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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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