*U.S. News & World Report*,
Dec. 27, 1993/Jan 3. 1994
Through a glass, very darkly Cops, spies and a very odd investigation
The case is almost seven years old now, but matters surrounding a mysterious group known as the Finders keep growing curiouser and curiouser.
In early February 1987, an anonymous tipster in Tallahasse, Fla, made a phone call to police. Two "well dressed men" seemed to be "supervising"
six dishevelled and hungry children in a local park, the caller said. The cops went after the case like bloodhounds, at least at first. The two men
were identified as members of the Finders. They were charged with child abuse in Florida. In Washington, D.C. police and U.S. Customs Service agents
raided a duplex apartment building and a warehouse connected to the group. Among the evidence seized - detailed instructions on obtaining children for
unknown purposes and several photographs of nude children.
According to a Customs Service memorandum obtained by U.S. News, one photo appeared "to accent the child's genitals". The more the police learned
about the Finders, the more bizarre they seemed: There were suggestions of child abuse, Satanism, dealing in pornography and ritualistic animal
slaughter.
None of the allegations was ever proved, however. The child abuse charges against the two men in Tallahassee were dropped; all six of the children
were eventually returned to their mothers, though in the case of two, conditions were attached by a court. In Washington, D.C. police began backing
away from the Finders investigation. The groups practices, the police said, were eccentric - not illegal.
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