Porter-Gaud is a prestigious school in Charleston, South Carolina. It was originally founded as The Porter Military Academy in 1867 for orphans of the Civil War, more background may be found on Wikipedia.
Background of the documentary:
[…] “What Haunts Us” by Porter-Gaud alumna Paige Goldberg Tolmach....recalls the saga of Eddie Fischer, who taught at the school for eleven years in the 1970s and early 1980s. During that time, Fischer molested at least 20 young boys – actions which officials at Porter-Gaud apparently knew about even as they were assisting him in his efforts to find jobs at other schools (where he molested additional victims).
One of the administrators who helped Fischer – former Porter-Gaud principal James Bishop Alexander – killed himself just days before he was scheduled to be deposed source
What Haunts Us
The 1979 class of Porter Gaud School in Charleston, South Carolina graduated 49 boys. Within the last 35 years, six of them have died by suicide. When Paige Goldberg Tolmach gets word that another former student from her beloved high school has killed himself, she decides to take a deep dive into her past in order to uncover the surprising truth and finally release the ghosts that haunt her hometown to this day.
Trailer - 2018
Two-minute videos about the Eddie Fischer case and the film:
Fox News: Horrifying story of coach who sexually abused male students
Boston Herald: Filmmakers on Filmmaking: "What Haunts Us" Paige Goldberg Tolmach
Some things that also stood out to me:
Secret Shame: Claims of Sex Abuse Involve Elite School (1998)
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Fischer photographed his victims, these boys of rich and powerful families, and they have absolutely nothing to be embarrassed about. They were preyed upon.
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Fischer sometimes told boys he could get them sex with older women who would pay them. I can’t help wondering if it was really just a pretense, or did he traffic victims to women and men? If so, I hope the Porter-Gaud victims speak out to a trusted person, and know that they should only feel bad if they, of their own free will as an adult, lured a minor to be sex trafficked, otherwise, there’s nothing to feel bad about!
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Both Eddie Fischer and principal Major J. Bishop Alexander graduated from The Citadel, the military college in Charleston. More on The Citadel here. Beginning at 26:15 in the film: Fischer and Alexander apparently were in the same class at The Citadel. Fischer volunteered with the Porter-Gaud football team for 1-2 years before Alexander offered him a paid job at Porter-Gaud.
But the suicides have not stopped
October 2017 – Porter-Gaud Scandal: The Latest
According to our sources, history has repeated itself …
We’re now told there are three recent suicides involving Porter-Gaud students said to have been victimized in connection with the latest round of alleged abuse.
December 2017 - Clemson Student’s Death: A Porter-Gaud Connection?
A Clemson University student was found dead over the weekend – but the speculation surrounding his untimely end is coalescing around his former high school.
Bowen Ellis, 19, of Mount Pleasant, South Carolina was found unresponsive in his bed on Saturday afternoon….Ellis died of a drug overdose.
For a decade, Ellis was a student at the prestigious Porter-Gaud preparatory school in Charleston, S.C.….rocked earlier this year by allegations of sexual abuse involving a “religious figurehead” on campus.
….Ellis was part of Porter-Gaud’s vestry program during his time on campus….at least three other students associated with this program have committed suicide in recent years – all of them allegedly having experienced abuse at the hands of their “spiritual mentor.”
March 2018 -- Exclusive: Another Former Porter-Gaud Student Commits Suicide
Another former student of the prestigious Porter-Gaud preparatory school in Charleston, South Carolina has committed suicide.
….21-year-old Brennan Roye Bennett of Charleston, S.C. died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound
Bennett also posted a lengthy suicide note to his Facebook page….on Monday as he sat in his car on the campus of Rollins College in Winter Park – a resort community located a few miles northeast of Orlando.
“Someone please contact Rollins or call an ambulance or police to remove my body,” the young baseball player wrote. “I don’t want my family to find me like this.”
Bennett also warned those coming to the scene that “the gun will still be loaded so please be careful.”
In his note, Bennett apologizes to his family, including his father – wealthy Charleston, S.C. businessman Michael Bennett.
Brennan Bennett’s note also references his friendship with Shriver Soliday, a Porter-Gaud student who committed suicide in July of 2014.
Soliday’s death is one of several recent Porter-Gaud suicides that this news site has been investigating over the course of the last few months.
By the way:
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Stephen Colbert is a Porter-Gaud alum
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Hillary and Bill Clinton met in Charleston with Giovanni Gambino, the son of Francesco 'Ciccio' Gambino and the cousin of Carlo Gambino, at the Belmond Charleston Place Hotel and at Gambino's pizzeria:
EXCLUSIVE: Hillary Clinton's ties to the MOB: How former Secretary of State met with Mafia heir at his pizzeria where he asked for father's release from prison (in return for an offer she couldn't refuse)
Hillary Clinton met with a Mafia heir who asked for his drug kingpin father to be released early from prison in exchange for votes, it has been revealed.
Jailed Mafia Don’s Son: Hillary Clinton Told Me She Would ‘Do Something’ To Racketeering Law
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carmencita ago
I remember us researching Hillary's dad's and her ties to the mob. Her dad was tied to Capone and that is how they have the same rat lines. He knew and used the ratlines himself. If it ain't broke don't fix it. How do you think they knew? They have been tied to the Mob for decades, but Hillary was the connection to the Mob and Bill followed willingly.
exposethecriminals ago
Thank you for that comment! My mind keeps going to the Mafia and Chicago connections, too.
From a bio of former principal "Major" James Bishop "Skip" Alexander :
So he was in Chicago while Hugh Rodham was stationed there, approximately 1939-1945. I have a hunch the families knew one another. HRC was born in 1947.
carmencita ago
I read somewhere that he was a type of gofer for the Capone Outfit now called The Chicago Outfit. So that means that he was everywhere, learning their ratline ops. That's why Bill wanted to marry Hillary. The money behind the mob and the ratlines.
https://brassballs.blog/home/after-capone-hillarys-father-ran-chicago-mob
"After Al Capone, Hugh Rodham and Dan Rostenkowski took over (and ran) the Chicago Mob", according to Larry Nichols.
exposethecriminals ago
It's strange that you mention, "So that means that he was everywhere, learning their ratline ops." I wasn't going to say anything. But the place Hugh Rodham was posted at in Chicago during WWII, Great Lakes Naval Station, is somewhere I remember from the 1960's and/or '70's.
My memory could be off, I hope it is, but I remember things from there I don't even want to talk about. But I'll attempt to. Teenage boys were kept imprisoned there. John Wayne Gacy was not the person that people think he was. He was controlled, in one way or the other. He would be ordered to abduct boys, and they would be held at GLNS, and tortured, and trafficked. Ultimately, they'd be sacrificed at an 'elite' snuff party. I'm not going to go into why many boys ended up under houses, because it stretches believability, and I don't think people are ready for the good side of JWG yet (preserving evidence; and respect for the dead by buying the silence of the fast food restaurants owner who was supposed to take delivery of their flesh from John after a party, and mix it into hamburger meat at one or both of the owner's two hamburger restaurants; etc.)
Carmencita you know, but for others who don't, JWG was my babysitter, (I was born in 1962, he was born in 1942, and was very close to my family but no one talks about it,) and while it was dangerous and terrifying when I was really young, he was very mean and abusive, he sort of "broke programming" around the mid 1960's. So while he was still MK'd, he also hid evidence -- he changed. I remember he and I were given the task of looking after the boys at GLNS, I think I was there around once a week. John lived there, and he lived in many other places as well. I recall he did not live in the "murder house" once it became such, (which was after his divorce,) and had bodies buried in it.
Anyway, this is why I do this, to echo @Podge512 , as -- although I have a lot of experiences and feel protective of everyone -- but also as @Blacksmith21 mentioned, a lot of people on here "have a story to tell." This is my story, I have got to do something, if I can, to help vulnerable teenage boys. Even before I remembered my cabal-related forgotten half of my life, I chose a field to go into based on my potential to help teen boys from ending up in dangerous situations -- even though I never remembered back then knowing anyone like that.
Anyway, on a brighter note! "These people are stupid" as Qanon would say. They underestimated John, I, and two others. While I personally don't remember where we hid the items we collected, but for a few fuzzy memories of glass jars and hiding places, I can intuit that somebody knows where all of it is. We shall see.
I almost forgot, Carm! HRC's family knew JWG. I remember being at someone's house when I was really young, it's not a bad memory. My grandfather and dad were playing cards, I think pinochle, with Hillary's dad and one other man, at a little table in front of a kitchen/kitchenette. There were sofas/seating in an L-shape facing the kitchenette. Someone was holding me on the sofa on the left, and HRC was sitting on the other sofa/seating doing handiwork of some kind, maybe knitting, there was a coffee table in front of her, and she looked quietly amused by the men. (Amused is not the right word, but it's the best I can do.) JWG was in and out of the house. This was in the 1960's.
Blacksmith21 ago
How many other serial killers were a product of a CSA/SRA-type of environment? Bundy? BTK? Ramirez? Too many to list.
exposethecriminals ago
He didn't kill them, I should have mentioned that. I'm not saying John never killed anyone, he had a hair trigger insanity mode rage that could go off, which was different than an "alter" that (((they))) switched on in him for a task he would never do while in his real mind. But, those "just there" insanity "modes" in his brain, were also MK'd into him, at some point, like in a laboratory setting. I'm not an expert, this is just what I remember about him.
The teen boys I remember getting murdered at snuff film parties were killed by other, older adults, from what I remember. It's like the older (older than him) adults would take turns. A child, or other innocent person like me even if they were not a child or teen, who had the right kind of "energy manipulative" abilities in their DNA I guess, would be forced to, usually blindfolded so I/we couldn't see who was at the party, have their hand on a knife, with their hand covered over by the murderer's hand which would guide the blade. One task John had that I remember was to deliver organs and other parts on ice, to wherever they were supposed to go (obvioulsy not always, if my memory is correct.) One place he delivered them was to an apartment in Chicago where the couple who lived there would cook cannibal foods for the elite, and John would deliver those as well.
I do not have memories of the last two people you mentioned. But I have a little (not scary) flash memory of talking to Ted Bundy, and knowing that he was good, and caught up in a similar, if not the same, situation as I remember John in, and by the same "cult."
Blacksmith21 ago
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/07/24/john-wayne-gacy-victim-reconstructions-released-by-authorities.html
exposethecriminals ago
Thank you!
The article is archived here
I put all of the victims' information in one image:
John Wayne Gacy Victim Reconstructions - John Doe #10 and John Doe #13 - July 23, 2018
Blacksmith21 ago
I had a feeling you did.