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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.   
      
      
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