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Episode 669: Anton LaVey Part IV - Old Wizards Die Hard
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The FBI Halloween Raid and the Satanic Panic's Grip on LaVey
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The 1970s were, in retrospect, the last fun years of the Church of Satan. As the '80s began, the FBI received a fantastical informant tip claiming LaVey was the go-between in a plot to murder Senator Ted Kennedy involving 8 kilos of hash paid to the Chicago Mafia. The FBI, DEA, and Secret Service set up a blockade at O'Hare Airport and raided the Black House on Halloween 1980. They found a 50-year-old man sitting at home who told them he admired the Kennedys and was morally opposed to drugs — which was, bizarrely, the truth. [1] — Marcus Parks "The FBI, Secret Service, and DEA set up a blockade at O'Hare Airport, monitored incoming flights for days, and raided the Black House on Ha…" 1:26:20 More damaging than the raid was the book Michelle Remembers, published that same year, which claimed to document genuine Satanic ritual abuse and was taken extremely seriously. The McMartin Preschool case followed in 1983 — 300 allegations, zero convictions, seven years of trial, possibly the longest in California history. The media largely sided with prosecutors and regularly named the Church of Satan as a main culprit. Anton LaVey, rather than responding, simply retreated further into himself.
The FBI, Secret Service, and DEA set up a blockade at O'Hare Airport, monitored incoming flights for days, and raided the Black House on Halloween 1980 — all based on a fabricated tip about a Kennedy assassination plot. They found a bored 50-year-old. He told them he admired Senator Kennedy and was morally opposed to drugs.
On Halloween 1980, the FBI, Secret Service, and DEA raided LaVey's Black House over a false informant tip about a plot to murder Ted Kennedy — and found nothing.
Diane Hegarty left LaVey in 1984 after years of abuse — without her, LaVey had no one to manage the church and became an increasingly isolated, lazy recluse.
