This is important to keep in mind whenever you read about Satanic child-molester cults. Most of this stuff is urban legend. The cases that do in fact exist are shocking but rare.
-ccm
Well, that's certainly a relief to hear. So does that mean that Colleen Slemmer's mother can have the rest of her murdered daughter's body parts back now? It's been seven years since her daughter was stabbed, slashed and beaten to death, and she'd like to be able to finally bury her- all of her:
Family of Murder Victim Needs Your Help
March 15, 2001
TORRANCE, CALIF. -- January 3, 2000 May Martinez' world nearly crumbled when her 19-year-old daughter, Colleen Slemmer, was brutally murdered while away at school in Knoxville, Tenn.
On Jan. 12, 1995, Christa Gail Pike of Durham, N.C., recruited two friends to help lure Colleen to a park where they sliced her body to shreds with a box cutter. When she tried to get away, Pike attacked her with a chunk of asphalt, slamming it into her skull until she died. Two days later, a witness reported that she heard Pike bragging about cutting a pentagram on the victim's chest. That same day, the 19-year-old Job Corps trainee was taken into custody. During a routine search, an officer found a piece of Colleen's skull in the suspect's pocket. She had saved it for a memento. Pike, the youngest female on death row, was sentenced to death on March 29, 1996.
On Jan. 12, 2000 - exactly five years to the date of Colleen's murder - Martinez lost her Jacksonville, Fla., home in an effort to keep up with the travel and court expenses to keep her daughter's murderers behind bars.
Originally, Colleen's partial remains were buried near her biological father in Pennsylvania. Ten months later, she learned from a news report that Tennessee still had Colleen's skull. On borrowed money, Martinez unsuccessfully challenged the law requiring the state to hold evidence until all case appeals expire. She now questions whether she will ever get it back from a state that has only executed one murderer since November 1960.
With the passing of Colleen's natural father, Martinez has decided to move her daughter's remains closer to her in Florida - but she insists on including all of Colleen's body in her final resting place. After fighting for the return of Colleen's skull for more than six years, the murderer's attorneys refuse to release the "evidence" due to the unending appeals for death row inmates.
Anyone wishing to help support May Martinez and her family, please e-mail May directly at flyboy41@mediaone.net.
For more information, contact May Martinez, Death Row Mother/Survivor, at orders@bobit.com.
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The two men slipped into Newark's Holy Sepulchre Cemetery on a January night in 1999 and crept through the cold stillness of gravestones and crypts. They came upon the mausoleum of Leonard Perna, a bar owner from Orange whose body had lain undisturbed for 13 years. The men smashed through the plexiglass entrance. A heavy marble slab covering Perna's coffin was lifted, and his remains -- which became part of a black-magic ritual -- were stolen. As unholy as the crime may seem, it was only one of a series of body thefts -- including four others in Holy Sepulchre -- authorities say are linked to Palo Mayombe, a religious cult whose priests use human remains in their rituals.That doesn't put Tennessee in a good light, now does it, as archy's article said:
Tennessee still had Colleen's skull. On borrowed money, Martinez unsuccessfully challenged the law requiring the state to hold evidence until all case appeals expire. She now questions whether she will ever get it back from a state that has only executed one murderer since November 1960.Ghoulish state, Tennessee.