Friday, December 4, 2015

The Orta Hedges Synchronicity

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Highland man is co-author of new book

Bosley is a former special agent of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations, a former counterintelligence specialist of the FBI, a counter-terrorism security consultant who has worked around the world and a licensed private investigator.

He has discovered what he believes is evidence of serial murders almost a century ago in San Bernardino that went unrecognized as such.

Bosley and co-author Richard B. Spence tell the story of those murders in "Empire of the Wheel."

Spence is a professor of history at the University of Idaho and author of "Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence and the Occult." He has appeared on the History Channel and on "Coast to Coast" and other programs in the United States and abroad.

Seven people died under questionable circumstances in the second half of 1915, three of them children, Bosley said.

Bosley said he was researching unrelated topics in 2008 when he learned of the mystery of Cora Stanton from librarian Ann Walker. The woman known as Cora Stanton allegedly committed suicide by taking poison and then drowning herself in the lake at old Urbita Springs park, now the site of the Inland Center shopping mall.

Bosley said he learned that others were dying within days or weeks of Stanton, three children among them, and that's when questionable circumstances emerged in his research.

Bosley said "Empire of the Wheel" presents all the available details and some startling possibilities. He said an association to the Zodiac killer murders also emerged from his investigation.

In the autumn of 1915, a handful of deaths in the San Bernardino Valley captured local public attention. O.H. Bailey, a man who worked in local citrus groves and was a member of the Knights Templar fraternity, was found dead near the giant Arrowhead in the foothills of the San Bernardino Mountains, an alleged suicide whose remains were not found until months after he died, Bosley said.

Isadore Josseau, a local trapper, drowned in a reported boating accident on Baldwin Lake, filled with water then. Willie and Aileen Estep of Highland, 4 and 2 years old, were given poisoned candy and they subsequently died. The police were never able to identify who gave the children the candy laced with the toxin that was never identified, Bosley said.

A couple weeks later, 14-year-old Orta Hedges of Redlands died from eating a poisoned orange, Bosley said.

Another victim was E. Perceval Braid of Redlands who was found dead of a gunshot wound in bed at home, allegedly having killed himself with a pistol that had been stolen from a law office and used in a prior suicide, Bosley said. Braid was a law student and estate planner.

The most celebrated victim at the time was Cora Stanton, a mystery woman not from the area, whom no one in town knew and who was not identified until after items assumed to belong to her were found in an area previously searched by police.

As curious as are the facts of the deaths of these seven, odd facts surrounding their deaths are even more strange, Bosley said.

On the day Cora Stanton's alleged suicide note and items were found, a man walked into the Mark B. Shaw mortuary claiming to know Stanton, but he could not identify her body. This man, who gave his name as Thomas Kavanaugh, disappeared before the police could question him, and his claim to work at a local theater turned up false, Bosley said.

Bosley investigated the possibility of murder and said he found espionage and occultism in the area and began to find a pattern that hinted at something more involved and sinister.

Following up on leads, Bosley said he and co-author Richard Spence found evidence of occult influence on the mystery and thus they saw a possible motive for a killer or killers.

Their book suggests that the seven victims of 1915 may have been targets of black magic they call the San Bernardino Working.

"Empire of the Wheel: Espionage, the Occult and Murder in Southern California" is available at Amazon.com.

SOURCE: Walter Bosley