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Show Friday, August 2, Warrant Is Issued (Continued from Page 1) Because of severe decomposition of the body, the exact cause of death has yet to be determined by the state medical examiner's office. Bateman also admitted that the body's condition made 100 percent identification of the body difficult. ''We're not comand probably pletely sure never will be," he said, but he was confident investigators had enough evidence and indications to satisfy both Kulpecsha's family and the medical examiner's office. The warrant listed bail at $1 million. "Bail is routinely set on warrants when the; are issued," said Bateman, although he admitted the figure was unusually high. The homicide warrant does not necessarily mean that officers believe the death occurred locally. "My understanding of state statutes is that the case could be prosecuted where any part of the crime occurred," explained Bateman. Much of the case hinges on a deposit slip from the victim's account at a New York bank that was discovered near the body. "That is one piece of evidence that led to her identification as well as to the suspect," Bateman explained. Several investigators from the Utah County Sheriff's Office spent the last week in Arizona, working with Phoenix area police questioning acquaintances of the victim and the suspect and gathering evidence. The victim did not have a residence in Arizona but was apparently staying with her grandson and other acquaintances. Evidence gathered at the residences and the site where the body was discovered led to the warrant. "We felt we had developed probable cause for the gentleman's arrest," Bate- hasn't been eliminated com- man said. The sheriff's office is looking at two or three possible motives in the slaying. "Money seems to be one that has surfaced that pletely," he admitted. Utah War Continues (Continued from Page 1) going to be so bad they didn't even irrigate and try to get the second crop," he said. "This is the worst year for grasshoppers we have ever had," said Celia White. She and her husband manage a family farm in Cedar Valley. The farm, one of the largest alfalfa farms in the state, failed to produce a second crop of hay. That came on the heels of a barn fire July 5 that claimed the farm's first cutting. The USDA's Crowe said Tooele County was probably the hardest hit spot in the state. He said eight grasshopers per square yard constitutes an "infestation" and some areas of Tooele were suffering 75 to 100 grasshoppers per square yard. "It was the worst year on record," Crowe said of the grasshoppers. "And it was the largest spray program in the history of Utah, 18 times as large as any other control program in the history of the state." Crowe said about 1,300,000 acres were sprayed. That compares to the old record of about 72,000 for a grasshopper infestation during the 1950s. Crowe said the spraying resulted percent kill The in about a state did not receive the federal money for the spraying until May, he said, yet had the first of 10 contracts out and Globe Air of Mesa, Ariz., was spaying the pesticide "Seven" in Tooele's Skull Val80-9- 0 ley by June Lj W l V V?D S 5. Despite the late funding and despite airplane breakdowns, the program is now nearing completion. It will be wrapped up as flyers drop the pesticide "malathion" over portions of Summit County this weekend. The federal program was praised by Rex Woodhouse of Spanish Fork Flying Service. "Milford had the potential for a big problem, but the government came in and did a good job there," he said. He also noted the federal sprayi. ing "helped enormously" near Ne-ph- Other cropduslers were not so positive. "The government didn't do anything for the farmers," said Dave Shepphard of Shepphard Air Service in West Jordan. Shepphard said At if d THrw.- ' - d PORTRAIT OF A w V 0J u wrong decisions made in youthful haste, might CHILD Whose eyes are these? As free as you please A closeup of a child playing, searching? Whose thought were those? Me first; I'm thirsty Mama " Poor Mama. The child, well protected from the wintery days, The summer haze of his life, yet to be realized In his eyes he sees tomorrow's skies. Who will question innocence? The child was innocent. No knowing how well his life was spent, Might find himself only too soon, bent. If he had known the changes, the Ring left behind. Gravestone, poem. small smile Visible in his eyes, displaced? Even erased. Springville cemetery to another site, according to a caretaker. The grave had also become legend as a favored site lor gatherings. the have been Other rumors persist among Utah Valley teens about "suicide clubs" comprised of devil worshippers, and of unsolved murders that are linked to the activities of Sa- tanic cults. Police officers are skeptical, but they are not totally Police routinely patrol the grave at the cemetery, which one neighbor said draws more than what would seem the normal number of visitors. Residents say gravesites like this are favored playgrounds for teenagers messing with satanic practices. Another gravesite of a teenager who was said to have practiced satanism and committed suicide was recently moved from the ignoring the possibility of there being some truth to the stories. Seldom is there reasonable proof that a death may be But "Jay" left a diary. Fourteen years later, people still cult-relate- what happened and remember hundreds of thousands maybe of others outside the millions valley remember too, because the diary was made into a book, Jay's i W which continues to be popular reading locally and in other states. The young man wrote that he was a member of a cult of high school students who participated in satanic rituals, sometimes in American Fork Canyon, sometimes at the Pleasant Grove Cemetery, sometimes at others' homes. One night, according to an American Fork woman whose relative ran around with "Jay's" crowd, he and five friends conducted a seance to summon the Devil. They sold their seals to Satan, she said. In the book, he is said to have gone through the ritual twice. Three of those in the group believed to have participated in the ritual subsequently died in automobile accidents, one drowned, two committed suicide, and the only one believed alive today left the valley. Jay's Journal, edited by Beatrice Sparks of Provo (who also wrote Go Ask Alice), fictionalized names, dates other details in order to provide family, friends, and community as much anonymity as possible. Some critics of the book accuse Sparks of fictionalizing too much. "I heard this poor, poor family just suffered because of it," related Paula Jones, director of the Springville library. She said she does not like kids checking the book out because she believes it "can be dangerous." She would just as soon the book be forgotten. But its popularity persists. "In (Portland) Oregon they have 20 copies they can't keep in," Jones reported. She said the Spokane, Wash, library has 16 copies that are also continually checked out. Springville library has two copies Journal, Page J VafJ vhich are always out, Jones re- ported. Clerk Evelyn Bohac said the Orem Public Library owns six copies, and a tracer is out on one of those. Recently 10 people were on a waiting list to check it out. Bohac said people of all ages, but principally aged, want the book. Librarian Louise Wallace said she noticed during her five years at the Orem library that the book is steadily in demand. "It is a popular book partly because it's on some of the schools' reading lists," she added. Wallace observed also that it is school-age- d kids checking it out in Orem. "The kids ask for it a lot." Carla Morris at the Provo library said 12 copies there are continually out. It's one of the most popular books. We cannot keep it in," Morris said. Sherry Wheeler, Springville librarian, said she is surprised any time a copy is in. "The kids hear about it, and start talking about witchcraft and someone says, Hey, have you read Jay's Journal?' " One library director in Utah County refuses to stock the book, even though she said that every year the library gets calls for it. just feel it is not needed in, our library," she said. "It's easily accessible at bookstores and other libraries (like the high school). We. have just not cared to have it in, the library. "It's a paperback and so for us' to buy it would be a waste of money (because of wear and tear). A book like Jay's Journal would never come back to this library." The book is now out of print. high-scho- 'i V iefim's Brother: There Are N W inners By PATRICK CHRISTIAN Herald Staff Writer Special Report Bob, a brother of one of the three chief characters in "Jay's Journal," a book about Pleasant Grove youth involved in Satanism in the 1970s, says families are often devastated by a son or daughter's Devil worshipping. Even after all these years the deep hurt remains, for him and his Satan Worship in Zion A mother of a Springville teenag- behavioral problems. Both relatives of Satanists continue to live their own lives as normally as they can and asked not to be identified by their actual names. But both want to dissuade others perhaps interested in embracing devil worship, telling them that it will hurt them and those who love them. Bob says his brother's involve- ment in Satanism in the 1970s began with drug use and playing with a Ouija board with close friends. It led him deeper until at one point it was reported that he was being urged to become a leader in an organized occult group. He was hitchiking home from California to Pleasant Grove when he was killed the same way his other two friends mentioned in the book were killed by an injury to the temple. Bob believes his brother was returning home to forsake Satanism when the accident occurred. Jay, the main subject of the book in the desert and of the farm land was much ignore "ridiculous." He said. "They just drove the grasshoppers onto the farms. The farmers are wondering if it was worth $4 million." The program was set up so the federal and state governments paid for spraying on federal and state to spray out grounds. Haskell noted private farmers were able to participate if thpy paid a percentage of the secretive. "She got into it at Springville High School and I think she was involved with about five other girls," said Mrs. Smith. She believes her daughter's involvement started with heavy-metor punk music and drug use. Before her involvement she did well in school and fit i.i well with her large, active LP'- family. Involvement alienated her from her family, led her to miss enough school that she failed. She was shoplifting. Mrs. Smith said her daughter became uncontrollable and said she spent many hours crying in frustration over her daughter. al This is the last two articles in a series on the occult involvement in Utah Valley. It is the result of more than 40 interviews with local police authorities, counselors, relatives and others acquainted with Satan worship. Written by staff reporter Pat Christian and Vicki Barker, these two series. stories conclude the week-lon- g parents. er, Mrs. Smith (not her real name) says her daughter's recent involvement in Satanism made it a living hell inside her family until her daughter was placed in a local hospital unit that treats mental and HOPPERS: $300,000 III By VICKI BARKER Fourteen years after his death, friends still speak in hushed and careful tones about the teenager's suicide. Don't ask questions, they advise. And stay away from the gravesite. The tombstone in a Provo cemecolor photery bears a hand-tintetograph of the boy, known in this and other stories by a pseudonym, "Jay." Brown eyes, brown hair, blue suit and tie the portrait mounted on white porcelain and trimmed in gold, the eyes piercing and unblinking, gazing solemn-faceto the north. Those who have been too curious to stay away claim the eyes are eerie, reminiscent of when he was reportedly involved with the occult. Beneath the picture, the tombstone bears a lengthy and cryptic poem by an unsigned author: - people in Central Utah. i5k Afl UIII B THE HERALD, Provn Uuh, ift: JiP Centrml Utah mi innnn. IVIVIVhli 1985 but it was not until after the publication of the book that he became so deeply involved." One of the souvenirs Bob keeps is his brother's ring that had been presented by people inthe occult. On its surface is a Solomon Pentagram, something that must be carried when engaging in rituals and summoning of spirits and demons. After his brother's death Satanists asked the family for the ring. Bob refused. "Don't get involved," he advises anyone playing with the occult. It could not only damage the participants' lives, but also the lives of those who love them, he says. When most deeply involved in Satanism, Mrs. Smith's daughter was full of hate, and much of it was aimed at her family. "She wrote a letter once that said her greatest ambition was to kill me," sai.' Mrs. Smith. "She would walk by my younger children, look them in the eye and say hate you.'" The Springville mother doesn't know exactly hew deeply her daughter was involved because her teenaged daughter was usually so shot himself in the temple, the other two subjects, including Bob's brother, were struck in the head in a traffic accident. Bob says his in Satanism brother's involv-metore at his fami- nt ly's emotions, but his brother still remained close to his family remembering birthdays and Mothers and Fathers Days. Emotions linger and were painfully renewed as the family read this newspaper series on Satanism, Bob says. "Jay's Journal" added to the pain, Bob says. "Some of the book is fiction and is not substantiated by the real journal it was based on." He said his family and the family of the other youth had heard a book was being written and were surprised when it was released without the author talking with the families of the other two boys to broaden the factual basis of their involvement in Satanism. "They were involved in it (Satanism) a little bit, but not to the levels indicated in the book," said Bob. "If anything, it was my brother who was involved the deepest. i Eventually her daughter ran away and was picked up and placed in the Utah Valley Regional Medical Center's Unit that works with youth with mental or behavioral problems. But even there her involvement didn't cease says her mother. "She and other girls at the hospital Child-Adolesce- nt known that he was there and said that one girl became possessed and a deep male voice came from her mouth. She said, 'Mom, I've known this girl for a long time and I know it wasn't her speaking.' "I ask her what it sounded like and she said, 'It soundeJ evil.'" Mrs. Smith said she wishes she had known more about Satanism so she could possibly have recognized earlier, signs of her daughter's involvement. She says when involved, her daughter would spend a lot of time alone in her room and would listen to heavy-metmusic. Mrs. Smith said she wouldn't talk to anyone in the family and was always irritable with others in the family. "Her room was always a mess snd she began skipping school, dressed in extreme clothing styles and spent a long time hanging around the University Mall in Orem, where a lot of her friends involved with her liked to meet with others." Mrs. Smith said she was not in al "If anything, it was my brother who wai involved the deepest, but it was not until after the publication of the book that he became so deeply involved." conducted seances. The Herald confirmed from three different sources that these seances took place in the hospital this past winter. I think she talked to me about it because she was so frightened by one seance." "She said the Devil let it be the practice of listening in on her daughter's phone conversations, but did listen in once when her daughter talked of suicide. Her daughter and some of her girlfriends were aware of a meeting their parents had set up to talk about the girls' problems. Haskall and others, however, warn next year could be even worse. "There are so many grasshoppers left that are now laying eggs that will hatch out next spring that you could almost bet it will be worse next year," Haskall said. A severe winter would kill many of the eggs, however. costs. Shepphard also questioned why none of the contracts went to instate cropdusters. "All of the money is being spent out of state," he said. Farm to You fgpr Jubilee SWEET Crowe responded that while there are always some people not satisfied, "most people receiving the treatment were satisfied." 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