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FreeRebel ago

Despite this, one cult member was I.D.'d and tracked to his Florida car dealership and questioned. When the officers returned to question him some more, they found the dealership shut down and the suspect no longer around.

All right I know from my own personal investigations that SPENCER BENNETT was running the local chapter of the Hand of Death Cult in Jacksonville, that sent Lucas & Toole out on assignments. And when I went to the Jax car dealership he had owned, I found it had been taken over by his nephew. BENNETT himself was murdered, probably a hit called out by a certain Jax rogue cop. A low-Q black guy called Popeye went to prison for that one, case closed.

10116152? ago

Woah, I wonder if Spencer Bennett is the person Mike Codell was talking about. I can't go through that two hour interview again, but I think Codell said he met the informant in prison in 1996-1997? Is that around the same time Spencer Bennett's dealership changed hands? (I'm not sure how long after the initial meeting at the prison that NYPD officers went to Florida.)

Codell said he couldn't remember where the dealership was, but he thought maybe Daytona. I just checked and that's only an hour and a half from Jacksonville, and they are both on the northeast coast of Florida, so for such a large state they're in the same "general area".

Edit to add:

If a NY-based 1% biker knew about, essentially, "Son of Sam" killings even after Berkowitz went to prison (that didn't make the news) (it's somewhere in that interview), and, knew the name and business of someone heading a Florida death cult that oversaw other serial killers' killings, this is making my head spin. I mean we all suspected something like this, but seeing something potentially plain as day like that, it's ghastly.

FreeRebel ago

Sounds like it was probably the same cult. Bennett lived & worked in JAX but the cult rendezvous with the hoods etc happened "way out in the woods" of No Fla. and they also had a camp at one time more southerly, towards the Everglades. That one was probably the encampment where Lucas was initiated.