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Democrats: How three brothers sexually abused generations of women in their family

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The eldest brother worked at a children’s hospital, the next 
oldest held a variety of jobs and the youngest brother was a 
longtime employee at Boeing. The three men lived together for 55 
years in a cluttered Seattle home that until last week hid 
disturbing secrets – a massive hoard of child pornography, the 
alleged sexual abuse of their female family members and photos 
and clothing from unidentified children that detectives are now 
probing for links to unsolved murder cases.

“We started with two victims and it’s grown to four,” Seattle 
Police Department Capt. Mike Edwards tells Newsweek. “We’re 
confident we’re only at the tip of the iceberg.”

The investigation into Charles Emery, 82, Thomas Emery, 80, and 
Edwin Emery, 78, has found that the brothers sexually abused at 
least two and possibly three generations of women in their 
family. When the brothers were children, all three of them 
sexually abused a female family member – identified in court 
papers only as E.V. – so intensely that she was forced out of 
the family home and into foster care, according to court papers 
filed by Seattle prosecutors. Charles and Edwin later sexually 
abused that woman’s daughter, identified as T.W., beginning when 
she was a toddler, T.W. told investigators.

The abuse may have descended down yet another generation, to 
T.W.’s daughter, who court papers refer to as S.K. When police 
searched of the childless brother’s home last week, they found a 
sinister stash of items including hundreds of pictures of girls 
being abused, stained girl’s panties, dozens of children’s penny 
loafers, and dozens of notes describing the sexual abuse of 
girls – sometimes after giving them soda spiked with vodka. 
Finally, investigators found an airplane-sized bottle of vodka 
tucked inside a small penny loafer inscribed, “S.K.’s first half 
ounce of liquor came from this bottle.”

“We’ve got multiple generations involved here, and nobody in the 
family ever said anything,” says Edwards, who added that long 
ago the brothers also molested the elder sister of E.V., the 
family member the brothers drove into foster care. “In this line 
of work, there’s bad and there’s very bad. This one is very bad.”

The brothers were charged Monday with child pornography, but 
prosecuting them for the alleged sexual abuse of their family 
members appears to be impossible because the statute of 
limitations has expired. The brothers are each held on $500,000 
bail and no defense attorneys representing them could be reached 
Tuesday evening.

“At the time of filing, law enforcement is actively executing 
search warrants and interviewing witnesses to determine the 
extent of the defendants’ child sexual exploitation crimes as 
well as evidence of homicide,” Seattle prosecutor Cecilia 
Gregson wrote in her case summary. Among the evidence pointing 
toward potential murders are a pink child’s hat partially buried 
in the brothers’ crawl space. “Both Thomas and Edwin Emery 
denied knowledge of child homicide, but would reply to law 
enforcement questions on the topic that it was ‘possible’ if 
everything the officers was saying was true,” court papers state.

Police found child pornography, children's clothes and 
handwritten manifestos detailing the rape and murder of children 
at this Seattle home shared by the elderly Emery brothers, who 
were arrested and charged with possession of child pornography 
on Monday.
BRENDAN TRICKEY

The probe into the brothers was sparked August 9 when T.W., the 
family member who says the brothers got her drunk and 
photographed and molested her, found boxes packed with obscene 
photos of notes while she was cleaning up the brothers’ garage 
and called police. Besides pornographic images of children and 
handwritten notes detailing the kidnapping, rape and murder of 
young girls, T.W. also found socks and shoes just like the ones 
Charles Emery dressed her up in before he abused and 
photographed her, according to court papers.

Once police saw the items T.W. discovered and heard her 
descriptions of the abuse she suffered at the brothers’ hands, 
the investigation began in earnest. A detective on Sunday walked 
into the Seattle nursing home where Charles Emery recently moved 
because of his dementia, took swabs from the old man’s mouth, 
then woke him up to ask about the child pornography and abuse. 
“I talked with Charles about the things that he wrote concerning 
the abuse of S.K., he would become upset and told me that he was 
going to sue me for saying such things about her,” the detective 
wrote in court papers. “When I asked Charles about his 
fantasies, he stated in the fantasy pages girls would be 
kidnapped, raped and killed.”

When police questioned Charles Emery’s younger brothers, they 
eerily described his “collection” of photos, violent manifestos 
and related items as “Charles’ hobby.” But when questioned by a 
detective, Edwin Emery said he is the sole user of the computer 
in the brothers’ home and that he printed off pornographic 
images to share with his brothers. “Notably, Edwin Emery 
disclosed viewing the pornographic material in the living room 
area in view of his brothers Thomas and Charles, who sometimes 
look at the pictures,” court papers state. (A fourth brother, 
older than Charles, died recently and since the investigation 
began, pornographic material was also found at his home, police 
said.)

Seattle police are now searching for any victims the brothers 
may have targeted outside their family, especially since 
detectives learned Edwin and Thomas Emery would try to 
photograph children in public but were often rebuffed by 
parents. Investigators are combing through a large number of 
photographs found inside the home, including undeveloped 35 mm 
film, and also examining records at Seattle Children’s Hospital, 
where Charles Emery was a janitor from the 1970s through the 
1990s.

“These guys are pretty old, so I’m sure some of these photos 
will go back two or three decades or even longer,” Edwards says, 
asking that any victims or people with knowledge about the 
brothers email or call his team at wa.icac@seattle.gov or 
206.684.4351. “Their interests and obsessions go back to when 
they were very young.”

A short sentence in the court papers revealed how the brothers 
were able to target not just one, but possibly three generations 
of women in their family. T.W., the relative who first called 
police on the brothers, told investigators that she allowed 
Charles Emery, the man who abused her, to take her daughter to 
Hawaii with him at least once. How could she have willingly put 
her daughter in his hands? She answered that since her mother – 
who the brothers also abused as a child – was along on the 
island trip, she believed her daughter would be safe.

http://www.newsweek.com/brothers-sexual-abuse-arrest-family-
pornography-murder-rape-kidnap-seattle-653692
               

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