I just recently went through my vast true crime library, which is boxed up on storage, to retrieve and re-read some of the old books. Now on a second pass, I find hints of this crap in almost all of them.

One book I re-read is called the Magic Castle. It was written by the foster mother of an extremely troubled boy who, it turns out, was a victim of SRA and had developed multiple personalities. This was committed by his family; mostly his mother and step-father and grandfather. He was also physically abused/neglected by his father and teenage step-mother but to a far lesser extent. Anyway, all these people lost custody of him by age 10, and she gained it. The story was revealed to her over the course of fifteen years, and it is mostly about the journey and how he was able to heal from it and integrate all his personalities. It all starts in the mid 1980's in the far suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts and ends in 1998, when the book was published.

Here we have the typical stuff; babies murdered, child pornography, rape, prostitution, and animal abuse and sacrifice. The animals in this case were mostly horses. At least two babies were bred by the cult, where his mother was the "high priestess" or whatever and they were murdered. There was also a wealthy ranch owner who seemed to be the head of the cult, and they had a lounge or bar they hung out at. Alex's strongest personalities were cult programs, and it turns out that he had been returning to the cult in secret the whole time. Most of his personalities were created by him, but he did have at least two created by the cult deliberately.

And here is the kicker: (imagine that, when you need something moar than just SRA)

He had a serial killer program! There was one cult personality named Goldstem that was programmed to have sex with girls and then kill them. This came to light after an altercation with a teenage girlfriend. This personality was also programmed for murder, arson, poisoning, robbery and general mayhem.