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...Lockwood, 20, a junior at Yale, had a dental appointment at 4 p.m. last Jan. 16. He never made it. Nor did he show up at 6 p.m. for his job as a dishwasher at the Faculty Club. He was next seen being driven through a tollgate on the Pennsylvania Turnpike, where he cried for help and said he was being kidnaped. Police stopped the car, which also contained two white men and a black. One of the whites convinced the cops that the boy was mentally ill. They then drove on to an apartment in Masontown, Pa., 40 miles...
Thirteen days later, Dan Voll, 20, a good friend and former roommate of Lockwood's at Yale, was walking along 119th Street in Manhattan when a 6-ft. 2-in., 200-lb. white man grabbed him by the arm, and a smaller black man pushed him into a waiting car driven by a middle-aged white woman. "Don't you know you are possessed by demons?" the woman said, according to Voll. The youth screamed for help so persistently that the police intervened and freed him, unhurt except for a dislocated finger...
...police might have pressed kidnaping charges against Voll's abductors except for one fact: they included his mother and father, a junior high school principal in Farmington, Conn. The Lockwood disappearance involved his father, a stockbroker in Los Angeles, plus an uncle. The black man in both cases was Ted Patrick, 42, a former community-relations consultant for California Governor Ronald Reagan. He now heads a "deprogramming" organization that helps parents recapture children who have taken up with exotic religious sects. Patrick, a church-going Methodist, began heretic hunting as a leader in the FREE COG (Free Our Children...
Alexander participated in Wes Lockwood's successful reconditioning, along with Ted Patrick and Father Gregory Flohr, a religion teacher at Pennsylvania's Seton Hill College...
...Lockwood, who had been a devoted member of a small group called the New Testament Missionary Fellowship, at first resisted deprogramming. According to Biff Alexander: "He said we were all possessed by the devil, and that he was suffering for Jesus. He spoke in tongues." During the ordeal Wes was not allowed to leave the apartment where he was held in Masontown. "I worked harder that night than I had in years," says Father Flohr. "You have to talk and talk and talk until your head falls off." As Wes himself recounted the experience last week to TIME...