-o-r-,~F=B~I=-~f-r_o_m~S~A~C Jacksonville, which enclosed a two page
list of n;.:.a=m=e::s:......:::a~n.:.::d:......:a=d=d=r..;:e:.:s:.:s:.;:e::.::s::;......:w:.:.:h~1=-·c:::::h::.....::h:.::a:.::d::.....:::b::.::e::.:::e:::n..:.....:r::..e=c=o..:.v..;:e:.::r...::e::.::d:::......::f::.:r::..;o:;.:m~"------.
subjects I
time theyL--w_e_r_e_a_r_r_e_s~t-e-=d:--a-n"""'d::--::b"""'o-o"'""k:-e---==d~i-n-:-t-o-.....t-=h-e-.....L=-e-o-n~C~o-u-n"'""t,...y_,_J=a--i"'"1-,_ ___,
Tallahassee, Florida by the Tallahassee Police Department. The
listing contained the notation "Future Enterprises, Inc. 662-7676
662-7'616 n:i:ght.'" There was ho further description or information
concerning Future Enterprises, Inc. in this serial.
~----------~l~t~h~i~·s~i~s~a memorandum dated 2/27/87 from the I
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FACILITY: GENERAL SCIENTIFIC CORP FACILITY CODE: 3S344
DIVISION: HOME OFFICE: 3S344
COMPANY TYPE: UNK FIELD OFFICE: BA
STREET ADDRESS: 1684 EAST GUDE DRIVE PHONE NUMBER: 301 340-2773
CITY: ROCKVILLE STATE: MD ZIP: 20850 ZIP EXT: COUNTRY: VS
DCASR CODE: 9999 STATUS CODE: 1 CLEARANCE: 1
.ESTABLISH DATE: 07/27/83 LAST ACTION DATE: 09/01/87 CLEARANCE DATE: 07/26/83
REINSTATE DATE: TERMINATION DATE: VALIDATION DATE: 09/01/87
CREATION DATE: 11/18/92 DELETION DATE: 03/22/93 ACT/HIST FLAG: H
PHYSICAL ADDRESS:
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9. Isabelle Pettie, AKA Isabelle M. Pettie, Christine Isabell
Pettie,! ; I
lfurtner aescr~pt~on ava~ able.
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To: Unit Chief IL...-_ _ _____.1 b6
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From: ssAIL...-_ _ _ _ _ ___.1
Subject: Finders
A search of FBIHO jndjces was condrcted for~l~--~
~--~~--~--~~~------~------~~--~~~~ File reviews were
conducted on indices references identified by the indices search
as follows:
1.
~------------~------------~------~--------------~~!Kidnapping;
00: Jacksonville." The file consists of 31 serials and concerns
the investigation of two individuals who had been arrested in
Tallahassee, Florida in 1987 and charged with child abuse. These
two individuals were identified as ~elonging to a group based in
Washington, D.C. known as the FINDERS.
on 2/4/87,
I lwere arreste~d~~b-y__T_a~l~l-a~h-a_s_s_e_e__P_o~l~i~c-e__D_e_p_a_r_t~m--e-n~t~(~T~P~D~)__.on
misdemeanor child abuse charges. The two subjects were arrested
after a complaint was made that six children were playing in a
park seemed to be unkept and neglected. The two subjects with bG
the children could not initially provide sufficient information b7c
as to their legal custody of the children and were uncooperative
regarding their identity or the children identity.
After the subjects were arrested TPD obtained
information from the children that they were from the Washington,
D. c. area. TPD and FBI Jacksonville contacted the Youth
Services Division in Washington, D. c. in an effort to further
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Kidnapping;
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s and concerns
the investigation of two individuals who had been arrested in
Tallahassee, Florida in 1987 and charged with child abuse. These
two individuals were identified as belonging to a group based in
Washington, D.C. known as the FINDERS. See additional write-up
above.
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FBI FACSIMILE
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CLASSIFICATION
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CJ Immediate r_., Secret Sender's Initials: _c.~~
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Attn: .
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Subject: ''ElmJ~G.RQUP;
WHITE SLAVE TRA""""4FF_I_C_A_Cf
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OF CHILDREN;
OBSTRUGriOi.~ OF JUSTICE - PRELIMINARY INQUIRY
Speda/HandHngmsuucuons:.------------------------------
TO DIRECTOR FBI
FROM LEGAT, BRUSSELS (31C-WF-189911) (RUC)
SUBJECT "FINDERS" GROUP;
WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC ACT - b6
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN; b7C
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE -
PRELIMINARY INQUIRY;
00: WMFO
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SAC, SAN D~EGO (31C-WF-189911) (RUq)
"FINDERS" GROUP;
WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC ACT-
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN;
OBSTRUCTION OF ~USTICE-PRELIMINARY INQUIRY;
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(1-31C-WF-189911)
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Date 1/31/94
TO DIRECTOR, FBI
(ATTN: VCU-CID, SSA ~. . 1 _ _ _ _ _ __ _ .
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FROM SAC, MIAMI (31C-WF-189911) (FPRA) (RUC)
SUBJECT FINDERS GROUP;
WHITE SLAVE TRAFFIC ACT -
SEXUAL EXPLOITATION OF CHILDREN;
OBSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE -
PRELIMINARY INQUIRY
00: WMFO
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(1V- WMFO (C-4) (Enc.2)
1 - Miami
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advised that any information he received in the future
concerning THE FINDERS would be brought to the attention of
either s~ lor other law enforce~::t b6
officials. At that time,! !also advised SA~ _ b7C
who conducted the interview, that he would be prov1~~1n~g~o~n~~
that day or the following day, 11/16/93, the address of THE
FINDERS in Washington, D.C.
As of 1/28/94,1 lhas not contacted the FBI
concerning THE FINDERS location in Washington, D.C. nor
reported this most recent supposed contact.
In view of the fact that no investigation remains
outstanding, Miami is considering this matter on an RUC
status.
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Obstruction of Justice - Preliminary Inquiry;
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13 of the 30 presumed members ·of a religious sect arrested amid
allegations linking the church to sexual activity involving children have
been released from custody, a judge said Saturday.
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lice searched several residences Wednesday and took about 300 children
away from members of the outlawed Children of God religious group, a cult
accused of promoting indiscriminate sex.
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The fate of the largest sunken treasure in American history worth about
$1 billion is going to the Supreme Court, where an armada of lawyers will
argue the legal virtues of finders-keepers.
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.TELINE: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) March 18, 1987
~IME: 23:05ps CYCLE: pm
PRIORITY: Deferred WORD COUNT: 0210
Police Lt. Roy Dickey said prosecutors and defense attorneys agreed to
the dismissal late Tuesday and Michael Hollwell and Doug Ammerman were
promptly released from jail.
"They did not find that the original probable cause was invalid, but
upon further investigation they found that the facts were different than
they originally appeared to the officers that originally made the arrest,"
Dickey said.
Hollwell and Ammerman were arrested Feb. 4 in a park when they could
not explain where they and the six children with them were going or
identify the youngsters' parents. The suspects and the children, age 2-6,
were subsequently linked to the Finders communal organization of Washington
D.C.
Four of the children were released to their parents, Dickey said, but
'- das unsure of the status of the two other children.
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STORY TAG: children
DATELINE: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) March 17, 1987
TIME: 18:59ps CYCLE: am
PRIORITY: Deferred WORD COUNT: 0203
Child abuse charges were dismissed Tuesday against two members of the
Finders commune who were arrested last month ·after being found with six
dirty and hungry young children in a city park.
Tallahassee Police Lt. Roy Dickey said prosecutors and defense attorneys
agreed to the dismissal.
"They did not find that the original probable cause was invalid, but
upon further investigation they found that the facts were different than
they originally appeared to the officers that originally made the arrest,"
Dickey said.
r ·qry children with them were going or identify the parents of the
.dren.
The two men and the children, age 2-6, were linked to the Finders
communal organization of Washington D.C.
Dickey said four of the children have been released to their parents,
but he was unsure of the status of the two other children.
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STORY TAG: children
DATELINE: MIAMI (UPI) March 12, 1987
TIME: 06:42ps CYCLE: pm
PRIORITY: Deferred WORD COUNT: 0275
She said the other three children will most likely be returned to their
~ .ents after a hearing later this month. She said close state supervision
of their upbringing probably also will be ordered.
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Hours after the court ruling, Robert G. Terrell, also known as Genghis
K. Plato, said his secretive organization's experiment with "group work"
had failed and is being dismantled after 17 years.
"This is farewell from The Finders. We're breaking up," Terrell said.
"You won't be hearing from The Finders again until Hong Kong is being run
by the Chinese and the Panama Canal is being managed by the Panamanians in
other words, at least until the year 2000."
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The mother of the sixth child has returned to her Washington, D.C.,
home and · 3-year-old Benjamin Franklin will remain in a Health and
Rehabilitative Services foster care home until the permanent custody
hearing March 6.
"I can assure you arrangements have been made for the protection of the
children's interest," HRS spokeswoman Connie Ruggles said. She refused to
elaborate.
Fordham also said he expected to resolve the fate of the two men,
members of the Finders communal organization, arrested for child abuse
while watching over the children by Monday. Fordham suggested that the two
men Doug Ammerman and Michael Holwell might agree to plead guilty to lesser
charges of child neglect.
Both men were charged with one count of child abuse. Holwell was also
charged with one count of resisting arrest without violence.
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0337145
SECTION: General news
STORY TAG: children
BY: McCLELLAND, MICHAEL
DATELINE: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) February 19, 1987
TIME: 07:05ps CYCLE: pm
PRIORITY: Deferred WORD COUNT: 0408
Bond was reduced for two members of the Finders communal organization
facing child abuse charges, but the judge ordered the men to stay away from
six children being held by the state pending a custody hearing.
The men were arrested in a Tallahassee park Feb. 4 when they could not
ain to police where they and the six dirty, hungry children with them
\ ~ going, or who the children belonged to. The group has since been tied
to the Washington D.C.-based Finders communal organization.
~he p~rents of three of the children. Pauia Arlee and Pat Livingston said
they let t~~ir childrA go on vacation with Amme.n and Howell and had
"full,faith" 1n them. ~
Reynolds also heard brief testimony from the parents of Ammerman and
·,.,ell. Ammerman's father, University of Florida agriculture professor
renee Ammerman, said he did not see his son frequently, but that Doug
Ammerman had come to his Gainesville horne Jan. 20.
Holwell's father, New York high school math teacher James Holwell, said
he had contact "on and off" with his son, his daughter-in-law Paula Arico,
and their two children.
Public defender Michael Minerva told Reynolds his clients are the
center of a national controversy simply because they have an unusual
lifestyle. But Fordham countered that the unusual case is far from settled.
"We've had a lot of roadblocks in this investigation," Fordham said.
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"There are still so many unanswered questions. It may all turn out to be
really innocuous, but at this point I'm just not comfortable saying this is
all we're going to have. We don't feel we have enough of a picture to let
them waltz out of here."
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0336575
SECTION: General news
STORY TAG: children
BY: McCLELLAND, MICHAEL
DATELINE: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) February 17, 1987
TIME: 21:59ps CYCLE: pm
PRIORITY: Deferred WORD COUNT: 0408
State officials told five women they will have to prove they are the
mothers of six dirty, hungry children found in a park with two members of a
co~nunal organization before the issue of custody can be decided.
"It's not that we necessarily disbelieve these people are the mothers,
but we need them to prove that," Connie Ruggles, a spokeswoman for the
Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, said Monday. "Anybody
could just walk in here and claim to be the parents."
Ruggles said the women claiming to be the children's mothers met with
HRS District Two chief administrator John Awad Monday morning and discussed
: they needed to do to regain custody of the children.
The six children, dirty and hungry, were taken into state care Feb. 4
after their two adult companions were arrested in a Tallahassee park on
child abuse charges. The men identified themselves as Douglas Edward
Ammerman and James Michael Houlihan.
The group, and the five women, have been linked to the Finders, a
Washington-based communal organization. Houlihan and Ammerman are currently
being held in Leon County Jail on $100,000 bond, awaiting trials on March
30 and March 31.
Ruggles did not have the names of the women involved. A copyright story
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Ruggles said Awad told the five women they would have to conclusively
prove they are the mothers as the first step in gaining custody of the
children. She said HRS would call in law enforcement officials to evaluate
any proof presented by the women.
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STORY TAG: children
BY: McCLELLAND, MICHAEL
DATELINE: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) February 16, 1987
TIME: 14:03ps CYCLE: am
PRIORITY: Regular WORD COUNT: 0413
The women met with John Awad, chief administrator of the Health and
Rehabilitative Services District Two, and discussed what the women needed
to do to regain custody of the children, HRS spokeswoman Connie Ruggles
said.
Ruggles did not have the names of the women involved. A copywright
-y in Sunday's Tallahassee Democrat identified four of the women as
,tin Knauth, Judy Evans, Paula Arico and Carolyn Said.
The six, children ~ taken into state care o~eb. 4 after their two
adult. companions were arrested in a Tallahassee park on child abuse
charges. · The men who have identified themselves as Douglas Edward Ammerman
and James Michael Houlihan were arrested because the children were dirty
hungry and the men could not explain who the children belonged to.
Awad told the five women they would have to prove conclusively that
they are the mothers as the first step in gaining custody of the children,
Ruggles said. She said HRS would call in law enforcement officials to
evaluate any evidence presented by the women. ·
"It's not that we necessarily disbelieve these people are the mothers,
but we need them to prove that, " Ruggles said. "Anybody could just walk in
here and claim to be the parents."
The women will have a chance to claim the children in a juvenile court
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hearing scheduled for March 9, when Circuit Court Judge Victor Cawthon will
hold an adjudication hearing on HRS request for custody of the children,
Ruggles said . Cawthon could either give custudy to the mothers, to HRS, or
postpone a ruling while he seeks additional information, Ruggles said.
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0336164
SECTION: General news
STORY TAG: finders
BY: BRIENZA, JULIE
DATELINE: WASHINGTON (UPI) February 15, 1987
TIME: 12:44ps CYCLE: be
PRIORITY: Advanced for weekend WORD COUNT: 0743
Police pronounced them satanic and their rural Virginia retreat was
scrutinized for human remains.
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·even· scared. But one mother in the Finders describ~herself and others as
"perfectly g,ood people. "tl W
~Granted, we have an alternative lifestyle," said the woman, who
refused to give her name. "We're different from Mr. and Mrs. America next
'r. But we love our children and we're trying to lead a healthy, happy
_e. And to have this incredible barrage of attention and negativity
toward us is really an awful feeling."
"It is our belief these kids were not kidnapped but that their parents
gave them away because one of the rites of passage into this satanic
organization is that you have to give up your rights to your children," the
police said.
But as more became known about the group, Tallahassee police backed off
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on the alleged satanic link. Police also said it was unclear whether
initial reports that least one of the children had been sexually abused
could be substantiated.
The children, ages 2 to 7 and giving such names as Honey Bee, John Paul
Pope and Benjamin Franklin, have remained in foster homes since the men
were arrested. The men still face child abuse charges and the parents a
custody battle over the children.
They are waiting out what has evolved into a bizarre fairytale whose
chapters include white-robed men at a goat-slaying ceremony in Virginia
with youngsters holding goat fetuses.
"Reasonable people ... will realize a mistake has been made and it was
blown way out of proportion and that it's gone much too far," said Robert
Terrell.
Asked how he would characterize the Finders, Terrell said, "We are on
the cutting edge of the wit and humor movement."
Some pictures showed three men wearing white robes dismembering two
Terrell, saying the ceremony was held for the children, said it was
meant to be an educati.l experience so they coul~ee the insides of the
goats. Robes' were worn make an impression on the~ungsters, he said, to
bring home the seriousness of killing an animal that was slaughtered for
its meat .
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STORY TAG: finders
BY: BRIENZA, JULIE
DATELINE: WASHINGTON (UPI) February 14, 1987
TIME: 09:40ps CYCLE: am
PRIORITY: Regular WORD COUNT: 0705
Two men, who said they were members of The Finders, were arrested in a
Tallahassee, Fla., park Feb. 4 with six children. The men were charged with
child abuse and police pronounced the group satanic. The group's rural
v:rginia retreat was scrutinized for human remains.
"It is our belief these kids were not kidnapped but that their parents
gave them away because one of the rites of passage into this satanic
organization is that you have to give up your rights to your children," the
police said.
But as more became known about the group, Tallahassee police backed off
that statement. Police also said it was unclear whether initial reports
tnat least one of the children had been sexually abused could be
substantiated.
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.plenuy of odd doings, but no illegality.
The children, ages 2 to 7 and given such names as Honey Bee, John Paul
~ope and Benjamin Franklin, have been in foster homes since the men were
arrested. The men still face child abuse charges and the parents a custody
battle.
"Reasonable people will realize a mistake has been made and it was
blown way out of proportion and that it's gone much too far," said Terrell.
Asked how he would characterize the Finders, he said, "We are on the
cutting edge of the wit and humor movement."
Reports of satanism surfaced when police seized pictures taken of a
ceremony held on what appeared to be the Etlan, Va., farm. A goat's head,
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goatskins and a scrapbook titled "The Execution of Henrietta and Igor" were
also confiscated.
Some pictures showed three men wearing white robes dismembering two
goats. Another picture showed at least one child showing a goat fetus to
someone behind a hand-held camera.
Terrell, saying the ceremony was held for the children, said it was
'· ~nt to be an educational experience so they could see the insides of the
goats. Robes were worn to make an impression on the youngsters, he said, to
bring home the seriousness of killing an animal that was slaughtered for
its meat.
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STORY TAG : children
DATELINE: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) February 12, 1987
TIME: 05:07ps CYCLE: pm
PRIORITY: Deferred WORD COUNT: 0401
the
"We have,uncovered . i n g that would point to
paren~s,
illegal activity" by
Sheppard sa1a, but he declined to discuss the interviews.
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Tallahassee police ended daily briefings on the arrest last week of two
who were found in a city park with six young children described by
_ .ice as filthy and covered with insect bites and scratches.
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The men, who gave their names as Doug Ammerman and Michael Houlihan,
were linked to the Finders, a Washington-based group polic~ originally
characterized as a satanic cult. Police subsequently backed off that
description and now refer to the Finders simply as an organization.
"We are perfectly good people," said one mother, who appeared on CBS
but refused to give her name. "Granted, we have an alternative lifestyle.
We're different from Mr. and Mrs. America next door. But we love our
children and we're trying to lead a healthy, happy life. And to have this
incredible barrage of attention and negativity toward us is really an awful
feeling.
Leon County Judge George Reynolds III refused to reduce the $100,000
bond set for the two men, but did not immediately set a trial date.
The children were turned over to the state Department of Health and
1bilitative Services and are being interviewed by a child psychiatrist.
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BY: McCLELLAND, MICHAEL
DATELINE: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) February 11, 1987
TIME: 07:58ps CYCLE: pm
PRIORITY: Regular WORD COUNT: 0550
Six children taken from followers of the Finders group remained in state
custody today and two men charged with abusing them entered pleas of
innocent at their arraignment.
The two men, who have given their names as Doug Ammerman and Michael
Houlihan, were arrested on Feb. 4 after they were spotted in a city park
with six children described by arresting officers as filthy and covered
with insect bites and scratches.
Both men appeared in court today and were ordered held on a single
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count of child abuse not the six counts police earlier said had been filed.
Neither man would speak with reporters.
State authorities indicated they were unsure the children had been
abused at all.
Greenberg said the children seemed troubled but that he was not
immediately sure whether the problem was caused by the children's
upbringing or by their current circumstances.
The children, taken a week ago 1 will remain in state custody at least
until Feb. 26, when state officials will go before a judge to recommend
what should be done with the youngsters.
"Some of their problems were the kind you might see in children who had
been institutionalized," Greenberg said. "The real casual contact they
wn11ld have with adults reminded me of young children who had been on a
:.atr ic ward for a long, long time. "
The children seemed physically healthy but showed signs of being
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The state took custody of the children last Wednesday when police
arrested Arnm~rman and H~ihan watching over the di~ youngsters in a city
park.,
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The men were being held in lieu of $100,000 bond.
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STORY TAG: children
BY: McCLELLAND, MICHAEL
DATELINE: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) February 11, 1987
TIME: 12:30ps CYCLE: am
PRIORITY: Regular WORD COUNT: 0425
The $100,000 bond for two Finders group members facing misdemeanor child
abuse charges is justified by the mystery surrounding the case and six
children found with the men, the prosecutor said Wednesday.
The men, who have given their names as Doug Ammerman and Michael
Houlihan, were arraigned on one count each of child abuse. Houlihan also
was arraigned for a single misdemeanor count of resisting arrest without
violence.
Public defender Michael Minerva asked Leon County Judge George Reynolds
III to reduce their bond, but Reynolds said a special hearing is required
on that issue.
"It may be an unusually high bond, but it's an unusual case," said
state attorney C.L. Fordham. "The bond is based more on the questions than
,live$ of six children," the prosecutor said .
Houlihan and Ammerman were arrested Feb. 4 after they were spotted in a
c~ty park with six children described by police as filthy and covered with
insect bites and scratches. The men have since been linked to the Finders,
a Washington, D.C., group police originally called a satanic cult. Police
later backed off that description and now refer to the Finders simply as an
organization.
Scott Hunt, Tallahassee police spokesman, said Tuesday both men had
been charged with six counts of child abuse, but Fordham said papers sent
by police listed only the single child abuse charge, plus the resisting
charge against Houlihan.
Fordham said each charge is for the abuse of all six children, rather
than a single count for abuse of a specific child. The men face up to one
v~ar in jail and up to a $1,000 fine on each count.
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0334860
SECTION: General news
STORY TAG: children
February 10, 1987
TIME: 16:03ps CYCLE: am
PRIORITY: Deferred WORD COUNT: 0465
"Some of their problems were the kind you might see in children who had
been institutionalized," Greenberg said. "Th~ real casual contact they
would have with adults reminded me of young children who had been on a
pediatric ward for a long long time."
The children will remain in HRS care until at least Feb. 26, when the
1---"must go before a circuit judge to recommend what should be done with
them. That recommendation could include more time in state care.
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STORY TAG: children
DATELINE: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) February 09, 1987
TIME: 02:42ps CYCLE: pm
PRIORITY: Deferred WORD COUNT: 0490
There is evidence of sexual abuse involving more than one of the six
children found hungry and dirty in a park last week with two apparent
members of a mysterious cult, police said.
"We now know more than one child was abused," police spokesman Scott
Hunt said Sunday. "How many we are not going to say, in what manner we are
going to say and how recently we are not going to say."
mist~eated and received adequate care and were taken "on a vacation-camping
t-rip to the warmer climate of Florida with the full applause and approval
the children's mothers."
The letter claimed the men and the children went to Berea, Ky., to help
in construction of "New Hope," a retirement community organized by Rev. Jim
Wyker, but the project was not ready for their help.
Wyker and Willis B. Hunting told The Miami Herald the men and children
arrived at the community last month in a van.
"The kids had lots of clothes and lots of fo~d and they were wonderful,
healthy and vigorous," Wyker told the newspaper. "They weren't dominated.
They 1;1eren't reticent, but they weren't aggressive, either."
Hunting, who along with his wife Lucile runs a Montessori school near
Wyker's property, said that when he asked the men about the children's
parents, they told him the parents were members of "The Finders" cult.
The authenticity of the letter and its claims could not be confirmed
and Washington police said they had not yet formally received a copy.
The children identified in the letter as Mary Arico, John Paul Arico,
Max Berns, Ben Knauth, Honeybee Evans and Bebe Said are believed to be the
sons and daughters of cult members and not kidnap victims, authorities
said.
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STORY TAG: children
BY: McCLELLAND, MICHAEL
DATELINE: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) February 09, 1987
TIME: 14:28ps CYCLE: am
PRIORITY: Deferred WORD COUNT: 0702
~bli~ity surrounding six children taken from members of the Finders cult
has brought a flood of questions from anxious parents of missing children,
a police spokesman said Monday.
·made·nationwide headlines Thursday.
"What r~ally break. your heart is the call y l get from the sincere
moth~~ from somewhere out in the Midwest saying, 'My daughter was kidnapped
two years ago, I'm sure the picture I saw was her, I need to come down
·re, I want my daughter back,'" Hunt said. "You try not to build up any
~se hope in them, so that when we find out the identities of the
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children, if it's not her daughter, then this lady isn't suffering again."
Hunt said authorities had "tentative" identifications of the children,
but refused to release those names until they are confirmed. He said he
believes the children eventually will be shown to be children of Finders
members, and not runaways or kidnap victims.
The children have been in state care since Wednesday, when police
arrested their two adult companions for child abuse after they were spotted
watching over six filthy children in a city pa~k. State officials said they
determined at least two of the children had bee~ sexually abused.
Hunt said his office received about 450 calls from reporters between
csday and Sunday and took about 50 more by noon Monday. Calls about the
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Hunt said the FBI would handle the investigation of a memo delivered
ing the weekend to Washington police from Robert Gardner Terrell, the
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Finders member who owns the two buildings raided by police. In the memo,
Terrell .told CBS aff--ate WUSA-TV the group n e . abused children.
".We never touch a child except with love," Terrell said. "We, re
~llowing the children to. grow up in touch with their own intuition, to
·rn at their own speed, to learn how to walk and to talk when they
;urally feel that it's time to learn to walk and talk and read."
Terrell said the children's parents had not come to claim them for fear
they would be arrested.
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STORY TAG: children
February 08, 1987
TIME : 14:01ps CYCLE: am
PRIORITY: Regular WORD COUNT: 0484
In Tallahassee, police spokesman Scott Hunt said, "We now know more than
child was abused. How many we are not going to say, in what manner we
. . . _c not going to say and how recently we are not going to say."
The two men, who identified themselves as Michael Houlihan, 23, and
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Douglas Ammerman, 27, were arrested Wednesday after they were seen in a
Tallahassee park with the six filthy, poorly dressed children.
The letter said the children were not mistreated and received adequate
e, and were taken "on a vacation-camping trip to the warmer climate of
rida with the full applause and approval of the children's mothers."
The document claimed the men and the children went to Berea to help in
Wyker, reached by telephone in Berea, co~firm.ed that t~e men and the
children vis~ted him in ~uary and said the youngs s were 1n "excellent"
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The authenticity of the letter and its claims could not be confirmed
and washington police said they had not yet formally received a copy.
The children identified in the letter as Mary Arico, Joh~ Paul Arico,
Max Berns, Ben Knauth, Honeybee Evans and Bebe Said are believed to be the
.sons and daughters of cult members and not kidnap victims, authorities
said,
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BY: McCLELLAND, MICHAEL
DATELINE: TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (UPI) February 07, 1987
TIME: 21:18ps CYCLE: pm
PRIORITY: Regular WORD COUNT: 0584
)lice said six filthy and confused young children taken · from two men
~ .. Jrged with child abuse have been given away by their parents as part of a
satanic cult ritual.
The men were arrested in a city park Wednesday after someone called
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police about two well-dressed men in a blue van watching over six "filthy"
children.
"It is our belief these kids were not kidnapped, but that their parents
gave them away because one of the rites of passage into this satanic
organization is that you have to give up your rights to your children, and
that the leaders of this organization can do what they want to with your
children," police spokesman Scott Hunt said Friday.
"I believe what you're going to find when this all shakes down is that
kids' parents belong to this organization."
"Until we can figure out where everything is, we can't say a whole
lot," said Walt Ferguson, a police spokesman in Washington.
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The children four boys and two girls raning in age from 2 to 6 were put
in state custody.
Merrill Moody of the state health department said the youngsters were
"confused," but were doing well and will remain in state care until
relatives can found who are able to provide "a safe and healthy horne. "
Hunt said the children, who had not bathed in days and were covered
with scratches and insect bites, told police they had not eaten in 24
hours. He said they had "bizarre" names like "Benjamin Franklin," "Honey
Bee" and "B.B."
Police also believe the two men gave false names. A check of the
Virginia license plate on their van showed it belonged to a man matching
Houlihan's description, but with a different name, Hunt said.
The men initially told police they were taking the youths to Mexico to
begin a school for "brilliant'' children. When they could not explain the
~ldren's condition or name their parents, Hunt said, the men refused to
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The children told police they had not seen their mothers since before
Christmas. One girl said the men fed them mostly fruit and all of them had
been sleeping in the van or in a tent.
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DATELINE : WASHINGTON (UPI) February 07, 1987
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PRIORITY: Regular WORD COUNT: 0456
An investigation into the alleged abuse of six children found with two
mAn in a Tallahasse, Fla. park appears to be leading authorities toward a
:anic organization" based in and around the nation's capital.
~tit •is our belief these kids were not kidnapped but that their parents
aave them away because one of the rites of passage into this satanic
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organization is that you have to give up your rights to your children, and
that the leaders of this organization can do what they want to with your
children," Hunt said.
The Finders are the remains of a popular 1960s hippie refuge that
evolved into a satanist group dedicated to communalism and to studying the
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FBI agents and Virginia State police Friday night were expected to get
search warrants for two cabins on the farm allegedly used by the group to
forcibly separate children from their parents who were members of the cult.
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A half 'dozen threa. were received Thursday.evening at the police
department and the foster home where two of the children were being kept,
nolice spokesman Scott Hunt said. The location of that foster home had been
·ret and Hunt said he did not know how the caller got the phone number.
At the request of the FBI, Hunt refused to elaborate on the calls. But
he said the calls dealt with the children's safety.
The two men, who identified themselves as Michael Houlihan and Douglas
Ammerman, were arrested after they were seen in a park with the six filthy,
poorly dressed children. Both are being held on $100,000 bond.
Police said one of the children, a 6-year-old girl, had been sexually
sed. The two men and the youngsters have been linked to ''The Finders," a
... _, .:;terious cult in Washington D.C. Police suspect the children were turned
over to the cult as part of their parents' initiation.
Evidence was seized and would be analyzed, but, "no obvious new
evidence of criminal activity was found," Virginia State Police Lt. J.P.
Henries said.
The Post cited police sources who said some of the pictures were of
children engaged in what appeared to be "cult rituals." U.S. Customs
officials said the confiscated material included pictures of children
involved in bloodletting ceremonies of animals and there was one photograph
of a child in chains.
Charges:
Database Charges:
2 Searches: $18.00
70 Additional Citations: $63.00
13 Full Text: $117.00
1 Scans: $1.00
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By Matt Neufeld Meanwhile, Tallahassee Police
·and Linda Miller Terman spokesman Scott Hunr· said yester-
TliE WASHINGTON TIMES day that "more than one" oJ the Fi~d
ers children taken into custody last
Police in Virginia and the District week "showed evidence of sexual
said yesterday they have uncovered abuse," but that police had no evi-
no evidence of satanic practices, dence linking the alleged sexual
cult rituals, child pornography or abuse· to the men in custody. Mr.
any other criminal wrongdoi.hg asso- Hunt declined to elaborate.
ciated with ·the communal group The two men, identified as Doug-
known as the Finders. las· Ammerman, 27, and James Mi-
The statements by police appear chael Holwelt, also known as ~li
to clear the Finders of several allega- chael H;oulihan, 23, are being held in
tions that were raised against the jail in lieu o(posting $100,000 bonds
group in a Metropolitan Police af- each on the child abuse charges. No
fidavit filed Thursday in support of hearing dates have been set for ei-
two search warrants. ther man, he said.
The warrants were served and Thllahassee police had not con-
two properties owned by the-Finders firmed the identities· of the children
in the District were searched or any of the claims made by hun-
Thursday. Papers, passports, com- dreds of people who have called in
puters, photographs, computer soft- -the "j:iast few days ·saying they were
ware, tapes, film and a telephone- related .to the. children, Mr. Hunt
answering machine belonging to ttie said:· _-.- . ·
group were seized by police. ·· - i... FBI spokeswoman Sue Schflitzer
The seizures followed the arrest said yesterday the bureau is continu-
Wednesday in Thllahassee, Fla., of ing. to investigate whether any fed-
two male members of the group on ·eral"crimes were committed in rela-
charges of felony child abuse. The tion to the six children taken into
six children, ranging in age from 2 custody in Florida, but refused to
to 7 years old, were reportedly dirty discuss further details of the probe.
and hungry when they were found by Ms. Schnitzer did say the FBI, like
Florida police. They now are in fos- Florida police, had received hun-
ter care. · dreds of calls on Ftiday from people
"At this point, the Metropolitan claiming to be relatives of the chil-
Police Department has not found dren. The FBI had not l:letermined
any materials among the seized doc- whether anyone was in fact related
uments or records that would ini- to them, she said.
tially corroborate allegations made Chief Thrner said police began
by an 'informant that the· organ- surveillance of two Finders' resi-
ization is a cult and that its activities dences - a warehouse in the 1300
involve satanic rituals:· said police block of Fourth Street ~'"E and an
Chief Maurice T. Thrner Jr. at an apartment building in the 3900 block
afternoon press conference. of W Street NW - in December
A Virginia State Police spoke· after receiving a tip from an anon·
sman said yesterday that officers ymous source that satanic rituals
had found no evidence of any were being practiced by group
criminal activity among the materi- members and children were being
. cils seized .at rural Madison County aQ.use9.
properties owned· by Finders mem-
ber G. Marion Pettie. He defen-ded the police investiga-
"My information at this point is tion and the subsequent seizures of
that there isn't anything (criminal]," property owned by the Finders, say-
Charles Vaughan. a State Police ing it was justified by the serious-
spokesman, said yesterday. Police ness of the allegations made against
were continuing to sift through the the group.
material taken from the rural prop- "We were i11vestigating to find if
erties where Finders members are
known to have lived, he said. ·.
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ln an mremew wtth reporte P. S ·ces saJ·d Florida and
there was child abuse Axual Mr. ""1erre11 wore a p Iasnc . R
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tlve ' along with a be-
officials,
abuse," Chief Thrner said. "We will Reag~ mask on the back of his head havioral psychologist from the FBI.
continue to do that until we assure and satd he had been chosen to be the will duct videotaped interviews
~ourselves that is not the case." "leader" of the ~inders for yester- with c:ch of the children to try to
Metropolitan Police Inspector Da- day. He also demed tha_t the seven clarify their identities, and deter-
vid Faison, head of the depa:nnen_t's chdd members of the. Fmders have mine how they have been cared for
intelligence division, said seiZed ~tc ever been abused by the 21 adult . h t
tures that showed.children wa~cht_ng group members. - . m t e p_as - . - . -
the sl~ugt:nering 9f animals .on a Mr. Thn-eU denied the six chlldren 'I}le mterv1ews Wll} be c;onducted
.Madison County, Va .. farm were no_t recovered in Tallahasse~ were by one person, _wl\ile the othe_rs
par.t of a sataitic ntual or pomqgr!3- abused in any way by the two men watch from behin_d two-way mtr-
phy. He also saic! polic~ have. faun? taken into custody.. He said ~ the rors, Mr. M~Y .srud: _
no pictures in the Fmders resi- hierarchy of the Finders, children Under F1<?nda s child dependency
dences that would be considered are first, women are second and men laws, the s1x youngster~ can con-
pomogra!_"'~.ic. are third. · tinue to be held in protecnv~ custo~y
Oc~.vid Hoover, a spokesman for "These children always had food for an indefinite time pendmg an In-
the U.S. Customs Service. said yes- available" he said. "The children vestigation by the sta_te and ~ -.C.
terday his agency was called into the were not 'hungry. There was food in Child and FamilY ?ervtce ~dmm!S-
investigation of the Finde_rs by Me- the van [used to transport the chil- tration officials mto. thetr back-
tropolitan Police because H w_as sus- dren that was recovered by police]." ground, Mr. Moody sa1d.
pected that so_me of the mate;tal c~n Mr. Terrell said _the mot~er~ of the Even if guardians do come for-
fiscated durmg Thursdays ratds six children were m the Dts~ct yes- ward, the state cannot rel~se the
might be pornographic. Customs terday and had talked to police. . children into their custody wnhout a
agents have expertise in child por- He also explain_e d why pol~ce court order, he said. A _court order
nography investigations. Mr. Hoover found photo~ of children watching cannot be obtained unul the !?robe
said. animals bemg slaughtered. 'J!te into the children's backgro~nd m the
Mr. Hoover said he understood Finders bought two goats last spnng District is complete, he srud.
that Metropolitan Police h~d not_ fin- and k~pt the~ through the summer, "Until we know they have a safe
ished analyzing the matenal setZed he_ sa1d. As wmter app~ched, the d healthy environment to return
in last week's raids. Customs agents animals were slaughter~d m front of an th will remain in our custody."
could not complete their own probe the children and other Fmders mem- to, Meyood .d
until the District police did, Mr. Hoo- bers as a "learning experience." Mr. Y sru ·
ver said.
"There has been an awful lot of "We butchered them and ate
material seized. It's going to take a them, like you would on any farm. We
number of days to sift through this. did it when the children were
' I think it would be premature to present and thought it would be a
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/ investigation)," Mr: Hoover said. A tour of the Finders' warehouse
"The lifestyle of the so-called yesterday afternoon revealed rooms
Finders organization may differ that resembled the average college ·-
from the societal norm, but so far dormitory room. Most of the rooms
the Metropolitan Police Department in two se1:0nd-story lofts contained
has not uncovered any evidence of blankets, pillows, cushions, televi-
criminal wrongdoing by members sions, radios, magazines, books and
of the group," Chief Thmer said. newspapers. On the first level was
"However. we are still involved in an an extensive library, with hundreds
extensive and detailed review pnr of books, magazines. and newspa-
cess of the documents and records pers. Also on the first floor was a hot
seized." tub room, a meeting room, a living
ChiefThrner said he does not con- room and a kitchen.
sider the Finders a threat to society "We're just a group of people who
or a dangerous group. He said three like to practice the art of living,"·Mr.
or four members of the Finders have Thrrell said. "We look at the past and
agreed to grant int~rviews to inv_e s- the future. We try to live a zesty and
tigators and that police were s~elting adventurous life. We're on the cut-
the assistance of other Fmders nng edge of the wit and humor move-
members. . ment."
Yesterday afternoon R. Gardner Mr. Thrrell said the Finders' first
Terrell. a senior member of the F~d priority is to get their children back
ers said in an interview at the Fmd- in their custody. But according to a
ers: Northeast Washington ware- Florida social services official, it
house that he was "exhilarated" ~t may be some time before the group
"the good news we're not a sataruc can regain their children.
cult." On Sunday, MerriU Moody, a dis-
trict administrator for Florida's De-
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farm in rural Madison County, Va. in the rear of the van for som~ time,
Tallahassee police, who arrested the document said.
and charged men identified as Yesterday, police spokesman
Child Abuse Case Douglas E. Ammer~an and Mic~ael Hunt said one of the children, a 6-
Houlihan with chtld abuse, con- year-old girl. "showed signs of sex-
tticted D.C. police Thursday in an ual abuse," but that an examination
attempt to establish the identities of by a local doctor showed none of the
Photos of Youngsters Seized the children. They learned that children as being ill.
D.C. police had heard of the Finders · rive of the children were uncom·
At D.C. Warehouse, Probers Say group, according to Tallahassee po· · municative, according to police, and
lice spokesman Scott Hunt. · none . seemed to recognize objects
No other member of the group such as typewriters and staplers.
By Saundra Saperstein and Victoria Churchville had been located last night, police However, the oldest was able to
W:~.:-.hmsttnn ~ Staif Wriccr..
sources said. give investigators some information.
Authorities investigating the alleged abuse of six chil- According to U.S. District Co~rt She said that the two men "were
dren found with two men in a Tallahassee, Fla., park . records in Washington, a confidential their teachers," according to Hunt.
discovered materials yesterday in the Washington area . police source had previously told au- She was not sure where they had
that they say points to a 1960s-style commune called ' thorities that the Finders were "a been recently or where they were
the Finders, described in a court document as a "cul.t" cult" that conducted "brainwashing" going. But until recently, they had
that allegedly conducted "brainwashing" and used chil- . techniques at the warehouse and the been Jiving in the District in "a house
dren "in rituals." , Glover Park duplex at 3918-20 W St. with other children and adults." They
D.C. police, who searched a Northeast Washingt~n NW. This source told of being re- lived mainly on a diet of raw fruit and
cruited by the Finders with promises vegetables, she said.
·warehouse linked to the group, removed large plastzc of "financial reward and sexual grat- The girl told the police that while
./ bags filled with color slides, photograp~s and photo- ification" and of being invited by one they were in the District, the chi!-
graphic contact sheets. Some photos vzstble through a ; member to explore "satanism" with dren received instruction from "a
bag carried from the wareho.use. at 130~ F?urth St. NE ; them, according to the documents. man they called a Game Caller or a
were wallet-sized pictures ot children, stmtlar to school · According to the affidavit, the Game Leader," according to Hunt.
photos, and some were of naked children. . . source told authorities that children According to the D.C. court doc-
D.C. police sources said some of the ttems. se12ed were .used in "rituals" by the mem- ument, a Tallahassee police inves-
yesterday showed pictures "of children engaged m. what bers, and though the source h~ nev- tigator identified this m~n as. Mar-
appeared to be "cult rituals." Official~ of t~e u:.s..
Cu:;- er witnessed abuse of the chtldren, ion Pettie, who the conftdencral po-
toms Service, called in to aid in the mvesttgattOn, satd the source said the children's grand- lice source "also identified as the
that the material seized yesterday includes photos parents feared for their safety. Stroller, leader of this 'cult.' "
showing children involved in bloodlet~n~ cere~onies of On Dec. 15, a D.C. police detec- The children have been placed in
animals and one photograph of a child m chams. Cus- tive observed a clearing in the rear emergency shelters in Tallahassee.
toms officials said they were looking into whether a of the 3900 block of W Street NW according to Merrill Moody of the
child pornography operation wa.s being conducted. where "several round stones had Florida Department of Health and
According to court documents, been gathered" near a circle, as Rehabilitative Services. He said oi-
computers and software were well as evidence that people had ficials were trying to identify them.
seized from the warehouse, from a gathered there. according to .. t~e Neighbors of the W Street house
Glover Park apartment building and document, which stated that thts last night identified the photo~raphs
from a van that was recovered in practice is sometimes ~sed in ~a- of two of the children as restdents
tanic rituals." Armed wzth that tn· of the house.
Tallahassee along with the children.
Yesterday's disclosures about the fonnation and the report from Tal- Before their arrests in the park.
mysterious group grew out of an in- lahassee police of the allegedly Ammerman and Houlihan had told
vestigation that was set in motion abused children, D.C. police sought police that they were tea.chers from
Wednesday by an anonymous ·call to search warrants for the Glover Washington "trnnsporung these
Park residence and the warehouse. children to Mexico and a school for
Tallahassee police about two "well- Meanwhile, authorities in Florida brilliant children," according to
dressed men" who were "supervising" attempted to learn more about the Hunt. When police asked the men
six disheveled children in a neighbor-
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and·charged with child abuse, accord~ ... pretty pathetic"-who had set from their mothers."
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Arl' irrv·e.stigatiorr l:iegun ·last year· irrta tl'te· my·stertaus F irrders commtlnal group,
1-i'nked -to ·s'i·x ·d·i·s·heveled ch·ild·ren ·fou·rro ·in·F'J:o·rioa; "fa·:i:leo·to ·subs·tantiate
allegati'oi"r.S of' crri1rl· ahuse·, Di'.std·ct of Coluntbia· polt-ce· sa·it:i· Monday·.
PoH ce ·Chte·f ·Mau·r-i·ce Tt;l'l·ner ·Jr·. ·sa-id -an ananyrmou·s i·n·fa·1•ma·nt·t.s allegati'Ot'l's
tl·rat- the.. F·i-ndet•·s are· ,~,a· cult and· that· its acU v·i t-ies i'!'rvolve· Satanic· 1~i tual.s tl
we·re trot bo-rne ·out by ·pol-ice ·s·ta·keouts i-n De·cem·t:te·r ·or by ·evi d·e.mce ·se·i z:ed at ·ttllo
F i !'1det..s I. home·s last week·.
Tur·n·e·r.. .satd· "·we· warrt- to· a:ssu·r-e· aut··selves'l that· the· cl'tHdt~err wet·-e.. not abused~
.uwe ·11ave ·rrot a·s·s·u·red ·au-r·s·e-lve-s at th'i's -poi·nt it1 ti:me,-11 ·he ·:sa-i-d at a ·net>J"s
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Th-e· li·festyle· of tl'te.. so-called· F-i1tdet~s otganiz·ati·an may· di-ffe-r-· fr·aut· the..
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sa·i'd·.
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The.. c-1'\'Hdt•e·n !"angi'ng· i't'f· aqe· fr·om· 2· to· 7· t•·ema·it'ted· il'i' temno-r·ar'c/ sheltet··s in
Talla·ha-:s·:s·ee·, ·Fla.' The
-- two ·men ·who - ·ha·d cus tady' ·a'f tl1e cl'i'i ld·r·err I"''
·when they ·wE!'I'·e· ·
d·bsca~tet•·e·d· last Wedrre:sday· a·t··e· Ut'td-etL a·t~r-est em cl'rHd· a·ou·se· cha·t~g-es.
P·olice i·n Talla·lias:see ·hav-e :said that ·mo·t~e· tha·n on·e of Ure· ct1ild·t~e·n ·:s·hawetl
s i g·n-s o·f se·xua'l a·bu.se·. Trrey· dt-d· rrot el-abOJ•·a-te·.
Talla·ha:s:s·a-e: police spok-e·s·ma-rr ·Scott Hu·rrt ·saii:! Was·hingt·o-n ·ctetecti'v'e·s, who
tr-aveled to· Flar·i da to· i'n ter·v'i'et~J· the· ch Hd'!'·err, we·t•·e· a·s s i' s ti·rrg i'n t I'Yi'l'rg· to·
ide-ntify trre· c-hi l:d r·en •
The· FB-I-, tl1e U·. S. Cu·s touts Se·r-v·i-ce· a-mi· pol·i·ce· i-n V-i- r-g i'11·i a· a-lso· we·r·e· a·ss i-s t i'l1g
-with t-he inve·s t i-gat i orr.
"·The-y l.r-e doi·n·q Hrre· 11 Hunt sa·i-d· of the· chi·ldn~n. 11 They·"v'e beerr fed· wel-l
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Tu·r·net·· .sai·ct that the· m-othe·r·s of the· chi-ldr·en sti·ll had· not come· for·wa·td· at~d·
t"ha.t p-oli·ce ha·d ·not yet idet~tifi-eti tl"re-m.
A spok:esmatt fo-r· the- F in·ct-e·r·s g·r-ot~·p·, Robe·r-t Gar-dner Te-n.ell, sa:td· ·t1onday that
the ·child1"'Efl·1 ·s ·ntother-s 11 a·r-e her-e tn ·Wa·shi'ngton. The·re alr·eady ttav.e ·tJe-en
corrver-sat:i:ot1S 1'· wi·trr police-. He spo-ke a:t a small news confe-t.ence at the- grottjl'(s
·war-ehou·s·.e, ·s·itttng ·wtth ·1"1i'S ·back to ·ca-me·ras ·wtth a ·~onald ·Reagan ·ma·sk ·on the
back o'f h·i s head·.
.u I t· 1·s a ·re--lte-f and ·!"'·trr ·exi·fi"lar·a·ted ·to ·he·a·r ·we a1~e nat a ·satanic cul"t ,-u ·sa 1"!:1
Te-r-r-ell. '·1However·.. we are still involved· in· an· e-x-tensive a!'ld· detanect rev·iew
·pro·ces·s ·crf the ·do·cunter-rts and ·re·co·rd·s ·s·e··i z:e·d •· 11
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A Ihstrtct police investigation be·gun· in· Decenthe·r· into· allegations o·f chU.ct
abu·s·e and ·satarci'c -r·itua'ls involving the ·Finders~ a -g-rou-p linked ·to ·.s·i·x r-agtag
crrild·ren· found· la·st tli'eek in· Flor·i"cta, has p·todu·ce"d evtdence. that the p·racttce·s O"f
t·he ·grou-p ·wer-e ·odd ·bu·t not cri"lni't1al, ·n.-c. ·Poli"ce· ·thlef Macrri"ce· ·T. Tt.:t'l~l,.er· Jr·.
said yesterday.
'·The· ltfe· style af the· so~called' Findets o·rg~:mt-z.ati'cm· may· dtffe·t'· from· the·
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·.s·oci'etal ·1~or·11t, ·but ·s·o far ·the· t1et:ro-politan ·Poli·ce -Depar-truent ha·.s not un·cov·er-e'd
anv eviderrce· nf cr·i-mttral w-rono·dotnQ· nv· 1\tem-be·t•·s o·f the· o·r·ou·o·. u Tu·rrre·r sai-d· a:t a:
news confe·r·an·ce. He ad·d·ed~ howeve-r;· tf1at -dOCU'tl'rents and-·reco·rd·s ·s·eiz:e·d la·st ·we·ak
are still bet-rrg rev-i-ewed·.
But ev·err as police- in· the· D-1-str-tct softened· thetr· statet~te:rfts about the·
·Find·ers ·g·r~aup! the· ·FBI and -poli·ce in ·Vi-r·gi111a and -Flodda ·widene·d ti'teir
investi·Q-atiot'l· into· the· actiYHi"es of the· Wa·.shi-rrQton-ba·se-d· cotmnurre:· o·f 20· to· 40·
ad·ttlt.S a1'1'd 'St!'V'Et'l ·chil-dren. -·
Two· o·f the· six· chtld·r-en. whom· ooH·ce· sa:i"d· thev fourfd· dir·tv· and· hunq·nt i'n a:
'Tallaha·s·s·e·e· ·pa·r·k ·witi't two ·we·ll-d·re-s·s·ed ·nten. ·showed it'ldicati'rn1·s of ·ocr.s·si-bl-e
se·xua:l abu-se::. acco·r·dtnQ· ta art affi-davtt fi-led· irr !ta:di'son Courrtv, v:a., whe-r·e. the-
-g·roop i1a·s twci fa-rm·s. - ·· - -
The nre:rr·. Douo-la:s E. Antnte:r·ntaf'l, 27, and· Ja~tte·s ~hchael Hcrlwell, 23, who· qav·e
-poli ·ce the "name -tH ·chael Haul i hat;i ~ ·we·1~e ar·res ted arfd charged ·wi ttt ·six counts each
of child- abu·se:. Flo·rida: a:tttl"fo·rHies said· ve-sterdav. that the- tw-O" 1\tet·r. who· are in·
,jai 1 in 1 i"eu -of ·$ 1'05 ,-ooo ·ca·sh ·bon·d ~ i1a·ve· .. refu·s·ed ·to talk ·with poli·ce·.
Ch·ief Tu·rner· said· the D·.e. inv-e-stiqation· beQ·an· in 1\ti"d-De-cembe. t·· afte-r at"t·
unnamed irtfarmant alle-o·e-d that child·ren ·we·re: be.ino ·piwsi·callv and ·s·e:xuallv
ab-used· at the grottp· 1·s hou-se and· tha:t the- g:r·at~·p- engag:ed· in .satan·:i:c- activities.
He ·sai'd tho-s·e· al:l.:e-gati·ons ha·ve 1lat ·been ·s-crbsta11tiate-d ·tJy police ·surveil1a1·rce
or· bv rev·tew· .of ruateri·als seiz.ed· at the qrotto·t s trrooe-r·ti'es last w-ee-k:. n·or· rras
·e-xamlnati"a11 ·of tho-s·e mate-rials ·s·u·trstantiate·d · alleoati·ans ·of ·child ·po1:..naor-a-ohv.
Na ch·Uct·r·e-n have b-een at the Ftnde-r·s~ resiclet'tce since- the tnv·estig:atian·-·beg:ai'l·!
Tu-rner said·. He- said that as ye-t p-al:ice- u.have nat assttre-d·u. thentselves that
children in the ·group have n·ot ·been a·bu·s·ed.
In an· interv-iew~ Robert Gardnet Terre-11! a key metltber· af the gr·ottrr. said· that
the children have ·be-en tt~avelitHl in Vi-r-oinia. Ke1'1tucKv an-d ·Flori·da ·since bef·or-e·
Ch·ristma.s wHh met~ itt the- orouo:' wh'ile the-i·r iitothe·t··s we·r-e- i'n· San· Fr·a·nctsco· on· lt.arr
-eat11ino and lea·rninq adv·e -nture>' He ·s ai·d a ·s·e'•tet1th child, a11 infant ha-s be·en in
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u.lrJelv·e- r·ece:l:ved humir·e·ds arcd hurrd·r·eds o·f ca·ll.s abau-t the- chilt:h•·erc, '1
Tallahass-ee ·police· :s·ook:esman Scott Hunt said vesterdav. uThevJ r·-e d·o ino fi11e no~.>J.
The-y 1·te· we·ll:. fed ara:l they lt•·e clothed ami the·y· 1 r·e i'rr sheltet. it -
Vi t~ginia :state ·poli'ce said ye·ste·rda·y that titey found ·goat ·s kins a11d a goat~ :s
h·e-ad· i'rr t !•rei r· sea·r·ch o·f the F i'l'rde·r-s I. r·ur·al lattd·.s over- tl"re· t<Jeekend ·• Sook:esman
Charle-s ·vaug·ha·t~ sai'd -police als·o fou-nd cotltpute·t·· equipttte·nt a·nd docutue·t1ts! trut he·
d·id· not ccttttment m·r tr1e si·g:ni fica·rrce· o-f the mater·ial.
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ln arr affida·oti t suopat~tina the ·sear·ch, Virai·n'ia authoi~itt·es i·ncluded
p-hotogr·aprr.s showing t.h.r·ee wh-i te-r·ohe·d F irrde·r·s- tltE'I"t arrd sever-al childr·err
dismembering two goats. The photographs were in a scrapbook titled "The
Execution of Henrietta and Iaor." In one picture. a cryirca child looked at a
decapitated goat. 1-\nother pho.to was captioned~ "Ben fit1ds ~Hent' ietta s s Womo.u
Three pictures showed children playing with goat fetuses.
Carl Shapley, a Washington educator who said he worked closely with finders
leader Har-ion Pettie durina the past year. said the arouols ceremonies involved
the slaughter of goats~ bu£ he w~rned.against associitin~ such activities with
satanisfil or pagan rites.
"H1ey believe itr gantes arrd this 4tJas just good fun~ a very Ali ce-iti-Wmtderlarsd
kind of fun, dressing up in w·hite robes 01· w·i1atever,-•s 11e said.
Even as Shapley and othe1··.s l~ose to deferrd the F irrdets ~ callit'l9. them an odd
but entirelv ·benian aroup of iiltellectual e:\plorei'S and social ad·<~·enture·rs.
former liTE'IiTO.eF·S Of- trr'e OrOUO Cante forwar·d ta 'relate tales Of beit1Q harassect' by
the -F i'nders. - · - ·
A lawyer in Culpeper! Va.! said the Finders sent hiM profane letters and
sla·.s·hed ·lti·s ·car·'·s tires whel'l ·l'ie. rep·rese-nted a fonnel' ffiembei' in a divorce case
th·r-ee vear·s aoa. John Davies. the lawyer·. said th·e harassment stcro-o·ed· orrlv afte·1~
he Obtained a- COUrt order prohibiting. Tllembers of the group fro·m cat1tacti'ng hi In.
Staff· wr'i:ter·.s Jcrhtl F. Han··ts an·d Jahn· Mintz-. contr-ibu·te:·d· ta th·is r·e·p·art.
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Local oolice.· officials ara1·otmced· n·e·r·e to·dav that six chilctien fow1·d· last ttJ"eek
in Florida had apparently not been kidnapped and that there was ·no evidence to
srcow th-at tl"''e secre·tive orcrup· that has treen ra·:i:sin·q the·m· is a cult involved· in
child abuse. - · -
The statem·errt fr-on1 the M·etropolitan Police D'epar·tm·ent conflicted with
accounts from the police in Tallahassee. Fla .• where the children were found.
unwashe·d· and hu11g·r:·y, last week. O'ff'icials the·r·e said· th·is nto·rrl'ing: that a:t ·least
two of the children had signs of sexual abuse.
But late today, the P"olice Chief irr bJashingtorf, ~taur·ice T. Turn·er Jr·., said·
at a news conference that there was no evidence of criminal activity by tim
ccfii\1lltmal qrouo· knawn as The Finders. Hm>J"ever. he said· the invest±qation wotl'ld·
continue.- · . -.
Two Men Were Ar-re·s ted
Chief' Tur-nerts armow'lce·ni'ent was another· canfusirrg btist in the investigation
that began last Wednesday when the children and two ~en were found in a
Tallahasse·e nark. Accar·dirto to the Tallahassee onlice. the child·r·en could· rmt
identify themselves and said the two men were teac·hers. The men were arrested
ami ch-arge·d· with c'l'rild atm.se.
LaN-etrfcrr-cenrent off-icials .suggeste·d that f:hief Tur-ner· was attempting ta errd·
recent ~peculation that the group was involved in satanic rituals at a
l~ashirrgtcrn hom-e.
After- the childr-et-r wete foumi last week! the police se·arched the honre· and a
warehouse in the northwest section of Wast1inqton. and seized ot10tooraot1s and
documents tllat orre source in Flarid·a ar·iginally satd· WE'I"'e L.tc:O!'csisten"t w-tth a
satanic cult.''
Statentents by Finde-rs Spoke.sn\al1
The Washington· police said that the children~ ttrJo gir·l.s and four· bays who
ranged in age from 2 to 7 years, were apparently the offspring of members of the
Finders, which the nalice said was a sec1etive oroup· in· t~thich the sexes are
separated and children are raised communally. Acknowledqino that the otouo's
practices were unusual~ the officials .said .it had not engage-d in cril1l'1naf
practices.
Roher·t Gardner· Terrell, a spokesman for the Finder.s, .said his group had
cooperated with the police and that the mott1ers of tfle children had spoken with
the' authorities, acc"ording to an Associated Press report.
Mr. Terrell~ who appeared at a news conference wearing a mask bearing
President Reaqan ~ .s imaae. said the oraaniz.ation ~ s first oriori tv was oettirra the
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'We 1 ve been 1.11 cor1.stant contact with the authorities, 1 1
he said. 1 1
It hasn't
been on the basis of interrogation. It's been in terms of cooperation. Sooner or
later we knew people in Tallahassee would recogrriz.e thei 1 mi.s take. l ~
Photographs of Goats
Off-icials conf-ir·m-e-d that photographs found in buildings used hy the· Finders
showed children watching goats being slaughtered. But ttley indicated that the
activity was not illegal, nor did it .suggest por-nography.
''There was apparently the killing of goats and some type of blood,'' Chief
Tutner said, addino that it aooeared the childrert did not oarticioate in the
killing. Otrier police officiai~ suggested that the goats w~re act~ally butchered
fol~ meat~ not fat· sante sort of satanic anintal sacrifice.
''A photograph can paint 1,001 pictures,'' Chief Turner said.
~'The life s tyl.e of the so-called F1nder-s organization may di ff"et from· the
societal norm,'' he added~ ''but so far, the Metropolitan Police Department has
not uncO\•'!H·ed any eviden~e of critltinal wrongdoit7g hy ll'rem·oer-s of the gr-oup.
''At this point the Metropolitan Police Department has not found any
materials amonq the .seized docuntents or records that would initially cor·r-ooor·ate
alleaations n1ad'e· bv an informant that the oraaniz.ation is a cult and that its
acti~ities involvi satanic rituals. - ·
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'However·~ trJe ar·e still it~volved in an extet'lsive and detailed review process
of the documents and records seized,'' he added.
Asked if the group was darsgetous~ Chief Tur·ner replied: 11 I don't r-eally
believe sa. If thev are a danaer. from what I an see, they would be a dm1ger to
t!"rentselve·s.' ' · - ·
Chief· TUl"t'!el" said he had no evidence that any of the childr-en had been
molested and referred questions about physical abuse to the Florida officials.
Officials say the Finder·s apparently i.s a remnant of a 196Qls counterculture
movement created by Marion Peitie~ a charismatic leader who urged his followers
to study a doctrirce that str·e.s.sed .self-explor-ation and futur·ism·.
Childrerr t-\llowe·d to Travel
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Aooar·ently it's an organiz.ation that started in the late 6CPs~ '' Chief
Turner said. ' 1 If you went back to that point in time there were a lot of
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contmur(e.s ami a lot of hiooies. and I think 1t was· a wav of 1i fe for them·. Front
that way of life it has ~~calited to what we have toda~ as the Finders.~'
Mel\\'be·r·s of the group, the police said! apparently per·m·itte.cl thei.r chil.clr-err to
travel to Florida for a time while they remained behind to work.
The two nten arre·sted irf the case were identified as Douglas Am·nterntcm! 27
years old~ and James M: Holwell 23. They were charged with aggravated child
neglect, a ntisdem·eanor~ and held on $100,0GEf bond.
SUBJECT: CHILD ABUSE; LOST, MISSING AND RUNAWAY CHILDREN
ORGANIZATION: FINDERS (ORGN}
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Douglas Ammerman, left, and :Michael Holwell during appearance in Florida courtroom yesterday. Each is being held in lieu of $100,000 bail.
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They Fear )~··wom·en:
For Children
Five Tr6men Seek ~f ·Children
Custody of Minors District of Columbia 'Protecti~e
ervices. officials have twic~ taken·
?c.u.r «-...:.:>-_,.-..:r_&'? . ustody of some of the Finders chil-
By Victoria Churchville ren, once iJ11984 after some were
W.1shioecon Pose SeMi Writer llegedly found ·wandering co!d and 1•
ungry near the group's· Northeast
TALLAHASSEE, Fla., Feb. 14- rarehouse, and a year· later, after':
Five women who belong to . the ne of the mothers refused to leave
Finders group and described them- '-. .er family's home,,according to the
selves as the mothers of six chil- •randmother of one of the children,
dren now in Florida state custody : Finders spokesman and a goyern-
said today they fear the children nent official. .
have been traumatized by their sep-
aration from the group, and they In both cases, Dif)trict social ,
vowed to fight to win back the chil- vorkers were swayed by how the
dren. nothers presented themselves as
"I'm very concerned that the ex- )arents, according to. the grand-
nether.
perience of being picked up by po-
lice, being interviewed by strang-
~rs, being cared for by stangers has
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been a very traumatic experience
from the start for all the children,"
said Judith Evans, 31. She said her
3-year-old daughter Honey Bee
"does not look happy in the media
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pictures I've seen. My major objec-
tive is to get all our children back!'
The children were taken into
state custody Feb. 4 after poiice
here found them in a park with two
members of the Finders group, a
mysterious Washington area com-
mune. The men, Douglas E. Am-
merman, 27, and Michael Holwell,
23, each were charged with one
count of child abuse. Authorities de-
hungry. the children as unkempt and
scribed
The women said they were in San
Francisco at the time of the incident
and that they immediately began
taking steps to return. Authorities
· have said the women's struggle to.
·. regain custody of the children could
. · be a protracted one.
· "We· started the processes as
soon as we heard. It's been a very
. long process," said Pat Livingstone, .
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the children taken into custody. •Ur
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guys, everybody else would have,
'too. Now that they've said we're
·good guys, other authorities are
saying .they'll have to consider our
·case in·turn," Livingstone said.
The women displayed little emo-
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:!; . Special !o The New York Times of us," the captain said. ties said they had completed their part
: i~.\YASHINGTON, Feb. 7 -Police offi- Detectives in. the investigation said in the investigation by searching five
cials here said today that six dishev- the review would require the weekend places in Madison County where mem-
:~Jed . children found in. Tallahassee, at least. The detectives said they had bers of the group were said to have oc- \\
F\a., might be the offspring of mem- begun to 'doubt that child pornography cupied farms and homes. s1
;t>~ts of a little-known cult, but the offi- was involved but that they had seen Lieut. J. P. Henries of the Madison st
'tials said they had not ruled out the evidence that children were involved in County Sheriff's Office s~id, "No obvi- st
~p1)ssibility of kidnapping. rituals. They declined to comment on ous· new evidence of criminal activity m
kE:apt. William White 3d, a spokesman reports that the Finders were worship· was found." he
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t the District of Columbia Police De-
1 artment, said, "At this point, it ap"
~pears that those c.hildren are the chil-
«ren of members of this group." He
ers of the devil.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation co
has also been called into the case. Po- Ci
lice officials here suggested that what- tif
;was referring to members of a cult :Pet Food Spoon Wins ever leg?l action might arise from the ex
case would be in Federal rather than in
as the Finders, who have occu- I
local courts because it appeared that ~
least two buildings here. ' An Invention Contest the children had been transported
Ca1otain White added, "We have- across state lines in possible violation fo
out any possibilities." of Federal laws. M
· Children Found in Florida WASHINGTON, Feb. 7 (AP) - A in
6-year-old Oklahoma girl has come Captain White said said that the dis-
up with a solution to a problem that trict police had been unable to identify rE
has vexed some pet owners for the children or their parents. "We're Iii
years: how to feed .a cat or dog with- trying to fiQd the parents," he said. pl
out having to wash the messy spoon Captain White said that people who w
afterward. might be related to the children were a:
The solution devised by the girl, Su- also being sought but. he declined to c
zanna. Goo d.m, was to s hape a pet give Thedetails.
Police Department Sl:>C>keSnianlc·'
cracker into an edible spoon that said that no further arrests were ex- J
caul~ be bro~en up into the pet's food pected. "At this stage," he said, "we l
after serving. • have not uncovered anything that 1
: Her "edible ,pet food serv~r" won· would cause us to anticipate arrests, at ,
the· police here ob- .~er a grand prize today in an inven- least not in the near future."
•: to search a house in tlon contest sponsored by The Weekly With an air of frustration perhaps re·
Washington and a ware- · Reader, a school publication. More fleeting the bafflement of the police de·
Northeast Wash"ington, both than 200,000 children participated in · partment, however, he added, "No one
t>,.,,;,.,,..rt to have been occupied. by the the contest. -knows what tomorrow holds."
Captain White said they had Suzanna, a first-grader from · Police officials. also raised the ques-
of records, documents and Hydro, Okla., was cited for the best tion of whether children other than the
!\;uu•~•u ..~ 1 programs. -. . idea submitted by children in kinder- six found in Florida might be
have a very long, tedious pro- garte_n thr~ugh the fourth grade. in the case. ·
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Slll JO {aaq:,\ aql pUJqaq .Iaql!a Tallahassee that they had b~en on the
'saUU13:) Ol ualJO 'sdpl ,\up )Uanb road for weeks, camping out at night.
-a.IJ ~U!}{13l 'pU110.ll3 pU13ll10 aW!l JO The older children reported that they
101 13 spuads S! .Ia!!BAna ·.tw 1ng were rewarded with food for doing
'13II!A aql apJSlllO .l<ll.IOda.II3 Ol anq "good things" but that the nature of
-OW0llll3 S!ll JO MOpUJM <ll!l WO.IJ what was expected was not described.
pa1noqs .I<l!li3411G '.IW ,.'.\poq.\ul3 Their daily ration of food consisted of
Ol MaJA.l<llU! lSaltt~!!S aql <li\!~ ll!M oranges, bananas and raw potato.es,
(ll3lll .\mJqJSSOd OU S!, a.taq~, they told the police.
'13jp~W13l!OW 13'1 Based on information provided by
panl3o BillA snopnxnt 13 U! sauul3::> the children, they were tentatively
.!13<lU a~131l!i\ U13aUI3.l.l<ll!P<lW identified as Mary Houlihan, 7 years
Sllll U! ai\!l U<l.IP!!llO OMl ..l!<llll old; Max Livingstone, 6; Honeybee
pU13 '<l!?llO!W '<lJ!M S!ll '.Ia!!13i\11Q Evans, 3; Benjamin Franklin, 3; John
Paul Pope Houlihan, 2, and B.B. 1 a
2-year-old boy. ~
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and Michael Houlihan, 28, and said
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themselves, the children apparently were
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Two members of th F' d
Holwell, leave co~ h' an . ames
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. yesterday after th~~r ~~~dm Tallahassee, Fla., ~
$5,000 Tlie was reduced to
after b~ing ~r~~~tC:n~~: with child abuse
,unkempt children in a Talei achompany of six
assee park.
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1earing; She said two
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Custody of 3 <1rney just before the
, on Friday, saying it
ir principles to ·tak~
:sarial proceeding.";
Older Children in Finders ~ two, Pat Living-
le mother of 6"year-
Case Remain in Fla. Care ·ista Knauth, mother.
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By Lawrence Feinberg gh they made ~ i~
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nts to the court.
A Florida judge yesterday awarded full cus- !d that both children
tody of three children, found last month in a ed state supervisiort.
van in a Tallahassee park to their mothers, tilar ruling about 'i.-
:'i who are members of the Washington-based daughter of Paul?
Finders commune; but ruled·that. three older :1 he granted Aric6
children should remain under state supervi- 1er son, John Pa1,1l,.2.
sion. 1 awarded Judith E¥-:
Only hours later, one of the Finders' lead- ly of her 3-year-old}
ers released a statement saying the futurist f Bee, and gave Car-;
group was dissolving, possibly as a result of 1dy of her 3-year-.olc!i:
the custody battle. t
Ruling after four days of testimony, Leon :n with the children,:··
County Circuit. Judge Victor Cawthon re- 1erman and James~·
jected a state motion that the three children, arrested on misde".'
aged 2 and 3, should be declareq "dependent" es of child neglec(:<
because they had been "abused, neglected, or 1in in jail in lieu of·,
abandoned" by their parents, according to a ach. They are sched<·
lawyer for three of the women. [arch 30. ~'
Cawthon ruled that the three others, aged
4 to 7, were dependent, primarily because
their education was being neglected, but he
allowed two of them to remain temporarily
with their mothers in Tallahassee.
The sixth child, whose mother has not
stayed in Tallahassee to seek his return, re-
mains in foster care. Cawthon said he would
make a final ruling on arrangements for the
three dependent children at a hearing March
23.
The decisions, announced in a closed court
session, were disclosed by Paula Walborsky,
who represented three of the mothers at the
hearing, and confirmed by Cawthon in a tele-
phone interview.
"I'm absolutely delighted with the out-
com~,'' Walborsky said. "The court found
there was no abuse or abandonment.
"Ultimately, the state only pressed the is-
sue of neglect, that the Finders' life style was
inherently detrimental to the psychological
See FINDERS, C2, Col. 5
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To Foster Homes
A Florid!l judge has declared
two children of members of the
Finders commune to be depen-
1.. dents of the state. Judge Victor
,· Cawthon last week ordered two
children who grew' up in the
Washington-based Finders. group
placed in foster homes .
. The judge's ruling was. th~ fi-
nal act in the state's attempt to
sort through the affairs of the
secretive group that found itself
the subject of intense public scru-
tiny in February, when police in
Tallahassee received an anony-
mous phone call about two well-
dressed men and six disheveled
children in a local park. ·
Within hours, police in Florida,
Virginia and the District, joined
by the FBI and even Interpol,
were on the case. Authorities
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raided the Finders' homes, con-
fiscated records and photo- ,James Madison University professor J. Barkley !tosser and his wife,
graphs, and publicly speculated Marina Vchershnaya, share a toast after being married May 2•t in an
outdoor ceremony in Rockingham County, Va. The two met in the Soviet.
whether the group .\vas involved Union in 198•!, fell in love, but were separated in August of that year
in satanism, child abuse or por- after registering with the Soviet government to he married. This year
nography. While none of the Soviet officials allowed Vchershnuya to leave the U.S.S.R.
more lurid possibilities was con-
firmed, the Finders proved to be They said Pettie told. them that were not right to reunite them
an avowedly private and elusive since the court had the best in- with their family," Ruggles saicl.
group of about 20 people, many terests of the children in mind, Cawthon had closed the hear-
of whom had lived together since they should not participate in the ing to the public, as is liis option
the late 1960s. judicial process, according to in Leon County.
. Public interest in the Finders Paula Walborsky, a Tallahassee Walborsky s;1id the state
quickly centered on their unusual lawyer who represented the oth- presented no evidence that the
child-rearing philosophy, in which er Finders mothers. children were abused or ne-
youngsters were raised commu- "Those children should have glected, and the judge declared
nally and were left largely to been returned to their mothers, the children wards of the state
their own devices. but they didn't go through the for "educational reasons." Rug-
The two Finders in Florida system," Walborsky said. "The gles declined to comment on the
with children of other group state felt these mothers had hearing.
memb~rs were held in jail for six abandoned their children when George Wisnovsky of the Jack·
weeks, then released when a they returned to Washington. I sonville FBI office said the agen-
judge dismissed child abuse saw them with their children, and cy "is no longer investigating the
charges. In March, another judge I know all these women love their Finders."
returned four of the children to·. children." The Finders, who announced
their inothers, who had retained Connie Ruggles, spoke~woman the dissolution of their group in
a Florida lawyer. for the Florida Department of March, are still together and liv-
· But at the direction of Marion Health and Rehabilitative Ser- ing in California, according to
Pettie, the group's founder and vices; confirmed that the two several people who were in con-
intellectual leader, two mothers, children, Ben Knauth, 4, and Max tact with them in Florida. Nei-
Kristin Knauth and Pat Living- Livingsto1\, 6, are in foster ther Walborsky nor Ruggles has
ston, refused to hire a lawyer, homes. She said their cases will spol<en to group members in re-
argue for the return of their chil- be reviewed every six months. Gent weeks.
dren or even remain in Florida. 'The judge felt circumstances - Marc Fisher
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