Mayor Resigns, Claims Abduction By Satan Worshippers - With Video
CENTERTON, Ark. — The mayor of an Arkansas town resigned on Wednesday, claiming he was abducted and brainwashed by Satan worshippers nearly three decades ago.
Centerton Mayor Ken Williams said he has been living under an assumed name for nearly 30 years. He had been mayor since 2001.
Williams told authorities he was born Don LaRose and that in the mid-1970s, he was a preacher in Indiana. He said he was abducted and brainwashed into forgetting all about his life as Don LaRose.
It was a double-life he had never acknowledged, Williams said, because he didn’t even realize it existed until he had recently taken a truth-serum injection.
As Williams regained his memory, he said, he realized that he had a wife and two kids but that he had decided to leave and take on a new identity to protect them.
“I had no choice. The choice was to watch my family killed before my eyes or go with these people, and I chose instead to run,” Williams said.
He wouldn’t explain from who he was running, saying only that he had been brainwashed.
“I had multiple shock treatments,” Williams said. “It took five years to get my memory back.”
Williams said he took his current identity in 1980 when he moved to Centerton. His full name — Bruce Kent Williams — was taken from a man who died in a car crash back in 1958, he said.
“What happened in 1980 — whether it was right or wrong — I did it under the threat of my family and for my own survival,” he said.
The information went public, Williams said, because he runs a Web site about Don LaRose and his disappearance. LaRose’s former family found the Web site and started inquiring about its author. They found the site registered to a Ken Williams and went from there.
Williams said his current wife is standing by him and the two of them want to continue living in Centerton. He said he plans to continue living as Ken Williams.
Also, his resignation was signed with two names, he said.
According to police, Williams is under no investigation for any wrongdoing.
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March 7th, 2008 at 4:29 pmWhat the fuck, over.
March 7th, 2008 at 5:15 pmO.K. . . . I guess there there are lots of intersting ways to reinvent oneself.
March 7th, 2008 at 5:24 pmthere must be something in the water down there in Arkansas. Full of all kinds of strant politicians coming out of there. Achem…Bill, Huckster, etc.
March 7th, 2008 at 5:33 pmBrain washed, and becomes a mayor of a U.S. city… must be a democrat. Yup the pod people are among us. watch out!
March 7th, 2008 at 5:34 pm1) How did he know he had “lost memory”
2) I might believe this if he’d said “alien abduction” instead of “Satan worshippers” abduction
3) Who wants to bet a book/movie deal is rolling around in that “multiple shock treatments” head of his (BTW … saw this already … Geena Davis/Renny Harlin, “The Long Kiss Goodnight” … sort of the same ‘formula’)
4) [[According to police, Williams is under no investigation for any wrongdoing.]]
I dunno … Wife #1 might have something to say about that …
March 7th, 2008 at 7:21 pmOmg… weird.
March 7th, 2008 at 7:28 pmWTF was that?
March 7th, 2008 at 8:07 pmWANTED: 15 minutes of fame to compensate for my meaningless life. Will trade very used and negligible self-respect. Possess minimal dramatic talent, but the beard is full. Please contact via Mayor’s Office.
March 8th, 2008 at 5:09 am