Remembering Satan—Part I
Lawrence Wright’s 1993 report on how charges of sexual and satanic-ritual abuse in Olympia, Washington, escalated into a landmark case in the national obsession with cults and “recovered” memory.
On the morning he was to be arrested, Paul Ingram dressed for his job at the sheriff's office, went downstairs and ate breakfast, and then, to his surprise, suddenly vomited. He thought at first that it must be the flu; then he realized that it was simply fear.