Priest Charged w/ Funeral Home Murders to Hide Pedophilia

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Priest Charged w/ Funeral Home Murders to Hide Pedophilia

Postby proldic » Sat Oct 01, 2005 6:36 pm

I distinctly remember AMW said that police were considering -- among other theories -- a gang hit, and <br>a cult.<br><br>WCCO-TV St Paul, MN 10-01-05<br><br>Sources: Priest Killed Hudson Funeral Home Workers<br> <br>Nelson Garcia<br>Reporting<br><br>(WCCO) Hudson, Wis. Prosecutors said they will present evidence showing that a Fr. Ryan Erickson, a Roman Catholic priest, murdered Dan O'Connell and James Ellison in a funeral home more than three years ago. <br><br>Since Feb. 5, 2002, the motive behind the shootings of O'Connell, 39, and Ellison, 22, has been an unsolved puzzle, until now. <br><br>Eric Johnson, the St. Croix County District Attorney said, "If the information comes out and the objective facts are there and people can look at those facts and make their own decisions, then I think justice is served." <br><br>Sources said Erickson was trying to cover up allegations of molesting a teenager at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church in Hudson.<br><br>Sources said that sometime before February 2002, a teenage boy was sent to the church. He had gotten in trouble with the law and was assigned to do community service at the church. <br><br>The boy was placed under the care of Father Ryan Erickson, sources said. Erickson, 31, was a youth pastor, but sources said on at least three occasions, Erickson took the boy into the rectory of the church, served him alcohol and molested him. <br><br>Hudson Police have launched a separate investigation into those allegations. <br><br>The murders are tied to those allegations because O'Connell and his family are very well connected in the church. O'Connell’s father serves on the church council and Erickson presided over O'Connell's funeral. <br><br>Sources said O'Connell found out something about these allegations against Erickson. It is unknown what O'Connell found out, or if anyone will ever know what O'Connell found out, but sources said O'Connell told at least one person he was going to confront Erickson about what he was told. <br><br>Sources said that shortly after O'Connell confronted Erickson about the allegations, he and his intern were shot dead inside the O'Connell Family Funeral Home. <br><br>Prosecutors will present information to a judge showing Erickson was trying to cover up his trail of molestation by killing O'Connell and that University of Minnesota student Ellison was also killed because he was at the wrong place at the wrong time, sources said. <br><br>Hudson Police started questioning Erickson about the shootings and investigators have said Erickson did know information about the crime scene nobody else could have known. Shortly after investigators began questioning him, Erickson committed suicide. <br><br>Sources said police have solid evidence against Erickson, but police have never found the murder weapon. <br><br>Either way, police believe this puzzle is now solved. <br><br>The evidence will be presented during John Doe hearings next week. The hearings will take place behind closed doors before Circuit Judge Eric Lundell. <br><br>Lundell will rule whether evidence gathered by police provides enough probable cause that Erickson could have been charged with the crime, if he were still alive.<br><br>The hearings are expected to last three days and could include up to 15 witnesses. Only the victims' and the priest's families will be allowed to attend the hearing, but transcripts of the testimony and other police documents will be released afterward. <br>Erickson's parents released a statement Friday calling the evidence in the case "very weak." <br><br>"We know in our hearts that our son had nothing to do with this awful crime and feel tremendous sympathy for the families of Mr. O'Connell and Mr. Ellison," the statement said. <br><br>Neither the O'Connell family nor the Ellison family wanted to comment on camera for the story. The families did said they look forward to next week’s court hearing, so the truth will finally come out. <br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://wcco.com/local/local_story_274152725.html">wcco.com/local/local_stor...52725.html</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--> <p></p><i></i>
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Re: Priest Charged w/ Funeral Home Murders to Hide Pedophili

Postby Dreams End » Sat Oct 01, 2005 6:40 pm

slightly OT, but it occurs to me (surely I'm not the first) that any network, whether organized crime or RA or whatever, would be well served by running funeral homes or having many of them available to covertly dispose of bodies. <br><br>Have their been any large scale investigations into funeral homes, particularly larger...what would you call them...franchises? Connections to mob? Connections to politicos? <br><br>Just curious. <p></p><i></i>
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Postby chiggerbit » Sat Oct 01, 2005 8:33 pm

<!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.the7thfire.com/Politics%20and%20History/Pedophocracy/child_sexual_abuse_in_US.htm">www.the7thfire.com/Politi..._in_US.htm</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br><!--EZCODE QUOTE START--><blockquote><strong><em>Quote:</em></strong><hr> The callboy ring, oddly enough, had close ties to the funeral home/mortuary business. Robert Chambers was convicted on charges of handling the credit card processing for Professional Services, Inc., an entity that served as a cover for an interlinked network of half-a-dozen male escort services. Chambers was a funeral director and the son of the owner of the Chambers Funeral Homes chain. He was sentenced to serve 41 months. Two of the linked services, Dream Boys and Man to Man, were reportedly run by Henry Vinson, a mortician and the former coroner of Mingo County, West Virginia. Vinson had moved to D.C. after losing his job as coroner for making harassing phone calls to rival funeral homes. While he was under investigation in Washington, his obituary appeared in West Virginia newspapers, apparently as the result of an assisted effort to fake his death. Vinson6 ultimately pled guilty and received a 63-month sentence. The presiding judge openly criticized U.S. Attorney Jay Stephens for departing from mandatory sentencing guidelines. Vinson’s legal representation was provided by Fox News mouthpiece Greta Van Susteren.<hr></blockquote><!--EZCODE QUOTE END--> <p></p><i></i>
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