By Donald Bradley
The Kansas City Star
November 21, 2009
http://www.kansascity.com/115/story/1584079.html
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| Burrell Mohler Sr. |
After talking this week with one of the sisters in the Mohler child sex case, investigators returned Friday to the family patriarch’s Independence home and carted off more computers and videotapes.
“There is a belief that some of these assaults are on those tapes,” said Col. Ben Kenney of the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office.
An earlier search of Burrell Mohler Sr.’s house in the 1300 block of South Dodgion Street house netted magazine incest porn, videotapes and computers, documents say. Mohler’s wife told investigators that the 77-year-old man had been living in the basement since she found his trove above a ceiling tile.
The alleged abuse supposedly occurred through the 1980s and into the 1990s. Several sisters, now grown, have told detectives they were photographed during some of the assaults.
Mohler is in jail in Lexington, Mo., along with his four middle-aged sons. They are accused in multiple counts — 42 total — of carrying out years of rape, sodomy and bestiality in which the victims were children in the family, some as young as 5.
The sons are Burrell Mohler Jr., 53; David Mohler, 52; Jared Mohler, 48; and Roland Mohler, 47. A brother of Burrell Mohler Sr., Darrel Mohler, is in jail in Florida.
The earlier search of the senior Mohler’s house also turned up video equipment and cameras. A search of Jared Mohler’s house in Columbia produced 65 videotapes. Investigators have not said what is on the tapes.
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