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Wiens ot WA A ee A Han fal A et ae ech he al a ad a . hoe . aN le ye, Me a % gare Mogens Pavement oernmrwiks ‘ Wah et pane tte” Seragtocranas eA wa ante /maeammnatenrarnnretrmtan sn ener ae Me a ee ae Sa ge Ss gg Ig ao. Lg tee tas { . ria tion ee Fee . wees (L THE MUTILATION MYSTES. Texas had tts own prime jatante nceists tte fe top ye os a Broup ‘called the Sols “of” Satan, In 1974, a Kilgore College student had written thai this g Pp performed dawn rituals, SSS it. San tn 97h 6 Kilgore tContinued from pate 92) Investigation is unckar, I have read one repo rt, pre- head of cattle—in fact, there are more —satanke suspects In the inutitations case: 5 cattle than people in Texar—and it ly group calicd the Suns of S4tan. In 1974, ° pored by Flickinger and dated April 10, 1973, n which many other feports and imedizations are mentioned. For a few © mnths in 1975, the Federal Government apparcatly investigated satanic organiza- tions anJ activities all over the country. The motives of the informants also remaig a bit unclear. Banksfon, for in- same, appears to have wanted to make 8 deal v0 thid he could be transferred -to & Rte pail in his hone state of Missis- obvious thut 8 group of moncyed muti- fetors could chop away pretly much to the woe of their own folly. More than, 300,000 catile reportedly dic each year in Texas from natural causes, 80 & few hundred moos mutilated by alght stealth would not be significant. The Texas mutes resched public at- tention in Noveniber 1974 and then ap- peared to stop. Move cuss occurred’ i in early 1975, with poralich fo ens in he abo seen fiom his letters tu other states. On January 20th, for in- re wanted to make some money from stance, Hopkins County sheriff Paul R. > te Bx pubcation.. of his story. Dan Dyan, Jones pnnounced that s bloodslurping ther grikipal informant, vanted t0°.-group' tailing Hill the ‘Devils Disciphs’ * “‘excharge his testimony for a reduction of was believed responsible for the mutes. bs wven eat sentence. “ fn Kaufman County, east. of Dallas, For reasons unknown, Federal of- mysierious helicopters were reported and ficisls decided io the late spring of 1975 police officers started directing their ‘spwa- mx w pursue the investigation further. lights into the night sky. And Texas au- One spporent problem with the inform- thorities tended to awribe the mutes to ans’ story was their allegations regarding those coyotes with table manners and Gee pational leader of the mute mob. Ac- giomachs biz enough to hold eight gallons" scuniing to Bankston and Dugan, this gallons wean dad served 8 sentence if Leaven- of moo blood—even though, = in other | i a Kilgore College student had written » - faper in which he said that this grou performed dawn ‘rituals in which’ cattle were chopped up. The student's thene was disgusting. But word of the paper reached T. O. Tinsley, an employee of the Texas” and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Associ-. ation, who was lavestigating ‘the muti-” bation; Tinsicy focated the student ond © tiaveled astound Texas, ¢ talking with sev- eral of the student's sources, ° : > Dkpew of a motorcycte gang in Ca fornia that ‘also culled ineti the Sons 6! Satan; in 1970, a pack of its members murdered an Orange County woman and, according to a young man who later confessed, offered her heart to Satan by placing it in the woman's station wagon anu! senting the vehicle afire. The leader of the California Sons of Satan claimed to belong to a larger saianic organization destroyed by one of more of his feachers, who felt that the qssterial was - | | i torh on a, bank-robbery conviction - ~Qwhich was accurate) and had recently - weve to Austin, Texas (also accurate); fosever, when Texas reporter John Blakcig obtained the alleged beader’s ar- sea and jail history, it indicated that he ba! heen in jail during most of the ime ©! and burrow for the feast.) 2? thy the informants etsirhed he was roam." Eg irom state to Mate performing hema- Poss getemonies.. a Some. autharities believe, the. Bankston: > Nest showkd “a'figniBeny amount a Sco Joba Mak cig of. the Fort Worth Scar- * Dugan aflair was part of a master escape. tine”-in the. liver and. the blood; nicotine , States, there .were instances in Texas , Chat regularly sacrificed human victims where predators had uncharacteristically "iM ccrethonics la Northem and Southem ‘voided cattle that had been rmutilated. Califomia. One Colorado investigator be- (Usually, when a cow fies dead for a licves that the Suns of Satan are involved few days, the ripening fumes spread wide- + reuters piesa Ane barons of - ly and predators quickly arrive ations bs © balead criolog. ” P ate, by land, - keal-warfare Tesessch] found na indice- .tion, bQwever, that. the Galifomnia end... - FeXas Sons of Satan were connected. rn - Between Jenuary and Semember 1975, *-Abo,¢in January, the Fort Horth Stare’ “Telegram paid for toxicology tesis.on a- heifer found nes ait Brownwood, a and the. Telegrim, wgote @ series Of, inicles od * pit. predicated on the assumption that is ths mfaterial most commonly wed in “thé mutilations. The articles ‘eFentuchy , a saul county jail is easier to flee thin tranquilizer guns. In March, a cow was Sttracied the atteftion.of mute-mod in- * * abig Federal prada. On May 3), Bank- chopped up forth of Big Spring: its udder ‘formant Bankston, whb hegan 9- core. = soe did, in fact, exca pe from the jail-in . had been removed—but carefully, so that SpOndence with Makeig. in which be . Staks, Minnesota (to which he hod been the stomach lining had mot been punc- fefeatal some of his ok! charges and . mad fron, Hastings), along with an- | | turey—and js peart. Te@ores: #0 came up with sume new once tailor " piher Prisoner” when they" Were appre-" through a mrt hole i ae a baad . # made for Texas. hs od resiating . bended six hours later, Banksion insisted = Tere were UFOs reponied also. In w lerror that Bankston caused in Texas Sut Us outer prisoner, & murderer, Bad on, . that and summer of 1975. . txsxd him to go slong with the caper ran County, following numerous fy. spring tn city south of Houston, for Degan, meznwhile, had been remanded ; end the -day bfier Bankston's - or. Dugan escaped, too; he was cap- red on June 19th, during a holdup amcmpt in Glenwood Springs, Colorado. Banision Iter asseried that Dugan had w Teas, encaped 3 in fear for his life. . Dewite the doubt cast on the satanic: tors had gotien wont of the Federal ing-odject reports in early March, two routes were found.in a large wheat Held, @*2mple, Texas Deparunent of Pubic each lying in s circle of barned, stubbied - Safety agents called dogether the mayor. wheat about 30 feet in diameter. Shuriff the chief of police and the city manager C. G. Richards checked the circles and and announced that the town water sup- reported finding some radiation residue. Ply was going to be poisoned by occuit By late March 1975, Texas investiga. ‘ermmrists. In Mayflower, a amall tour: wear -the Louisians border, a sheri:ls sso th mains cota investigation of the mute myb in Minne- deputy called together the town's 140 citi- @prcad and fo increase in frequency ia: eee ae ee ee ee a ava amt of foo SS SS SSA Ge Pee Se Sar 1975. They were tspecistly common in members—ineluding the teader—were Were going to be mutilated. The mewitt in Wis. Thy were Epi omen i supposedly residing in Texas, the state both places was total fear-fire. e . fear-Billed innings 23 well. - . Lone-stan MuUTEs One stares at a map of Texas, with ts" Hurst, Texes, near Fort Worth. 254 counties custaining some 17,000,000 Geparumcnt of public safety, a1 well es Meanwhile, learning that the Feuera' focal police departnents, conJuctal sur- dnvestigation had been called off, Makeiz veillance operations in Austin and én” began to trest Bankston with muwe cit ‘tion, When Banksun ginnvunced in 3 Texas, however, had is own prime letter that the mustiletors were ging to - “+ 90