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62: Carey Lee Cramer

Child Indecency, Child Molestation, Child Rape

Carey Lee Cramer was a Republican Party campaign consultan. He made the anti-Gore ad that copied the 1964 Goldwater “Daisy” ad accusing Gore of giving nuclear secrets to China. The young girl in the ad was his stepdaughter and while filming the ad, he molested two young girls. A jury deliberated almost two days before…

49: Brent Schepp

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Brent Schepp ran uncontested in the Republican primary for Kane County board when he was indicted on 26 counts including 14 counts of criminal sexual assault, 10 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, and two counts of unlawful delivery of alcohol to a minor. The assaults are alleged to have happened in his home. The articles…

46: Nicholas Elizondo

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Nicholas Elizondo, a board member of the Young Republican Federation, pleaded no contest to the charge of one count of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under fourteen. The child was his five-year-old step-daughter. That was in 1995. He served four of his six-year sentence before being released. He then married and he and…

61: Dennis L. Rader

Child Molestation, Child Rape, Kidnapping, Murder, Rape

Dennis L. Rader is the serial killer known as the BTK Killer. He was also a Boy Scout leader and Lutheran Church President. Additionally, he was a Republican appointee to the Sedgewick County Board of Zoning Appeals and the Sedgewick County Animal Control Advisory Board. As the BTK Killer, he killed ten people, two of…

60: John R. Curtin

Child Indecency, Child Molestation

John R. Curtin was a Republican committeeman when he hosted a beer party at a Stroudsburg, PA, motel and invited a 17-year-old young man and three boys aged 13 to 20 to drink beer. The seventeen-year-old got drunk and went out for a cigarette and Curtin followed him out, pulled down his pants, and molested…

40: Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Fred C. Smeltzer, Jr went on a camping trip with his best friend and raped his best friend’s fifteen-year-old daughter after getting her drunk. He was a Republican member of the Wrightsvulle Borough Council and was asked to resign after he pleaded no contest and was sentenced to six months in prison and six months…

39: Rev. Stephen David Rambler

Child Molestation, Sexual Misconduct

Stephen David Rambler was the pastor of Wrightsville’s Church on the Rock, a successful growing ministry until he got into legal trouble on two fronts. The feds were investigating him for extortion, using the US mail no less. He placed ads in adult magazines soliciting photos that he then used to extort the person who…

30: Earl “Butch” Kimmerling

Child Molestation, Child Rape

Earl “Butch” Kimmerling and his wife Saundra were foster parents. Craig Peterson was a gay man who wanted to adopt children and was approved to adopt four siblings, three boys and a girl. The girl’s foster parents, the Kimmerlings, were anti-gay and raised a stink. Earl Kimmerling said gay adoption was against God’s will and…

23: Beverly C. Russell Jr

Child Abuse, Child Molestation

Beverly C. Russell Jr. was the stepfather of Susan Smith, the notorious woman who drowned her children. He was active in Republican politics and the Christian Coalition, the rightwing evangelical political association. He was also sexually abusing his stepdaughter Susan. She first tried to kill herself when she was thirteen. She told a school counselor…