Article from the Blackwells Chronicle - OpEd Section October 19th, 1974 SLAUGHTER AT ASYLUM LEAVES POLICE BAFFLED, TOWN TERRIFIED by Cleveland Cartright, D.D. It has been six days since the first call to the Blackwells police department lead them into what is now an abattoir of horrors inside the Warmack Psychiatric Asylum. Police have blockaded the asylum and have refused all access to the facility, but some eyewitness accounts have described walls painted with blood, human viscera festooning windows and overhead lights. What is most terrifying to the people of Blackwells is that the police have yet to name a single person of interest, in what locals are now crudely referring to as the Monkey House Massacre. Police Chief Andrew McMahon has refused to provide a statement to the public, other than that to provide details of the case would interrupt police efforts to capture the perpetrator(s) of the crime. An anonymous source, confirmed to have intimate details of the crime scene, have informed the Chronicle that their are twenty-three confirmed homicides and over forty persons, comprised of both Asylum staff and inmates, who are considered missing. While the number of confirmed homicides does not come close to reaching the numbers of the infamous Black Jack killings of the 1920s, it is the bloodiest event in Blackwells history since. Police have few answers, the people of the city are fearful, and both have only questions to comfort them. Which leaves this journalist to ask the question, With a crumbling infrastructure, aching hearts yearning to see our sons who are still involved with the bloody conflict in Indochina, and crime at an all time high; how are the people of our city supposed to keep their hope kindled? Community? There can be no community with out trust. The Church? There can be no Church without God. As a practicing Catholic, it pains me to say, that if there has even been proof of divine abandonment, it is this city and her dispossessed people. Doctor Cartright has been a Blackwells resident since 1947, is a former Lutheran Pastor, retired Professor, and former Christian Apologist. He holds a Doctorate of Divinity via Wake Forest Divinity School. He has since retired from Christian Theological Studies and now considers himself an agnostic. He has contributed to the Chronicle since 1964. #blackwells
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