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December 15, 2001 to January 15, 2002
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ritualistic
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Mutilation
No Cult Indications in Alleged Murder Conspiracy
Loudoun County [Virginia] Sheriff
Steve Simpson has criticized sensational media reports that the stabbing
death of 57-year old scientist Robert M. Schwartz has ritualistic or
cult-oriented underpinnings. He denied that the letter "X" had been carved
into the back of Schwartz's neck and that the killing had "cult
overtones." Instead, court documents with law enforcement officials and
people close to the three suspects charged with the murder suggest a
spur-of-the-moment slaying between the accused and Schwartz — the suspects
were all acquaintances of his college-student daughter — that haphazardly
veered into a fatal confrontation between the scientist and one of the
acquaintances, a possibly psychotic orphan who lost control of himself.
(Jon Echtenkamp, Fauqier Times-Democrat, 12/18/01, Internet)
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