The State - News from Feb. 15, 1985

A Sacramento judge reduced bail for five men in a child molestation case that includes charges of killing three children while making a so-called satanic ritual snuff movie. Prosecutor Rick Lewkowitz argued that bail should remain as high as $500,000 for the five defendants, but Municipal Judge John Stroud said the evidence failed to justify that. He reduced bail to $150,000 each for Arthur Dill, 33, and Veryl Baker, 59, and to $75,000 each for John Holman, 26, Rolando Cuevas Jr., 36, and Alan Arbuckle, 29. They are charged with multiple counts of felony child molesting involving at least six young victims, including four of Dill’s children. Stacy Bogh, Holman’s lawyer, told Stroud that sheriff’s investigators have “come up with no basement, no bones, no blood, no pictures--they’ve come up with zero.” Lewkowitz said, however, that murder allegations previously made by two of Dill’s children have been corroborated by another child.