Five Arrested For Ghoulish Feast Vanish

     From County Lock-Up

Polk: Three men and two women arrested for grave desecration in Oakwood this past April (June, 1996, vol. 3, issue #6) have vanished "without trace" from the Polk County lock-up where they were awaiting their hearing in January.

     According to Sheriff Andrew Marduke, all five prisoners were discovered to be gone from their cells the morning of Saturday, December 21 with no sign of having forced any doors or windows. Sheriff Marduke stated that the five had been kept in the jail's solitary confinement section for their own safety as inmates at the facility threatened to riot if they were allowed to mix with them.

     "Everything was normal the night before. At 9:30 pm, the prisoners were locked into their cells. Video surveilliance indicates they were there until 5:32 am. They were there and then they weren't. Into thin air." the Sheriff stated.

     Asked if the prisoners were ever identified, Marduke replied the five had steadfastly refused to identify themselves and were never overheard to call each other by name other than "sister" or "brother".

     The grandchildren of Thelma Carlisle, the woman whose body the five desecrated and were discovered eating, have appeared on various national talkshows maintaining that the five should be evaluated by a priest who is also a psychological expert prior to the January hearing. With that now moot, Ms. Jenean Carlisle-Wilson, representative of Ms. Carlisle's grandchildren, says she now hopes they all can put the grisly episode behind them.