Mayor Resigns, Claims Abduction By Satan Worshippers

[Richard]

CENTERTON, Ark. -- The mayor of an Arkansas town resigned on Wednesday, claiming he was abducted and brainwashed by Satan worshippers nearly three decades ago.

Centerton Mayor Ken Williams said he has been living under an assumed name for nearly 30 years. He had been mayor since 2001.

Williams told authorities he was born Don LaRose and that in the mid-1970s, he was a preacher in Indiana. He said he was abducted and brainwashed into forgetting all about his life as Don LaRose. 

It was a double-life he had never acknowledged, Williams said, because he didn't even realize it existed until he had recently taken a truth-serum injection.

As Williams regained his memory, he said, he realized that he had a wife and two kids but that he had decided to leave and take on a new identity to protect them.

"I had no choice. The choice was to watch my family killed before my eyes or go with these people, and I chose instead to run," Williams said.

He wouldn't explain from who he was running, saying only that he had been brainwashed.

"I had multiple shock treatments," Williams said. "It took five years to get my memory back."

Williams said he took his current identity in 1980 when he moved to Centerton. His full name -- Bruce Kent Williams -- was taken from a man who died in a car crash back in 1958, he said.

"What happened in 1980 -- whether it was right or wrong -- I did it under the threat of my family and for my own survival," he said.

The information went public, Williams said, because he runs a Web site about Don LaRose and his disappearance. LaRose's former family found the Web site and started inquiring about its author. They found the site registered to a Ken Williams and went from there.

Williams said his current wife is standing by him and the two of them want to continue living in Centerton. He said he plans to continue living as Ken Williams.

Also, his resignation was signed with two names, he said.

According to police, Williams is under no investigation for any wrongdoing. 

http://www.4029tv.com/news/14664847/detail.html

[Polly]

This story deserves a "Wow."  Not only that but I would like to take truth serum.

[Richard]

I thought the same thing Polly. It made me wonder what memories would come back if I took truth serum. :think:

[Get Boldened]

Until now, we haven't hear anything from the media confirming a group, perhaps from Illuminati because they're satanists, that can brainwash and is involved and with people in higher positions. Good find! Btw, President Clinton was born in Arkansas. It seems like presidents are coming from the countrysides like Bush from Texas where the far surroundings and small towns allow Illuminati satanists to do their work undetected. Or you could argue the reason that they come from those states is their great great grandparents had blood money and they didn't move into cities, but that still wouldn't be fair to other people.

[GertrudaRose]

Sounds to me like he hopes this will cover the fact that he got caught at bigamy.

[Richard]

Being Don LaRose

By Eleanor Evans and Tracy Neal Staff Writers // [email protected]

Posted on Wednesday, November 21, 2007

URL: http://www.nwanews.com/bcdr/News/55904/

CENTERTON — The story of Don LaRose reads like a script for an old made-for-television movie — Satanism, brainwashing, kidnapping and assumed identity.

The stories of Don LaRose have little validation — but reveal a man who was eager to share his story with others.

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For Ken Williams — who has been mayor of Centerton since 2001 and has been a radio personality in the county since the early 1980 s — the story of Don LaRose has been a deep, well-kept secret.

So well-kept, it turns out, that on Tuesday night, when asked his age, Williams said “ 69. ” Asked if that is the age of Don LaRose or Ken Williams, he replied, “ That’s Ken’s. ”

Bruce Kent Williams — yes, Kent with a “ T” — was born July 26, 1938.

Don LaRose was born March 11, 1940.

The similarities between the two men are striking — from a resume history of radio personality, ministry and parallel trips to Israel to facial features and a comb-over hairstyle.

There’s a reason for the similarities: Ken Williams is the name Don LaRose assumed when he began a new life before coming to northwest Arkansas in the early 1980 s.

On Monday evening, Williams denied he was LaRose. For more than 24 hours after being contacted by The Daily Record, he maintained the denials.

That changed Tuesday night.

Indeed, he said as he sat in his Centerton home with two Daily Record reporters and a photographer: He is LaRose. Discovery

The connection between Williams and LaRose was made when a LaRose family member’s Internet search turned up a Web site — www. donlarose. com. Earlier this year, the Web site’s domain name was registered. The site claims to share a story “ filled with excitement, tension, murder, intimidation and much more. ”

LaRose’s nephew, Ed Miller of Holland, Mich., told The Daily Record that a family member conducted a “ whois” search to determine the site’s ownership.

That’s when they discovered the site was registered to Ken Williams in Centerton, Ark.

Two family members called The Daily Record on Monday afternoon to talk about their discovery.

On Monday evening — when Daily Record reporters asked him about it — Williams denied a connection to LaRose, even though the site bears a striking resemblance to Williams’ own site, www. kenwilliamsministries. org.

On Tuesday morning, Williams continued to deny the connections during an interview with two Daily Record reporters. Williams even kept asking the reporters to repeat LaRose’s name. “ What was his name again ? ” Williams asked.

Williams then looked at the Don LaRose Web site, stroking his beard as he pointed out what he thought were the most interesting parts of LaRose’s story.

As the news about Williams’ past came to light Tuesday night, some people who knew him expressed surprise.

“ I’m shocked, ” Rogers Mayor Steve Womack said after viewing an old photo of LaRose. “ I’ve known Ken — who I thought was Ken — for well over 20 years. He is the last person I would consider living a double life. ”

Womack said that if the claims about Williams are true, then there are obviously going to be some serious questions about the violation of public trust.

Womack said the greater issue is one of deception and whether any laws were broken.

“ It’s so bizarre that it’s madefor-TV material, ” Womack said. “ It won’t surprise me if we have television producers all over northwest Arkansas. It’s the type of thing Hollywood drools over.

“ It’s absolutely incredible, ” Womack said. “ There are no words to describe how bizarre this is. ”

Kermit Womack, the owner of radio station KURM in Rogers and Steve Womack’s father, was shocked about the revelations concerning Williams.

“ This is incredible, ” Kermit Womack said. “ Ken Williams worked for me 16, 17 or 18 years. He one of the most professional employees I ever had, and I find this incredible. ” 1975 headlines

In November 1975, LaRose’s story made headlines around Maine, N. Y., when the then 34-year-old pastor disappeared from the First Baptist Church.

The circumstances were deemed mysterious, according to a Feb. 13, 1976, story in the magazine Christianity Today. Church members suggested the disappearance was an abduction by Satan worshippers.

According to early news reports, LaRose claimed to have been teaching a course on Satan when he received threatening letters from Satanists who accused him of blasphemy.

But when LaRose was found more than three months later, his claims of abduction and brainwashing were deemed unfounded. An extensive investigation by detectives revealed that LaRose had caused his own disappearance, according to the story in Christianity Today.

Church members, who rallied and prayed for his return, dropped the search, and the church board terminated its relationship with LaRose.

The Christianity Today article led to LaRose’s discovery — when someone who’d read the article recognized him in Minneapolis. When confronted, LaRose claimed to be Bruce Kent Williams.

He claimed to be the son of a Dr. and Mrs. Kent Williams of Middleport, N. Y., according to an undated story in the Teapot Hollow Journal. On Tuesday, Middleport police verified the report.

Bruce Kent Williams is the name of a 19-year-old man who died in a car accident in Norwich, N. Y., in 1958.

The story in the Teapot Hollow Journal reported that when he was found, LaRose explained that he had been kidnapped, forced into the back of a van and brainwashed with an electric machine attached to his forehead that made him forget his life as a minister and believe he was Bruce Kent Williams.

According to the Teapot Hollow Journal, LaRose told a reporter he only learned who he was after treatment with the truth-serum sodium amytal.

In 1977, LaRose, his wife and family then headed to Hammond, Ind. He became pastor of the Hessville Baptist Church in 1978 after the former pastor died. LaRose appeared eager to share his story, speaking publicly about his alleged kidnapping experience and his life as Bruce Kent Williams. Missing again

On June 10, 1980, LaRose went missing again. That day, he told his wife, Eunice, that he was going next door to the church to visit someone, according to the missing persons report filed with the Hammond Police Department.

When LaRose went missing, church members believed he had been kidnapped by the same satanic cult who he claimed had kidnapped him in 1975.

Lee Roy Floyd was a member of the Hammond Baptist Church’s Deacon Board for 45 years and knew LaRose. A reporter with the Times of Northwest Indiana newspaper interviewed Floyd on Tuesday.

“ The night before he disappeared, he was speaking to a group in the church, and in the middle of his sermon he stopped talking and looked at the back of the room, ” Floyd said. “ No one else who turned around saw anything, but LaRose later claimed he had seen one of the Satanists through a window outside.

“ And the next day he left. He was gone, ” Floyd said.

In fact, the pastor loaded up a backpack and headed to Wyoming, Williams told The Daily Record on Tuesday night. He abandoned his life, his wife and his two daughters. Seven years later, she had him declared dead, according to Ed Miller, LaRose’s nephew.

Miller said LaRose was featured on an episode of HBO Undercover in 1984 and was interviewed in a follow-up story on the television program. But no records of LaRose’s existence showed up until February, when www. donlarose. com surfaced on the Internet.

The Web site explained that LaRose moved to Israel in 1996 — the same year Ken Williams headed to Israel for a 10-day trip that changed his life, according to the Ken Williams Ministries Web site.

Pat came into Williams’ life, and they married in 1986.

Miller, as well as another family member in Indiana who refused to be named as part of the story, have been searching for LaRose since his 1980 disappearance. Catching up with the past

“ Oh my goodness. Oh my word, ” Floyd said when told of the discovery. “ Isn’t it something. What puzzles me is, why hasn’t he contacted his dad and children, and now grandchildren ?”

Floyd said LaRose’s former wife still lives in Hammond and remarried seven years after the disappearance. When his ex-wife recently found out that he could still be alive, the shock of the news “ threw her for a loop. ”

Floyd said LaRose has two daughters and that his disappearance has deeply affected them.

“ Boy, he knew the Word. He was good, ” Floyd said. “ He was a good pastor. ” Painful truth

Tuesday night, after admitting his true identity, the pain of living a second life was evident.

“ I think my dad’s still alive, but he’s 96, if he is, ” Williams said Tuesday night, surrounded by photos of his second family.

His dad lives in New York, near Binghamton. Williams said he had searched online for his family.

“ I’d love to see my daughters. I don’t know what their reaction would be.

“ If they believe everything they read in the newspapers, they probably think their dad is a pretty bad guy. ”

http://www.nwanews.com/bcdr/News/55904/

http://www.donlarose.com/

[trinity29]

Fascinating. So where did he get his "truth serum?" If its on sale on ebay, please let me know. :P

[Polly]

I'll bet it is a tightly controlled drug but I know it is still being used for various reasons, one of which is to quit smoking. 

I know someone in her 80's who had a nervous breakdown over 50 years ago and was sent to a doctor who gave her shock treatments (ahem!) and also gave her truth serum at the same time. (Ahem!  Excuse me, I seem to have a frog in my throat.)  :-)

[Richard]

It’s interesting that truth serum helps people to quit smoking. Awhile back ago I saw Samuel Jackson on the Tonight Show and he said that’s how he and Judge Judy quit smoking. I had forgotten about that until now. I just quit smoking a month ago and I now wish I would have remembered the truth serum then because it sounds like an easier method than I took. I used nicotine patches and while those make it easier than cold turkey, you still go through withdraw for 10 weeks. Samuel made truth serum sound like it was a piece a cake to quit smoking. I’m surprised that truth serum as a quit smoking method isn’t publicized more.

[trinity29]

The truth shall set you free! :P

Sorry couldn't resist. ;).