Word: stocker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order nestling amid picture-postcard scenery. Yet of late it has been the scene of doings that would make the ministrants of Rosemary's Baby blush. For the past four weeks, the gruesome evidence has poured forth in a Zurich courtroom. On trial are six people, including Joseph Stocker, 61, a defrocked and excommunicated South German priest, and his fanatically religious mistress, Magdalena Kohler, 54. The charge...
...Final Yes. From 1958, the entire Hasler family had been under the influence of the Stocker-Kohler "holy family." The ex-priest and his mistress believed that they had been chosen by God to lead the survivors of a coming apocalypse. Minutely detailed instructions for the group came from a Carmelite nun, known as "the Little Star," over her "direct telephone to heaven...
...hour exorcism session, interrupted only for rest and prayer, the couple and four other men beat and tormented the girl with walking sticks, a riding crop and a rubber truncheon. She was made to eat her own excrement, then sent out on all fours to wash her clothes. Finally Stocker asked her whether she repented. After she mumbled a final yes, he left her alone, and alone she died...
Hangman Without Pay. Dr. Carl Jung, the late Swiss psychiatrist, once observed that mountains are not only geographical barriers; they can also limit the horizons of the human spirit. In many of the country's remote Alpine valleys and gorges, medieval habit and thought persist so strongly that Stocker and Kohler's defense counsel found it worthwhile to call for theological testimony to justify the defendants' religious zeal...
...Stocker Roberts, piloting a Ferrari Berlinetta identical to Moss's, did precious little dusting-off. He finished second in the Grand Touring (closed car) class, twelfth overall. "I was ahead of Moss going into the first turn," said Fireball sadly. "But I came in too hot and went wide. Moss passed me, and from then on it was adiós. I never saw him again." Stocker Weatherly also had a run-in with Moss: a broken distributor rotor forced him to slow down, and Moss impatiently nudged him off the course. "I don't think he meant...