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The eldest brother worked at a children’s hospital, the next
oldest held a variety of jobs and the youngest brother was a
longtime employee at Boeing. The three men lived together for 55
years in a cluttered Seattle home that until last week hid
disturbing secrets – a massive hoard of child pornography, the
alleged sexual abuse of their female family members and photos
and clothing from unidentified children that detectives are now
probing for links to unsolved murder cases.

“We started with two victims and it’s grown to four,” Seattle
Police Department Capt. Mike Edwards tells Newsweek. “We’re
confident we’re only at the tip of the iceberg.”

The investigation into Charles Emery, 82, Thomas Emery, 80, and
Edwin Emery, 78, has found that the brothers sexually abused at
least two and possibly three generations of women in their
family. When the brothers were children, all three of them
sexually abused a female family member – identified in court
papers only as E.V. – so intensely that she was forced out of
the family home and into foster care, according to court papers
filed by Seattle prosecutors. Charles and Edwin later sexually
abused that woman’s daughter, identified as T.W., beginning when
she was a toddler, T.W. told investigators.

The abuse may have descended down yet another generation, to
T.W.’s daughter, who court papers refer to as S.K. When police
searched of the childless brother’s home last week, they found a
sinister stash of items including hundreds of pictures of girls
being abused, stained girl’s panties, dozens of children’s penny
loafers, and dozens of notes describing the sexual abuse of
girls – sometimes after giving them soda spiked with vodka.
Finally, investigators found an airplane-sized bottle of vodka
tucked inside a small penny loafer inscribed, “S.K.’s first half
ounce of liquor came from this bottle.”

“We’ve got multiple generations involved here, and nobody in the
family ever said anything,” says Edwards, who added that long
ago the brothers also molested the elder sister of E.V., the
family member the brothers drove into foster care. “In this line
of work, there’s bad and there’s very bad. This one is very bad.”

The brothers were charged Monday with child pornography, but
prosecuting them for the alleged sexual abuse of their family
members appears to be impossible because the statute of
limitations has expired. The brothers are each held on $500,000
bail and no defense attorneys representing them could be reached
Tuesday evening.

“At the time of filing, law enforcement is actively executing
search warrants and interviewing witnesses to determine the
extent of the defendants’ child sexual exploitation crimes as
well as evidence of homicide,” Seattle prosecutor Cecilia
Gregson wrote in her case summary. Among the evidence pointing
toward potential murders are a pink child’s hat partially buried
in the brothers’ crawl space. “Both Thomas and Edwin Emery
denied knowledge of child homicide, but would reply to law
enforcement questions on the topic that it was ‘possible’ if
everything the officers was saying was true,” court papers state.

Police found child pornography, children's clothes and
handwritten manifestos detailing the rape and murder of children
at this Seattle home shared by the elderly Emery brothers, who
were arrested and charged with possession of child pornography
on Monday.
BRENDAN TRICKEY

The probe into the brothers was sparked August 9 when T.W., the
family member who says the brothers got her drunk and
photographed and molested her, found boxes packed with obscene
photos of notes while she was cleaning up the brothers’ garage
and called police. Besides pornographic images of children and
handwritten notes detailing the kidnapping, rape and murder of
young girls, T.W. also found socks and shoes just like the ones
Charles Emery dressed her up in before he abused and
photographed her, according to court papers.

Once police saw the items T.W. discovered and heard her
descriptions of the abuse she suffered at the brothers’ hands,
the investigation began in earnest. A detective on Sunday walked
into the Seattle nursing home where Charles Emery recently moved
because of his dementia, took swabs from the old man’s mouth,
then woke him up to ask about the child pornography and abuse.
“I talked with Charles about the things that he wrote concerning
the abuse of S.K., he would become upset and told me that he was
going to sue me for saying such things about her,” the detective
wrote in court papers. “When I asked Charles about his
fantasies, he stated in the fantasy pages girls would be
kidnapped, raped and killed.”

When police questioned Charles Emery’s younger brothers, they
eerily described his “collection” of photos, violent manifestos
and related items as “Charles’ hobby.” But when questioned by a
detective, Edwin Emery said he is the sole user of the computer
in the brothers’ home and that he printed off pornographic
images to share with his brothers. “Notably, Edwin Emery
disclosed viewing the pornographic material in the living room
area in view of his brothers Thomas and Charles, who sometimes
look at the pictures,” court papers state. (A fourth brother,
older than Charles, died recently and since the investigation
began, pornographic material was also found at his home, police
said.)

Seattle police are now searching for any victims the brothers
may have targeted outside their family, especially since
detectives learned Edwin and Thomas Emery would try to
photograph children in public but were often rebuffed by
parents. Investigators are combing through a large number of
photographs found inside the home, including undeveloped 35 mm
film, and also examining records at Seattle Children’s Hospital,
where Charles Emery was a janitor from the 1970s through the
1990s.

“These guys are pretty old, so I’m sure some of these photos
will go back two or three decades or even longer,” Edwards says,
asking that any victims or people with knowledge about the
brothers email or call his team at wa.icac@seattle.gov or
206.684.4351. “Their interests and obsessions go back to when
they were very young.”

A short sentence in the court papers revealed how the brothers
were able to target not just one, but possibly three generations
of women in their family. T.W., the relative who first called
police on the brothers, told investigators that she allowed
Charles Emery, the man who abused her, to take her daughter to
Hawaii with him at least once. How could she have willingly put
her daughter in his hands? She answered that since her mother –
who the brothers also abused as a child – was along on the
island trip, she believed her daughter would be safe.

http://www.newsweek.com/brothers-sexual-abuse-arrest-family- pornography-murder-rape-kidnap-seattle-653692
 

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