Richard Ofshe social psychologist and professor at the University of California at Berkeley commented about the latest sensational claims made by Scott Peterson’s defense team.
Ofshe won a Pulitzer Prize in 1979 for his work exposing a drug rehab turned cult called Synanon.
But the noted scholar pronounced the theory that Laci Peterson was slain by a satanic cult, dead on arrival.
He said, “I think you’d be better off suggesting Saddam Hussein really did it,” reports ABC News.
This does seem like a more plausible theory.
Ofshe, author of Making Monsters: False Memories, Psychotherapy, and Sexual Hysteria, stated that the idea of “organized satanic cults are a complete myth.”
The most readily recognized expression of Satanism within the United States was the Church of Satan, founded by Anton LeVey.
LeVey was a provocateur and religious entrepreneur who seemed to thrive on controversy, but his church was essentially benign.
The Church of Satan had no history of murder and human sacrifice. Instead, it was for many of its adherents often a means of expressing disdain for the established norms of organized religion in America.
Stories about roving Satanists searching for blood to be spilled on their altars are now relegated to the category of urban myth.
Law enforcement authorities in California apparently know this. And they are dragging the bay rather than seriously searching for fictional cult assassins.
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