“Satanic” Day-Care Operator’s Conviction Tossed

The NCRJ has long sponsored the case of Dan and Fran Keller.

“Beginning in 1991, Fran and Dan Keller, who ran a day care out of their Austin home, committed unspeakable acts against their charges — they put one in …

The Real Victims of Satanic Ritual Abuse

But extensive investigations revealed little to no truth to the satanic ritual abuse panic. The McMartin Preschool trial ended in 1990 with no convictions, even after the government threw more than $15 million at prosecuting it. In 1992, FBI agent …

“I Believe It’s a Heroic Calling”

The NCRJ brought the San Antonio Four case to the Innocence Project of Texas. Working with Mike Ware and Keith Hampton was a terrific experience. We congratulate them on this well deserved award and we look forward to continue working …

In Texas, a New Law Lets Defendants Fight Bad Science

NCRJ President Michael Snedeker is quoted in The Atlantic:

The new statute offers another kind of clarity: “It’s important because a lot of really shaky evidence is clothed in objectivity,” said Snedeker, noting the incalculable impact expert testimony can …

Slate reprises the Kellers, satanic panic, and NCRJ’s role in stopping it.

“It sounds laughable,” says Debbie Nathan, an investigative reporter who co-wrote Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt about the panic and is now a director for the National Center for Reason and Justice, …

USA Today and Time Magazine on the San Antonio Four and the Kellers

“This is not just a Texas problem. This is happening all over the country,” Saloom said. “Texas just happens to be a leader in its willingness to reconsider convictions based on such evidence.”

USA Today

The women, along with another …

Some Press About the Release of the Kellers and the San Antonio Four

Fran and Dan Keller. Photo by Debbie Nathan. “Debbie Nathan – with Michael Snedeker, the author of Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt (1995) – chronicled the nationwide hysteria that produced the widespread …

Texas frees daycare operator accused of ‘satanic’ sexual abuse

“Between 1984 to 1989, some 100 people nationwide were charged with ritual sex abuse and 50 were put on trial, according to Debbie Nathan of the National Center for Reason and Justice, which works to free those wrongly imprisoned.”

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FREEDOM!

FREEDOM! Fran Keller, of the infamous, 1993 satanic daycare case in Austin, was freed a few minutes ago after 20+ years in prison! This is a National Center for Reason and Justice-sponsored case. Many parallels to the San Antonio Four …

Appeal Filed in the Keller Case

This case has long been sponsored by the NCRJ.

http://www.statesman.com/news/news/appeal-filed-in-92-day-care-abuse-case/nTwwD/…