Post by Barnaby Cuthbert on Dec 12, 2015 5:31:44 GMT -8
Witch Trial Killer Found Bound and Gagged
By Matt Collins, KJET News Online
Anne Bishop is now the key suspect in a long planned torture and killing spree with a long history behind it. Investigators say that Bishop, 32 planned to torture and murder three descendants of the prosecutors of the infamous Salem, Massachusetts witch burnings, in their Greenwood, Seattle homes.
Ben Grimmany, 34 and Paul Foster, 35 were both brutally killed in their homes last weekend, investigators said, while a third man, Victor Jensen, narrowly escaped being stabbed to death by his own Antheme. (An Antheme is a ritual dagger taken from his collection of wiccan antiques).
The three descendants of the city prosecutors in Salem Massachusetts were 'outed' as descendants of the witch trial persecutors by a recent article in the local small print publication the Wiccan Reader, when Ben Grimmany had allowed an article to be written about his collection of antique torture devices from the Salem witch trial era. In the article, the writer revealed that each of the three men's families had moved to the Pacific Northwest and changed their names some time ago. All three men's families had changed their names almost immediately after the trials, and had moved to the same Greenwood, Seattle neighborhood almost a century prior. The families had been in the Seattle era for several generations. SPD investigators believe that Anne Bishop believed herself to be avenging the death of her ancestor, Bridget Bishop, one of the first witches killed in the trials for witchcraft. Investigators have not been able to confirm if that lineage is correct, or if the murderer simply believed it to be so.
Bishop was found bound and gagged in a recently purchased, empty Greenwood home near to all three victims, where she had allegedly broken in and was using the area as a base of operations to plan and execute these grisly deaths. Both the surviving descendant, Victor Jensen, and woman (who has requested to remain anonymous) looking to purchase the house called police last weekend, leading to the investigation. Jensen is recovering from minor wounds. No one has yet come forward to take credit for the capture of the murderess, however nearby witnesses say that they heard a fight break out at the house earlier that night, in which a woman was reported screaming loudly and angrily.
"It's incredible to think that these kinds of old rivalries can still be going on. My family has been friends with these people my whole life, and now they're gone, for nothing that they themselves ever did," Jensen said. "It's just awful." Jensen is pressing charges for assault, and hopes she gets the psychiatric care she needs.
Police note that there are still several medieval-style torture implements and artifacts missing from the three homes that were never recovered. Anne Bishop has been charged with breaking and entering, assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder, and two counts of murder in the first degree, and remains in police custody pending trial.
By Matt Collins, KJET News Online
Anne Bishop is now the key suspect in a long planned torture and killing spree with a long history behind it. Investigators say that Bishop, 32 planned to torture and murder three descendants of the prosecutors of the infamous Salem, Massachusetts witch burnings, in their Greenwood, Seattle homes.
Ben Grimmany, 34 and Paul Foster, 35 were both brutally killed in their homes last weekend, investigators said, while a third man, Victor Jensen, narrowly escaped being stabbed to death by his own Antheme. (An Antheme is a ritual dagger taken from his collection of wiccan antiques).
The three descendants of the city prosecutors in Salem Massachusetts were 'outed' as descendants of the witch trial persecutors by a recent article in the local small print publication the Wiccan Reader, when Ben Grimmany had allowed an article to be written about his collection of antique torture devices from the Salem witch trial era. In the article, the writer revealed that each of the three men's families had moved to the Pacific Northwest and changed their names some time ago. All three men's families had changed their names almost immediately after the trials, and had moved to the same Greenwood, Seattle neighborhood almost a century prior. The families had been in the Seattle era for several generations. SPD investigators believe that Anne Bishop believed herself to be avenging the death of her ancestor, Bridget Bishop, one of the first witches killed in the trials for witchcraft. Investigators have not been able to confirm if that lineage is correct, or if the murderer simply believed it to be so.
Bishop was found bound and gagged in a recently purchased, empty Greenwood home near to all three victims, where she had allegedly broken in and was using the area as a base of operations to plan and execute these grisly deaths. Both the surviving descendant, Victor Jensen, and woman (who has requested to remain anonymous) looking to purchase the house called police last weekend, leading to the investigation. Jensen is recovering from minor wounds. No one has yet come forward to take credit for the capture of the murderess, however nearby witnesses say that they heard a fight break out at the house earlier that night, in which a woman was reported screaming loudly and angrily.
"It's incredible to think that these kinds of old rivalries can still be going on. My family has been friends with these people my whole life, and now they're gone, for nothing that they themselves ever did," Jensen said. "It's just awful." Jensen is pressing charges for assault, and hopes she gets the psychiatric care she needs.
Police note that there are still several medieval-style torture implements and artifacts missing from the three homes that were never recovered. Anne Bishop has been charged with breaking and entering, assault with a deadly weapon, attempted murder, and two counts of murder in the first degree, and remains in police custody pending trial.