{"id":2173,"date":"2023-02-07T16:53:44","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/americanpatriotsocial.com\/video1\/?p=2173"},"modified":"2023-02-07T16:54:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T20:54:36","slug":"who-will-find-what-the-finders-hide-2019-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/americanpatriotsocial.com\/video1\/who-will-find-what-the-finders-hide-2019-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Who Will Find What The Finders Hide? (2019 Documentary)"},"content":{"rendered":"

In previous investigations, we worked to expose a powerful billionaire and registered sex offender \u2013 Jeffrey Epstein \u2013 and showed how Epstein and his co-conspirators were able to escape punishment for their role in abusing over 40 young girls. We noted that Epstein and people like him do not act alone in their efforts to feed their depraved desires. In Epstein\u2019s case, he had an inner circle of people who helped him acquire young girls. In other cases there exist networks of individuals helping to pressure or even kidnap young children and force them into sexual bondage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This time, we are going to explore the story of a cult that was suspected of international human trafficking in 1987. The Finders cult was a young group of men, women, and children who claimed to be nothing more than former hippies living an alternative lifestyle and practicing alternative parenting. The Finders were founded by a mysterious man with military connections nicknamed \u201cThe Game Caller\u201d who believed in turning his life, and the lives of those around him, into a constant game or experiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although more than 30 years have passed since The Finders made their way to the front page of newspapers all over the United States, questions still remain. Did the Game Caller\u2019s games involve trafficking of children? What exactly were the finders finding? Why did this story make mainstream headlines and then disappear in less than a week? Was the story part of the \u201cmoral panic\u201d of the 1980\u2019s, or something more? We will answer these questions, and most importantly, we ask,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Who Will Find What The Finders Hide?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As we examine the story of The Finders cult i want to make all of our readers aware that everything in this investigation is documented and can be confirmed by looking at our sources. This story deals with accusations of Satanic activity, child trafficking, and intelligence operations. We take these claims seriously and went to great lengths to confirm the information we are about to present to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Finders Arrested in Florida<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a chilly February morning in 1987, [Wednesday, February 4, 1987,] an anonymous caller tells the Tallahassee Police Department that two well-dressed men are at a local park with six kids and a blue van. The children are described as looking \u201cdisheveled\u201d with potential signs of abuse. Tallahassee Police arrive and question Douglas E. Ammerman and Michael Houlihan. The two men say they are taking the kids to a school for brilliant children in Mexico. The men also say the children are being weaned from their mothers. Authorities eventually take the men and children into custody. A search of the van turns up 20 floppy computer disks, a TSR-80 computer, and a \u201cdevice that police say could be used to hook into a computer in another location by telephone\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Immediately it becomes clear that this case is not like any other. Following the arrests, the Associated Press reports that police had moved the six children from a shelter after receiving a \u201chalf-dozen\u201d phone calls threatening the kids. [The AP notes] The children were moved to an undisclosed location where they were being protected by armed guards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When interviewed by the police, the kids say the men are their teachers and that they have been living in a house with other children and adults. The police report also notes the kids are eating a raw food diet, covered in bug bites, and only fed as a reward for good behavior. The children are unaware of modern technology, including phones, televisions, hot water, staplers, typewriters, and electricity. The oldest child, Mary, says they receive instructions from \u201ca man they called a Game Caller or a Game Leader\u201d, the founder of The Finders, also known as Marion Pettie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Thursday February 5th, Tallahassee police confirm the children and men are part of a group known as The Finders. [U.S. District Court records in Washington indicate] A confidential police source previously told authorities the Finders were \u201ca cult\u201d that conducted \u201cbrainwashing\u201d techniques at a warehouse and apartment in Washington D.C. [Source: Washington Post] This source tells of being recruited by the Finders with promises of \u201cfinancial reward and sexual gratification\u201d and of being invited by one member to \u201cexplore\u201d satanism with them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At this point officials with the U.S. Customs Service agency join the investigation due to suspicion that the potential crimes may have crossed state or national borders. The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office and the Federal Bureau of Investigations are also said to be investigating the case. After learning the children are based in the D.C. area, the Tallahassee department contacts D.C. Metropolitan Police to establish the identities of the children. Tallahassee police [spokesman Scott Hunt tells reporters the TPD] learn that D.C. police are already aware of the Finders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Friday February 6, Virginia State police raid a 90-acre farm owned by Marion Pettie in rural Madison County, Virginia. Neighbors of the farm say children were often brought to the farm in vans, usually crying. An FBI report states that \u201cevidence of a satanic\/cult ritual was discovered\u201d. The same report notes that all reports regarding Finders are to be classified Secret.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meanwhile, DC Metro Police and U.S. Customs Service agents raid other Finders properties, including a duplex apartment building and warehouse in Washington D.C. Police reports and articles from 1987 indicate that the DC police removed large plastic bags filled with color slides, photographs and photographic contact sheets from the warehouse. Some of the photos were of naked children [source: Washington Post].<\/p>\n\n\n\n

U.S. Customs [spokesman David Hoover] tells the Post, \u2033We\u2019re not saying that it\u2019s pornographic, but it has all the earmarks.\u2033 A U.S. Customs Service report describes some of the photos as showing blood rituals involving children slaughtering goats while adults in white robes watch. It also describes that they found instructions on how to purchase children. The importance of this report written by U.S. Customs Service agent Ramon J.Martinez will become clear as we move on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Customs Service then claimed to be looking into allegations of child pornography. Police spokesman Scott Hunt states that the Finders may be \u201caccustomed to selling or smuggling the children of its members out of the country.\u201d Then Capt. William White of the DC Police Department, declines to speculate on what the possibilities might be, but report written by D.C. police state that law enforcement believes the possibilities include kidnapping or some type of international market for children. Police investigator Cheryl Weigand says more than one of the children has been sexually abused, but she won\u2019t say exactly how many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Genghis Plato, also known as Robert Gardner Terrell, was the spokesperson for The Finders and the owner of a DC house that police say was used by members of the group. Terrell tells reporters<\/a> the group are simply \u201crational people\u201d and \u2033not devil worshipers or child molesters.\u2033 Then another spokesperson for The Finders named Diane Sherwood, states the group are \u201chard-working\u201d with a \u201cProtestant ethic\u201d. \u201dWe don\u2019t even think we are a group,\u201d she says. \u201cWe are just a network of co- operators.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Monday February 9, five days after the children and their two male chaperones were arrested, Washington metropolitan police announce they have found no evidence of wrongdoing or satanic activity by the Finders. Health officials in Florida then say they have no evidence of sexual abuse of the children. DC Metro Police Chief Maurice Turner Jr. states that the department has not uncovered any evidence to \u201ccorroborate allegations made by an informant that the organization is a cult and that its activities involve satanic rituals\u201d. By Thursday February 12th, Gary Sheppard of the FBI\u2019s Washington field office, says the FBI investigation has \u201cnot uncovered any evidence of federal violations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But according to the New York Times<\/a>, \u201cthe statement from the Metropolitan Police Department conflicts with accounts from the police in Tallahassee, Fla., where the children were found, unwashed and hungry\u2026 Officials there say that morning \u201cat least two of the children had signs of sexual abuse.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the initial reports, by the end of the week headlines<\/a> are reporting that the charges are dropped and that the whole situation was a giant misunderstanding. Just like that, it\u2019s gone from the news.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To be fair, it is true that a so-called \u201cmoral\u201d or \u201csatanic\u201d panic seemed to grip the U.S. in the 1970\u2019s and 80\u2019s where parents were suspecting all kinds of people of being involved in devil worshipping cults or child trafficking networks. Although the vast majority of these cases have been dismissed as paranoia, the story of The Finders deserves a deeper look.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let\u2019s start by examining the available law enforcement documentation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Documenting The Finders<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Finders cult incident in Florida took place more than 30 years ago. Although the mainstream version of events says that the whole thing was blown out of proportion, a reading of the reports from the Tallahassee Police Department, the FBI, and the US Customs Service leaves more questions than answers. The Customs Service report has been widely reported and circulated and the FBI documents were released through Freedom of Information of Act Requests. In 2018, thanks to the work of an activist, the 75 pages of Tallahassee police reports were also finally released to the public. This is the story of those documents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tallahassee Police Department Reports<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday February 4, at 4:50 pm, Tallahassee Police Officer Tony Mashburn responds to an anonymous call regarding two well-dressed men seen supervising six children at Meyers Park in Tallahassee, Florida. The detective files a report with the department following the incident. His report serves as one piece of historical documentation of the case of The Finders. Mashburn\u2019s report states that the \u201cchildren were very dirty and unkept\u201d with \u201cbug bites on their entire body and scratches on their legs.\u201d Mashburn also reports:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhen asked about the parents of the children, Suspect #1 became very evasive and stated that the children\u2019s parents were in Washington D.C. Suspect #2 refused to give this writer any information and he pretended to faint when told he was under arrest.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A second report written by Tallahassee police officer Judy Suchocki notes that the oldest child, Mary, does not know her last name but knew that one of the men was her father. She states that the men had several aliases. When asked where they were going, the children say they do not know, they were \u201cjust going different places\u201d and staying at campgrounds. The children also say they haven\u2019t seen their mothers for two months, \u201csince before Christmas\u201d because they were being weaned from their mothers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The report states that the kids told officers the adults in their community had to do what the \u201cgame caller\u201d told them to do and the kids did what the adults told them to. The children said they were not allowed in the house. The kids also told authorities that the adults communicated with \u201cThe Game Caller\u201d, aka Marion Pettie, via a computer in the van. Later in the report it notes that the children claimed Marion Pettie \u201cowns a man named Steve\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the eldest child Mary was questioned about sexual abuse she became very evasive. She said there were no \u201cbad touches\u201d between the children and adults, and reportedly became fidgety and wanted the interview to end. The same police report mentions that an official with the Department of Health and Rehabilitative Services, or HRS, said the two children were confirmed cases of sexual abuse. Jane Pittilla of HRS stated that a Dr. Moorer had found one of the children lacked \u201canal spector control\u201d, consistent with acts of sodomy. Also, one of the girls had signs consistent with vaginal penetration by the fingers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On February 8, Tallahassee police filed another report mentioning a curious incident involving a computer found on Florida State University campus in front of the library. Apparently, on Thursday February 5, a student [named Robert Sorkine] spotted the computer inside of a phone booth and decided to take it home. After he saw details relating to the Tallahassee Police investigation, he turned it into law enforcement who determined the owner of the computer was \u201cobviously persons who are involved with a group called \u2018The Finders\u2019\u201d. A similar TSR-80 computer was found in the group\u2019s van.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the warehouses in D.C. were raided, DC Metro Police shared the details of their findings with the Tallahassee police. In one report, DC Detective Bill Cagney describes finding a library of books which included books \u201cconcerning mind control\u201d. By February 8th, Detective Jim Bradley of the DC Metro Police says he found no evidence of satanic activity at either DC residence. On February 10, the Tallahassee police are told by Lieutenant Lee Hart of the Culpeper, Virginia Police Department, that he has a contact within The Finders. This contact alleges that Marion Pettie has notified all Finders to flee and hide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Curiously, Lt. Hart tells the TPD that Pettie would \u201cprobably go to Andrews Air Force base and get a military plane to China\u201d. The strange thing is there are several mentions of connections to China elsewhere in the TPD report and in the US Customs report. Why were the Finders men carrying a Chinese-English dictionary <\/a>with them? Mary said she learned to count to 10 in Chinese from a Chinese man at the warehouse<\/a>, and, as we will see in a moment, the US Customs report on the Finders mentioned that children were being ordered from a contact in Hong Kong.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When the Tallahassee Police are finally able to determine and locate the mothers of the children, the women deny any allegations of satanic activity or sexual abuse of the children by the group. The women claim they don\u2019t know why the men have multiple fake IDs or why they used the \u201ctraveling to a school for brilliant children in Mexico\u201d excuse. The mothers tell police their lifestyle does not abuse children, but instead holds them in high esteem. This seems difficult to square with the fact that the kids were found covered in bites and scratches and malnourished with little food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The women go on to describe The Finders lifestyle as rejecting private property in favor of communal property and centering around \u201congoing loyalty, dependence, devotion to each other\u201d. The police reports description of the group\u2019s parenting style resembles modern \u201cunschooling\u201d methods. This hands-on method included trips to the zoo, learning in nature, and apparently, learning how to slaughter and skin a goat. When confronted, the women say the white \u201crobes\u201d the men were wearing during the goat slaughter were actually sheets used to cover their clothes from blood. The mothers also contradict the children by saying the kids are allowed to eat whenever they want rather than at predetermined meal times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Wednesday February 11th, assistant Investigator Rick Huffman is made lead investigator. By February 24, Huffman has officially ended the Tallahassee Police Department\u2019s investigation into The Finders. Huffman writes:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAs to whether the children had actually been abused or neglected at the time of arrest seems to hinge on whether the children being dirty, possibly hungry, and living under camping conditions constitutes abuse or neglect.\u201d Huffman concludes: \u201cThis investigator has learned of no group or individual actions which appear abusive or neglectful.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Huffman does not mention the reports of sexual abuse by doctors with HRS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And with that, the Tallahassee Police Department\u2019s investigation into the Finders cult came to an end.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The US Customs Service Memos<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The other main source documents are a series of memos from the U.S. Customs Services, the predecessor to the current US Customs and Border Protection agency. The memos were written by U.S. Customs Agent Ramon J. Martinez. In these pages are the most damning accounts of alleged trafficking of children and potential connections to intelligence agencies. Martinez filed three memos, two of which describe his experience participating in the search of the warehouse in D.C. alongside the Metro Police. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Once the Customs Service was notified that the children were allegedly en route to Mexico, a Customs investigation was launched. The Metro Police reportedly contacted Customs because the agency maintains a network of child pornography investigators. Martinez notes that his office was contacted by Detective Jim Bradley with the Metro Police Department because he believed the Tallahassee case was \u201cstrongly related\u201d to a case he was investigating in D.C.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bradley also told Martinez that he originally investigated the two addresses connected to The Finders in December of 1986, two months before the incident in Florida. An informant had given Bradley information regarding a cult, known as the \u201cFinders\u201d, operating various businesses out of a warehouse. The information was specific in describing \u201cblood rituals\u201d and sexual orgies involving children, and a yet unsolved murder in which the Finders were alleged to be involved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martinez\u2019s report states that during the execution of the warrant on the warehouse he was \u201cable to observe and access the entire building\u201d. As authorities searched the building they found tons of documents, a large library, a sauna, computers, maps with locations highlighted, a room with video recording equipment and much more. [They also found a man connected to The Finders known as Stuart Miles Silverstone.]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martinez says his search of the documents revealed the following:<\/p>\n\n\n\n