That’s a good question. There’s lots of idiots - mostly teenagers - running around in black bathrobes thinking they’re a bunch of badasses.
There are LaVeyan Satanists (Church of Satan) but this sort of thing doesn’t strike me as “their style”.
There could well be some underground circuit of satanic cultists - nothing really surprises me, but I confess to being somewhat jaded and cynical. David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam Killer, claimed he was part of a nationwide Satanic cult, as did Henry Lee Lucas. How much credence to lend to such stories is debatable.
There was the whole “Satanic Panic” of the 1980s, triggered by the McMartin Preschool Trial, but that turned out to be - quite bluntly - media-driven mass hysteria.
“...David Berkowitz, the Son of Sam Killer, claimed he was part of a nationwide Satanic cult...”
That is interesting, I never heard that. Pretty sure that wasn’t true, he was just a murderous nut.
That whole day-care craziness which I think really started with that poor woman in New Jersey (Kelly Ann Michaels?) was really a despicable charade. Innocent people, sentenced to decades in prison without, really, a shred of proof.
Just a modern day Salem Witch trial. it’s a great failing of our country that we seem to do this every so often.
That was a Hollywood sex cult run by a carny savvy atheist.