by Dreams End » Sat Nov 05, 2005 1:44 am
I don't think there's a whole lot I can offer on this. I know a pretty good deal about the Finders, but I think they dropped that line of inquiry. I will say that what caught my eye was that Susan's dad has a house in Fresno. <br><br>If you recall, the Finders case broke when two men were arrested with several ill-cared for children who were not their own. Their mothers, also Finders members, were in Fresno "working to rasie money for New Hope" (a retirement center in Kentucky. Why Fresno? I have no idea. Petty would send them all over the place at the drop of a hat. <br><br>You'll also recall that the investigation, which unearthed what can only be called "purchase orders" for children seemingly trafficked by the group, was halted by order of CIA. The data dump has more.<br><br>I also mentioned in "killing veritas" thread (don't ask, Bradley) that Susan's claim specifically of involvement in a "Bavarian Satanic cult" was a red flag for me. This seems too pat and I have reservations about the literal existence of such a cult or even of their continued use of "Bavarian" in reference to themselves. It's been 200+ years, after all!<br><br>That's not to say there's nothing to this. Far from it. A man is in jail.<br><br>Here are the possibilities.<br><br><br>1. Richard is crazy (or a victim of some kind of mind control), got paranoid about this stuff and forced his wife to "confess" these things. Bradley says that his brother appears normal and not the "madman" he expected to find. His correspondence are very coherent and sound rational. Bradley said that Richard had no prior knowledge of this type of conspiracy, but no way to know that for sure. There is some material confirmation of the story and Susan's report to the police has many odd details that seem unlikely to be manufactured. Still, Bradley himself is an author of pretty dark short stories, so people CAN make up this kind of stuff. And if Richard was threatening her life after having beaten her, she might do so.<br><br>2. This is a hoax. Highly doubtful, given Richard's current address!<br><br>3. Susan IS the victim, but the mind control, cult stuff is actually directed by Richard and the other stuff is screen memory filler.<br><br>4. Her dad is guilty. He sure SEEMS the part, given the kinds of stories we see around here. Military/intel connections. And I think we can speculate that the details of the "cult" could simply be manufactured stories by MC sorts of projects to discredit Susan should she tell on them. <br><br>For a variety of reasons NONE of these really seems satisfying to me. I think 1 and 4 are the most likely, and I guess I don't want to accept either. In addition, there really is some corroborating stuff to Susan's ORIGINAL story. And check out her report to the police. She doesn't say, for example, just that she abused her kids, but that she was specifically desensitizing them for further sexual use by the cult. REALLY sophisticated lie, if that's what it is. <br><br>You can check out Bradley's info about his brother on his site (in case no one has posted this yet...):<br><br><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK START--><a href="http://www.geocities.com/richardwhamlin/">www.geocities.com/richardwhamlin/</a><!--EZCODE AUTOLINK END--><br><br> Be careful with Bradley's short stories. they are very violent and graphic so definitely put the kids to bed if you want to have a look at those. Think Quentin Tarantino. I haven't checked out his poetry yet. <p></p><i></i>