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MULTIPLE MURDER

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DEMONIC POSSESSION

Another Reality

Understanding Forensic Theology

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Understanding Forensic Theology

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Understanding Forensic Theology

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Experience, truth and reality are (were) inseparable - There is no reality outside of experience.

Michael Oakeshott (born 11 December 1901

died December 1990) London, England

To be of service to others is the greatest freedom of all.

William David Tatum

'Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem' 'Out of shadows and symbols unto the truth'

John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890 - his own epitaph)

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Secular & Theological Endorsements ‘the presence among human beings of a non-human power could in certain cases be the only adequate explanation of the aberrant behavior of such criminals.'

MALACHI MARTIN

‘eminent theologian and author of bestselling novels including “Hostage to the Devil” 'Tatum's three central ideas are incisive, revolutionary, and of immense social urgency. To be specific, I mean his Forensic Theology, its application as a qualified criminological procedure in conjunction with others, and the interchange of its generated data among police author world-wide in the preventive search for a non-human source of savage crime as a presence among us.' GEORGE MANDEL author of Crocodile Blood and other highly praised novels 'William Tatum's thorough investigation of the serial killers sounds an alarm that should be heeded at a time in which Satanic cults and worship, as well as multiple murders, are a plague on our society.'

FATHER JORDAN AUMANN, OP Professor, Pontifical University of St. Thomas, Rome

'The demon, having done its work through his human instrument, departs, and the killer feels no guilt, as if he had not been there, as if the deed had been done by someone else.' PETER KREEFT, PROFESSOR Philosophy Department - Boston College "At the end of the Twentieth Century, few living people can say they have founded a whole new area of legal study. With your Forensic Theology, you have done that. For that, I admire your work greatly." MICHAEL MELLO - PROFESSOR OF LAW Vermont Law School

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MULTIPLE MURDER

AND

DEMONIC POSSESSION

Another Reality

William David Tatum

The Book Guild Ltd. Sussex, England

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First published 1993 © William David Tatum 1993

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CONTENTS

Prologue 10 Comments of David Berkowitz 11 Introduction by William David Tatum 12 Comments of Malachi Martin 22 Chapter 1 Son of Sam and a Reflection on Criminology 24 Chapter 2 Demonology and Exorcism 32 Chapter 3 Son of Sam 46 Chapter 4 A Case of Exorcism 59 Chapter 5 Son of Sam ~ Conclusion 79 Chapter 6 Two English Killers 93 Chapter 7 Insanity - The Fine Line 111 Chapter 8 Birds of a Feather 114 Chapter 9 Jack the Ripper 1888: a Student's Research 126 Chapter 10 Satan in Kansas, The Hillside Strangler, Chairman

Evil Forces 136 Chapter 11 This is Zodiac, San Francisco 146 Chapter 12 The Ghost Killer, Atlanta, Georgia 150 Chapter 13 More Birds of a Feather 159 Chapter 14 The Green River Killer, Seattle, Washington 167 Chapter 15 Possession 176 Chapter 16 Marionettes of Evil 188 Addenda 234 Bibliography 248 About the Author 250

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DEMONIC NAME GIVEN TIME TO ENTITY CODE LOCATION FRAME

SON OF SAM SOS New York, NY 1976-1977 BIND, TORTURE, KILL BTK Wichita, Kansas 1974-1978 THE HILLSIDE STRANGLER THS Los Angeles, Ca. 1975-1979 CHAIRMAN, EVIL FORGES CEF Columbus, Ga. 1977-1978 THE GHOST KILLER TGK Atlanta, Ga. 1979-1981 GREEN RIVER KILLER GRK Seattle, Wash. 1982-1990 THIS IS ZODIAC TIZ San Francisco, Ca. 1969 THE RED SPIDER TRS Poland 1964 THE BOSTON STRANGLER

TBS

Boston, Mass. 1962-1964 JACK THE RIPPER JTR London, England 1888 JACK THE RIPPER JTR Leeds, England 1975-1980 THIS IS ZODIAC TIZ New York, NY 1990- (on-

going as of this writing)

NOT CO VERED IN THIS BOOK JEFFREY DAHMER ---- Milwaukee, Wise. 1991 CHARLES ALBRIGHT ---- Dallas, Texas 1991 ANDREI CHIKATILO ---- Former Soviet 1992

Union THE GAY KILLER ---- Rome, Italy 1993 THE GAY KILLER ---- London, England 1993 (on-

going as of this writing)

To Be Revealed 1994 To Be Revealed 1995-2000 AD

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The book, MULTIPLE MURDERS AND DEMONIC POSSES- SION, by William D. Tatum is the result of many years of investigation and it deserves serious consideration on the part of psychiatrists, judges and lawyers. He has presented very weighty arguments in support of his thesis, namely, that at least some of the serial killers have acted under the influence of a demonic power. Christian theology has always admitted the existence and activity of the devil as well as the possibility of diabolical possession or obsession. Unfortunately, the courts of law do not accept the hypothesis that a non-human, malignant power could take possession of an individual to such an extent that he or she deliberately and consciously performs criminal acts as prompted by that evil force. William Tatum's thorough investigation of the serial killers sounds an alarm that should be heeded at a time in which Satanic cults and worship as well as multiple murders are a plague in our society.

Jordan Aumann, OP Professor, Pontifical University of St. Thomas, Rome, translator The Devil “ . . . alive and active in our world", by Corrado Balducci, author (Gli indemoniati) (La possessione diabolica)

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PROLOGUE

This book follows ten years of research into the nature and pattern of serial killings. This research involved scrupulous examination of documents and letters from many murders from several countries. The material is startling, and should be examined carefully.

No certain conclusions are drawn but it is a compelling volume and could allow a clearer insight into why serial killers exist. It could also present a vital method for comparison and evaluation and thus help in the solving of these crimes. That method is Forensic Theology, a new and cogent theory. As best-selling author Malachi Martin writes:

'Tatum may well be pointing to a fruitful path on our tortuous journey . . .'

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Comments from David Berkowitz Prior to his Becoming Son of Sam - Killing Six and Wounding Seven in the City of New York from 1976-1977.

‘ . . . the creature I hope becomes extinct first is man. because he's the deadliest, and the rottenest of all ...-...-.. . gotta go now, before I turn into a human again . . . Love Dave'

(late 1971 from Fort Polk, La. USA at the age of 17 - to his girlfriend

Iris Gerhardt Age 15).

'Jesus Christ fought real hard and he never lived to see the changes. They haven't come so he's still waiting . . . I've commit- ted my body to an evil organization. I think it's time to uncommit myself . . .'

(5 May 1972. David Berkowitz to Iris Gerhardt from Korea)

"I am the "Monster" — "Beelzebub" - the chubby behemoth (sic) I love to hunt. Prowling the streets looking for fair game - tasty meat. The demon (sic) of Queens is prettiest (sic) of all. I (sic) must be the water they drink. I live for the hunt - my life. Blood for Papa).'

(Letter addressed to Captain Joseph Borelli, 17 April 1977, left at scene of killing.

Later found to contain fingerprint of David Berkowitz signed Mr. Monster.)

David Berkowitz was captured evening of 10 August 1977 and at his third arraignment before the court in New York City was asked, 'David Berkowitz - is that your name?' 'No, your honor, I am not.'

(Proceedings halted and David Berkowitz was not allowed to give his real name.)

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INTRODUCTION

by William David Tatum

It was a warm Saturday in early June 1977, in New York City. A beautiful day for a picnic. Friends were discussing the mundane things of life, which make up the fabric of what it means to be alive.

It was at that moment in time that I saw a photograph of the beautiful Italian girl shot dead by a killer with a .44 caliber weapon. I stared at The Daily News front page and knew the pain of those parents who had lost their loved one.

I took a step, which would alter the course of my life. I paid a visit to the 77th Precinct in Queens in my fledgling attempt to catch a killer.

The police had more than several hundred detectives looking for the murderer. This killer had struck and left a note on 17 April 1977 at the scene of the killing. The letter was addressed to Captain Joseph Borelli heading the Task Force. The book Hostage to the Devil, by the eminent theologian Malachi Martin, read some months previously, came into focus and by intuition I knew without a doubt that this killer was not killing for a political, economic or social reason - no - not even for a psychiatric or psychological purpose. It was a theological killer.

During these past thirteen years, my studies have taken me to an analysis and understanding of the thirteen oracular shrines existing before the birth of Christ. Esoteric books have been absorbed, Old and New Testament studies completed, lost books of The Bible grasped, and possession with many forms of exorcism examined.

I met Captain Joseph Borelli on the evening of 10 June 1977 (mindful to obtain a receipt of the meeting) and outlined the book Hostage to the Devil to him. I wanted him to understand that what confronted the police and the people of New York City, was quite special and unique. It takes a certain length of time to obtain a stage in an exorcism wherein the entity speaks directly to the exorcist. In this case the entity was speaking directly to the people

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of New York City. Son of Sam struck again at the end of June 1977 and in July 1977,

killing girls. His capture on 10 August 1977 confirmed my original thesis. The newspapers printed the letter he had left at the scene of the killing on 17 April 1977. Here is a portion of that letter:

I am the monster - "Beelzebub" - the chubby behemoth (sic) I love to hunt. Prowling the streets looking for fair game - tasty meat. The demon (sic) of Queens are prettiest (sic) of all.'

Then came my nights of reading many domestic and foreign newspapers to learn if any similar occurrences had taken place and if so - was there a pattern? I found during 1977-1980 murders were taking place in Leeds, England (JTR -Jack The Ripper); Wichita, Kansas (BTK - Bind, Torture, Kill); Columbus, Georgia (CEF - Chairman, Evil Forces).

I had discovered a pattern in these particular kinds of murder - each killer repeated key elements in letters sent to newspapers or police. These letters I term letters from hell, since the content of the letters, with a specific pattern, indicated something from beyond this world, the result of demonic possession perhaps.

The pattern of letters combined with the inability of the police in each city to capture these unique and special killers led me finally to the meeting with Commissioner Lee Browne in Atlanta, Ga., in February of 1981. The New York Post had an article, which said that the killer had telephoned the police and told them where a body could be found. It was found at the exact place described by the caller. Twenty-one African American children had been murdered. President-to-be George Bush would deliver a cheque for one million dollars to the City of Atlanta to help find this killer. Many believed these killings were racial.

The question arose: how can I go to Atlanta, Ga., when the demands of children, family and finances were so compelling? I would find some way to manage; if at all possible a human life might be saved.

Chief of Police George Nipper was present, along with Com- missioner Lee Browne. What a picture I must have presented ten years ago! No credentials of a legal or criminal nature to indicate my expertise in this area. I carried with me many books and articles with a burning desire to tell them that they may have received their letters from hell; that in several cases, historic and recent, the killer, always a single person, had been captured

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Through the correspondence. I indicated that in all cases these letters were always addressed to the Police Department and/or television stations and/or to a columnist who had written some- thing about the murders in their City of Atlanta.

They kept me from 1 pm until 6 pm. No water, coffee or tea was offered. They were transfixed. I thought I had made a break- through when I explained four previous cases of letters from hell and the content of such letters. My attempts to explain the theological underpinnings of my theory proved daunting. I showed them newspaper articles and letters from several police departments in the United States and England. In each instance they saw evidence that the police departments would not release information contained in the letters. Information known only to the killer was in each letter. So clear and concise is the information given in these letters from hell that the police know for certain that it was in fact from the killer. With the blackboard that I had requested, I felt that saying the words would be one thing and then the actual physical seeing of the evidence would elicit from them an understanding.

I explained that these letters would be characterized by their weird, bizarre, literate-illiterate nature. They taunt with viciousness beyond human understanding. It is as if two or more persons composed the documents. This is the work of the collection, which will be explained later in the book.

I was sent on my way with, 'We will be in touch.' Some addenda to the chap collection, whinchat Child Murders are

copies of my letters to Commissioner Lee Browne. The New York Post of 9 March 1981 indicated that two newspapers in Atlanta had received letters from someone who fulfilled the criteria I had outlined just that previous month. Would this awaken their interest? A concert was to be held in Atlanta presenting Sammy Davis Jr. and Frank Sinatra. The letter from hell said: 'Consider, while everybody's watching Sammy and Frank who'll be watching the children?' The papers declined to reveal any more of the contents of the two letters in compliance with the police request. You will read a copy of my letter of 17 March 1981 imploring Commissioner Lee Browne to let me read the correspondence. On 16 March 1981 Newsweek revealed that letters had been received by the police in Atlanta with the name The Ghost Killer.

Six more children would die between my visit in February 1981 and the 2 May when I received a telephone call from Commissioner Lee Browne asking me to return to Atlanta.

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Again the choice between family and attempts to save a human life. Money was found and I flew to Atlanta. Commissioner Lee Browne was alone and showed me a stack of letters. 'These were received by different parties here in Atlanta. Can you tell me those you think might fit your theory?' Many were from cranks, bigots, hate-mongers; some were of no value for their content did not reveal the personality of the Evil One. Suddenly, there it was. A letter from hell. The writer was discussing the political and economic conditions of the city with a sarcasm and pride, which gave it away. One letter in particular was from a lesser entity.

In the Son of Sam correspondence to Jimmy Breslin, famous New York columnist, the opening paragraph was composed instantaneously without recourse to notes. Jimmy Breslin stated that it must have taken weeks to compose such a document. In my hands was a document composed of more than thirty lines of writing with every other line ending in rhyme. One of the hallmarks of possession is an ability of the letter-writer to reflect the higher knowledge of the entity. A knowledge of secret and hidden things is displayed and foreign languages are known.

Commissioner Lee Browne then revealed that he had some of these letters during my visit in February 1981. They wondered how I knew of them. I said that in the interim six more children have been murdered and will you now follow my method to capture your killer? The first steps were taken, evidence of which is in my possession. I returned to New York. The next information I received was that Commissioner Lee Browne had asked the detective working on the 'Son of Sam' case in New York to come to Atlanta. Then the newspapers indicated that Commissioner Lee Browne requested that a detective who had worked on the case in Leeds, England, come to Atlanta. I was going to crack this case. Then came the splash in the river and the capture, indictment and conviction of Wayne Williams as the Atlanta Child Murderer. All communication ceased between Commissioner Lee Browne and myself.

Finally, almost ten years later, the truth of whether in fact Wayne Williams is The Ghost Killer can be revealed. The correspondence will be re-read in light of this book. The guilt or innocence of Wayne Williams may be determined by reading the documents from hell sent to the law enforcement agencies.

In the summer of 1983, I approached a film company with an idea for a movie based on my idea, knowing full well that the book must come first. The publisher placed my original manuscripts

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and material in the hands of best-selling author George Mandel. During the last eight years, the full meaning of his words contained in the letter to the publisher dated August 1983 rings clear:

'Tatum's three central ideas are incisive, revolutionary, and of immense social urgency. To be specific, I mean his Forensic Theology, its application as a qualified criminological procedure in conjunction with others, and the interchange of its generated data among police authorities world-wide in the preventive search for a non-human source of savage crime as a presence among us.'

Mario Puzo had written a comment in his book on the making of The Godfather. He had said that George Mandel was the 'smartest man in the world.' George Mandel had viewed a ten-minute segment of a film with Mario Puzo. All present thought it a great hit and sure winner. George Mandel gave his reasons for its eventual failure. What he had seen in ten minutes the others saw when they saw the completed film. This gave me great encouragement. Six years had passed and finally I had reached the first knowing intellect.

The same basic questions concerning letters from hell were put before Captain Frank Adamson in the Green River Killer case taking place in Seattle, Washington. Political intrigue was utilized as one of my methods to place my letter in the hands of Adamson, the Task Force Commander. A telephone call was received from Adamson: 'Mr. Tatum I have received your letter of 5 January 1984, containing the elements of any document which might have been received by our task force concerning our Green River Killer. I am sorry to say that no such correspondence has been received.' As I had advised Commissioner Lee Browne almost three years before, the letters from hell would be mailed to the newspapers and/or a columnist who had written about the case and/or to the television station or to the police department itself. This telephone conversation took place at the end of January 1984. The first week in February 1984, I received a telephone call from Adamson. 'We have received a letter containing the elements sufficient to convince us here in Seattle that we should ask you to interpret this document for us.' I agreed to do so and requested that they forward me the letter. Ten days later I had received no correspondence and telephoned Adamson. He said: 'We wanted to know if you will charge us for your interpretation.' I said 'No - please send

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off the letter.' The letter sent to me by Adamson was, in my studied and

considered opinion a document from hell. My interpretation was not accepted. In January 1988 London's Observer magazine section ran an article indicating that the Green River Killer was back. He now had killed not twenty-one but forty-nine. Two more years have passed and finally, with this book, law enforcement officers might consider that they are confronted with a theological killer requiring a theological answer. How many millions have been spent? How many lives lost? How many criminal investigations failed? How much longer will it go on?

One of the questions lurking in the mind of the reader of this book might be: does the author believe in God? The personal views of the author have nothing to do with the 'mission' of the theological entity. The real question must be how can we enter this reality and capture this killer?

The public must be able to travel freely in a democratic society. Man does not know the mechanisms by which the entity emerges in the human personality. My studies reveal that a possible opening is through activities associated with any form of the occult. All those involved in such activities open that door which in many cases cannot be shut. Deuteronomy is the fifth book of The Holy Bible and is said to have been composed by Moses. It delineates to an ancient people more than 3,341 years ago, in approximately 1350 BC, the dangers associated with individuals and institutions involved in these practices:

When thou art come into the land which the Lord, thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations. There shall not be found among you any one that maketh his son or his daughter to pass through the fire, or that useth divination, or an observer of times, or an enchanter, or a witch, or a charmer, or a consulter with familiar spirits, or a wizard, or a necromancer. For all that do these things are an abomination unto the Lord, and because of these abominations the Lord thy God doth drive them out from before thee.' Deut XVIII: vs. 9-12. (My italics)

During my visit to Paris, France, I met with Inspector Popineau on the Montmartre murders. Old ladies had been strangled over a period of time in that district of Paris. The method of strangulation was similar if not exactly the same as The Boston Strangler in 1964

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and the on-going case of the Columbus, Georgia, strangler. During an exorcism in a southern city of the United States in

1974 a possessed member of the group mentioned his work. Each has several assigned tasks, jobs, and discussed their handiwork. This particular demon discussed the name of their victim in 1888 and the job, which had been carried out, on her. Psychiatry and psychology attribute the ability of a fourteen-year-old girl in a southern city recalling and speaking of such an event to memory of a statement made by someone in the past or in a book she had read. When this is proven to be impossible because of her social status and/or access to such detailed information, they use a high- sounding word like cryptomnesia. Sounds good. It is, of course, a vain attempt to use words in a circular fashion to explain unknown phenomena. In this sense both psychiatry and psychology are inexact sciences. In criminal matters they tend to be called by both sides and during a trial the jury is witness to the same event in time being described in various ways so as to please and win a point of view for either the prosecution or the defense. Forensic Theology is exact, cold, hard as steel - forged in the crucible of love — and in time will be proven a method of capture of a theological killer.

Since the innocent fourteen year old girl endured the exorcism and one of the evil ones described its work in such detail in the year 1888 in London. I wrote a letter taking the position of a research student doing work on the infamous Jack The Ripper case of 1888. I needed to learn if in fact, as the demon had said, Mary Nichols was the first victim of this killer. The letter I sent and the replies are attached to the chapter on Jack The Ripper - 1888. The tone, character and personality of the missive rings true as a marker confirming that SOS, BTK, CEF, TGK, emanate from the same source.

A similar case occurred in Poland and the killer became known as The Red Spider Killer. The letters were sent to the newspapers, as in many of the cases documented in this book. I shall quote from one of his missives sent on 4 July 1964: 'there is no happiness without tears, no life without death. Beware! I am going to make you cry.' The editor asked for police protection for he thought the threat was directed at him. We now know that the killing of seventeen-year old blonde, Danka Maciejowitz, in Olsztyn, Poland, was carried out by RSK (The Red Spider Killer). His letters were written in red ink.

Is there time during the presentation to Commissioner Lee Browne and Chief of Police George Napper to explain fully the

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background and understanding of the author? Does a serologist have to explain his methods and procedures in one hour to those who have no knowledge of serology? Of course not, but they ask me to give the answers in ten words or fewer.

The Jack The Ripper-like mutilations were carried out in Poland along with the posturing of bodies and strangulations similar to TBS (The Boston Strangler) and the Columbus, Georgia strangler. The belief that a copycat theory will resolve this dilemma is tragic. Does a 'copycat' killer in two separate countries functioning at the same time have access to the same written material in order to know how to perform similar acts of a fiendish nature?

Included in the Addenda entitled The Works of the Collection II is dialogue between demons and devils in space and time, showing their constancy. Number III , extracted from various books and magazines, describes structures both emotional and physical which could confirm that the attacks against President Ronald Reagan, the murder of John Lennon, and other well-known cases are in fact allied.

My work then has finally led to the solution of the infamous Jack The Ripper case of 1888. It has taken more than one hundred years for a book to be written which lies to rest this famous case, which has astounded the world for so many decades. Jack The Ripper was a theological entity functioning in 1888. He has reappeared in Leeds, England in the form of Peter Sutcliffe carrying out his mission for his god. He appeared in Poland in 1964 in the form of Lucian Staniak. He also appeared in Atlanta, and the question remains to be answered as to whether he appeared in the form of Wayne Williams.

The letter sent to the Louisiana newspaper, like the one sent to the newspaper in Poland, was misunderstood by the editor. How was he to know that it was a letter from hell? If the letter had been properly understood and forwarded to the Secret Service, President Ronald Reagan would have taken special precautions until the letter writer was apprehended. But it was not understood. The assassination attempt on the President's life by John Hinckley was almost successful.

The letter from hell sent to the newspapers in New York City in November of 1989 was ignored. The letter from hell sent on Monday 18 June 1990 was not ignored. It detailed the shooting of three individuals by date, place and time and promised another nine shootings. He gave his name as follows: 'This is Zodiac' (TIZ). He carried out his fourth shooting on Thursday, 21 June

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1990, followed by another letter to the newspapers indicating that he was the same Zodiac who had functioned twenty years ago in San Francisco. How could that be? The police confirm that 'This is Zodiac' who killed in San Francisco was a white man. The 'This is Zodiac' in New York City is a black man. Will law enforcement agencies determine that this theological killer should be caught before he strikes again? I think not. Theology, in the collective view of law enforcement agencies, is not a method to obtain a solution to a murder. Separation of Church and State come into play and of course the inevitable question of which theology to utilize to capture this killer.

The same Captain Joseph Borelli with whom I met thirteen years ago is heading the New York 'This is Zodiac' case. The same Commissioner Lee Browne with whom I met in Atlanta is the Commissioner in New York City at this time. Could it be that Captain Borelli might speak to Commissioner Browne of his SOS and Mr. Browne would speak of his TGK and they might catch on that TIZ is the same entity? I don't think so.

Captain Joseph Borelli in The New York Post of 20 June 1990 made the following statement: T don't want to say he's suffering any mental defect . . . but it wouldn't surprise me too much, when we find him, that he has some kind of problem along those lines'. A further quotation is given in the same New York Post article: 'Investigators also are trying to figure out the meaning of the word "faust" underlined in the letters.' They might remember the personage who sold himself to the Devil. That is, of course, a clear clue. The police continue to be mystified and the beat goes on.

A summation is now given on a case of kidnapping which alarmed all of New York City in 1928. More than fifty detectives were assigned to the case. A beautiful ten-year-old girl had been taken from her home, with her parents' permission. An old man had taken her and never would she be seen again by her parents.

One of the two sons had placed an advertisement in the newspapers offering his services:

'Young man, age 18, seeks position in the country.' The monster posing as a man appeared at the apartment

suddenly with his story of possible employment. He then wrote a telegram delaying his Sunday date and set a new date. He made sure he picked up the telegram when he again visited the apartment. We know that a person about to commit premeditated murder does not send a telegram, which, of course, can be traced. Though it was typed by the telegraph office, the original written by

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the old man would be found by the detective working on the case. The old man arrived at the home of the innocent parents of two

sons and two daughters. He came into the room with a pot of cheese and strawberries as a gift; he kept his date. He flashed his thick wad of dollar bills and the parents saw a form of salvation - work for their son on the old man's farm. He would take their boy away but he would leave dollars and a promise to return soon with their precious son. At that moment, a beautiful ten-year girl wearing her white confirmation shoes and white stockings appeared in the room and jumped on the old man's lap. She had large blue eyes and dark-brown hair. She was the daughter of Albert and Delia Budd. Her name was Grace Budd. He suddenly offered money to the boy who was with his friend to go to the picture show in the Chelsea area of New York City. Later we would learn that he had made up his mind to take the girl rather than the boy.

He then offered to take Grace Budd to a party and said he would return shortly with her. The parents looked at each other. Surely, this old kindly man would return with their daughter. Dare they offend the old man who was to hire their son for much needed work? He took her away and she waved goodbye. That would be the last they would see of their precious daughter.

William Francis King, the detective, would follow many leads during his six years of trials and tribulations too long to document here before finally catching the killer. The break came with a newspaper article asking 'Whatever happened to Grace Budd?' The letter from hell arrived in the home of the Budds - at their new address given in the news article (see Addenda).

Its tone and fabric are equal to the letter from hell of Jack The Ripper of 1888. When you read these twin documents from hell, the BTK, CEF, SOS and TGK (TIZ) become clear as crystal. Who will believe it? Yet, finally man might accept that there is another reality in the minds of some of mankind. We must face that terrible reality.

The Holy Bible gives several clues as to the origins and purposes of the evil one. This reality exists I believe in the minds of the killers. We do not totally understand it. This book then is the beginning of a beginning towards an ultimate understanding of that reality.

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Comments of Malachi Martin

William David Tatum's study concerning a rather long-time social aberrant - the serial killer - is not simply another literary effort at recounting the gory details that characterize these shocking crimes. Such killers are known to us from past history; but, today, there is this added fact, that for the first time we have reliable records established by our courts.

Tatum has one central idea, and one proposal. The idea can be explained easily. Likewise the proposal can be easily set forth, but its execution would require complex and multiple operations.

THE IDEA: He points out that, again and again, as a consistent datum in serial murder cases, the serial murderer asserts in one way or another and sustainedly that he performed his grisly work at the behest of some non-human agency or source present among ordinary men and women. Of course, many take this as a variation on the well- known self-serving and exculpatory 'The Devil made me do it' of film-land. But there is much more to it than that. Tatum does a preliminary examination of the evidence based on the killers' own lips; he finds that something also emerges: the suggestion of a malign influence with a detailed profile and instructions to its adepts (the killers) so eerily paralleled in so many diverse cases where collusion is practically speaking impossible and unimaginable. That leads one to think that these serial murderers are telling us something neither we with our modern minds nor our criminal judicial process are attuned to hearing and perceiving.

Tatum points out that criminology is at best an infant science. On the other hand, one of the best criminological studies, The Criminal Mind by Dr Samenow, established as overall conclusions that (1) there is such a thing as the criminal mind generically different from the 'normal' civic mind, (2) it acts by conscious choice, not under the blind impulse of a 'bad' chemical imbalance

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producing irresponsible behavior, (3) the possessor knows exactly what he is doing, and (4) there is always in that mind a central motivation characterizable as an impulse, non-resisted but still resistible and alien per se to the possessor of this criminal mind, which persuades him to proceed with his work. But, Tatum points out; the courts of criminal processes have become courts of record, not courts of truth. When there is talk of motivation - 'Why did you do this horrible thing?' — the answers are always within the realm of observable data colored by the traditional auras cast by the defense. No real account is taken of the implications of the assertions of the killer concerning that resistible impulse.

THE PROPOSAL: In this idea there is the germ of what Tatum calls forensic

theology. Namely, in certain cases - many serial murder cases, for example - when certain observable data are present that are indubitable signs of Satanic worship and cult, the criminal justice system ought to admit the hypothesis that such assertions by serial killers reflect a very noisome truth, and that even as a hypothesis (a process which science uses continually in its established verification processes) the presence among human beings of a non-human power could in certain cases be the only adequate explanation of the aberrant behavior of such criminals.

A long, detailed, arduous and rigorously scientific study, calling on inter-disciplinary collaboration, is required in order to translate both this idea and the proposal into rationally acceptable terms and demonstrate its usefulness to the regnant mentality of those directly engaged in the criminal process. For any worthwhile conclusions must be hedged around with provisos and conditions that exclude fanaticism, sectarianism, the hocus-pocus of unacceptable superstition, and the self-serving manipulations of claimant religious gurus. Salem is not the model. Tatum may well be pointing to a fruitful path on our tortuous journey to attain a truly civic city of man.

Malachi Martin was trained in theology at Louvain, specializing in the Dead Sea Scrolls and Intertestamentary Studies and received his Doctorate in Semitic Languages, Archaeology and Oriental History. He was from 1958 until 1964 Professor at the Pontifical Institute of the Vatican and a close associate of Pope John XXIII.

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CHAPTER ONE

Son of Sam and a Reflection on Criminology

If only we could call back yesterday and bid time return, to the two years when a terror, not quite so lasting before or since, stalked the streets of New York. Footsteps, the flash of a hunting knife, the detonation of a .44 caliber revolver, and another, and another, and another pretty girl sprawled on the sidewalk. For two years from the chill Christmas Eve of 1975 to the last day of sweltering August 1977, one man made the hair on the flesh of the metropolis stand up.

He began by stabbing two women, bought a gun, which he fired thirty-two times, killing six, wounding or maiming seven more, in eight separate criminal sorties.

As O. Henry said, 'It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.' Or so people thought. But more important than the actual homicidal spree was the challenge which the killer threw to the public and which nobody caught. He advertised himself in letters and on the telephone, which could have identified him. If interpreted correctly they could have halted the footsteps, stayed the knife, thwarted the gun.

By spoken and written word, he gave much away. He was a person with melodious pseudonyms. He was the Duke of Death, the Chubby Monster, Joquin the Joker, the Wicked King Wicker, and when finally challenged, he was asked, 'What is your name?' he answered, 'My name is Legion, for we are many.' Yet he had no script before him, certainly not the Gospel According to St Mark of the New Testament. He was answering questions with knowledge of Biblical matters not to be found in his background, his educational pattern or his intellectual tapestry. He spoke with the voice and wrote with the letters of the Devil.

He was the self-styled Son of Sam who has now entered the annals of criminology, but for his terrible behavior rather than for his specific embodiment of evil. Born a bastard to Joseph Kleinman, a businessman of Long Island, and Betty Broder Falco, a waitress, who conducted an affair with the father, which lasted nearly three

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decades, he was adopted by Nat and Pearl Berkowitz, a couple who could not have children of their own. As Jews, they gave the baby the name David. David Richard Berkowitz, to give him his full name, was brought up in a conservative Jewish fashion, and he magnified himself from David, King of Judah, after whom he was named, to the most personal identification of the son of Samuel, the prophet who promised him the kingship.

'Who are you?' asked the detective who found him parked too close to a fire hydrant.

'I'm the Son of Sam,' he replied. The horrendous murders, the listing of more than 3,000 suspects,

the sensational newspaper, radio and television coverage, the sheer panic of the population, and the eventual arrest, almost entirely shrouded the most important question of all: what made David Berkowitz take that godly identity to carry out those most devilish attacks on fellow human beings?

Of course, he would have some knowledge of the Old Testament from his adoptive parents, from the Temple Adath Israel, and from other Jewish contacts. But the man who cited the Devil so often could not have known, judging by his scholastic records, that Satan - the adversary - the supreme evil spirit, is referred to as the Devil in the New Testament of the Christians. The Old Testament of the Jews has him as Abaddon in Hebrew and Apollyon in Greek. There are devils in Leviticus, Deuteronomy, 2 Chronicles and the Book of Psalms, but he is only a capital D Devil, the personified source of all evil, in the New Testament of the Christians.

Despite the strangeness of Son of Sam's writing and spoken thoughts, or more correctly boasts, all the serious attention to his behavior, as distinct from the popular portrayal, has been devoted to the more arguable psychiatric picture of a loner, a withdrawn psychotic, a strange mixture of schizophrenic and paranoid, a man with a mission, a mission to conquer women. Here, his boasting had to be played out. Incapable of dominating them sexually, he had to use physical violence, which maimed or killed them.

In ordinary lay terms he was evil, but so few in authority ever want to analyze the root of evil. The subject gets too close to religion, to the Bible, to the good of God, to the badness of the Devil. Even people who openly and publicly profess their religious commitments, shrink from thinking or speaking about the source of the power of evil, even though there is a fairly universal avowal that the source is the Devil and that he does exist.

Occasionally, there will be a public challenge about belief in the

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Devil, but then it will be forgotten. The Star newspaper, New York, asked its readers simply: Do you believe the Devil is real, or simply our embodiment of evil? Readers responded with thousands of letters, which showed that:

71 per cent said the Devil is a real spirit created by God. Some related personal encounters with the Devil. Many cited biblical references to the Devil.

13 per cent said the Devil is our personification of evil. 7.5 per cent said they believed in God, but not in the Devil. 4.5 per cent said they did not believe in God or the Devil. 2 per cent said it didn't matter if the Devil existed or not because

God is the only important thing. 2 per cent claimed to be devils or witches.

Satan lives, said seven out of ten, but no one seemed to have officially or intelligently related such known beliefs to the man who held them in dread for so long in the same vast metropolis.

Every serious devotee of crime stories, and they are in fact examples of man's inhumanity to man, the worst of evils, knows how the law enforcement agencies go about their business. They can call upon a very wide variety of disciplines to aid them in solving breaches of the law and bringing the people responsible to justice. But they seldom, if ever, call on experts who can help them understand the greatest evils of all: the origin, motivation and performance of a mass murderer.

There is very good reason why they should do so, for multiple killings, random or selective, are on the increase. The ripples of violent crime have spread from the United States of America to Europe and have reached the farthest shores of Australasia. Criminologists have analyzed figures and individual cases and attributed the causes to economic, social and cultural collapse. High unemployment, notably among the young, drug taking and heavy leisure reliance on television - highlighted by, but by no means solely the responsibility of the Rambo syndrome - have all resulted in massive alienation and disillusionment. All around there seems to be a widespread sense of anomie.

Among both the haves and the have-nots there has emerged an epidemic of lawlessness, breaking even the long entrenched class and social barriers. Gone are the customary respects for other people's persons or property. Just as the lawbreakers are not restricted to the deprived or deviant, so are the victims drawn from unselected groups.

The traditional reasons for attack, and murder, for gain, for

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revenge, for elimination, for jealousy, from conviction and for the lust of killing have often become obscured or disappeared. The lust of killing, once a minority reason, has become all too prevalent. Murder, instead of being confined to single victims, has too often concentrated on the random and mass field of sufferers. Every excuse and reason seems to have been offered for the ripples of violent crime, which have turned into a tidal wave except the explanation that the intrinsic evil in such acts may well be the direct work of the Devil.

Murder and mass murder are, indeed, too much an earthly business. Police call in medical experts to determine life extinct and the means of death. Sometimes they are aided by anthropologists to decide whether mutilated remains are human, and of one or more persons. Sex, age, stature and race can be identified. Habits and occupations can be gleaned. Presence of former injuries, surgical experiences, disease, malformation and, above all, the marks indicating the cause of violent death can often be found.

Police, in their traditional role of matchmaker between victim and killer, will avail themselves of other scientists to explain other clues. Not only the peculiarities of the bludgeon, the oddly bladed knife, the grooves on the spent bullet, but the oddities of the environment. Dr Edmond Locard, who headed the Laboratoire Interregional de Police Technique of Lyon, France, left them with a fascinating principle: that a person entering a room will take into that room some evidence of his presence and leave it there, and take from that room some evidence which was not on him when he arrived.

Such physical evidence is the meat and potatoes of so many criminal cases, but there has been a marked reluctance on the part of police and even lawyers to entertain spiritual evidence. Certainly, they will seldom rely upon it for prosecution purposes, although the psychiatrist is often the last, fading hope of defense attorneys. But it is not trusted by the general public and it is definitely not universally acceptable to jurists.

Although psychiatry has advanced in theory and in practice, it has not moved in official minds when it comes to deciding the origins of a crime or the motivation of the criminal. This is partly because psychiatry does not speak the same language as the law. The psychiatrist has one vocabulary, the lawyer (and backed by the legislature) another.

Since psychiatrists are very much concerned with advocating or denying that a criminal is insane, it is inevitable that they should

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clash with the law on the famous and still widely held McNaghten Rules on the subject. After all, the Rules were laid down in 1843, when Daniel McNaghten, acting under a delusion that he was being persecuted by Sir Robert Peel, shot and killed Peel's secretary, Edward Drummond, believing him to be Sir Robert. McNaghten was brought to trial on a charge of murder, but was acquitted by a verdict of Not Guilty on the ground of insanity.

Public interest and outcry was so great that the House of Lords, asked all judges in England their opinion. They replied that 'to establish a defense of insanity, it must be clearly proved that, at the time of the committing of the act, the party accused was laboring under such a defect of reason, from disease of mind, as not to know the nature and quality of the act he was doing; or if he did know it, that he did not know he was doing what was wrong.'

It has been argued that the judicial lords' answers, in response to hypothetical questions, cannot be legally binding, as would be judgments in actual cases. Nevertheless, the rules have been incorporated into many legal systems, particularly Anglo-American jurisdictions. But not without acrimonious debate.

Much of the argument devolves on what is wrong. Is it legally wrong, which the lawyers will define, or ethically wrong, which the psychiatrists will try to explain? Consider the political assassin who knows his act of murder is wrong in law, but not wrong according to his moral principles. And how many psychotics are there with paranoid ideas, which lead them to believe that murder was justified, even obligatory? None of these can be insane under the McNaghten Rules.

While psychiatry has made enormous strides in the treatment of mental illness, the law in most countries has not changed and does not accept the findings of even the most eminent psychiatrists because they are often in dispute among themselves. There will always be psychiatrists for the prosecution saying one thing and psychiatrists for the defense saying another, and both no doubt honestly. And that is very different from most branches of forensic science, where it is often very difficult, if not impossible, to obtain an honest second or contradictory opinion.

Although it took place more than forty years ago, the trial of Neville Heath at the Old Bailey, London, is worth mentioning. Neville George Clevely Heath, a frauds man, con-man, womanizer and sadist, was charged with the murder of Mrs. Margery Gardner, a woman of thirty-two, described generously as a Bohemian of unconventional habits. She was found in a hotel bedroom with

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seventeen whip lashes across her body, front and back, and her face. Her nipples had practically been bitten off. Her ankles were fastened together; her right arm lay under her body and had obviously been pinioned. Marks were present high upon the neck and under the chin. Blood oozed from the private parts due to extensive laceration of the passage leading to the womb. Death was due to suffocation. Heath pleaded Not Guilty and his counsel advanced on his behalf the notion of partial insanity. Psychiatrists were called both for the prosecution and the defense, but the jury found him Guilty and he was hanged. But in The Trial of Neville Heath (edited by Macdonald Critchley, MD) in the Notable British Trials series (William Hodge, 1951) the editor quotes Walshe, writing about psychiatry in the law courts:

It is important to realize that there is no generally-accepted body of psychiatric doctrine or practice, but there are, on the contrary, many conflicting and incompatible schools of both, while the psychiatric body is rent by fierce internecine feuds on matters of both theory and practice. There is no science of psychological medicine in the sense in which the term 'science' is used by natural scientists. Psychiatry and psychological medicine is, in fact, not a branch of natural science, and if it has any scientific affiliation at all it is with historical science . . . Thus we see psychiatry swinging perpetually between allegory and machinery in its theory and practice, from the attempted exegesis of dreams to what in a barbarous neologism is called psycho-surgery.

Many experts, not only in the fields of medicine, but in sociology and other disciplines, will complain that this view of pre-1951 is out- dated and outmoded, but there are equally a large number of professional people, certainly in the legal profession, who will say that that critique has as much validity today as it had then. If anyone is in doubt they might do worse than consult Hervey M. Cleckley, the American psychiatrist in The American Handbook of Psychiatry, who says:

Despite some very important achievements in the last half century, psychiatry does not today, in my opinion, possess newly discovered and well-established facts which afford a scientific answer to the ultimate questions that arise in determining responsibility.

Heath was a psychopath - albeit claiming partial or ethical or moral

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insanity - occupying an equivocal position in society. Of his kind Cleckley said in another place:

It is often difficult to hold them to account for their misdeeds. Those who commit serious crimes have a history that any clever lawyer can exploit in such a way as to make his client appear to the average jury the victim of such madness as would make Bedlam itself tame by comparison. Under such circumstances they escape legal consequences of their misdeeds, are sent to mental hospitals where they prove to be sane and are released. On the other hand, when their relatives and their neighbors seek relief from them, they, not wanting to be confined, are able to convince the Court that they are as sane as any man.

These opinions on the value of psychiatric evidence are valuable in that they show why there is a marked reluctance to accept inexact scientific opinions in courts of law which are supposed to seek out the exact truth, the whole exact truth and nothing but the exact truth. The truth is really very different. More and more pieces of scientific evidence given in criminal cases, which have resulted in convictions, are being called into question. More and more allegations of wrongful conviction rest substantially on whether the forensic scientific evidence given to the jury was wholly accurate and, if it was wanting, whether the judge gave proper cautions as to its value.

Such allegations have been underlined by some major upsets. An acknowledged international expert on arson had his reputation severely damaged by the English Court of Appeal. The British Home Office took upon itself the vilification of one of its most experienced scientists and drove him from office after twenty-five years' service, on the grounds of 'gross technical and professional incompetence' (later reduced to 'limited ability'). In the United States, one of the world's best-known medical examiners and coroners was stigmatized and demoted. Although he was reinstated after a bitter, six weeks' long civil service inquiry, involving ninety- three witnesses and 3,000 pages of testimony, there are still question marks over many of his opinions and verdicts.

All that is very good reason why the value and direction of forensic science evidence in court should be re-examined very closely. But there is a much wider issue than that. The whole understanding of extreme violent crime is overdue for review. The tidal wave of barbarism, which threatens to engulf us all, demands not so much a barrier to protect us but a fundamental rethink as to

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why people go on the rampage and kill and kill again for no apparent justifiable reason. If no science, with any claim to exactitude, can explain such actions is it not time that we ask whether people can be driven to multiple homicide by diabolical powers?

If man-made terms, like delusions, neuroses and diseases like schizophrenia, are insufficient, should the authorities not consult much earlier definitions of evil? There were times when a person was held to be driven by evil, to be possessed by the Devil, to commit crimes. If it were true then, why is it so beyond comprehension now?

If it is beyond comprehension then we must call back yesterday and bid time return to Christmas Eve, 1975, when David Berkowitz armed himself with a four-and-a-half inch blade knife and drove from his home at 2161 Barnes Avenue in the Bronx two-and-a-half miles east to his home district of Co-Op City to kill.