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Some more documents that could be of used to you on the activities done by deprogrammers. Antonio Herman
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N) AMY FRITH, JANUARY 1991 Amy Frith was abducted when she was driving her mother to the Greater Cincinnat i Airport in Kentucky on January 19, 1991, and was taken across the state line into Ohio. Her mother sai d she wanted to stop and see a friend. They drove to a house and Amy was not permitted to leave. Presen at the house were her parents, sisters, John Thomas, the owner of the house, and deprogrammers Randal l Burkey and Mary Alice Chrnalogar, and Donna Adams who assisted the deprogrammers. Amy was forcibly co nfined at this location and deprived of food and drink and finally drugged. She was taken to Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center in Albany, Ohio, which is run by Paul Martin, a board member of the Cult Awareness Network, on January 23, 1991. At Wellspring, Amy was held against her will for 7 days, during which she was kept awake for numerous hours and bad gered in an attempt to get her to denounce her religion and her husband. She escaped on January 30, 1991. On July 2, 1991, her parents, Georgene and Robert McFerren, were indicted for a bduction. The case went to trial on April 20, 1992. However, Amy failed to appear in court, and the jud ge dismissed the case for want of prosecution. She is currently pursing a civil case against the kidnappe rs. O) CARA LOUISE SCHENKER, SEPTEMBER 1991 On September 17, 1991, Cara Louise Schenker was grabbed by several men as she w as about to leave her apartment in New York City. These men knocked her to the ground and one of them flashed a badge, and they told her it was a drug bust. She gave up screaming as she thought she was under arrest and was afraid she might be charged with resisting arrest. They dragged her into a van, where the guards held onto her ankles with her legs spread apart on the floor of the van. Cara was taken to a cabin where she was held down as she was fighting and screa ming to be let go. She recognized one of the men, referred to as Galen by the others, as a man who t ried to enter her apartment several months before. She was driven to another cabin in Pennsylvania where sh e was held against her will until September 20, 1991. A man whom the kidnappers referred to as Rand (CAN deprogrammer, Randall Burkey) was brought in for the deprogramming. Cara was forced to stay d espite repeated demands to be released. She was driven to another house in upstate New York where she w as held against her will until September 24 when she was driven to a home in Hazlet, New Jersey. The kid nappers finally released her, when the deprogramming was found to be unsuccesful, on September 26, 1991. The kidnapping was sponsored by the parents of Cara Schenker, who wanted to get her away from the influence of her boyfriend. According to the FBI report on this, released in th e Lewis Dupont Smith case, Cara was not a member of a cult but her parents disagreed with how she was livi ng her life. When Galen Kelly was brought to trial in December 1992 in the Dupont Smith case , his attorneys stipulated that if called in that case, witnesses would testify to the facts of the Cara S chenker kidnapping by Galen Kelly and his accomplice, Anthony Russo. P) LAVERNE COLLINS, NOVEMBER 1991 On November 20, 1991, a man pretended to deliver a pizza at the house of Lavern e Collins in Boise, Idaho. The pizza man grabbed Laverne and a struggle ensued. Laverne started screamin g and in front of her three children was physically dragged out of the house, across the yard and put into a vehicle which took her away. The oldest son attempted to call the police but was prevented by Lave rne's sister, one of the conspirators in the kidnapping, who arrived at the house. The incident was repo rted to the police by another member of her church, the Church Universal and Triumphant. Deputy Sheriff McShane was despatched to Laverne's house and spoke with Laverne 's sister, Patricia Cox of Visalia, California, who confirmed that Laverne had been taken by a deprogra mmer. The sister said Laverne was fine and would be staying with some friends outside of Cascade, Ida ho for 4-5 days. Laverne told Detective Gary Raney of the Ada County Sheriff's Department that s he was driven to a mountain cabin by Carmine DeSanctis and two of the security team. Joy De Sanc tis joined them at the cabin. The next day she was taken back to the Boise area and moved to various l ocal motels. On November 21, she met Joseph Szimhart, Kenneth Paolini, and Mary Alice Chrnal ogar. Laverne was held against her will for days and on November 27, 1991, was released after mem bers of her Church held a press conference demanding her return. Detective Raney called Adrian Greek, former president of CFF, and from him obta ined the phone number of Joe Szimhart. On December 19, 1991, the deprogrammers and Laverne's mother and sister were in dicted on kidnapping or aiding and abetting kidnapping and arrest warrants were issued for each. All the defendants pleaded not guilty. The deprogrammers went to trial in April 1993 and were acquitted; howev er the kidnappers, including Joy and Carmine DeSanctis, face trial on September 20, 1993. All four deprogrammers had been at the CAN national convention three weeks earl ier. Q) STEPHANIE STAGGS, MARCH 1992 On March 12, 1992, 21-year old Stephanie Staggs, a member of The Way Internatio nal, was abducted from outside her apartment in Madison, Wisconsin. She was grabbed by her father , Steven Staggs, and Scott Linscheid, and forced into a van. She was then taken to a remote farmhous e owned by William Baar in Rock County, Wisconsin. At the farmhouse, Randall Burkey attempted to deprogram Stephanie. Dennis Simps on, who was the coordinator of the deprogramming, was in and out of the farmhouse, according to Stephanie's testimony. An old friend of Stephanie's, Tracy Clarke, was also present during the deprog ramming and she slept in the same bedroom where Stephanie was detained. Karen Reinhardt arranged for the use of the farmhouse for the deprogramming to take place. Stephanie was rescued from the farmhouse on March 15, 1992 by Rock County deput ies and other Madison police officers. Steven Staggs had notified the Madison Police Departme nt in advance, saying that he would be kidnapping his daughter from a cult house and taking her to a saf ehouse for a deprogramming. Scott Linsheid, who was present during much of the deprogramm ing but then decided it was wrong, reported her whereabouts to the FBI. When the police arrived Step hanie told them she was being held against her will and wanted to leave. The police arrested Randall Burkey, Karen Reinhardt, Steven Staggs, and Tracy C larke. They appeared before the judge on March 16, 1992. Burkey and Clarke were charged with false i mprisonment. Steven Staggs was charged with kidnapping and Karen Reinhardt was charged with failure to summons officers or assist victim. Burkey was released for $1,000 bail and appeared at his prelimin ary hearing on March 27, 1992 where he pleaded not guilty. He is scheduled to go to trial on October 29, 1992. Karen Reinhardt has been active with the Cult Awareness Network since at least 1987 when she organized the first Midwest conference on cult awareness at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, co-sponsored by the Cult Awareness Network. She organized a cult awareness co nference in 1988 and again in 1989. Karen Reinhardt and Cynthia Kisser gave the introduction and ove rview at the 1988 conference. During questioning of Randall Burkey and Steven Staggs by law enforcement autho rities after the arrests, it came out that Burkey had been paid $1500, by members of Staggs' church congrega tion in Dallas, Prestonwood Baptist Church. Karen Reinhardt pleaded no contest and was found guilty on August 21, 1992. She was fined $660. Steven Clark Staggs went to trial on September 28. He then pleaded guilty to th e charges of kidnapping. Randall Burkey eventually pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of failure to summo ns a law enforcement officer on November 13, 1992. R) LEWIS DUPONT SMITH, MAY-OCTOBER 1992 On the second of October 1992, the FBI arrested Galen Kelly, C. Newbold Smith, Donald Moore (Kelly's associate) and attorney Robert ( Biker Bob ) Point for the planned kidnapping o f Newbold Smith's 36 year old son, Lewis Dupont Smith, who is a political follower of Lyndon LaRouche Jr. The charge is conspiracy to kidnap. The arrests were the result of a three-month undercover operation. elly posted $250,000 bail, and his movements have been ordered to be electronically monitored. During the course of the Smith criminal case, Kelly's financial ledgers were re leased which revealed several other cases that Kelly was working on. Significantly, the ledgers also revealed that during the months from January 1992 through May 1992, Kelly was receiving a $1500 monthly retainer fro m CAN. Kelly's expenses to cover his trip to LA for the November 1992 CAN convention were also covered by CAN; however by this time Kelly had been arrested in the Lewis Dupont Smith case and was under an electronic monitoring device. Another item found in Kelly's ledgers was a payment for a s afehouse, a term used by deprogrammers to denote remote locations where the deprogramming victims are ta ken. Also released during the course of the Lewis Dupont Smith case were some of the tape tran_script_s made from recordings that the FBI's informant, Doug Poppa, made of his conversations with the defendants during the undercover operation. In one of these tran_script_s, Donald Moore, sta tes, Also, I'm working for CAN. I mean, I've got that covered. These tapes revealed the various plans that were made by the defendants to carr y out the kidnapping, including a plan to lure him into an illicit affair with a woman who would coop ... wi?cej »
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Some more documents that could be of used to you on the activities done by deprogrammers. Antonio Herman
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N) AMY FRITH, JANUARY 1991 Amy Frith was abducted when she was driving her mother to the Greater Cincinnat i Airport in Kentucky on January 19, 1991, and was taken across the state line into Ohio. Her mother sai d she wanted to stop and see a friend. They drove to a house and Amy was not permitted to leave. Presen at the house were her parents, sisters, John Thomas, the owner of the house, and deprogrammers Randal l Burkey and Mary Alice Chrnalogar, and Donna Adams who assisted the deprogrammers. Amy was forcibly co nfined at this location and deprived of food and drink and finally drugged. She was taken to Wellspring Retreat and Resource Center in Albany, Ohio, which is run by Paul Martin, a board member of the Cult Awareness Network, on January 23, 1991. At Wellspring, Amy was held against her will for 7 days, during which she was kept awake for numerous hours and bad gered in an attempt to get her to denounce her religion and her husband. She escaped on January 30, 1991. On July 2, 1991, her parents, Georgene and Robert McFerren, were indicted for a bduction. The case went to trial on April 20, 1992. However, Amy failed to appear in court, and the jud ge dismissed the case for want of prosecution. She is currently pursing a civil case against the kidnappe rs. O) CARA LOUISE SCHENKER, SEPTEMBER 1991 On September 17, 1991, Cara Louise Schenker was grabbed by several men as she w as about to leave her apartment in New York City. These men knocked her to the ground and one of them flashed a badge, and they told her it was a drug bust. She gave up screaming as she thought she was under arrest and was afraid she might be charged with resisting arrest. They dragged her into a van, where the guards held onto her ankles with her legs spread apart on the floor of the van. Cara was taken to a cabin where she was held down as she was fighting and screa ming to be let go. She recognized one of the men, referred to as Galen by the others, as a man who t ried to enter her apartment several months before. She was driven to another cabin in Pennsylvania where sh e was held against her will until September 20, 1991. A man whom the kidnappers referred to as Rand (CAN deprogrammer, Randall Burkey) was brought in for the deprogramming. Cara was forced to stay d espite repeated demands to be released. She was driven to another house in upstate New York where she w as held against her will until September 24 when she was driven to a home in Hazlet, New Jersey. The kid nappers finally released her, when the deprogramming was found to be unsuccesful, on September 26, 1991. The kidnapping was sponsored by the parents of Cara Schenker, who wanted to get her away from the influence of her boyfriend. According to the FBI report on this, released in th e Lewis Dupont Smith case, Cara was not a member of a cult but her parents disagreed with how she was livi ng her life. When Galen Kelly was brought to trial in December 1992 in the Dupont Smith case , his attorneys stipulated that if called in that case, witnesses would testify to the facts of the Cara S chenker kidnapping by Galen Kelly and his accomplice, Anthony Russo. P) LAVERNE COLLINS, NOVEMBER 1991 On November 20, 1991, a man pretended to deliver a pizza at the house of Lavern e Collins in Boise, Idaho. The pizza man grabbed Laverne and a struggle ensued. Laverne started screamin g and in front of her three children was physically dragged out of the house, across the yard and put into a vehicle which took her away. The oldest son attempted to call the police but was prevented by Lave rne's sister, one of the conspirators in the kidnapping, who arrived at the house. The incident was repo rted to the police by another member of her church, the Church Universal and Triumphant. Deputy Sheriff McShane was despatched to Laverne's house and spoke with Laverne 's sister, Patricia Cox of Visalia, California, who confirmed that Laverne had been taken by a deprogra mmer. The sister said Laverne was fine and would be staying with some friends outside of Cascade, Ida ho for 4-5 days. Laverne told Detective Gary Raney of the Ada County Sheriff's Department that s he was driven to a mountain cabin by Carmine DeSanctis and two of the security team. Joy De Sanc tis joined them at the cabin. The next day she was taken back to the Boise area and moved to various l ocal motels. On November 21, she met Joseph Szimhart, Kenneth Paolini, and Mary Alice Chrnal ogar. Laverne was held against her will for days and on November 27, 1991, was released after mem bers of her Church held a press conference demanding her return. Detective Raney called Adrian Greek, former president of CFF, and from him obta ined the phone number of Joe Szimhart. On December 19, 1991, the deprogrammers and Laverne's mother and sister were in dicted on kidnapping or aiding and abetting kidnapping and arrest warrants were issued for each. All the defendants pleaded not guilty. The deprogrammers went to trial in April 1993 and were acquitted; howev er the kidnappers, including Joy and Carmine DeSanctis, face trial on September 20, 1993. All four deprogrammers had been at the CAN national convention three weeks earl ier. Q) STEPHANIE STAGGS, MARCH 1992 On March 12, 1992, 21-year old Stephanie Staggs, a member of The Way Internatio nal, was abducted from outside her apartment in Madison, Wisconsin. She was grabbed by her father , Steven Staggs, and Scott Linscheid, and forced into a van. She was then taken to a remote farmhous e owned by William Baar in Rock County, Wisconsin. At the farmhouse, Randall Burkey attempted to deprogram Stephanie. Dennis Simps on, who was the coordinator of the deprogramming, was in and out of the farmhouse, according to Stephanie's testimony. An old friend of Stephanie's, Tracy Clarke, was also present during the deprog ramming and she slept in the same bedroom where Stephanie was detained. Karen Reinhardt arranged for the use of the farmhouse for the deprogramming to take place. Stephanie was rescued from the farmhouse on March 15, 1992 by Rock County deput ies and other Madison police officers. Steven Staggs had notified the Madison Police Departme nt in advance, saying that he would be kidnapping his daughter from a cult house and taking her to a saf ehouse for a deprogramming. Scott Linsheid, who was present during much of the deprogramm ing but then decided it was wrong, reported her whereabouts to the FBI. When the police arrived Step hanie told them she was being held against her will and wanted to leave. The police arrested Randall Burkey, Karen Reinhardt, Steven Staggs, and Tracy C larke. They appeared before the judge on March 16, 1992. Burkey and Clarke were charged with false i mprisonment. Steven Staggs was charged with kidnapping and Karen Reinhardt was charged with failure to summons officers or assist victim. Burkey was released for $1,000 bail and appeared at his prelimin ary hearing on March 27, 1992 where he pleaded not guilty. He is scheduled to go to trial on October 29, 1992. Karen Reinhardt has been active with the Cult Awareness Network since at least 1987 when she organized the first Midwest conference on cult awareness at the University of Wisconsin at Whitewater, co-sponsored by the Cult Awareness Network. She organized a cult awareness co nference in 1988 and again in 1989. Karen Reinhardt and Cynthia Kisser gave the introduction and ove rview at the 1988 conference. During questioning of Randall Burkey and Steven Staggs by law enforcement autho rities after the arrests, it came out that Burkey had been paid $1500, by members of Staggs' church congrega tion in Dallas, Prestonwood Baptist Church. Karen Reinhardt pleaded no contest and was found guilty on August 21, 1992. She was fined $660. Steven Clark Staggs went to trial on September 28. He then pleaded guilty to th e charges of kidnapping. Randall Burkey eventually pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of failure to summo ns a law enforcement officer on November 13, 1992. R) LEWIS DUPONT SMITH, MAY-OCTOBER 1992 On the second of October 1992, the FBI arrested Galen Kelly, C. Newbold Smith, Donald Moore (Kelly's associate) and attorney Robert ( Biker Bob ) Point for the planned kidnapping o f Newbold Smith's 36 year old son, Lewis Dupont Smith, who is a political follower of Lyndon LaRouche Jr. The charge is conspiracy to kidnap. The arrests were the result of a three-month undercover operation. elly posted $250,000 bail, and his movements have been ordered to be electronically monitored. During the course of the Smith criminal case, Kelly's financial ledgers were re leased which revealed several other cases that Kelly was working on. Significantly, the ledgers also revealed that during the months from January 1992 through May 1992, Kelly was receiving a $1500 monthly retainer fro m CAN. Kelly's expenses to cover his trip to LA for the November 1992 CAN convention were also covered by CAN; however by this time Kelly had been arrested in the Lewis Dupont Smith case and was under an electronic monitoring device. Another item found in Kelly's ledgers was a payment for a s afehouse, a term used by deprogrammers to denote remote locations where the deprogramming victims are ta ken. Also released during the course of the Lewis Dupont Smith case were some of the tape tran_script_s made from recordings that the FBI's informant, Doug Poppa, made of his conversations with the defendants during the undercover operation. In one of these tran_script_s, Donald Moore, sta tes, Also, I'm working for CAN. I mean, I've got that covered. These tapes revealed the various plans that were made by the defendants to carr y out the kidnapping, including a plan to lure him into an illicit affair with a woman who would coop ... wi?cej »
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Subject: FACTNet Vs Old CAN - Criminal Deprogrammings Part IV From: Antonio Hernan Antonio...you haven't told us which cults these people were deprogrammed from. JImDBB
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