Madalyn Murray O'Hair, by her son (a christian) Savanah Rose

The following was written by Madalyn M. O'Hair's Son, William J. Murray a devote Christian and evangelist.

Madalyn Murray O'Hair The Final Chapter

MADALYN MURRAY O'HAIR The Final Chapter On Sunday, January 28, 2001, FBI agents and Texas Rangers recovered a metal artificial hip from a 5,000 acre ranch near Camp Wood, Texas. The serial number of the hip matched that of the one implanted in my mother, Madalyn Murray O'Hair, about two years before her disappearance in August of 1995. Agents also confirmed the remains of my daughter, Robin. The skull of one of the original kidnapping gang, Danny Fry, was also found. Further digging would be needed to determine the identity of my brother, Jon Garth Murray.

The FBI had begun the dig on Saturday, having been led there by David Waters. It was Waters whom the FBI. believe formed the gang that kidnapped my family members in August of 1995. The primary gang members included David Waters, Gary Karr, Danny Fry and perhaps one other individual. The three main gang members had met during various interments in jails and prisons. Waters had been convicted of murder previously. Karr had had been involved in brutal kidnappings. Fry was a small time con artist and was killed by the others probably because they feared his drinking problem would lead to him talking about the murders. His decapitated body was found near a river in south Dallas County, Texas.

Neither Karr nor Waters ever benefited much from the murders or the kidnappings. During a period of almost a month they had held the two women hostage while running my brother around the country getting money from various bank accounts. Among their loot was $500,000 in gold coins, the proceeds of other bank accounts, credit card withdrawals and the sales of cars and jewels. They hid the loot in the same Austin, Texas storage facility in which they had brutally dismembered the bodies of their victims. Some small time burglars broke into that storage locker and benefited from the brutal crimes of Waters and Karr.

In a trial last year Gary Karr was sentence to life in prison for his part in the kidnapping. Danny Fry had paid a higher price for being involved. David Waters agreed to a plea-bargain agreement shortly before his trial was to begin on January 29, 2001. I had been subpoenaed by the U.S. Attorney in Austin as a witness in that trial.

Apparently David Waters agreed to tell where the bodies of my family members were, along with the head and hands of Danny Fry, in return for serving his sentence in a federal penitentiary. He feared any state charges that could bring the death penalty.

The entire investigation had been handled by federal authorities. Agent Ed Martin of the Treasury Department (Secret Service) had taken an interest in the case and had come to Washington, DC to interview me more than three years ago. Up to that time I had tried numerous times to get the Austin, Texas police involved. Even private detectives had furnished conclusive evidence of foul play to the Austin Police, but they had laughed it off. To this day the Austin Police still have the case in their "juvenile" missing persons unit. Despite all evidence, this incompetent police department refused to acknowledge that a crime had been committed. This can be expected of a department that is run by those who receive politically correct promotions rather than those based on merit.

One federal agent at the scene told me of how gruesome the situation was. The bodies had been dismembered and then burned. I called all of our remaining children to tell them of the situation for fear they would read it in the newspapers first. That same agent also told me that he had offered a prayer over the bodies when they were first discovered. He told me, "No one deserves this, no one."

Unfortunately my mother had many times employed such individuals as David Waters. She had found that employees who were convicted felons allowed her to work them harder and many times under pay them. It came with her "anything goes" atheism, an atheism in which there was no moral right or wrong. My mother was a pure social Darwinist. She had admitted David Waters to her office and to her home. He was her office manager until a few months prior to the kidnappings. He was fired when she determined that he had stolen tens of thousands of dollars from her. At the time of the kidnapping he was on probation for that theft.

The bodies are now in the care of Dr. David Glassman, a forensic anthropologist at Southwestern Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. His official findings on the cause of death and the official identities will be announced in about thirty days. At that time if the bodies are not needed as evidence any further, I can expect that they will be turned over to me for burial. I can only make sure that they receive a decent and respectful burial. I pray that there will be no interference from my mother's so-called atheist "friends"--friends whose only interest to date has been to loot her organizations and use her image and writings to enrich themselves.

I do not know and I will never know if my mother, brother or daughter accepted Christ before they died. I cannot imagine that any of them thought that they would survive this kidnapping. I can only imagine that they did not expect the end to be as bad as it was. It is pretty clear that my mother was tortured before her death. My daughter Robin was repeatedly raped and tortured before her death. Did they forsake social-Darwinism and its "survival of the fittest" as they lay bound and gagged at the mercy of their torturers? Did they in their last breath turn to the truth of Christ and ask for his mercy? Only God knows the answer to that question!

More than likely this will be the last full length article I will ever write about my mother, Madalyn Murray O'Hair. The time has come to move on. It is time to forgive and forget. What my mother did to this nation some forty years ago by removing prayer from our schools is not the issue. The issue now is working to restore God and civility to our society. We cannot do this by looking backwards to what was or what could have been.

Mrs. O'Hair died horribly, a victim of the world she helped to shape. Without the Deity she fought so hard against, there is no right and wrong, increasingly people are ruled by their passions and humanity is a tragedy waiting to happen.

I bet Ms. O'Hair believes in God now..my opinion of course.

Savanah Rose

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