I've been to this house on calls before. (More for the officers on here)

[NCGSXR]

I've been to this house on calls before. I also seen the reece and mendez guys before.

Sadomasochistic dungeon

Authorities shut down sadomasochistic dungeon


by Jon Ostendorff, STAFF WRITER
updated March 31, 2006 4:16 pm


WAYNESVILLE – At least six men traveled from across the nation and South America to have their genitals mutilated in what Haywood County authorities described as a sadomasochistic dungeon.

Three Haywood County men are now in jail on felony charges of castration without malice and practicing medicine without a license.
Emily Kurtz, who lives below the house the three men rented at 541 Peace Mountain Road off Allens Creek Road, said she noticed men in cars with out-of-state plates visiting the home off and on since she moved to the neighborhood in January.


Kurtz said the men kept to themselves, rarely waved and never spoke.
Sheriff Tom Alexander and District Attorney Michael Bonfoey this morning announced the arrests of the men in connection with the illegal castrations. The sheriff and prosecutor said the victims were willing participants.
The victims met the men through a locally produced Web site that published photographs of men engaging in sadomasochistic behavior. Yahoo! shut down the site in December 2004. The castrations took place last year beginning in March and continued through November, according to police documents.


The case is the first involving willing castration in the county and could be the first in North Carolina.
“This right here beats everything I have ever seen,” the sheriff said.
Dr. Paul Appelbaum, a professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and a past president of the American Psychiatric Association, said voluntary castration appears to be a very rare phenomenon.
“The people who I have seen who have undergone voluntary castration have been psychotic and often in the grip of a delusion that their sexual organs were causing them to behave in evil ways,” Appelbaum said. “And they felt that to rid themselves of that evil, it was necessary to rid themselves of their sexual organs.”

Arrested were:
• Michael Mendez, 60, of 541 Peace Mountain Road, on charges of castration without malice, maiming without malice and practicing medicine without a license.
• Richard Peter Sciara, 61, of 541 Peace Mountain Road, on charges of maiming and castration without malice, conspiracy and practicing medicine without a license.
• Danny Carroll Reeves, 49, of 541 Peace Mountain Road, on charges of maiming and castration without malice, conspiracy and practicing medicine without malice.
During a search of the home on Wednesday, investigators found DVD recordings of the castrations.


Mendez and Sciara moved to Western North Carolina from Topeka, Kan. Reeves moved to the area from Atlanta, Alexander said. Mendez and Reeves worked together at Harrah’s Cherokee Casino on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, where Mendez was honored early this year for his work.
Mendez received $1,000 and a commemorative crystal award for being named one of the 2005 “Shining Stars of the Year,” according to a news release sent to area media outlets in February. Mendez worked at the casino as a Total Rewards representative, providing incentives for guests.
Mendez’s ex-wife, Anne Moriarty, said she and her former husband had a son and daughter together.


“This sounds highly unlikely,” Moriarty, who has not kept in touch with Mendez since he moved to Haywood County. “I mean, this guy is as gentle as a child - the guy I know.
“The idea that he could be involved in anything like what you’re talking about is unimaginable. Totally unimaginable.”
Neighbors who live along the wooded and private Peace Mountain Road, who did not know the men, were shocked by the news of the arrests.
“It’s just appalling,” said Jane Cole, a nearby resident.
Darrell Mathis, the manager of the nearby rock quarry, which owns the house the men rented and at least one other in the neighborhood, said he planned to talk to his company’s attorney about the situation.
“They will leave that house,” he said.


Staff writers John Boyle and Jordan Schrader contributed to this article.
Contact Jon Ostendorff at 828-452-1467 or via e-mail at jostendo@ashevill.gannett.com.

[RugbyCanada]

barf. really, i just barfed in my mouth.

[kevinwilly]

wtf, dude? what's with people?

I had a long conversation with the chief medical examiner for 16 counties in indiana a couple months back. He said he ran into a similar case. The guy had bled to death in the process of trying to do this same thing. they found him in an attic with blood everywhere.


serisouly, wtf?

[tdogg954]

What....the....Fuck! I guess they won't be spreading their genes any further though.

[Spike]

I hate to say this but, having been involved HEAVILY in the body modification community I can say that "voluntary castration is very rare and those who do it are usually undergoing a psychotic episode" is total bullshit. Those who undergo these procedures are not psychotic. Many people just can't deal with the fact that someone would do this to themselves. It's right along the same lines as subincisions and bifurifications, pretty far out there but, I think people should be allowed to do what they want.

[kevinwilly]

Originally Posted by Spike

I hate to say this but, having been involved HEAVILY in the body modification community I can say that "voluntary castration is very rare and those who do it are usually undergoing a psychotic episode" is total bullshit. Those who undergo these procedures are not psychotic. Many people just can't deal with the fact that someone would do this to themselves. It's right along the same lines as subincisions and bifurifications, pretty far out there but, I think people should be allowed to do what they want.

I'll give you that i don't think it's THAT out there, at least compared to most people, but you also have to admit that it's a LOT more extreme than most other body modifications. I mean, i'm totally into tattoo's and piercings and some light body modification (and sadly can't do it myself due to my career... and because i'm a hairy, hairy bastard...)

But a lot of people that do it ARE psychotic. They either do it because they are disgusted with themselves or like stated in the article, want to do it to curb behavior that they don't like.

[kneedraggin650s]

I guess this is Darwins way of putting a little chlorine in the gene pool.

[officerbrat]

Originally Posted by kneedraggin650s

I guess this is Darwins way of putting a little chlorine in the gene pool.

I think Im gonna have to agree with that one.

I guess if that is what people are into more power to them. However, if I was a guy and wanted to do that, at least find someone with a med. license. Im sure that there is at least one Dr. out there who is crazy enough to risk it.

[jim schmidt]

I don't think my wife would allow that! ;-)

[LiViN's Easy]

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa oh man.. sorry... At firsT I just cringed and held on to my boys with one hand (lol really) then started laughing at the fact of how sick it is then was overwhelmed with a sick fealing for a minute. I think this is F-ed UP!! I was reading the whole thing waiting for "HOW" they did it. I wanted to know if they actually did it decently because they used "Dungeon" like its some torture chamber.... oh man I just got that fealing again .... I love my Boys I don't get exactly why you want to do this unless your looking to be a trani.. god siCK!


on a second thought... THEM 2!! WTf they actually have go about grabbing their sack and operating on it... sick sick sick... That creaps me out... What a bunch of screw ups... all of em... Participants and operators.

[OFFICER737]

NC, things like this make you think about situations you walk into on a daily basis

[NCGSXR]

Originally Posted by OFFICER737

NC, things like this make you think about situations you walk into on a daily basis

Yea it does, however when I answered the calls there they were not living there at the time, however I think it was a domestic I was going to.

[OFFICER737]

People are just fucking crazy these days bro

I had a women last night that was telling me people were sitting outside here window at night shing a "beam" on her that made her legs hot and when she went to bed they climbed into the basement of her house and used the same beam to make the bed hot. I told her to go get a silver emergency blanket from wal-mart and it would stop the problem