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Recent retractions and other recent news on some older alleged "Satanic" crime cases

by Diane Vera

Copyright © 2006 by Diane Vera. All rights reserved.

On this page is information about some older cases in which there have been interesting recent developments, such as recent retractions or lawsuits.

This page will not attempt to deal with all the many probably-false criminal accusations of the 1980-1995 "Satanic ritual abuse" scare. For information on more old cases than I'll be dealing with here, see the websites listed under Information about specific alleged cases on my page about The "Satanic Ritual Abuse" scare (and the larger child sex abuse panic) of the 1980's and early 1990's. Here on this page, I'll list only those cases in which there have been interesting recent developments that I've been made aware of. (Feel free to call my attention to any interesting recent developments that I'm not aware of or haven't gotten around to writing about yet.)

• Bakersfield / Kern County, California (1982)
• McMartin Preschool (1983)
• Langley estate / Rochdale Council (1990)
• Saskatoon, Saskatchewan (1991)
• Martensville, Saskatchewan (1992)
• The West Memphis Three (1993)
• More later

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