I now also have the records from the Idaho Supreme Court, which includes the full transcript (not just the court minutes I shared previously) from Creech's 1975 trial. https://archive.org/details/ThomasCreech_Idaho_appeal_1976

The full court doc (minus a few missing pages that I need to see if the court can provide to me) has finally been scanned: https://archive.org/download/ThomasCreech_Idaho_court_1974/ValleyCoCourt_Creech_74.pdf

A full copy of the court minutes from the Idaho trial of Creech for the 1974 murders Edward Thomas Arnold and John Wayne Bradford (allegedly two drug traffickers that he met in Grand Junction CO of all places): https://archive.org/download/ThomasCreech_Idaho_court_1974/Creech%20court%201974%20minutes.pdf This is probably the most detailed record available anywhere of what happened in the case.

Page 21 is inexplicably missing, and a couple pages have severe microfilm artifacts that make it hard to read, but otherwise this is complete.

I'm working on getting the other case filings (those before and after the trial) scanned in.

Gordon Lee Stanton (victim)

The Capital Journal Salem, Oregon • Wed, Nov 27, 1974 Page 12

Reynolds Electrical and Engineering - subsidiary to Edgerton, Germeshausen, and Grier (EG&G)

EG&G was owned previously by Carlyle Group:

https://web.archive.org/web/20080908022011/http://www.carlyle.com/Portfolio/item7169.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2001/10/26/business/bin-laden-family-liquidates-holdings-with-carlyle-group.html

Bin Laden Family Liquidates Holdings With Carlyle Group

By Kurt Eichenwald

Oct. 26, 2001

https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/news-and-profiles/911-hijacker-home-sarasota

The most mysterious house in Sarasota has got to be 4224 Escondito Drive in Prestancia. It was here that a well-to-do and well-connected Saudi family reportedly hosted visits from the 9/11 hijackers while they were in the area for flight training. Then, less than two weeks before the attacks, the family suddenly disappeared, leaving their clothes, food, cars, everything—even their twin babies’ soiled diapers.

Press coverage of the notorious 28 missing pages from the official government report of 9/11 put the house in the news again in 2016, but has done little to clear up the mystery.

The house was built in 1994 and is designed in a mixture of Med-Rev and contemporary styles. It has four bedrooms and three baths in a total of 3,750 square feet. The kitchen is nice and large; there is smallish pool that is well-secluded.

The residents were a young family named al-Hijji. The real owner was Anoud al-Hijji’s father Esam Ghazzawi, a prominent interior decorator in Riyadh with ties to the royal family. Anoud wore a 10-carat heart-shaped diamond ring and westernized clothes. She and her husband, Abdulazzi, owned three cars: a Range Rover, a Lexus and a brand-new PT Cruiser. They didn’t socialize much with the neighbors and didn’t belong to the country club at Prestancia. But they did like going to the movies at Sarasota Square Mall.

Reports say the home was opulently furnished. Exactly how it got “un-owned” by the al-Hijjis is a little unclear—it was never seized by the government—but local realtor Louise Tessier of Keller Williams was approached by the family before the attacks when they were planning to sell. Later, the house had a succession of owners, including, for a brief period, Joel Schemmel of Premier Sotheby’s. As of September 2021, the Zillow estimated value is $824,200.

The issue here is Saudi knowledge and possible support of the 9/11 attacks. Records from the guard gates at Prestancia, which is one of Sarasota’s more prestigious gated communities, show cars belonging to Mohamed Atta and other hijackers coming and going. It’s part of a larger mystery, and one that has yet to be explored in-depth. What did the hijackers do during that year they were here? Who did they hang out with? What other clues are out there, strewn around town, yet to be discovered?

(Mohamed Atta, Ziad Jarrah, Marwan al Shehhi)

https://eu.heraldtribune.com/story/news/2013/09/10/lawsuit-asks-fbi-to-release-sarasota-911-documents/29198528007/

Larry Berberich -- a man who played a pivotal security role at Sarasota's Prestancia neighorhood, where the Saudis in question lived at the time -- has his own view of what Graham describes as a blanket.

"Some of the local departments knew a hell of a lot about what was going on and were feeding the FBI that information," said Berberich, who was then a Prestancia board member nominally in charge of security and an unpaid security consultant to the sheriff at that time, Bill Balkwill.

Shortly after local law enforcement entered the vacated home of the Saudis in Prestancia, he said, "everything went black."

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/youngest-congressman-spent-9-11-president-n1278733

Rep. Adam Putnam, right, and Sarasota County Sheriff's Adviser Larry Berberich look at television reports of the terrorist acts upon the World Trade Center while waiting for President George W. Bush, on Sept. 11, 2001, in Sarasota, Fla.

Larry Berberich's facebook:

https://www.facebook.com/Larryberberich1/

Worked at: Former President of EG&G/Cirtech Corp,

3 August 1965 – 31 December 1981

(Death warrant issued for Thomas Creech - 10-15-2023)

One Legendary Party: The Hell’s Angels and the Merry Pranksters Meet at Kesey’s

this party took place on Saturday August 7, 1965 at Ken Kesey’s LSD-laced ranch in La Honda, California. It was a fete that epitomized the West Coast psychedelic movement’s embrace of drugs, music, and above all, the outlaw lifestyle. What made this party special wasn’t its mix of intellectuals—poet Allen Ginsberg and Harvard psychology professor Richard Alpert (aka Baba Ram Dass) among them—and countercultural icons such as Hunter S. Thompson and Neal Cassady; it was the 15-foot-long, red white and blue sign strung up outside the ranch: THE MERRY PRANKSTERS WELCOME THE HELL’S ANGELS.

The Angels’ pro-Vietnam stance may seem at odds with the group’s anti-establishment ethos and self-exiling behavior, but as Thompson puts it:

Given this, and the subsequent tensions with the VDC, it seems odd that the Hell’s Angels/Merry Pranksters party at La Honda is portrayed as such a celebratory event—particularly in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.

https://electrickoolaidblogtest.wordpress.com/2013/07/07/hells-angels-merry-pranksters-party-at-ken-keseys-1965/

Thomas Creech was at the party!

I'm gonna try to get all the relevant docs from Creech's trial uploaded in the coming days and weeks. This comment will be edited as I add more.

Trial day 9 (also posted in my July 1, 2023 comment): https://imgur.com/a/kqGqOLY

Trial day 10: https://imgur.com/a/o4GiegW

Brand new information from the trial record of Thomas Creech. We can fill in several of the names that we didn't have before, including his auto transport industry connections.

"Acon Auto Transport" (mentioned p.61 and p.64) evidently refers to AAACon Auto Transport, a nationwide auto transport company that indeed operated at this time (New York Times, "They Drive Your Car For a Price", 1970/04/05).

Creech said (p.61) one of his bosses in the auto transport drug ring was "Harry Schaffer". This evidently refers to Harvey Sheaffer, who operated a branch of AAACon in Tucson AZ where Creech was residing for part of the early 70s. (In fact, he was charged with, but acquitted of, the October 22, 1973 murder of Paul Shrader in Tucson.)

He named his other boss (p.61) as "Glen Richards". Later (on p.65) he describes Richards putting out a contract on Gary Hart, who he implicated as part of the drug ring. He mentions a meeting between Peter Simon (another one of his drug ring bosses), Hart, and the governors of Colorado and Ohio occurring at "Richards Finance Co."

As it happens, there was a Richards Finance Company run by a Vernon Richards. From his obituary in 1995:

Note that mention of him operating a company called Auto Caravan. It turns out that Auto Caravan is what AAACon renamed itself as in the 80s (per this 1989 appeal court decision):

So Vernon Richards owned the Utah finance company where Creech claimed the drug ring held meetings, and also had a role in the auto transport company named by Creech. Note how this fits precisely with the unnamed man described in the Oui magazine article:

How was someone like Creech able to put all these obscure businesspeople together in an accurate manner, especially little-known facts like Richards' connection to AAACon? Unless he genuinely was involved in the sort of network he claims to be.

(The_Billings_Gazette_Fri__Oct_17__1975_)

(Longview_Daily_News_Fri__Oct_10__1975)

https://www.westsideseattle.com/highline-times/2020/02/25/spying-enemy-private-detective-tells-his-story

We met in the hall at Highline High in 1960. He was a handsome upper classman and we became buddies. He watched out for me in the new milieu of high school. Over time, our paths diverged and criss-crossed.

Now, sixty years later, Sal Dena called to talk about two books he has written about his life as a private detective from Burien.

The names and the cases from headlines in local newspapers could be familiar to you. Dena, whose big family has deep roots in the southend of Seattle, has had a career punctuated by luck, success and danger.

When our paths intersected again in June, 1973, it was during the time many young women were missing and later found murdered. Private Detective Dena called us at the Highline Times and asked if we were interested in a case with ties to Burien. We accompanied Dena to a house in Boulevard Park south of the airport where it was believed a satanic ritual had taken place in the basement. There was evidence of blood spatter on the walls. Just visiting the empty house was a creepy feeling. Dena had gone to Idaho to interview a suspect, Thomas Creech, who told him about a wishing well and pentagram and blood spatters on the wall.

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1993-03-19-9303190180-story.html

"Lake County Sheriff's Lt. Chester Iwan has tracked down some strange leads in his day, but none may be as bizarre as a call he got from Tualatin, Ore. last week.

Police in Tualatin, a Portland suburb, told him that a woman walked into their station and told them horror stories of a Lake County-based satanic cult that sacrificed three young girls.

The woman, whose name was withheld, said the girls were wrapped in plastic then buried in the crawl space of a home just northwest of the Waukegan border.

The sacrifices occurred in the early 1960s, the woman said, when she was a young girl. She told police that she finally came forward after being plagued with recurrent nightmares of the grisly ritual.

As if that wasn't enough, the woman told police that the cult included some of Lake County's most prominent residents. Their names also were withheld."

https://spiskologia.pl/ted/

https://translate.google.com/translate?hl=nl&sl=pl&tl=en&u=https%3A%2F%2Fspiskologia.pl%2Fted%2F&prev=search

From Max Call's 1985 book Hand of Death, we have more details about the auto transport job in Shreveport LA that Henry Lee Lucas claimed to have been offered. The auto transport business was actually run by Don Meteric, the cult recruiter for the Hand of Death. Meteric's propositioning of Lucas with the job of transporting stolen cars was the cult's first attempt to draw him in.

This took place in 1977 or 1978, with Lucas later taking Meteric up on the offer to join the cult in October 1978. Even before then, however, Ottis Toole had been taking contracts from Meteric and bringing Lucas along for the murders without telling him that they were contracts.

This is very interesting because the Oui article says that Creech's "first connection with the big time" was exactly the same: he scored a number of jobs for an auto transport company, driving contraband across the United States. Lucas claimed to have been recruited into the Hand of Death by the same means that Creech claimed years earlier, and there is very little chance that Lucas or anyone in proximity to him would have even heard Creech's story. Yet another reason to believe that the Hand of Death was a real organization.

Is it possible that Creech and Lucas were even recruited by the same person? Don Meteric (note that this is a fake name given by Max Call), based on the descriptions in Call's book, was a well-connected businessman involved in the auto transport industry with offices in at least Shreveport LA and Miami FL. And here is what the Oui article says about the auto transport businessman who recruited Creech sometime in 1972:

They could very well be the same person. I think it would be valuable to see if we can identify that porn publishing house in Monaco, since it will probably lead us to the man who recruited Creech (which might be Don Meteric too).

By the way, I also uploaded all the Oui magazine pages here and put them in the proper order: https://archive.org/details/ThomasCreech_Oui

One of the interesting topics detailed in it is the heroin trafficking jobs that Creech purportedly did, transporting driveaway cars filled with heroin all over the US. It has a lot of parallels to other operations I've seen:

• Not too many months after his 1975 prison release, Henry Lee Lucas met up with a stranger (Ottis Toole?) who took him to Shreveport, Louisiana, where he was offered a job driving a car to Los Angeles but declined because he thought it was a Mafia job

• Shirley McGill implicated her Vietnam veteran (perhaps that's where he got his start in the drug trade, with Golden Triangle smuggling operations that were dominated by CIA operatives) boyfriend Parnell Traham in a satanically-oriented drug trafficking ring which she claimed was involved in the Atlanta child murders. According to her, the operation involved stuffing used cars full of drugs in Miami and driving them to Atlanta and Houston.

• Onetime JonBenet Ramsey murder suspect Michael Helgoth, who "committed suicide" on Valentine's Day 1997, was in a family business that ran an auto salvage yard, and sources close to Helgoth claimed that he hid heroin in the internals of used cars before driving them around the country to make shipments. A purported partner in this operation was John Steven Gigax, who had a criminal record for sexually assaulting a child in 1985. Gigax is a suspect for murdering Helgoth, as well as Lorraine Florence Lawrence, the daughter of the Ramseys' housekeeper, who was killed a couple weeks before JonBenet and had her death passed off as an accident.

A more prominent Ramsey case suspect, John Mark Karr, also ran a used-car business (Karr's Cars) during the 90s in Hamilton, Alabama that sent cars around the country. That would be another plausible venue for nationwide drug trafficking. Curiously enough, Karr was previously in Atlanta for at least part of the period when the Atlanta child murders went on, and he had a fascination with ligature strangulation of young girls for his own sexual gratification. He is a good suspect in the murders of Angel Lenair and LaTonya Wilson. Given the known circumstances of LaTonya's abduction, if Karr was involved then he worked with others, likely the same group behind the other child killings.

Various names mentioned in that Oui article are filled in during some of the news articles covering Creech's arrest and trial. From Reno Gazette-Journal, "Slaying case figure links Nevada man to mass murders", 1975/10/17 (pages 1, 2):

Cross-referencing with the Oui article:

• "a man who had been one of his employers in the driveaway heroin trade—a man who had close ties to organized crime and who virtually owned one of the lesser gambling towns in wide-open Nevada" - Peter Simon of Jean NV

• "a United States Senator and two governors" said by Creech to be involved in the national heroin trade - Colorado senator Gary Hart, Colorado governor John Love, and Ohio governor John Gilligan

This 1975 article mentions Creech's claim that he was, when he was arrested, on his way to Colorado to perform a hit on Gary Hart. It acts as if law enforcement debunked this assertion, yet, as I believe was discussed earlier in this thread, the initial 1974 news reports on Creech's arrest said an informant had reported that Creech was coming to Denver to murder Hart.

Gary Hart's campaign manager for his 1974 Senate election was Hal Haddon. Those who study the JonBenet Ramsey case will likely recognize Haddon as the one whose firm was promptly hired by the Ramsey parents to represent them. Denver Post columnist Chuck Green was quoted in the 1997 Vanity Fair article on the Ramsey case as saying about Haddon and his law firm: "Take a look at their offices here in Denver. Then take a walk over to the Governor’s Mansion a few blocks away and tell me which one is bigger, and I’ll tell you which one is more powerful." One of Haddon's other political allies was Boulder County DA Alex Hunter, first elected in 1972 and serving until 2000, who was infamous for cover-ups of drug trafficking rings and child abuse cases.

I think there can be little doubt that Haddon is one of the real behind-the-scenes controllers of Colorado government. So if Hart was participating in this heroin trafficking ring that Creech talks about, I would bet Haddon was in the background.

Excellent researched work George!

Also, I noticed that magazine article made reference to Creech being imprisoned at the Chillicothe Correctional Institution in Ohio. If so, that makes him the third person fitting the Programmed to Kill profile to have spent time there, with Henry Lee Lucas and Charles Manson being the other two.

From Sinister Forces—The Nine by Peter Levenda:

From p.257 of Serial Killers: Up Close and Personal: Inside the World of Torturers, Psychopaths and Mass Murderers by Christopher Berry-Dee:

I find Creech's statements about delivering young women to Seattle for human sacrifices in 1974 to be potentially significant, because that is the same place and time period as the Pacific Northwest murders attributed to Ted Bundy. And the Seattle police were initially following the lead that those murders were the work of a local cult. Creech even alluded to a connection in the File 1004 article from 1976 (https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kVZOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=3vgDAAAAIBAJ&pg=6763%2C331825):

Swindler's debunking here is pretty weak. It basically says that everything in Creech's story checked out but the room was too small to do a satanic murder in, whatever that's supposed to mean.

Just as a minor confirmation, there was a site that used to prove how the "illuminati" (read: satanists) would speak to each other through news reports using numerology. 4 or 40 indicated "illuminati hit" or contract killing completed. This video about Creech said in the very beginning he had killed over 40 people. Strange.

Programmed To Kill/Satanic Cover-Up Part 173 (Ted Bundy & Thomas Creech) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=11-19XXA0mU

Video from 2019 and "exclusive letter":

https://www.facebook.com/6OnYourSide/videos/hes-made-claims-of-killing-over-40-people-and-hes-been-sitting-on-death-row-in-i/2610308662339924/

https://www.kivitv.com/news/the-history-of-an-idaho-serial-killer-who-has-been-on-and-off-death-row-for-nearly-43-years

"In a United Press International article from 1986, writer Steve Green reported that Creech ran away from home and claims to have killed a man in San Francisco in 1965. During that time in San Francisco, sources say Thomas Creech became involved with the Church of Satan before it was officially organized in 1969."

"The bodies of 11 of his victims who were shot, stabbed, beaten, or strangled to death have been recovered in 7 states.

And former Ada County Prosecutor Jim Harris said, "They found a large number of skeletons that Tom lead them to in a mine shaft in California.” "

"Creech was scheduled for execution, again, in 1999, but on June 14th of that year, the Federal District Court granted a stay of execution, and as of November 1, 2019, no execution date is set."

"Judge Durtschi found Creech guilty of the Donnelly murders and sentenced him to hang in March of 1976."

Durtschi:

https://www.tetonvalleynews.net/obituaries/john-ray-durtschi/article_d443d5c8-8698-11e2-846e-0019bb2963f4.html

"Ray served an LDS mission in northern California. After his mission, he served in the US Army Signal Corps during WWII, stationed on the Aleutian Islands."

LDS - mormons have some satanic connections

Army Signal Corps - intelligence organisation in US military

Virginia Plageman (Creech) - sister

https://www.facebook.com/virginia.plageman

"Plageman reported that three of her four brothers, including Creech, had been incarcerated as adults for committing murder or manslaughter."

Rolf Kehne - Creech defence lawyer for some cases. Kehne's another client - Keith Eugene Wells

https://www.deseret.com/1994/1/5/19085260/idaho-attorney-files-to-halt-thursday-execution-of-killer

"As a lawyer I would respect his wishes if I thought he was sane," Kehne said. "But he's been mentally ill for a long time. He believes he's possessed by demons, and he thinks the only way he can get rid of this demonic possession is to die."

https://murderpedia.org/male.W/w1/wells-keith.htm

Keith Eugene WELLS

Classification: Homicide

Characteristics: No reason other than that "it was time for them to die"

Number of victims: 2

Fantastic post! So many connections. Bike gangs pop up over and over in these cases don’t they? Creech’s statement about delivering people to be sacrificed sounds very similar to Ed Oppermans interview with Son Of Sam detective Mike Codella. Same story.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=BrLQCKmyGK4

By the way, Kenneth Anger took a friend with him to Crowley’s house- the notorious sicko sexologist Alfred Kinsey came along for the ride. Here’s a pic of them at the estate:

https://zombiewoodproductions.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/alfred-kinsey-kenneth-anger-in-thelema-abtei.jpg