Lucifer Watch: ATF looking for 3 ‘persons of interest’ in East Texas church infernos
Last week I mused in an entirely speculative fashion on who the culprits behind the recent spate of church burnings in East Texas might be, suggesting that the Feds might want to look for Lords of Chaos- reading, Burzum-listening, Satan-loving Black Metal fans. Others, less attuned to the dark arts than myself, have somewhat drearily suggested Muslims or ‘Sarah Palin hating liberals’.
Since my post a further two churches have gone up in flames northwest of Tyler, bringing the grand total of officially connected fires to nine. A slightly out of date map here reveals the precise destinations of these acts of arson for those keen to visit the smoldering ruins in their imaginations. You can also read an eyewitness account here. Meanwhile the ATF have announced that they are looking for three persons of interest who- sorry Michael Cade- are definitely not this person. Tom Crowley, an ATF spokesman in Dallas was quoted by the AP as saying:
“We want to find out who they are, why they were around and who they know,” Crowley said. The men were spotted in an area related to the fires. Crowley declined to be more specific.
Sketches of the suspects have been made public:
The sketches released Friday depict one man with short hair and a flame-like tattoo on his neck, another short-haired man with an inverted cross on his left forearm from wrist to elbow, and a third man with longer hair.
An inverted cross? Long hair? A flame like tattoo? Not quite corpse paint, I’ll admit, but then that would really make you stick out in East Texas. You can see the artist’s impressions here…
Is the mystery about to be resolved? Are these three exceedingly moronic Black Metal fans, as suspected?? Will banging them up really resolve the ‘root cause’ of their crime, whatever the hell that might be??? Something tells me we are about to find out…
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