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   The three reclusive Emery brothers have lived in the same yellow   
   Seattle house for more than 50 years, rarely making contact with   
   others in the neighborhood brimming with young children.   
      
   But inside their home, the brothers — Charles Emery, 82; Thomas   
   Emery, 80; and Edwin Emery, 78 — allegedly spent a lifetime   
   obsessing over the sexual exploitation of young girls. Their   
   crumbling home, as described by prosecuting attorney Daniel T.   
   Satterberg, was “littered from floor to ceiling” with   
   pornographic images, magazine clippings of slain children, and   
   handwritten notes that detailed the “kidnapping, torturing,   
   raping and murdering of young girls.”   
      
   Within the horrifying stash, investigators said they found   
   children’s toys, young girls’ used underwear and dozens of pairs   
   of children’s shoes. Stuffed inside tiny penny loafers were   
   miniature vodka bottles, including one with the initial of a   
   younger relative. There were dozens of handwritten letters,   
   videos and books detailing “ritualistic and satanic sacrifices”   
   of small girls.   
      
   In a crawl space in the home, investigators found a pink child’s   
   hat, partially buried in dirt beside a burned note.   
      
   The brothers kept these atrocities hidden for decades, until a   
   female relative came over to clean out the garage. After coming   
   across the evidence of child pornography, she alerted law   
   enforcement.   
      
   On Monday, King County prosecutors in Washington’s superior   
   court charged each of the three Emery brothers with two counts   
   of second-degree possession of depictions of minors engaged in   
   sexual conduct. All three are in jail in lieu of $500,000 bail.   
      
   The brothers, the prosecutor wrote, collected “images depicting   
   the misery of sexually abused children to satiate their deeply   
   rooted deviant interests.”   
      
   The crimes, police said, also go beyond possessing these items.   
   Authorities said they have reason to believe that the brothers   
   have sexually assaulted at least two children within their   
   extended family.   
      
   “It’s very clear that these three individuals have an obsession   
   with young female children,” Capt. Mike Edwards of the Seattle   
   Police Department said in a news conference Monday. “They’ve had   
   this obsession for most if not all of their lives and in some   
   cases acted out on that obsession against family members.”   
      
   The writings recovered by police included “graphic descriptions”   
   of doing “disgusting things to children,” he said   
      
   The female relative who reported the child pornography told   
   police that two of the men — Charles and Edwin Emery — sexually   
   abused her as a child. She also told them the three men sexually   
   abused another relative to the extent that she was removed from   
   her family’s home and placed in foster care for protection,   
   according to court documents, which were uploaded online by the   
   HuffPost.   
      
   These allegations are still being investigated, Edwards said.   
   But because of the length of time that has passed since the   
   alleged crimes took place, it is unlikely that charges would   
   come from them, he said.   
      
   The female family member has legal guardianship of Charles   
   Emery, who was moved into a senior living facility because of   
   his dementia, according to court documents. From the 1970s   
   through the 1990s, Charles Emery worked as a janitor at Seattle   
   Children’s Hospital.   
      
   The Emery brothers have lived together their entire lives, have   
   never been married and never had children.   
      
   Nor do they have histories of criminal convictions. But in 2013,   
   authorities investigated Edwin Emery for possession of child   
   pornography. Police learned about the alleged crimes after   
   Office Depot employees found about 20 pornographic images while   
   repairing his computer.   
      
   At the time, Edwin Emery admitted to police that he sexually   
   abused two of his female family members. One of these relatives,   
   he told police, was about 8 to 10 years old when he repeatedly   
   molested her as she would sit on his lap. He was about 25 or 26   
   at the time, he said.   
      
   He told authorities he was attracted to “sub-teenage” girls,   
   according to court documents.   
      
   During that same 2013 investigation, the female relative alleged   
   that Edwin Emery sexually abused her numerous times as a child.   
   She said that Charles Emery would also sexually assault her,   
   giving her alcohol before certain instances. During the abuse,   
   the relative said, Charles Emery would also dress her up in   
   socks and shoes similar to those later found in his home.   
      
   No criminal charges were filed following the 2013 investigation,   
   though it is unclear why.   
      
   Prosecutors said Charles Emery wrote extensive “manifestos   
   detailing child rape and homicide.” His brothers referred to the   
   trove of pornographic and morbid items as “Charles’ hobby.”   
      
   When police interviewed them, Edwin and Thomas Emery “remained   
   nonchalant and relatively unconcerned about the serious nature   
   of the investigation,” according to charging documents. The two   
   men denied any knowledge of child murder but told detectives it   
   was “possible” killings took place “if everything the officers   
   was saying was true.”   
      
   “Their writings express desires to kill children,” Edwards said   
   in the news conference. While investigators have not yet found   
   any evidence of homicide, they have been searching the brothers’   
   property for possible human remains with cadaver dogs.   
      
   “Additional properties are being searched for the presence of   
   child exploitation materials and evidence of kidnapping, abuse,   
   and child homicide,” detectives wrote.   
      
   Investigators are still working to identify the children who are   
   pictured in the pornographic images, Edwards said.   
      
   “We’re erring on the side of caution with all of this,” Edwards   
   said. “We’re not taking anything at this point for granted.”   
      
   Edwards described the men as “closed in individuals,” who have   
   had very little interaction with people outside the family over   
   the years. They are also “hoarders,” he said.   
      
   Their home, a detective wrote, “was difficult to walk through …   
   as every square inch was covered with items,” including garbage.   
      
   Neighbors of the men told local television stations that they   
   were shocked and disgusted by the allegations, which centered on   
   a street frequented by small children.   
      
   “Just last week I saw a 5-year-old walking her dog by herself,”   
   a woman identified as Brittany, who works in the neighborhood,   
   told Q13 Fox. “That’s how safe people feel like this   
   neighborhood is.”   
      
   Julie Vandenberg, who lives directly across the street, told   
   KIRO 7 that the accusations were “sickening … really sickening.”   
      
   “I just thought they were harmless weird old guys,” Vandenberg   
   said.   
      
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