DRUGS, DEMONS & DELUSIONS
The "Amazing" Saga of Rebecca and Elaine
by G. Richard Fisher, Paul R. Blizard and M. Kurt Goedelman
Stories about a marriage to the devil, hospitals and city gov-
ernments run by Satan worshipers, a camp in the woods for witches
and a one-woman war against the forces of darkness are just a few
of those told by a self-proclaimed former witch and a physician
who claims to have delivered her from demonic bondage.
Rebecca Brown and Elaine (no last name is given), have told
their story to Jack Chick, whose Chick Publications company has
published it in two cassette tapes, Closet Witches 1 and Closet
Witches 2, and two books, He Came To Set The Captives Free and
Prepare for War. Rebecca and Elaine have also had opportunity to
promote their message on the syndicated talk show Geraldo in
1987. <1>
Chick Publications, once known primarily as a publisher of
Gospel tracts, has gained notoriety as a publisher of sensational
stories, most notably those of John Todd, who claims to possess
knowledge of an occult, conspiratorial society called The Illumi-
nati, and Alberto Rivera, who claimed to once have been a Jesuit
priest who witnessed all kinds of ungodly activities and plots by
the Roman Catholic Church. <2>
Chick is no stranger to controversy but considers anyone who
disputes his publications' claims a spiritual enemy. On the tape
Closet Witches 2 he says "I think the listeners should watch
carefully who in the Christian circles will attack Rebecca and
Elaine to destroy their credibility and the message on this tape.
More than likely the attackers just might turn out to be satan-
ists or witches pretending to be believers in Christ and it is
going to be very, very interesting to watch."
The story readers and listeners are expected to believe centers
on two women, Rebecca Brown and Elaine. We realize that the
information contained here is sensitive and will be opening a
wound that will again hurt family members close to this situa-
tion. This is not an attempt to dredge up the past, but to expose
the truth about these alarmist teachers.
ELAINE'S STORY
Elaine says she was born with a cleft palate that required
surgical repair. Her family could not afford the cost of surgery.
Then, Elaine says, a friend told her mother the work could be
done in exchange for nothing more than a thimbleful of Elaine's
blood. The blood would be for experimental use, Elaine says her
mother was told. However, Elaine says, the blood was used in a
ceremony in which she was sold to Satan.
Elaine goes on to tell of events that led her to further in-
volvement in witchcraft and satanism. She describes her rise to
power into satanism after being inducted into Satan's service at
a witch camp. There she signed her name in blood and set out to
climb the ladder of power in witchcraft. She tells of growing
more powerful until, at a national competition of witches, she
surpassed all her colleagues and was named top witch.
"A crown of gold was placed upon my head and my fellow cult
members bowed down and gave homage to me," she says. "I was
treated like a queen ... I was given all the beautiful clothes to
wear that I could possibly want. I was bathed, my hair fixed and
I was waited on hand and foot by servants. There were parties and
I always had a handsome escort who was also my body guard ... My
escort always tasted all of my food before I ate to make sure
that it wasn't poisoned." <3>
That wasn't all, Elaine says. She married Satan himself, who
donned a white tuxedo and rented a Presbyterian church for the
ceremony. After saying their vows, the newlyweds were whisked off
by limousine to the airport and Satan's luxurious private jet,
Elaine says. On their way to their "haunted honeymoon" at a
mansion in California, Satan sipped "very expensive wines and
champagnes." <4>
Elaine says she became "Satan's representative on an interna-
tional level" going around the world to meet with heads of state
and foreign dignitaries to negotiate the sale of arms. She was
possessed by a demon named "Mann-Chan" and spoke foreign lan-
guages fluently, she says. <5>
Elaine links the Roman Catholic Pope into the worldwide occult
network she says she headed. "The Pope knew very well who I was.
We worked closely both with the Catholics -- especially the
Jesuits -- and the high-ranking Masons." <6>
"THAT DOCTOR MUST BE KILLED"
Then came an assignment that would change her life, Elaine tells
Chick. Satan told her there was a "'young smart-alec doctor' at
his 'special' hospital in a nearby city. This doctor was not only
greatly interfering by 'preaching and praying everywhere,' but
had also actually dared to interfere with a number of his top
witches and their work at that institution." Elaine says "Satan
ordered me to organize a nationwide effort among all the top
witches for that doctor's destruction. He didn't care how we did
it, but that doctor must be killed, and quickly." <7>
The young doctor was Rebecca Brown, an intern. Elaine had her
assignment and she went to work. However, Elaine says, "every
time I did an incantation in the direction of that doctor, the
demons came back unable to get through." <8> Elaine says her
difficulty in wrecking Rebecca spiritually turned into a defeat
for Satan. Through this purported incident and other events,
Elaine became a Christian.
Satan was angry, Elaine says. "The first thing that they (Mann-
Chan, and fellow demons) did was fly right off and tell Satan
what I had done," Elaine tells Chick. "Then the fur started to
fly. That night after I had returned home Satan came to talk to
me, but things were strangely different. Usually Satan would come
up to me and put his hands on my shoulders or hold me in his
arms. This time he stood back away from me and shouted 'What the
Hell do you think you are doing?' 'I'm leaving you,' I replied."
<9>
A heated discussion ensued and Elaine ordered him to leave.
Elaine says "Satan came to me nearly twenty times over the next
two weeks. Sometimes in a very charming mood, attempting to be a
lover, but usually in a rage. He tried to persuade me to change
my mind." <10>
REBECCA AND ELAINE MEET
Satan's next move was to make Elaine ill and put her in "that
particular hospital," where she was placed under the care of
Rebecca, Elaine says, and the story's narration is picked up by
Rebecca.
Rebecca says God told her Elaine still had hundreds of demons
and needed deliverance. Rebecca says "(God) told me that He
wanted me to have Elaine move in with me immediately as she did
not yet have faith enough to stand on her own. Her (earthly)
husband had left her and remained with the satanists." <11> Since
the hospital was under the control of satanists, Rebecca says she
and Elaine were targets of "the Brotherhood" (i.e., a group of
people who are directly controlled by, and worship, Satan).
Rebecca goes on to tell of God making many covenants with and
audible revelations to her. The descriptions are vivid and graph-
ic.
In one description, an angel was sent by God to kill Elaine
after she had become and Christian. Rebecca relates her encounter
with "a shining white-robed figure ... with a drawn sword in his
hand. He was tall, very tall. His head nearly touched the ceiling
of the room. He radiated power and his countenance was fierce.
His skin was bronzed and the sword in his hand shown with a pure
white light" <12>
What was his message? Rebecca quotes him: "I am sent by God the
Father to kill this one who is so rebellious and disobedient. She
has angered God." <13> Why had God sent an angel to kill Elaine?
Rebecca explains: "He [God] had commanded Elaine to make a cove-
nant with Him to protect them from an upcoming attack by the
local satanists. Elaine had refused to do so, stubbornly insist-
ing that she would fight and protect them." <14>
Rebecca says, in effect, that God had sent an angel to kill
someone who would not make a covenant with Him to protect her
from being killed.
Rebecca says she "threw herself prone on her face on the
floor... <15> and pleaded with "Father" to spare Elaine's life.
"...let your anger fall on me instead of Elaine," she sobs. Angry
"Father" grants her petition: "The angel placed his sword into
its sheath. 'Arise, woman,' he said. 'Your petition has been
heard and granted.' Then he vanished." <16>
STRANGE THEOLOGY
In Closet Witches 2 Rebecca describes something called "counter
petitioning God" in which she pleads with God not to let Satan do
things to other Christians. She apparently gets flashes of in-
sight into Satan's plans and then asks God not to let them be
carried out.
Rebecca also details some unorthodox views of the character of
God the Father and Jesus Christ the Son. In Prepare for War,
Rebecca describes a conversation she had with Jesus:
"Suddenly, that gentle voice of the Lord spoke to me again say-
ing, 'Talk to me, child.'
'I can't talk to you, Lord, I don't feel any different than
before, and all you do is get mad!''
But I am not mad at you, I never have been. You see, I, Jesus,
know how you feel because I have experienced weakness. Father has
never experienced weakness, so He usually gets angry when His
people are weak." <17>
While the purpose of this article is not an attempt to refute
all of the faulty extra-biblical notions of Brown's theology,
these are two glaring examples of what is being promulgated.
"COVENANTS" AND "COMBAT"
Rebecca goes on to say God wanted to make another covenant with
her to enter into the "deliverance" ministry. Rebecca says she
was told by God that this covenant was her call to "directly
combat Satan and his demons" which would result in "loosing [sic]
my career, my family, all my friends and nearly everything I held
dear." <18> She felt that if she did not enter into this covenant
with God that she would lose her relationship with the Lord. <19>
Rebecca says she accepted the commission. Joining her was
Elaine, fresh from an eight-week exorcism of Mann-Chan and sever-
al hundred other demons. Together they joined God to fight Satan.
Their first challenge was the satanists at the "nearby
hospital." Demons and witches -- the witches were doctors and
nurses on the hospital staff -- were making patients sick. Their
ministry, Rebecca says, blocked much of the witchcraft that was
going on there. This defeat of Satan, coupled with the loss of
his bride -- Elaine -- "caused Satan to lose face in his
kingdom," Rebecca says. <20>
Rebecca says Satan launched a counter-attack, threatening to
make Rebecca and Elaine human sacrifices. However, the Lord's
protection prevailed and Rebecca fulfilled His desire to "open a
private solo practice so that I would have a broader range of
patients. This was necessary so that He could bring to me the
people I was to minister to, especially cult members." <21>
Rebecca says that at her new, small-town location, she "was
privileged to bring close to a thousand people out of hard-core
satanism ... . Every penny I made went to help these people with
food, clothing, transportation out of the state, medical care and
so on." <22>
Rebecca and Elaine go on to tell of encounters with Satan, his
demons, satanists and witches, curses and counter-curses, being
shot at and having their house bombed. Another blow, Rebecca
says, was that satanists were "the instruments of my mother's
death." <23>
One final blow sent them running for their lives, Rebecca says:
"Satan struck one of his final blows to our ministry in that
area. The satanists swept in, and in one night, while Elaine and
I were out of the house for a couple of hours, destroyed every-
thing we had. They axed everything in my home, even killing our
precious pets. They also destroyed my office and everything we
had. Elaine and I escaped with our lives and the clothes on our
backs, that is all. Satan's attack was so well planned that at
the same time everyone turned against us ... . We had no choice
but to flee the state." <24>
Their next stop, so the story goes, was a Chick Publications,
where they told their story.
WHO ARE THESE WOMEN?
Answering that question is at the heart of any investigation of
their claims and Chick's publications about them. Finding the
answers was not easy. For those who have tried to interview them
they are elusive For example, author Jerry Johnson, in his book,
Edge of Evil, states that Rebecca would not permit Elaine to be
interviewed on the subject of a black mass claiming it is too
hard on her, taking weeks to recover." <25>
A look into Rebecca's background also is difficult. For start-
ers, one must know that she has not always been Rebecca Brown,
M.D. She changed her name from Ruth Irene Bailey, M.D. In a
petition to the Superior Court of California, County of San
Bernardino, dated Feb. 11, 1986, Ruth Irene Bailey, of Apple
Valley, Calif., along with her attorney, Robert Salisbury, of
Anaheim, requested a name change to Rebecca Brown. The reason
given was: "petitioner has become known more by the proposed name
through use as a pen name and use of the name in ministry than by
her present name." <26>
Since Rebecca's two books were published in 1986 and 1987, it
seems unlikely that she had become very widely known by her pen
name in just the second month of 1986. Doing it to hide from "the
Brotherhood," would be futile since one assumes those people
could divine that information supernaturally even if they didn't
see it in the San Bernardino Daily Press, a general-circulation
newspaper where it was published once a week for four weeks prior
to the date set for hearing on the petition. The name change then
was officially registered April 25, 1986.
Rebecca had reason to change her name. However, it was not
because of the notoriety she had gained under he new name, but
the notoriety she had achieved under her old one.
PHYSICIAN TO FANATIC
Ruth Irene Bailey was born in Shelbyville, Ind., to Ebner and
Lois Bailey on May 21, 1948. She was raised in Indianapolis. She
completed high school, then earned an A.A. degree in nursing at
IUPUI (Indiana University - Purdue University at Indianapolis) in
May 1968. <27> She then worked as a nurse for seven years, <28>
(on the tape, Closet Witches 1, she says she was a nurse for 10
years). She entered Indiana University at Purdue in September
1976. <29> She then transferred to Indiana University at Indian-
apolis School of Medicine. She received her Doctor of Medicine
degree on April 30, 1979. <30>
She then moved to Muncie, Ind., to begin her internship and
residency at Ball Memorial Hospital. This is the "nearby hospi-
tal" she refers to repeatedly in her books and tapes as "one of
Satan's special hospitals." <1> Ruth began her internship at Ball
Memorial with good recommendations from her school and two repu-
table physicians, Drs. Cavins and Steel of Indianapolis. However,
it appears that early in her internship, she developed an obses-
sion with demons and deliverance.
A spokesman from Ball Memorial, Dr. John Cullison, director of
medical education, told the Indianapolis News that "Dr. Bailey
provided 'very good care for a couple of years' after joining the
hospital's residency staff in 1979. 'But then I began getting
reports she was exorcising demons in the intensive care unit,' he
said. 'I asked her to leave.'" <32>
During her internship and residency at Ball Memorial, her behav-
ior became more bizarre. She began using candles in the rooms
during her exorcisms. <33> Many times she told her patients "she
was 'chosen' by God as the only physician able to diagnose cer-
tain ailments and conditions which other physicians could not.
She believe that other physicians, including physicians from Ball
Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Ind., and St. John's Medical Center
in Anderson, Ind., were, in fact demons, devils and other evil
spirits' themselves." <34> No one at Ball Memorial would comment
on these reports, citing confidentiality of records, but hospital
representatives did help refute many of her charges.
For example, on Closet Witches 1 she says: "I always had the
chapel to myself because no one ever used it." A visit to Ball
Memorial's chapel indicated it was well used and that Bibles were
available.
She says that "within six months of the start of her training at
that hospital, the hospital administration had all the Gideon
Bibles removed from the patient rooms." <35> A hospital represen-
tative denied this claim and Gideon Bibles can be seen in lobbies
and waiting areas of the hospital.
She also says: "any minister that was coming to the hospital to
visit patients was not permitted to visit with anyone except
their own private parishioners, and, if the nurses found them
evangelizing other patients they were to have them escorted from
the hospital by security and asked not to return again. A chap-
laincy service was not permitted, which was also unusual. Indeed,
it seemed as if an effort was being made to wipe away any mention
of Christianity within the walls of the hospital." <36>
Many large hospitals have policies to protect patients from
ministers or exorcist/healers who try to go from room to and cast
out demons or apply healing techniques. As to a chaplaincy serv-
ice not being permitted, Ball Memorial does not have a resident
chaplain but does have facilities for pastoral counseling and
care.
Her behavior became more bizarre as her obsession with demons
worsened her mental state. At a later date, a Medical Licensing
Board would hear that she had "stated on numerous occasions that
she possessed the capability of 'sharing' her patients' illnesses
in fighting the demons, devils and other evil spirits that were
allegedly causing the various ailments and conditions." <37>
Ruth and Elaine did meet at Ball Memorial and eventually began
living together. However, the real story of their meeting and
relationship bears little resemblance to the story told to and
promoted by Jack Chick.
THE HIGH PRIESTESS ELAINE
Edna Elaine Moses was born Edna Elaine Knost in sleepy New
Castle, Ind. In 1986 she legally returned to her maiden name.
<38> Elaine was born with a cleft palate which left her face
somewhat disfigured. She tells Chick in Closet Witches 1: "I
hated people, I had been so badly mistreated at home, I had been
badly mistreated in school. Nothing like peers to hurt you the
worst, kids your own age can just make your life miserable and it
did mine because of my deformities." <39> It appears that Elaine
carries some psychological scars from he disfigurement and the
teasing she endured because of it.
Interviews with family members of Elaine disclosed her as living
a life permeated with lies and fabrications. They expressed
little surprise to her wild tales promulgated in Rebecca's books.
Elaine's exaggerations proved, at times, an embarrassment for
these family members, noting she would do almost anything to
receive attention. For instance, one method repeatedly utilized
by Elaine was her pretending to have seizures at public func-
tions.
One medical record says Elaine has a "mixed personality disor-
der," and "is of questionable reliability." <40> This is evident
when the cassette tape version of her testimony is compared with
the book version and when one looks carefully at the story she
and Rebecca have told.
For example, Elaine tells Chick she had a "fast-growing ability
to influence others, to make them do as I wanted. I had unusual
physical strength as well." <41> On the tape Closet Witches 1,
Elaine says she used that strength in high school when she at-
tacked a football player who called her a name in the school
hallway. "... there was a football player, he weighed about
265 ... I ran at him knocked him down and began hitting him and I
beat his face so badly that he had to have repair work done. I
broke his nose and his jaws and knocked out his teeth, and it
took eight teachers to get me off this boy. I would have killed
him." Chick then asks, "Elaine, how big were you then?" Elaine
responds, "Oh, I only weighed about 95, something like that. I
stood about 5-foot-4."
In He Came To Set The Captives Free, she tells the story again,
changing the number of teachers to five, the boy's weight to
around 200 pounds, her own weight at 98 and the injuries to a
broken nose, jaw and facial bones. <42>
The discrepancies between those two versions of the story are
understandable. Anyone speaking off the cuff about an event that
happened years ago could change such details slightly with each
retelling. What is significant about the story is that interviews
with several of Elaine's high school classmates, including mem-
bers of the football team, denied the incident, as described by
Elaine, never occurred -- no matter which version one cares to
believe.
EXPERTS?
Jack Chick, in Closet Witches 1 says, "These two ladies are
experts in the world of the occult." Elaine says she was a
trained witch who was married to Satan. In telling their stories
to Chick, Elaine and Rebecca refer to satanists as witches and
vice versa. Yet, anyone with even a little knowledge about the
occult knows that witchcraft and satanism are not the same, nor
are they compatible.
Former witch Tom Sanguinet stated in the October-December 1983
Personal Freedom Outreach newsletter that, "There's not a connec-
tion really between witchcraft and Satanism. It's only been in
the neo-system of the occult that witchcraft and Satanism have
taken this melding. Satanists have always worshipped the negative
entities or deities - the temple of Seth in ancient Egypt, for
example. Witches don't fear God and they don't believe in Satan."
Ex-occultist Johanna Michaelsen concurs with this distinction.
On page 316 of her book, Like Lambs to the Slaughter, she states:
"There is probably no faster or more efficient way to enrage your
average witch than to accuse him or her of devil worship. Their
literature and lectures are filled with pleas and/or demands that
people stop confusing them with Satan worshipers."
Elaine describes a certain "camp" where she was inducted into
witchcraft and satanism. She describes this "camp" in great
detail:
"I stepped directly into this cult when I went to that summer
camp with Sandy. I was very excited by the time we arrived. With
excitement you lose a lot of what you see and hear. We were taken
first to the dorms where we were to stay and made to feel very
welcome. The camp had many facilities: museums, libraries, dif-
ferent houses where you could go to clairvoyants, hypnotists,
palm readers, tarot card readers, voodoo experts, etc. Some of
these people lived there year 'round, some didn't. This was the
place where the cult officially meets with the unknowing public."
<43>
Based upon Elaine's description of the camp and its location,
she is probably referring to a spiritualist camp known as Camp
Chesterfield (Indiana Society of Spiritualists) in the town of
Chesterfield, Ind. The camp was established in 1886 by Dr. J.W.
Westerfield. <44>
As with witchcraft and satanism, spiritualism is a distinct
practice not to be confused with the others. Chick calls Elaine
and Rebecca "experts" on the occult, but an expert would not
confuse these three religions. Spiritualists are not witches.
Spiritualism mixes Christianity, Spiritism and lately has taken
on "New Age" terminology. It is by no means Christianity but
neither is it witchcraft or satanism.
A trip to Camp Chesterfield revealed it to be nothing like
Elaine describes. There are no dormitories, as Elaine recalled,
but there are two motels that look like dormitories to an outsid-
er driving through the camp. No staff member interviewed could
remember an Edna Elaine Moses or an Edna Elaine Knost, but all
were familiar with the kinds of stories told about their camp.
Elaine says she signed her name in blood and became a part of
"The Brotherhood at this camp. She does not say how hold she was
when she did this but says it took place during the summer.
"School was out at the time and as I had nothing else to do I
decided to go." <45> This places the event some time during her
youth, probably her teens. Interestingly, the caption next to her
senior picture in her high school's 1965 year book mentions that
she was member of her school's Bible Club. <46>
ANOTHER MARRIAGE GONE BAD
Chick's books and tapes on Elaine and Rebecca gloss over
Elaine's earthly marriage and divorce, where Rebecca says: "He
[God] wanted me [Rebecca] to have Elaine move in with me immedi-
ately as she did not yet have faith enough to stand on her own.
Her husband had left and remained with the satanists." <47>
Likewise on the tape Closet Witches 1, Rebecca claims:
"...Father was quick to answer me, He told me that I must get
Elaine and move her into my home with us, because she would
commit suicide rather than fall into the hands of the cult, that
her faith wasn't strong enough yet, her husband had left her. He
remained in the cult.
Elaine's and Rebecca's story puts their first meeting at Ball
Memorial Hospital around 1980. Research into court records of
Henry County, Ind., found that Edna Elaine Knost was married Dec.
18, 1966, by the minister of the Foursquare Church of New Castle,
Ind., <48> and that 2-1/2 months later, her husband filed for
divorce, citing her treatment of him in a "a cruel and inhuman
manner and that on account of the treatment so received it has
made it impossible for said parties to live together as husband
and wife." <49>
So, documentary evidence shows that the marriage was dissolved
in 1967, some 13 years prior to what is alleged in the book and
cassette tape. Shortly after separating from her husband, Elaine
returned to live with her mother and step-father. From that time,
until the late 1970s, she remained in New Castle working at
various jobs which included a car-hop at a drive-in restaurant
and a car wash attendant. Also during this time Elaine was con-
tinually in and out of hospitals in the New Castle area for
assorted surgeries. <50>
Some direction seemed to come into Elaine's life as she received
training and was licensed by the State of Indiana as a Practical
Nurse (LPN), which allowed her employment at area nursing homes.
Thus it can be concluded through a definite verifiable chronology
Elaine's claim to have been Satan's international representative
on an international level, meeting with foreign governmental
representatives who petitioned "for money for arms" and having
"been to Mecca, Israel, Egypt, also the Vatican in Rome to meet
with the Pope... for the purpose of coordinating Satan's programs
with Satanists in other lands," and meeting "many of the well-
known Rock music stars" who "all signed contracts with Satan in
return for fame and fortune" are fictitious. <51> The facts
clearly demonstrate a life opposite the notoriety she alleges.
The Chick literature tells of "pressure" put on them to stop
their "ministry" of exposing satanists and witches at the hospi-
tal and surrounding communities. Rebecca says: "I knew that the
mayor of that town and the chief of police as well as many of the
policemen were satanists so I couldn't go to the police for
help." <52> "The cult was furious and they let us know in no
uncertain terms they were furious. There was all kinds of harass-
ment." <53>
The real story is that officials at Ball Memorial Hospital had
had enough of Rebecca's her bizarre behavior which had grown to
include rites of exorcism in hospital rooms involving the use of
candles and claims "that she was chosen by God as the only physi-
cian able to diagnose certain ailments and conditions." <54>
Finally hospital officials asked her to leave Ball Memorial
Hospital.
The Chick literature never mentions her dismissal from Ball
Memorial. Rebecca just says: "After I finished my residency in
intern medicine and critical care, I opened a medical practice in
a small town about 60 miles from the city in which Elaine was
initiated into Satanism. Over the next three years life was
intense." <55>
Evidence shows that Rebecca did set up a general practice in
Lapel, Ind., with financial support from St. John's Hospital, a
Catholic institution in nearby Anderson. <56>
This adds an interesting twist to the story, given Chick's
widely known hatred of the Roman Catholic Church and anything
associated with it. On Closet Witches 2, Chick asks Elaine: "With
your background in the occult and the 'craft, did you sense a
'Trinity of evil' within the church whereby you, the satanists,
and the Masons and the Catholics all work together? Is there a
harmony some way, could you recognize one another?"
Elaine responds: "Sure Jack ... we did and were able to co-
ordinate all of our efforts so we all worked in sync with one
another."
Chick: "In other words, if you were going to take someone out,
all three of you would work together?"
Elaine: "Yeah, primarily they would ... Catholics and Masons and
satanists, they all use the same abilities of occultism."
In her book, Prepare for War, Rebecca devotes an entire chapter
to the Roman Catholic Church called, "Is Roman Catholicism Witch-
craft?" There she states: "Anyone who does not live in the true
Gospel of Jesus Christ of the Bible is not saved. If you do not
tell your Catholic friends this truth, but continue in a false
friendship with them, then you are a 'partaker' in the evil of
the idolatrous system of Roman Catholicism -- you are practicing
witchcraft." <57> Based on that statement and by virtue of her
association with a Roman Catholic hospital, Rebecca was practic-
ing witchcraft.
From the outset of their stay in Lapel, Rebecca and Elaine
deceived the public. A front-page story in the May 26, 1982,
edition of The Lapel Review newspaper said Rebecca was establish-
ing her "general medical practice" there. An article under the
headline "Dr. Bayley [sic] to open practice in Lapel," stated,
"She and her sister and two friends working with her are very
much looking forward to joining the community here." <58> (empha-
sis added) From this report and others, we learn that Rebecca and
Elaine were passing themselves off as sisters. <59> Edna Elaine
Moses even took Ruth's last name and called herself Elaine Bai-
ley! Lapel residents confirmed that they claimed such a relation-
ship.
Rebecca claims to have "made contacts during that time and was
privileged to bring close to a thousand people out of hard-core
satanism while practicing in Lapel and at her farmhouse residence
in nearby Pendleton. "We ran sort of an underground railroad,"
she says. <60> If her claims are true, she would have had to
rescue from satanism an average of 1.3 people per day during the
25 months (April 1982 through May 1984) she lived in the area.
Any Christian minister or counter-cult worker would agree that
such a rate would be phenomenal.
But as they did at Ball Memorial, circumstances in Lapel sur-
rounding Rebecca and Elaine grew strange. First, Rebecca's ver-
sion: "...the battle escalated, becoming even more intense. <61>
The Satanists were instruments of my mother's death. <62> Elaine
was by then in a semi-coma from her leukemia and was totally
bedfast for over 6 months. <63> Satan struck me one of his final
blows to our ministry in that area. The Satanists swept in, and
in one night, while Elaine and I were out of the house for a
couple of hours, destroyed everything we had. They axed every-
thing in my home, even killing our precious pets. They also
destroyed my office and everything we had. Elaine and I escaped
with our lives and the clothes on our backs, that is all. Satan's
attack was so well-planned that at the same time everyone turned
against us. Our church decided we were serving Satan and refused
to help us. My own father and the rest of my family turned
against us. Elaine's family helped destroy everything we had.
Members of both our families moved to try to get us permanently
committed to a mental institution. We had no choice but to flee
the state." <64>
Rebecca concludes: "Many other events happened which I do not
have the space to detail." <65>
Documentary evidence shows a different story.
First, there is no ground for Rebecca's claim that "Satanists
were instruments of her mother's death." According to the offi-
cial copy of the "Medical Certificate of Death from the Marion
County [Ind.] Health Department," Lois M. Bailey died Dec. 31,
1982 at St. Vincent's Hospital in Indianapolis of a heart attack.
She was 75 years old. <66> Rebecca says she was 74. <67>
MAJOR INVESTIGATION BEGINS
Another detail Rebecca fails to mention is allegations that she
abused Elaine. Documents show that she indeed did abuse Elaine.
On Oct. 17, 1983, officer Samuel E. Hanna of the Madison County
[Indiana] Police received a phone call from a social worker at
St. Vincent's Hospital in Indianapolis. The reason for the call:
A woman had been admitted into the hospital whose entire body was
covered with lesions. She was incoherent, had received an over-
dose of drugs and was near death. The patient's name was Edna
Elaine Moses. A preliminary investigation found the prime suspect
to be Dr. Ruth Bailey (Rebecca). <68> Officer Hanna, a born-again
Christian, was the party responsible for spear heading the major
investigation of Rebecca. Several months of investigative work
followed which involved the Attorney General's office, the Feder-
al Drug Enforcement Administration, St. John's Hospital, the
Indiana Medical Licensing Board and others.
Based on the investigation, the Indiana Medical Licensing Board
issued an "Emergency Suspension" of Rebecca's license, which
barred her from practicing medicine in Indiana for 90 days." <69>
More investigation followed, additional affidavits were taken
and a "Request For Admissions" by Rebecca was secured. Among
other findings, the exploration revealed that Rebecca, in less
than six months' time had issued to four different pharmacies a
total of more than 100 prescriptions for Demerol, which author-
ized purchase of 330 vials of the highly addictive, pain-killing
drug. <70>
Following that discovery, the licensing board issued an order
filed May 22, 1984, extending Rebecca's suspension for 90 more
days. The order further stated, "That Respondent [Rebecca] con-
tinues to represent a clear and immediate danger to the public
health and safety if she is allowed to continue to practice
medicine, and that the reasons enumerated for the prior order of
suspension in this matter have not changed." (emphasis added) The
order further called for Rebecca to "submit to a complete physi-
cal and mental examination at the board's expense."
By this time, Rebecca had fled Lapel. A copy of the board's
order had to be forwarded to her by certified mail to a post
office box in Niles, Mich., where she signed for it on May 29,
1984. The investigation continued and resulted in a hearing in
September 1984. The Sept. 21, 1984, edition of the Indianapolis
News reported that "She [Rebecca] did not attend the six-hour
hearing of her case yesterday, and by law her failure to appear
meant the state had proven her guilty by default." The paper
further reported that 19 witnesses gave testimony during the
hearing, several of whom "declined to reveal their current ad-
dresses, saying they feared retaliation from Dr. Bailey. The
physician carries a handgun and has threatened to harm people she
claims are possessed, they said."
The newspaper article went on to report that "Several witnesses
said that they saw Dr. Bailey [Rebecca] inject herself, Mrs.
Moses [Elaine] and Mrs. Moses' teen-age daughter with Demerol and
morphine. Great quantities of drugs were kept on hand, and the
Bailey home was littered with used needles and syringes, witness-
es said." Further, a former live-in housekeeper for Dr. Bailey
testified that "the home was 'filthy' when she and her daughter
moved in. 'I hauled out 18 bags of trash,' she said. In the room
where Dr. Bailey and Mrs. Moses shared a bed, there were over-
flowing ashtrays, plates of leftover food and animal feces, she
testified. The house was full of demonology books."
ü ü ! THE VERDICT
The Indiana Medical Licensing Board"s hearing concluded and a
"Findings Of Fact, Conclusions of Law & Order" was issued. The
eight-page report called for the immediate revocation of
Rebecca"s medical license. Among the most telling excerpts are:
8. That on numerous occasions Respondent [Rebecca] has knowingly
and intentionally misdiagnosed her patients including, but not
limited to her patients by the names of Edna Elaine Moses, a/k/a
Elaine Moses, a/k/a Elaine Bailey (hereinafter collectively
referred to as "Edna Elaine Moses"), Claudia Moses, Lucia Lively,
Luccinda Sisson, Kelly Sisson, Cheryl Maynard, and two (2) pa-
tients identified only as "V.B." and "K.W."
9. That the "misdiagnosis" referred to in "Finding of Fact" no. 8
above, included misdiagnosing alleged leukemia, various blood
disorders, gall bladder disease, brain tumors and various other
ailments and conditions all of which Respondent stated were
allegedly caused by demons, devils and other evil spirits.
10. That in fact, the patients referred to in "Finding of Fact"
no. 8 above, were not suffering from the diagnosed ailments and
conditions referred to in "Finding of Fact" no. 9, above.
11. That on numerous occasions Respondent stated to her patients
that she was "chosen" by God as the only physician able to diag-
nose certain ailments and conditions which other physicians could
not because the other physicians, including physicians from Ball
Memorial Hospital in Muncie, Indiana and St. John's Medical
Center in Anderson, Indiana, were, in fact, "demons, devils and
other evil spirits" themselves.
12. That Respondent was inappropriately treating Edna Elaine
Moses' purported leukemia with massive doses of Demerol and
Phenobarbitol to the point where the patient would tolerate 600
to 900 cc injections of Demerol, a fatal dose of which is normal-
ly in the 150 to 200 cc range, and up to three times the recom-
mended therapeutic dose of Phenobarbitol.
13. That Respondent gave Claudia Moses, a 15-year-old mentally
impaired daughter of Edna Elaine Moses who possesses the intel-
lectual age of an 8-year-old, numerous injections of Demerol for
alleged "nausea" and allowed Claudia to administer injections of
Demerol to herself.
14. That on numerous occasions the Respondent would supply her
patients with excessive amounts of legend drugs and/or controlled
substances without any explanation, instruction, or appropriate
charting.
15. That numerous patients of the Respondent had to undergo
detoxification and withdrawal from the excessive amounts of
legend drugs and/or controlled substances which the Respondent
was prescribing and/or administering without valid therapeutic
reasons.
16. That while Edna Elaine Moses was under the immediate care and
treatment of Respondent, the family of Edna Elaine Moses had to
have Edna admitted to St. Vincent's Hospital Emergency Room in
Indianapolis, Indiana and subsequently committed to LaRue Carter
Hospital in Indianapolis, Indiana, for detoxification from the
excessive amounts of controlled substances which Respondent was
prescribing and administering for Edna"s purported leukemia and
for treatment of the multiple infections, including infections of
her urinary tract and infections of various catheters including a
"Hickman" catheter used to facilitate the administration of in-
travenous medications and also for treatment of externally caused
lesions...
20. That Respondent has stated on numerous occasions that she
possessed the capability of "sharing" her patients" illnesses in
fighting the demons, devils and other evil spirits that were
allegedly causing the various ailments and conditions and that
she was, in fact, "sharing" Edna Elaine Moses' leukemia.
21. That without a valid therapeutic reason the Respondent self-
diagnosed and self-medicated herself with non-therapeutic amounts
of Demerol for her "leukemia" that she was allegedly "sharing"
with Edna Elaine Moses and also for treatment of an alleged
malignant brain tumor and myasthenia gravis.
22. That Respondent has been witnessed routinely receiving non-
therapeutic doses of at least 3 ccs of Demerol on an hourly basis
by injecting herself in the backs of her hands, the inside of her
thighs, or wherever she could locate a suitable vein.
23. That the Board-appointed psychiatrist who examined the Re-
spondent and reviewed statements made by her patients diagnosed
the Respondent as suffering from acute personality disorders
including demonic delusions and/or paranoid schizophrenia.
Finally, based upon the foregoing "Findings of Fact," the Board
then made its "Conclusions of Law," about Rebecca, which included
findings of her:
"(D) addiction or severe dependency upon alcohol or other drugs
which endangers the public by impairing a practitioner"s ability
to practice safely...
(3) Prescribing or administering a drug for other that generally
accepted therapeutic purposes; and,
(4) Gross negligence in the practice of medicine."
The most important point of the medical report is the divulging
of Demerol overdoses by both Elaine and Rebecca. Addiction to
Demerol, a depressant, has clearly identifiable side effects. The
Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs describes the side effects
of a Demerol overdose: "Disorientation, hallucinations, unstable
gait, paradoxical behavioral disturbances may suggest psychotic
disorder." The Guide goes on: "weakness, fainting, disorienta-
tion, dizziness, impaired concentration, dependence, confusion,
convulsions."
It is impossible to determine how much, if any, real contact
with Satan Elaine and Rebecca had while under the influence of
drugs. But one can be sure that their drug-influenced states
brought no direct revelation from God. Both were feeding and
fueling the interpretations of their fantasies. Rebecca and
Elaine's perception of the facts and personal experiences are
akin to the image one sees in a fun house mirror -- the image is
there but is a complete distortion of reality.
Rebecca's and Elaine's story, as told to Chick, with its extra-
biblical claims and sinful origins cause it to be found wanting
when held up to the standard of God's Word. Further we cannot
ignore the vast amount of documentation and testimony given by
police, doctors, lawyers, family members and acquaintances; nor
can we give heed to the claim that they are part of Satan's ploy
to discredit Rebecca and Elaine.
Ruth Bailey's medical career had been cut short as she had
"deteriorated into a woman plagued by drug addiction, religious
extremism and a belief that patients and colleagues were pos-
sessed by devils. <71>
Jack Chick continues to deceive the public with his promotion of
questionable and sensationalistic testimonies. The advancement as
such in no was edifies the body of Christ. It appears Chick has,
himself, fallen prey to Satan's wiles. Let's hope in the future
he acknowledges the sordid and suspicious past of these ladies
and admits he has been deceived. Our prayer, too, is that Rebecca
and Elaine will repent of the lies and deceptions which cause
evil suspicions among Christians and serve to harm the church.
ENDNOTES
1. Video tape on file.
2. See further, The Journal of Pastoral Practice, Vol. 3, No. 4,
pp. 99-103; Vol. 5, No. 2, pp. 83-88; Christianity Today, Feb. 2,
1979, pp. 38-42; The New Logos Journal, March/April 1979, pp. 67-
69; Cornerstone magazine, Vol. 9, Issue 53, pp. 29-31.
3. Rebecca Brown, MD, He Came To Set The Captives Free, Chick
Publications, Chino, Calif., 1986, pg. 56.
4. ibid., pg. 61.
5. ibid., pg. 62.
6. ibid., pg. 63.
7. ibid., pg. 79.
8. ibid.
9. ibid., pg. 80.
10. ibid., pg. 82.
11. ibid., pg. 92.
12. Rebecca Brown, MD, Prepare For War, Chick Publications,
Chino, 1987, pg. 17.
13. ibid.
14. ibid., pg. 16.
15. ibid., pg. 18.
16. ibid.
17. ibid., pg. 226.
18. ibid., pg. 32.
19. ibid.
20. Captives, pg. 101.
21. ibid., pg. 99.
22. Prepare, pg. 224.
23. ibid.
24. ibid., pg. 225.
25. Jerry Johnston, Edge of Evil, Rise of Satanism in North
America, Word Publishers, Dallas, 1989, pg. 173.
26. San Bernardino, California County Clerk Document, number VCV
009038.
27. Application For License To Practice Healing Art By Examina-
tion submitted by Ruth Bailey to Medical Licensing Board of
Indiana, #76607, date issued 8/14/79.
28. Captives, pg. 8.
29. Application for License, op. cit.
30. Letter from Indiana University School of Medicine to Ball
Memorial Hospital Muncie, IN, July 9, 1979.
31. Captives, pg. 101.
32. Indianapolis News, Sept. 21, 1984; pg. 5.
33. Interview with Detective Samuel E. Hanna and Captain Tim R.
Davis, Madison County, Ind., Police, June 1989; tape on file.
34. Finding of Fact, no. 11, Ruth Bailey, M.D., Before Medical
Licensing Board of Indiana Cause #83 MLB 038.
35. Captives, pg. 9.
36. ibid., pg. 9.
37. Finding of Fact, no. 20, Cause #83 MLB 038.
38. San Bernardino, California, County Clerk Document, number
VCV009037.
39. Closet Witches 1, side two, Chick Publications, Chino, Calif.
40. State's Exhibit #22, "In-Patient Admissions, and "History &
Physical" reports for Moses, Edna E., Medical Record No. 89477.
41. Captives, pg. 27.
42. ibid., pg. 28.
43. ibid., pg. 32.
44. Chesterfield Lives - Spiritualist Camp 1886-1986 Our First
100 Years; self-published; 1986.
45. Captives, pg. 29.
46. New Castle High School Yearbook 1965, pg. 51, New Castle,
Ind.
47. Captives, pg. 92.
48. Application for Marriage License, State of Indiana, Henry
County Book 54, pg. 586.
49. State of Indiana, Henry Circuit Court - January term 1967,
Cause # 67-C-92.
50. States Exhibit #22, op. cit.
51. Captives, pp. 62-63.
52. Closet Witches 2, side two; Chick Publications, Chino.
53. ibid.
54. Findings of Fact, no. 11, Cause #83 MLB 038.
55. Prepare, pg. 224.
56. While St. John's Hospital would neither confirm nor deny its
financial assistance in establishing Rebecca's (Ruth Bailey's)
private practice, States Exhibit #16 (St. John's Medical Center,
Anderson, Indiana Chronology - Doctor Ruth Mailey (sic)) records
a September 20, 1983 interview between and Rebecca (Ruth Bailey)
and hospital administrator Sister Michaeleen in which Rebecca
"expressed concern about her finances and how much she owed the
hospital particularly." Further Lapel, Ind., residents and police
officials (Detective Samuel E. Hanna interview) indicate St.
John's financial involvement in Rebecca's opening a general
medical practice in Lapel. Finally, following her exodus from
Lapel, possession of the house which served as Rebecca's medical
office was transferred within a six week time period from Rebecca
to the State Bank of Lapel to St. John's Hospital (records from
Madison County, Indiana, Book 619, Pages 216 and 740).
57. ibid., pg. 166.
58. The Lapel Review, Lapel, Ind., May 26, 1982.
59. States Exhibit #16, Saint John's Medical Center, Anderson,
Ind., Chronology -- Dr. Ruth Mailey (sic), pp. 1-6.
60. Prepare, pg. 224.
61. ibid.
62. ibid.
63. ibid.
63. ibid.
64. ibid., pg. 225.
65. ibid., pg. 224.
66. Official Copy of Certificate of Death #08291, Lois M. Bailey.
67. Prepare, pg. 224.
68. Case Complaint Report Madison County Police #83-K-4001.
69. Emergency Suspension, in the Matter of Ruth Bailey, M.D.,
License No. 29402, received Mar. 15, 1984 by the Health Profes-
sions Service Bureau.
70. Affidavits of pharmacists from Marsh Pharmacy, Anderson,
Ind.; Hollon's Drugs, Anderson; Lapel Drug Store, Lapel, Ind.;
and Gene Maddy Drugs, Anderson.
71. Indianapolis News, Sept. 21, 1984, pg. 1.
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