On April 6, 2002, fourteen year old Ray Perkins clubbed Dr. Elman to death on a beach near Bandon, Oregon. He did not know why he did it. He did not know he was going to kill her.

Every crime has a motive, but Perkins could not think of a genuine motive. There may have been a motive by a third party to kill or incapacitate Dr. Elman. She was a gifted psychologist who studied dream interpretation. Some dreams are not really dreams. She could have stumbled onto evidence of repressed memories that are created by subliminal psychological coercion and not known the full significance.

Dr. Elman was well liked by all her neighbors. She was a gifted therapist. She moved to Bandon two years before her death because she had CFIDS, a complex form of chronic fatigue syndrome (Clark). She was more than fifty years old. She continued practicing clinical psychology. She had a fascination with dream interpretation. She was into alternative health. (Elman). She thought Bandon would be safer than other places she had lived such as Portland and California. She jogged and walked on the beach every day (Waiver Memorandum). She could have been influenced by subliminal coercion to make the move to Bandon. Most people do not know how to recognize the signs of subliminal activation.

Two years before the murder, Perkins started hearing command voices. They deceived him into committing a series of offenses. It made him look like he had a budding conduct disorder. The timing may not be coincidence.

The spree started on August 4, 2000. Raymond and a younger friend vandalized two school buildings, two school buses, and stole a bike and a large kichen knife. He was charged and the court placed him on probation. He was required to pay restitution of $1,221.00. He told the authorities at that time that he did it "out of stupidity." When he talked to a psychiatrist about it two years later, he said that voices told him to break into the school. The voices also told him to "egg houses, steal and wreck cars," but there is no report that he did all those things. A year after the school vandalism, the voices told Perkins to "break into someone's house, an insurance guy that my mom knew. I stole two knives." He told his mother, "The voices told me to do it." (Sack, pp. 2-3).

The hidden perpetrators had cunningly portrayed Ray Perkins as a conduct disorder case. If one looked only at the criminal record, no one would suspect that Perkins was framed.

During the year before the crime, Perkins became aware of stress words. For example, the boys at school would call him "stinky" and later say they were not being mean. Subliminal training uses stress words as a reinforcement similar to a hypnotic suggestion. The training is generally at night. The stress words may be spoken in the day time by people who may not know the significance of why they say them, but in most instances they probably do know that they will hurt the victim. The stressfulness of these words is easier to see than the association with surrepticious subliminal training. Perkins did not know he was being programmed.

When Perkins was resting in his room, he was aware of subliminal training words being directed at him. He slept in a curled up position that improved his awareness of subliminal words, but could not stop the training influence when he was asleep. Some people have a lower threshold of perception than others. They can perceive words which were intended to be subliminally delivered. There are characteristics of such communications which reveal the intent to create a subliminal effect. Perkins has not been tested for his perceptual ability. He probably has a low threshold of perception.

On April 6, 2002, something made Ray Perkins upset so he went to the beach on his bike. It was probably a posthypnotic trigger which started the sequence of decisions that led to the death of Dr. Elman on the beach.

Joseph Hines, his stepfather, was at home that day. When questioned by police later, Hines could not think of anything he said that could have triggered Ray to go to the beach and kill somebody. Hines did mention that about two weeks before the crime he told Ray to quit seeing Ben Schnyder because Ben was "bad news" (North Bend Police Department Supplemental Report, p. 22).

When questioned later, Perkins thought he remembered Hines accusing him of taking soda pop (Lange, R. Kristina, Notes, State's Exhibit 13, pp. 6-7), but the only recorded innuendo on the day of the killing, came from Mary Jenkins, the landlady. She came to visit at about 4:30 pm. She asked Ray if he knew where her shovel was and said something about his having worked for her. She seemed to feel that because Ray used to work for her, he might know where it was. About fifteen minutes later, Ray left on his bike. He "just disappeared." Mrs. Jenkins left shortly after (Coos Bay Police Department Detail, p. 7).

At the beach, the Ogle family was in the vicinity. They were apart like they did not know each other. They said later that Perkins moved away from them, but Perkins said they left the beach. They later told police that they saw a person matching the description of Perkins on the beach at the time of the crime.

Perkins was wearing shoes that may have contained an electronic control device. Keryn Ogle, the mother, described Ray Perkins as wearing a pair of athletic shoes that she believed to be New Balance brand. Geoff Ogle, the father, said the shoes were gray, well worn, and rounded at the toes. New Balance shoes are rounded at the toes. I had a bad experience with a pair of gray New Balance shoes. They had an electronic device that used a subliminal training system and a communication voice. They told me nothing but lies. I wrapped them in layers of aluminum foil to shut off the electronic control system so I could get some sleep. If those shoes were like my shoes they could at times be completely controlling.

Perkins passed by the Ogle family. Their dog was a black Labrador mix. The father, Geoff, noticed that their dog really did not like Perkins. It growled at him which was unusual for their dog. Keryn, the mother, said their dog became quite aggressive and this was out of character for it (Narrative). She had to physically restrain the dog. When a police officer later went to the Ogle's house, the dog wagged its tail and was very friendly as it normally was. Later, when Ray came home and had not been apprehended, yet, his own dog would not have anything to do with him. He thought it was because his dog sensed that he did something wrong (Contested Remand Hearing, pp. 109-110).

It would seem superstitious to assume that those dogs had a special power to know right from wrong. Perkins treated his dogs well, they were special to him (Ibid. p. 151). There are electronic control systems which can control emotions from a distance. They can do this to people. They could probably control an animal's emotions, too.

The Ogle's saw a female and an older man hunting agates at the north end of the beach not long before they left. When the Ogles turned to leave, Perkins and Elman were going to the south end of the beach (Narrative: Findings from Interview, States Exhibit 11).

Perkins greeted Dr. Elman while he was tying his shoe (Lange, p. 6). She passed by and did not answer. Perkins followed and clubbed her. She fell after her skull was fractured. He did not know why he did it. Perkins did not notice that Dr. Elman was the lady in two incidents of disturbed driving where it looked like she could have run over him, so this was not why he killed her. He later said, "I guess I just flipped out and hit her on the back of the head." (State's Exhibits, p. 866).

When he was talking to a youth in detention, he said he was only trying to knock out Dr. Elman so he could take her car (Contested Remand Hearing, pp. 196-197). He did not think he was going to kill anybody.

He felt her pulse. He did not think she was dead. He thought she was unconscious. He blacked out. After this missing part of memory, he left the beach with Dr. Elman's keys. "He left the area crying because he was scared of what happened." (State's Exhibit, p. 866).

Ray dragged the body to the surf. He thought it was because he wanted to dispose of it. Then he went to look for help. He climbed the bluff to a house that overlooks that portion of the beach. It is a very large house. He pounded on the door. No one answered. He thought his intention was to call the police and get medical help. This house was a vacation house. It was seldom used. There was a low probability that anyone would be home.

He went down the bluff to the beach. He went directly to the parking lot and did not check on the body again. He was questioned later by Officer Zanni about why he did not go directly to his mother's house only a short distance from the beach if he really wanted to get help. He became very quiet and dropped his head and said nothing (Contested Remand Hearing, pp. 106-108).

He was probably programmed to go to the house. He was unconsciously following a script. The good motivation that he naturally had was deflected by going to the empty house. It is typical of mental enslavement programming that the mental slave is trained to avoid people who would have offered social support. That is may also be part of the reason why he did not go home right away.

After Dr. Elman fell, her sweater opened and Perkins saw that she was carrying a gun. Her muscles were much larger than his. He thought that she could easily have killed him (State's Exhibits, p. 866).

When the police came later, they did not find the gun on Dr. Elman's body. Someone had to have removed it. One could deduce that after Perkins left the beach the hidden perpetrator of the crime removed the gun. The surf quickly washed out the foot prints from the perpetrator reaching the body through the surf. This is why it was important that the body be dragged to the surf.

The gun gives a clue to how Dr. Elman was set up. Dr. Elman's brother testified that she was never known to carry or possess a gun. He did find that she kept pepper spray by her bedside (Contested Remand Hearing, pp. 548-549). Nobody keeps pepper spray and carries an unlicensed concealed hand gun on a tourist beach unless she thinks someone is insidiously harassing her. The perpetrators probably used subliminal training words at night and harassment incidents around town to get her into a hysterical state. Like most victims, she was apparently not aware of the subliminal training. Had she stayed in California near friends and relatives, this unfortunate incident would not have happened. She could not have suspected that she was being influenced to move to Bandon.

Ray loaded his bike into Dr. Elman's car and left the beach. He thought it was because he wanted to take possession of her car. He was crying when he left the beach because he was frightened. There is an implied association between the supposed motive of revenge, the driving incident, and Perkins' compulsion to take the car. It sounds like a set of thought patterns that was fabricated by hidden perpetrators. Each step had to seem logical at the time.

Perkins drove the car to a logging road. He drove around in the logging area until he got the car stuck. There was no one around, but he was scared the whole time. After he got the car stuck, Ray went home on his bike and told his mom he found an abandoned car. She reported it to the police. He did not sleep well that night. That was a Saturday. When he was back in school, he kept falling asleep and waking up (Lange, Notes, pp. 7-8). The episodes of drowsiness at school sound familiar. They are an effect of a mind control system that works like a post-hypnotic suggestion. During the period of drowsiness, the victim is being programmed with thought patterns that will stay locked in his subconscious. In only a few minutes a person can be programmed and not be aware of the programming content. There is a way to detect this..

The body was discovered in the surf on Sunday, April 7, 2002 by Mr. R.G. Bushman. He called the sheriff. As part of the investigation, the police questioned about the car. Perkins maintained that the car was abandoned and he had not been in it. His fingerprint was found inside the car. The Ogle family identified Perkins as being on the beach at the time of the crime. Perkins was arrested. He admitted to the police that he killed Dr. Elman. He thought the reason that he did not like Dr. Elman was because she tried to run over his friend, Ben Schnyder, but Schnyder denied such an event. The key to Dr. Elman's car was found in Perkins' room hidden in ladies underwear (Waiver Memorandum, pp. 4-12).

After he was taken to juvenile detention, Ray seemed happy as he talked about what he had done. One said Perkins seemed proud to tell how he killed the lady (State's Exhibits, p. 1094).

Another inmate said Perkins seemed like he was bragging about the murder and talked about pretending he was mentally ill (State's Exhibits, p. 1095). Still another said Perkins was laughing about the murder (State's Exhibits, p. 1096).

The authorities concluded Ray Perkins had no remorse. I would suspect he was in an emotional rebound. When a person is coerced with thought control into doing something that they know is wrong, it is frightening. His elation later in detention was natural, unavoidable, and had nothing to do with remorse or the lack thereof.

Perkins had nightmares in detention about Dr. Elman shooting him with the gun (Lange, Notes, p. 7). These could have been painful memories of subliminal instruction sets. If she had tried it, he probably was supposed to stand there and get shot. Sometimes the subliminal instructions which were secretly programmed become remembered. Even people who perceive words that are intended to be subliminally delivered may not know about subliminal pictures. They go directly to the visual center of the brain. They look like dreams.

Perkins was visited in detention by R. Kristina Lange. Kristina was the Juvenile Court Counselor. She did his earlier probation (Contested, p. 610). When she asked him why he killed Dr. Elman, he said the word, "revenge." Perkins remembered two previous incidents with Dr. Elman. The first was in the company of his brother. The second was with Ben Schnyder. They were walking along Seven Devils Road. They were collecting cans. She drove past and was two feet from hitting Ben. She came back and got out of her car. She complained that they were too far into the road. On April 23, 2002, Ben denied this story. They were collecting cans. She drove too fast around a corner and seemed to narrowly miss hitting them. Then she got out of the car and told them to stay off the road. This was about one month before Dr. Elman's death and two weeks before Ben moved away (Lange, Notes, pp. 4-5, 7).

The revenge idea is not consistent with the fact that he did not recognize her until after he killed her. It is more probable that he was programmed to have this idea as if it were his own.

Ben Schnyder testified in court that he was Perkins' best friend. He said the story about being almost run over by Dr. Elman never happened. He said he quit hanging out with Ray Perkins because he "started his lying" and got mad when Ben challenged him about it.

Ben was new in Bandon. He only befriended Ray for about two months. They drove cars and rode bikes together. Ben offered him deodorant. He stayed over at Ben's house and Ben's mom washed his clothes. Ben moved to Laytonville, California about two weeks before the murder (Contested Remand Hearing, pp. 126-136).

Ben doesn't sound like a best friend. The way he tells it, lying was something that Ray did not do before. This could be the result of subliminal training. It would make Ray look like a case of conduct disorder. The psychological testing that was done for the court showed that Ray was an honest kind of person. Instead of continuous deterioration, Perkins' behavior changed temporarily. He was the victim of a hoax. Whenever there is a discrepancy between what Ray Perkins said and what some one else said, I have assumed that Perkins was correct. The assumption is justified by the psychological test results. Some will think that inconsistencies within Ray's own testimony shows that he is either lying or unreliable. The unreliability arises from confusion created by the hidden perpetrators. They have tried to plant a series of motivations and tactical, half-believed delusions.

Ray told Kristina Lange that he wanted to keep Dr. Elman's car, but he told Officer Zanni that he didn't know why he drove the car from the beach (Contested, pp. 107-108, 182). This kind of inconsistency of purpose is typical of mind control behavior. The mind programmers sometimes neglect to think of every possibility. He was telling Kristina Lange the script. He was telling officer Zanni an inner conviction of what was the truth. One could surmise that Perkins was programmed to make a confession to R. Kirstina Lange, but no one could have predicted which police officer he would be talking to.

The defendant-victim doesn't really want to do all those bad things and doesn't really believe all of the reasons in his mind. He is forced into playing a role. Like Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, he acts as if he had two competing personalities. This is not a true split personality. The role playing is an adaptation to mental enslavement. One would like to escape, but one cannot.

Perkins heard how other inmates at juvenile detention could speak through toilet pipes. He started talking about hearing "voices" and making a mental illness defense (Contested Remand Hearing, pp. 282-281). Some of Perkins' statements about making an insanity defense were probably part of the plan of the hidden perpetrators. They presumed he would be accused of malingering. Dr. Sack, his defense psychiatrist, interpreted this event as a willingness to talk about voices after it became acceptable. It became permissible to talk about them (Contested, p. 438).

Perkins started telling the staff in detention about voices when he learned that another teen was sent to a mental health facility because he heard voices (Sack, p. 4). Dr. Sack probed Perkins about the voices.

Perkins started hearing voices when he was 10 or 11. "He states that they told him to do bad things, 'breaking into houses and stealing.' The voices often gave him orders and also put him down. 'They call me names.' He occasionally hears a conversation between two people. The voices are more prominent at night. He feels that the voices come from 'somewhere outside my room.'" (Sack, p. 4).

Dr. Sack was certain that if the voices had not been there, Perkins would have not committed a crime. Perkins agonized over having smoked marijuana two before the murder. Dr. Sack recounts, "Raymond recalls on the day of the homicide that it was a 'bad day; I just wanted to get away. Everybody was telling me to do things; I was trying to get good grades and stuff.' I asked 'if the voices had not been there, would you have hit her?' He said 'there were two to three voices, different, saying 'Ray do this, hit her!' 'The voices were calling me names, rapist, stupid, moron." Raymond blames the fact that he smoked marijuana two days before as leading to this event. He did not mention the story of the victim almost running him off the road." (Sack, p. 5-6).

The kind of system that was used to deceive Ray Perkins used oppositional voices. Dr. Sack wrote, "At other times the voice would comment on what he was doing. There were usually two voices." (Sack, p. 4). They were making it look like there was more than one source of the command voices when there was probably only one organization behind it. They were watching everything he did. Electronic devices used by intelligence organizations could send word streams to the hearing center of the brain. It sounds like "voices."

Perkins' background was investigated for his defense. The principal at Harbor Lights Middle School said Perkins was not a mean spirited type (Naffziger, p. 7). Ray likes to please everyone, said Kathy Newton, a teacher who saw him often when she was on playground duty (Naffziger, p. 8). Another teacher said Perkins never complained and never questioned his authority (Naffziger, p. 11). Another teacher said that Perkins did not do negative things to get attention. "He was a kind, helpful, loving person in the classroom who appreciated any help you could give him." (Naffziger, p. 11). Ray Perkins had an IQ of 84 and was a year behind in school. He had to work hard to get average grades.

No one suspected an impending disaster, but there were signs that all was not well. Perkins associated depression with the voices. Dr. Sack wrote, "The voices are much more prominent when he is depressed." (Sack, p. 4). The depression could be a side effect of the trauma of persistent electronic mind control. Electrical sensitivity can cause depression.

Anyone familiar with intelligence operations should have see this as an artfully planned crime by a hidden perpetrator. The methods of mind control that they use every day are just like the ones Ray Perkins encountered. The way they created a series of incidents that cast him in a false light is the way intelligence operations are normally done. The command voices are used to make the victim think he is responsible for making decisions pertinent to the criminal act. He was acting out a series of decisions that were planted in his mind. As a victim of mental enslavement, he is innocent of any criminal intent.

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Elman, Steven B., Letter to Judge Barron, Coos County Circuit Court, June 2, 2002.

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Copyright 2004 Daniel A. Montgomery

Dan Montgomery