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PORNOGRAPHY AND RITUAL MURDER
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On July 5, Loretta did telephone Officer Carmean and gave
him the address and phone number of King's house on Wirt
Street. Carmean drove by the house and called the number.
The phone was answered "King Company." At the house,
Carmean wrote in his log, he "observed on a gray awning ...
the name KING in black script lettering."
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During 1988, as Loretta Smith grew to trust the doctors,
nurses, and other personnel at Richard Young Hospital, she
revealed more detail about what she and the other children had
been subjected to. Her case file is summarized in a report for
the Legislature's Franklin committee (by Jerry Lowe, 1989),
which gives the dates on which Loretta talked to hospital staff:
Loretta ... provided additional information of her previous
involvement in cult activity which included the witnessing of
homicides of several young children and which also included
references to Larry King and others involved in the cult activities.
August 19, 1988.The hospital notes indicated that Loretta
was asked to give a chronological account of involvement
in what is described as a devil worship cult and that Loretta
agreed to do this. Loretta indicated that she didn't really
know what was happening and that she became involved
very gradually. She indicated that when she was approximately
nine years old she was going to the Girl's Club in
Omaha and that a guy named Ray would take her and four
or five other girls at the Girl's Club on outings.... He
took them to a building that according to Loretta looked
abandoned and asked the girls if they wanted to go in which
they all agreed to do. Loretta indicated they sat and talked
for a while and then Ray provided a joint and all of the
individuals got high. She indicated this activity continued
for about three or four weeks and then Ray took them to
a party.
Loretta indicated that at the party there were about ten
men all in their mid-thirties and that initially they sat around
and talked with the girls about their problems. Loretta indi­
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