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   From: aaron@fusewashington.org   
      
   SEATTLE - Seattle Police Department detectives returned to a   
   house in Green Lake on Wednesday morning to do additional   
   forensic investigating just a few days after three brothers were   
   arrested for allegedly possessing images of child-sex abuse.   
      
   >> See photos from the investigation here   
      
   Chopper 7 flew over the investigation, where detectives were   
   searching around the house and looking at items inside it late   
   morning. Here’s what we know now.   
      
   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.   
      
   Scroll down to keep reading.   
      
   What the investigation first found   
   On Aug. 19, Seattle child sex crime detectives say they acted on   
   a tip from the brothers' niece who arrived to clean out the   
   garage.   
      
   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 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.   
      
      
   Edwin purchased the house in 1962.   
      
   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.   
      
   Scroll down to read about the manifesto.   
      
   Family tells KIRO 7 that Charles now has dementia, and they   
   confirmed information in court documents that revealed he worked   
   as a janitor at Seattle Children's Hospital in the 1970s and   
   1980s..   
      
   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.   
      
   ‘Manifestos’ led to more investigating   
      
   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. On Wednesday,   
   detectives returned to the Green Lake house to continue   
   searching.   
      
   "Their writings express desires to kill children," said Capt.   
   Mike Edwards, who leads SPD's Internet Crimes Against Children   
   (ICAC) task force. "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."   
   The search extended from the home in the Green Lake neighborhood   
   to another home the brothers owned 90 miles away in Shelton.   
      
   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.   
      
   Family reacts to charges   
   Edwin's twin sister, named Edna, spoke to KIRO 7 News by   
   telephone just a day after she got the news.   
      
   "I still haven't gotten over the shock of it," she said.   
      
   >> RELATED: Brothers' niece told police about their cache of   
   child pornography   
      
   She says her daughter was acting as executor for their oldest   
   brother's estate.  That is when she made the terrible discovery.   
      
   "She was in Charles' room," Edna said of her daughter. "And I   
   guess she was going through the boxes and stuff to see what was   
   in them. And she found these little shoes and stuff."   
      
   Watch our interview with Edna below, scroll down to keep reading.   
      
   The woman thought Charles might be innocent, since he has   
   dementia.   
      
   "She said, 'I don't know if the other two were involved or not,"   
   Edna said. 'But I am going to tell the police."   
      
   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."   
      
   Timeline of events   
   August 23, 2017: Detectives return to the 141 N.E. 59th St.   
   property and search the home as part of a forensic   
   investigation. Some of the detectives involved are with the   
   Internet Crimes Against Children unit.   
      
      
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