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SEATTLE - Three brothers in their 70s and 80s have been arrested
in Seattle for allegedly possessing images of child-sex abuse
with police still investigating them, according to Seattle
Police Department.

Key developments:
82-year-old Charles Emery, 80-year-old Thomas Emery and 79-year-
old Edwin Emery were charged Monday with two counts of
possession of depictions of minors engaged in sexual conduct.

Police say a family member was cleaning the men's Green Lake
home and discovered what she believed to be materials depicting
the sexual abuse of a child.

Charging papers say authorities including members of the FBI's
internet Crimes Against Children Task Force searched the home,
finding evidence prosecutors say that each of the men spent the
majority of their lives sexually abusing children and exploiting
children depicted in child pornography.

Detectives say it was Charles' "manifestos" about Satanic
rituals, kidnapping, raping and killing girls that led them to
dig under sheds, searching for evidence of potential murder.

What the investigation first found
On Aug. 19, Seattle child sex crime detectives say they acted on
a tip from a relative who arrived to clean out the garage of the
brothers.

The relative called 911. At the home, detectives collected a
staggering amount of child porn.

They also found evidence of the sexual exploitation of young
girls as well as children's worn clothing and underwear,
children’s shoes, toys and movies.

Homeland Security's Internet Child Exploitation team assisted in
the search, which involved digging for potential buried evidence
under locked sheds and garages.

About the brothers
Neighbors in the quiet Green Lake neighborhood along Northeast
59th St.Street say they always wondered about the dilapidated
house and the three guarded, mysterious Emery brothers who lived
there since 1962.

"I've never seen a girlfriend, a wife, a woman of any type visit
that house," said Don Smith, who lives next door.

Seattle police say the brothers, ranging in age from 78 to 82,
began molesting their own sister and eventually molested other
young relatives for decades.

None of them had ever married, none had their own children or
many relationships outside their own siblings.

Police arrested 82-year-old Charles Lee Emery in a Queen Anne
nursing home. Eighty-year-old Thomas Edwin Emery and 78-year-old
Edwin Harold Emery were arrested at their home.

Scroll down to read about the manifesto.

Detectives say Charles, Thomas and Edwin sexually molested young
relatives for years, and collected pictures and even children's
shoes.

But detectives say it was Charles' "manifestos" about Satanic
rituals, kidnapping, raping and killing girls that led them to
dig under sheds, searching for evidence of potential murder.

Detectives say one of Charles' writings was found buried and
partially burned -- along with a child's hat.

"Their writings express desires to kill children," said Capt.
Mike Edwards, who leads SPD's Internet Crimes Against Children
(ICAC) task force.

The search extended from the home in the Green Lake neighborhood
to another home the brothers owned 90 miles away in Shelton.

"It's very clear that these three individuals have an obsession
with young female children, they've had this obsession for most
if not all of their lives, and they acted on it," said Edwards.

Charging documents indicate SPD detectives questioned Edwin
Emery and his relatives about child porn found on his computer
in 2013, but no charges were ever filed.

Now detectives are hoping to identify the children in the photos
and they hope to find victims who may have been molested decades
ago and never came forward.

Neighbors react to brothers’ charges
Neighbors have been wondering exactly what happened in this home
since investigators swarmed the home over the weekend. The new
details Seattle police and court documents revealed leave them
stunned.

For decades, neighbors didn't think much about the three
brothers who've lived there for 55 years.

“I just thought they were harmless weird old guys,” said Julie
Vandenberg, who lives directly across the street.

Neighbors saw the investigators in hazardous materials suits and
police bring out box after box of evidence on Friday and
Saturday.

Watch coverage from our report over the weekend below, scroll
down to keep reading.

“It was shocking. I didn’t know what to think,” said Smith, who
watched investigators work late into the night Friday from his
home next door.

“It’s way worse than I thought. It is sickening, it's really
sickening,” Vandenberg said. “Something happened to little
children here - it sounds like little girls, and that's
horrific.”

Neighbors say many young children live on the block.

The neighbors say they wish they would've noticed some sign
earlier, about what was going on in the house but they're just
glad the three brothers aren't there to victimize kids any
longer.

Neighbor Don Smith said he was surprised the allegations were
kept quiet for so long.

"I mean, to be next door to these guys for all these years, if.
If they're going out every day and doing something like that, I
was like, wow. This is too much"

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