This is the electronic version of the precedent-setting report concerning "occult crime" in the United States of America. At the time of its commission, several American communities had been plagued with "mass hysteria" among small groups of people (almost exclusively Fundamentalist Christians) who believed that Satanists and other "occultists" were among them, kidnapping children, burning and looting businesses, and terrorizing their victims in secret midnight "Satanic" rituals. Many of these communities were ravaged with hatred and fear; many innocent people were sent to prison with little or no valid evidence against them other than the words of little children who claimed to be victims, and yet were later found to be lying or confused (deliberately or not) by their "therapists."
During this "Modern Salem Witch Trial" period, law enforcement was caught in the middle: confused, fearful, ignorant citizens demanded that law enforcement "Do something!" about the murder and mayhem they believed was occurring secretly around them; law enforcement was rendered powerless to investigate (let alone "stop") the alleged crimes, as there was no evidence such crimes were occurring (let alone by Satanists or other "Occultists"). This made the bewildered citizens more fearful, distrustful, angry, and frustrated. Many proponents of the belief that mass murder was being committed by "Occultists" even went so far as to insist that law enforcement officers were not just protecting the perpetrators, but were actively engaging in the mass murder themselves. It did not ease these citizens' fear that the majority of experts in the field who denounced and debunked the belief in wide-spread "Occult Crime" were themselves law enforcement officers--- thus fueling the belief in the "conspiracy" and "cover-up."
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