NOVEMBER 9--Two young Milwaukee women were arrested this week after
an 18-year-old Arizona man--who traveled to Wisconsin by bus after
meeting one of the suspects online--told cops that he was held captive
in the duo’s apartment for two days and slashed and stabbed more than
300 times as part of an apparent satanic sex ritual.
A Milwaukee Police Department search warrant
for the East Knapp Street apartment where the man was held details his
ordeal. The warrant authorized cops to seize an assortment of items from
the residence, including “knives or other cutting instruments,” blood
and DNA evidence, duct tape, restraining devices, and “Books or
literature relating to Satanism or the occult.”
The
police investigation began Sunday night after cops responded to a
report of a possible stabbing. Officers found the Arizona man “bleeding
from the neck, arms and back.” He told cops that after arriving at the
home of a woman he met online, he “was bound and was stabbed numerous
times over a timeframe of what he described as ‘two days.’”
The man was transported to a local hospital, where medical personnel
“estimated the number of wounds to be in excess of 300,” according to a search warrant affidavit
sworn by Detective Michael Walisiciwicz. “He suffered multiple puncture
wounds as well as lacerations and slash wounds to his back, face, arms,
legs and neck,” noted Walisiciwicz.
Officers responding to the reported stabbing discovered “bloody duct
tape, which was fashioned in a manner that appeared to be a restraint,
as well as a bloody length of rope” in the area where the victim was
found.
A blood trail led police to Apartment 9 on the third floor of 918
East Knapp Street. Inside, cops spotted a “large amount of blood on the
floor and on bedding in a bedroom.” They also saw “duct tape, which was
fashioned in a manner that appeared to be a restraint.”
While at the apartment building, police were approached by Rebecca
Chandler, 22, who stated, “I think you are here looking for me.”
Chandler told cops that she had engaged in sexual relations with the
Arizona man “and that the cutting was consensual but that it got quickly
out of hand.”
Chandler
claimed that her roommate--whom she identified only as “Scarlett”--was
“the one who did the majority of the cutting” during the incident.
Chandler, police reported, “also made reference to ‘Scarlett’ possibly
being involved in satanic or occult activities.”
Chandler was placed in custody at the scene. During a subsequent search of the apartment, investigators seized copies of "The Necromantic Ritual Book” and "The Werewolf’s Guide to Life,” a humor book.
The former book promises to enable a reader to “share consiousness with
the Angel of Death.” Paperwork seized from the home was described by
police as the “7 Pentacles” of planets. Additionally, a black folder was
described as an “Intro to Sigilborne Spirtits,” an apparent reference
to “The Sigil-Born,” metaphysical entities that are “occultic
practitioners” of necromancy, the purported ability to contact the dead.
Cops subsequently identified “Scarlett” as Raven Larrabee, 20. She
was arrested and booked yesterday into the Milwaukee County jail, where
she is being held in lieu of $100,000 bond. Chandler is also in the
county lockup, where her bond was set at $150,000. The women, who have
not yet been charged by prosecutors, are being held for suspicion of
reckless injury, a felony.
Chandler (left) and Larrabee are pictured in the above mug shots (click to enlarge).
Search warrant records do not indicate why the Arizona man traveled
to Milwaukee (or what he expected to happen upon arrival). In a post
earlier today on his Facebook wall, the man offered a one-word update:
“stitches.
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