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PORNOGRAPHY AND RITUAL MURDER•On July 5, Loretta did telephone Officer Carmean and gavehim the address and phone number of King's house on WirtStreet. Carmean drove by the house and called the number.The phone was answered "King Company." At the house,Carmean wrote in his log, he "observed on a gray awning ...the name KING in black script lettering."• • •During 1988, as Loretta Smith grew to trust the doctors,nurses, and other personnel at Richard Young Hospital, sherevealed more detail about what she and the other children hadbeen subjected to. Her case file is summarized in a report forthe Legislature's Franklin committee (by Jerry Lowe, 1989),which gives the dates on which Loretta talked to hospital staff:Loretta ... provided additional information of her previousinvolvement in cult activity which included the witnessing ofhomicides of several young children and which also includedreferences to Larry King and others involved in the cult activities.August 19, 1988.The hospital notes indicated that Lorettawas asked to give a chronological account of involvementin what is described as a devil worship cult and that Lorettaagreed to do this. Loretta indicated that she didn't reallyknow what was happening and that she became involvedvery gradually. She indicated that when she was approximatelynine years old she was going to the Girl's Club inOmaha and that a guy named Ray would take her and fouror five other girls at the Girl's Club on outings.... Hetook them to a building that according to Loretta lookedabandoned and asked the girls if they wanted to go in whichthey all agreed to do. Loretta indicated they sat and talkedfor a while and then Ray provided a joint and all of theindividuals got high. She indicated this activity continuedfor about three or four weeks and then Ray took them toa party.Loretta indicated that at the party there were about tenmen all in their mid-thirties and that initially they sat aroundand talked with the girls about their problems. Loretta indi­21