In 1992, FBI agent Kenneth Lanning published a report that expressed strong doubts about the existence of ritual violence. Reports were piling up in police stations from the Pacific Coast to the Atlantic. “One mother told me that for the first time since the victimization of her young son she felt a little better,” Lanning wrote. Before then, her options had been to face the fact that her son lived in a community controlled by Satanists or accept the idea that he was a pathological liar.
