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Burrell Edward Mohler Sr. and His 4 Sons Accused of Serial Child Rape, Forcing Sex with Dog
Wednesday, Nov. 18 2009 @ 1:28PM

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Patriarch and pervert Burrell Mohler Sr. apparently introduced his four boys to pedophilia
​UPDATE: Detectives find a load of child and incest porn at Burrell Mohler Sr.'s home. See update after the jump...

Beginning in 1988, police believe 77-year-old Burrell Edward Mohler Sr. started raping the young boys and girls in his extended family. Over time, it seems he also introduced his four sons to pedophilia, and they forced the kids to even have sex with dogs.

All all five men are now charged with raping at least five children under the age of 12. Police are searching property outside Bates City, Missouri, looking for notes the victims buried in glass jars over the years -- and also searching for bodies...

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Burrell Mohler Jr. and his brothers are accused of forcing the kids to have sex with their German Shepherd
​The alarming serial rape accusations first came to light when one of the victims informed detectives in August. Five victims have been identified, but that number could grow. The search also implies that police believe the Mohler men killed and buried people on their property.

Prosecutors contend that four girls and one boy in the family were raped between 1988 and 1995, though the assaults could have gone on longer. The victim who first alerted police said she was forced to get an abortion at age 11 and that she and her sisters were involved in mock wedding
ceremonies before the men would have sex with them.

She also said all five Mohlers used the family German shepherd to rape her.

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One victim says Jared Mohler and his brothers held mock wedding ceremonies before they'd rape the kids
​Over the years, the victims say they buried glass jars in the yard with notes explaining what was happening to them. Police are now searching for those jars, and using cadaver sniffing dogs to check for bodies.

For the moment, the Mohlers are charged with multiple counts of child rape. They include Burrell Edward Mohler Sr., of Independence, Missouri; Burrell Edward Mohler Jr., 53, of Independence; Jared Leroy Mohler, 48, of Columbia, David A. Mohler, 52, of Lamoni, Iowa, and Roland Neil Mohler, 47, of Bates City. More charges are likely to be added.

David Mohler has worked for Graceland University in Iowa for 27 years, says university President John Sellars. He was arrested on campus, where he apparently worked on the phone system. Sellars described Mohler's wife Michelle as "shocked and stunned." The couple has two grown children.

UPDATE: Police are currently searching property in Lafayatte County, Missouri with cadaver dogs and backhoes to look for bodies and jars containing notes the victims buried over the years.

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The kids were lined up on a bed and sodomized/David Mohler
​"There have been indications that an individual was killed, or individuals were killed," Lafayatte County Sheriff Kerrick Alumbaugh told Fox4KC-TV. "There has been an indication that there are body or bodies in numerous locations."

During their years of abuse, the kids were encouraged by the Mohlers to write down their bad thoughts and put them in a jar because it would make their memories go away. While it may have made for more placid victims at the time, it would now prove a treasure trove of evidence if those jars can be found.

The woman who first came forward with the accusations, now 26, says she was forced to have an abortion at age 11 and also watched her brother abused. She and her four sisters were also made to participate in mock weddings where they put flowers in their hair and wore dresses before marrying the Mohlers.

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Roland Mohler and his brothers told the girls to burying their bad thoughts and they would go away
​After hers, she was taken to a chicken coop by Mohler Sr. to have sex. In other instances, the woman and her sisters would be lined up on their knees on a bed and sodomized.

It's unknown if other relatives knew about the abuse. Some of the Mohler boys are married, but Burrell Sr.'s wife Alice died in 1991, three years have the molestation is thought to have began. A former neighbor says the Mohlers moved away about a decade ago from the property now being searched. Detectives believe he sold the property to Burrell Jr. at that time.

Three of the men -- Burrell Sr., David and Jared -- are lay ministers in The Community of Christ, a Mormon splinter group. One was registered to work with children. But a church spokeswoman says all three have had their licenses yanked.

UPDATE II: A sixth man, 55-year-old Larry Kidd of Kansas City, as been arrested in the case.

Though police aren't saying how Kidd participated in the rapes, the investigation is expanding to include more victims. The initial victims mentioned were five girls and one boy, all from the same family. But police have apparently found more, though they haven't said whether they were related to the Mohlers or not.

Kidd is charged with raping a child under age 14.

It looks like detectives are a long way from wrapping up their case. They're still searching for one or more bodies possibly buried on the Mohler family land, and they seem certain more victims will surface.

"I believe that there is, and I believe every investigator here, after seeing the evidence, believes there's more victims," Lafayette County Sheriff Kerrick Alumbaugh told CNN. "Pedophiles don't stop at one."

Larry Kidd was released 24 hours after he was arrested. He says he never even met any members of the Mohler family and that it was likely a mistake because he knows one of the victims. Detectives are no longer looking at him as a suspect.


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Darrel Wayne Mohler says he hasn't even seen his brother in 20 years
​UPDATE III: Burrell Sr.'s brother, Darrel Wayne Mohler, was arrested on two counts of rape in Florida.

He's accused raping two girls between the ages of 5 and 9 at an abandoned home in Bates City, Missouri. But he seems genuinely surprised to be targeted in the case.

The retired Navy man, electrical contractor and prison guard, now 72, has lived in Silver Springs, Florida since 1984, four years before the crimes are alleged to have begun. He also says he and Burrell Sr. grew apart, and haven't seen each other in 20 years. Aside from the occasional phone call, he has almost no contact with the other accused men in his family.

As for the rape charges, he seems genuinely befuddled. "If I was there long enough to rape them (the children), I would've known about it," he told the Ocala Star-Banner. "I've no contact with him or his family."

UPDATE IV: Three of Burrell Mohler Jr.'s kids say they helped him murder a man in 1988.

It would seem that this case couldn't get any more outrageous, but it just has. Three children of Burrell Mohler Jr. now say they helped their dad kill a man in 1988. According to search warrants, the slaying went down like this:

In April 1988, Burrell Jr. and the three kids -- who are now in their 20s and 30s -- drove to Independence Center, Missouri where they followed a man to his home. Burrell Jr. told them to tell the man he was having a heart attack and that they needed his help.

When the man got to the car, Mohler supposedly choked him into submission. Then he blindfolded the kids so they couldn't see where they were going and drove to Burrell Sr.'s home. One of the girls peeked and recognized their grandpa's signature A-frame house.

Burrell Jr. gave the girls knives and told them to attack the man when he set him free. If they refused, he warned, he would kill them. After a brief struggle, they all stabbed the man. Burrell Jr. then ordered them to dig a grave and bury him.

Though the case is getting more outlandish by the day -- leading some readers to suspect it's fabricated -- police seem to be gathering more evidence and witnesses to back the stories.

Another victim now says she was held hostage at Burrell Sr.'s farm, where she twice became pregnant. After her first birth, she says Burrell Sr. and Jr. put the baby in a box and buried it in the dirt basement floor, then covered it with concrete. Using radar, detectives have found a shape consistent with a box there.

And that woman's story is backed up by yet another victim, who recalls seeing a child living in a crawl space in the cellar. Police have already found bones of unknown origin, a pair of glasses, and some of the jars the girls buried with notes inside supposedly detailing their abuse.

UPDATE V: Police uncover a load of child and incest porn in Burrell Mohler Sr.'s home.

Yes, the story that couldn't possibly get weirder just has again. In a November 10 search allowed by Burrell Sr.'s wife Sandra, detectives hit the mother lode of child and incest porn his basement living area.

Sandra says that when she discovered her 77-year-old husband's porn stash, she forced him to move into the basement. But during the past few months she's searched Burrell Sr.'s room twice, finding piles of porn showing naked young girls and references to incest, so she locked it in a filing cabinet in her room.

Police found videos and magazines that appeared to show kids under age 17. The magazines had titles like "Family Taboo," "Best of Family Touch," and "X Family Matters," with articles about incest. There were also movies like "Mystery Voyeur" and "Pornochio," in addition to a penis pump and dildos.

Home movies were also seized, but police haven't revealed the contents.