In We Believe the Children, a history of the Satanic Panic, author Richard Beck describes an incident that blew up on the McMartin prosecutors. After a boy testifying at a hearing confidently identified several people he claimed to have seen at a Satanic ritual, Buckey’s defense attorney showed the child a picture of another man and asked if he, too, had been at the ceremony. The boy answered without hesitation that the man had participated in the ritual. Buckey’s attorney, triumphant, showed the picture to the rest of the courthouse. It was martial arts star Chuck Norris.
