Mayor resigns, claims abduction by Satan worshippers

Source: 4029TV.com

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.

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This is from my corner of the world in Arkansas. Centerton is a small town just outside of Bentonville, Arkansas (Wal-Mart) and has been somewhat notorious for having a rather bizarre political scene. This story certainly adds to that perception.

Thought I misread.

I'd like to hear whether anything about his account can be verified. I imagine LaRose's family would like some sort of confirmation, at least.

about how Don LaRose, his former person, was abducted and disappeared. His former family found out about it and traced it back to the Mayor. Here's the website. Bizarre stuff.

http://donlarose.com/6.html

makes total sense.

While I've been known to do some wacky things, I have never had any of my worshippers abduct this man. I only abduct and brainwash smart people.
SINcerely, SATAN.

Weirdest story I've read YET on DU.

Truth-serum? What is this...Marvel Comics?

Me thinks one Mayor Ken Williams is suffering from the effects of TOO much brainwashing...but of the Christian kind. This sounds very much like someone purposely wanting to live out a fantasy and going through the motions.

Anyone else suspect that the man is fantasizing on themes elaborated in Christianity? notice that he mentions that the "alleged" brainwashing was at the hand of Satan worshipers (yeah, like Satan worshipers have nothing better to do than pick up men and brainwash them). Convenient target, anyone?

This guy is so full of it, I don't even know where to begin.

big trouble for him.

(That's Trouble with a capital "T"! :rofl: )

Trouble, oh we got trouble,
Right here in River City!
With a capital "T"
That rhymes with "P"
And that stands for Pool,
That stands for pool.
We've surely got trouble!
Right here in River City,
Right here!
Gotta figger out a way
To keep the young ones moral after school!
Trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble, trouble...
http://www.lyricsondemand.com/soundtracks/m/themusicmanlyrics/yagottroublelyrics.html

...and as you can tell from my website, I end up in some pretty strange places.

I have found lots of delusional freepers.

nothing more than to stay right there in that very small town, and live the straightest of all possible lives.

Some journalist will dig up the real story here.

Marvel comics tries to make coherent stories.

Here: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=3747598&mesg_id=3747598

It is utterly weird.

"The Devil made me do it." :rofl:

Let me get this straight: first he's kidnapped for mysterious reasons by satan worshippers and brainwashed into forgetting his family. At one point he's saying it took five years to get his memory back via shock therapy; at another point he says he just remembered recently because he took a truth serum. "Honey, I'm gonna take some truth serum tonite. No reason, just acuz I wanna." Meanwhile, supposedly clueless, he's got a website about the disappearance of his former persona.

Shock therapy? truth serums? Hell, I say we waterboard him and find out the REAL story.

According to the story told by LaRose/Williamson/Williams, he was kidnapped and brainwashed in 1975, was found the next year in Minneapolis living as a skid-row alcoholic named "Bruce Williams" or "Bruce Williamson," and was later re-united with his family and received the "truth-serum" treatment. Restored to his identity (and family), he tried to get his disappearance investigated, but was given the brush-off by the authorities, who were convinced he faked his disappearance. Nonetheless, he went back to the ministry, and was the pastor of another church elsewhere, until he had his office ransacked and received phone calls threatening his family with death unless he let himself be taken away by those who were threatening him. Instead, he made the decision to run away (essentially disappearing for a second time) and take on a new identity, which led him to a career in radio and later to becoming mayor of a small Arkansas town.

I really don't know what to say about this -- either the story has some degree of truth to it, or LaRose/Williamson/Williams is a full-fledged paranoid schizophrenic. :crazy:

There was a Bruce Williams on the radio.

the guy is obviously bonkers. religion will do that to some people.

Does he figure this will help him beat the polygamy rap?

Maybe they'll forgive him and let him go back to his old church. :rofl:

Great story.

...for a vial or two of Sodium Pentathol.


Egad. :eyes:

the entire Country had been abducted by Satan Worshipers called the GOP!

Someone should try looking up his supposed former wife and children that he left behind years ago, for a start. See if Don La Rose ever existed.

...including possessions left behind that might corroborate the alleged kidnapping that caused his first disappearance.

BTW, it was his ex-wife and children who tracked him down, so one may well assume that portion of his life is documented.

http://nwanews.com/bcdr/News/55905/print/

And other family, too. This guy is off the page, apparently.

Here's more: http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2007/11/21/news/112207bzwilliams.txt

Adopting a deceased person's identification may or may not be a crime, said Prosecuting Attorney Van Stone. A state law that addresses nonfinancial identity fraud states identifying information cannot legally be used to evade law enforcement, harass someone or to swindle anyone out of real estate.

Stone said Williams' use of that name will be investigated.

Hammond, Ind., Police Chief Brian Miller said his agency is not investigating Williams.

Williams said he doesn't know if he has broken any laws. The name belonged to a man who died and neither he nor the Williams family gained or lost any money by him taking the name Williams.

Williams said he is looking forward to reuniting with the LaRose family.

Adam LaRose of Lancaster, Penn., contacted late Wednesday, said he hadn't seen his son, Don, since his disappearance in 1980.

Adam LaRose, 96, remembered Don claiming to be on the run from satanist groups in letters.

"He took some pictures of my house then to let us know he was alive," Adam LaRose said.

Adam LaRose said when the family found Don after his first claimed abduction, Don maintained Adam and his mother, Mildred, were not his parents.

"He said we were killed in an automobile accident," Adam LaRose said. "We had to show him pictures to prove that we were alive."

Don LaRose's former wife, Eunice Ritchie, still lives in Hammond, Ind., Adam LaRose said. She visited Adam LaRose at a hospice he is in a few weeks ago, he said. Mildred LaRose is under hospice care as well, he said.

"Rose Law Firm"

Could it have any significance? ;-)

But he spelled it wrong.

Oh, it says Satan worshippers. Well, what's the difference?

could easily be one of the ancient ones, himself. Conservatives would ALWAYS prefer to be feared for their destructive power, rather than welcomed and loved for their goodness. In fact, goodness is actually beyond their range.

The absurd is a WONDERFUL cover. Tell a cop some inner city black kids robbed you they'll be there in a heartbeat. Take the same kids and give em fake alien heads and little green outfits, and tell the cops they shoved a probe up your ass and you'll end up in the loony bin. Most of the victims of "Satanic" crimes are working class "born agains", the type most likely to fall for it. The purpose of a "satanic" attack in a "christian" community can be to drive people closer to the church, in the name of "protection" from said attackers. Who knows what's going on here though.

Who can get elected to an office in Arkansas.

degree from the Moody Bible Institute, Chicago, Illinois and believes that one of the ways to salvation is by listening to the music of Dale Johnston is A Okay with me. If Huckabee gets the nomination, maybe KenDon can be his running mate.

Not much a stretch. I mean, I always felt the whole Republican party got kidnapped by Satanists right around when Nixon showed up.I'm just waiting for them all to disappear for about twenty years. Works for me. Happy Thanksgiving.

Sounds like a tale from a snake kisser cult to me.

I do hope the poor guy is OK though.

That might explain why he had to run. Or had a thing for children. Foley went to rehab, this guy ran.

I had to stop, and re-read the title of that.

that just made my week. I'm gonna use that line from now on.

"why were you late to work?"

"I was abducted by satan worshippers."

"oh that explains everything."

I wouldn't be surprised if the next chapter of this story has an airport restroom and a wide stance in it.

If he thinks we're that stupid, he's even stupider.

I could go one of several ways on this one:
On the one hand, it would be easy to lapse into hysterical laughter. Both for the absurdity of the story and the idea that Satan worshippers (of which, I am one) have nothing better to do with their time than kidnap and brainwash obscure preachers. What with the orgies, dwarf bowling and annual baby barbeque, we have enough pressure on our time.
On the other hand, it's difficult not to feel a little sorry for a guy who is so obviously delusional.
On the third hand (?), it reminds me yet again that Satanists are the only religious group it's still acceptable to accuse of all kinds of nasty things. Read the story but swap the words "Satan worshippers" for "Jews" or "Buddhists" or even "Muslims" and imagine the reaction that would get from anyone outside the Religious Reich.

:rofl: Methinks the fine mayor has a bright future on the TBN circuit.

FWIW, I know what you mean about Satanists being the last acceptable group to slander like this. Even we Pagans get in on it, in our misguided attempts to be accepted by muggle society, which profoundly disappoints me (and I'm sure to call it out when I see it).

A Texas state legislator whose political base was fading tried a similar scam about twenty years ago. In his case he claimed that he'd been kidnapped and beaten by a Satanic group called The Guardian Angels of the Underworld or something close to that.

Googling Mike Martin Texas legislator ought to be good fun.

Trying to resurrect the so-called Satanic Panic of the '80s to encourage the fundamentalist freaks to "bond" more tightly to their "Christian" fervor.

yes, apparently reality routinely beats fiction hands down. thank goodness for our mentally unstable, socially integrated, reactionary conservatives. i think that's why god made them, as a comic villain foil and hysterical loose cannon.

my first and final thoughts are that he skipped out because he was tired/bored /whatever of that marriage and didn't want to pay child support. I've got news for him, his wife with the two children can garnish his wages for back support, plus interest.

I'm thinking he's now bored with wife #3 and wants #2 back. I wonder what #1 thinks...

:rofl:

Or he has multiple personality disorder.