Scientologists who had Psychotic Breaks with surnames starting with "S" through "W": (Continued):
Gene Trout or Traudt - Suicide in about 1980. Was an OT7.
Koos Nolst Trenite - In 1974, when Koos went to work for GO, he was “a normal, fun loving guy”. By 1979 he was dangerously unstable, showing symptoms of paranoid schizophrenia which persisted and which went untreated. On 25 December 1999 his daughter, then 19 years old, died in their home near Forchheim, Germany. Autopsy showed she had drowned. The father had the habit of torturing (or “treating”?) his wife with hot and cold jets of water. It was perhaps his version of the Purification Rundown. An infant daughter died in 1983 ten days after birth of an untreated respiratory infection. As far as is known Koos is still alive and still posting his very bizarre ideas, which identify Hubbard, not without reason, as the Devil.
Leah Theriery - a Scientologist, attempted suicide sometime in May 1974.
Robin Clive Tweddell - Scientologist in New Zealand who committed suicide in 1989. Father of Aaron Saxton.
From public search on NZ National Archives:
"Coroners inquest files
COR/89/1030 Robin Clive Tweddell 1989"
Robert Thorburn - died after being shot in the head in Las Vegas by James Duchesneau (30) and Frederick Weber (23) who had both been shot in the leg by Thorbum with the same gun.
David Voorhees of Washington State - went crazy in 1982 or 1983 in Los Angeles trying to audit the BTs and clusters. He was held captive in a room somewhere in Los Angeles for weeks and injected with Thorazine to calm him. David was told by his captors that he was getting Vitamin B injections. HEW 219.
Eric Vigeland - was in Scientology in Boston in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Eric had previously been in psychiatric care. Eric inherited some money, gave it all to the fund to help Mary Sue in the USGO/FBI lawsuit, and was then given a bunch of auditing as a “reward.” He was apparently not a very stable person, and even by Scientology standards, should not have been accepted for service..
Frank Vitkovic - of Queen Street, Melbourne, Australia. In 1987 Frank Vitkovic opened fire in a business building in Melbourne, Australia, killing eight people and wounding five others before he plunged to his death trying to escape. Two months prior to the attacks he had taken a personality test offered by the Church of Scientology, which was said to mean he was extremely depressed; it was the second-worst test result the Scientology volunteer had ever seen. It was argued at the inquest that the organization had not taken the appropriate measures indicated by their information, which could have prevented the massacre, and that the test possibly contributed to Vitkovic’s mental state at the time of the shootings.
Patrice Vic - The father of two young children, Patrice died in March 1988 in Lyon, France, when he jumped to his death from the 12th storey window of his children’s bedroom. He had spent all his money on courses with the CoS, and then borrowed 30.000 FFr (about $5000) to be able to take the Purification Rundown. The French court ruled that the local branch had driven Vic to suicide, and found its leader Jean-Jacques Mazier guilty of involuntary manslaughter. Fourteen other scientologists were convicted on related charges. He went to his death believing his debit card had been stolen by prostitutes, when in fact it had been stolen by the criminals running the Lyons Org.
Bruce Welsch - a crew member on the Apollo, had a psychotic break during the early 1970s. He was locked up in a port aft cabin by Stuart Moreau and Ron Anderson, two ship crew members. HEW 204.
Gregory Bradford Wisner - He was 27 when his body was found in the surf near Indian Rocks Beach, FL, on 20 January 2001. Judged an accident. Gregory was a cocaine addict born into a Scientology family. His father was a spokesperson for Narconon. Gregory attended Narconon in December 1997. He was raised in various Scientology families but all had disconnected from him.
Jim Whyte - died train-hopping while drunk.
Linda Walicki - “I just butchered my family.” Linda Walicki, an untreated schizophrenic aged 25, killed her father Michael (52), a “Sponsor for Total Freedom”, and her sister Kathryn (15) and seriously wounded her mother Sue (52), at Revesby, Sydney, Australia on 7 July 2007. The cause of the attack was later determined to be a psychotic episode brought on by replacing her prescribed anti-depressants and anti-psychotic medication with the Scientology method of treating psychosis by isolation and vitamins (see McPherson, Perkins). Linda was diagnosed with mental illness at Bankstown Hospital in late 2006 but treatment was discontinued because her parents were Scientologists. At that time a magistrate refused to sign an order to continue her treatment. Three weeks before the killings her parents were apparently worried enough to reintroduce her to the prescription medication but it was evidently too late. Linda was declared not guilty by reasons of insanity. Vicki Dunstan, for the CoS, at first denied the family were Scientologists. Virginia Steward, a local Scientology spokesmen, also denied any knowledge of the family, then claimed the tragedy was all the fault of psychiatrists who had interfered and caused damage. Then she blamed Linda’s breakdown on earlier intervention by psychiatrists. “Church of Scientology denies stabbed man ‘a recruiter'” (Fiona Connolly, Daily Telegraph, News.com.au, 10 July 2007). But it did not take local journalists long to find that a man with the same name as the dead father is listed on the Church of Scientology’s “Honour Roll” in the 2002 Impact magazine which glorifies members worldwide for their efforts in “signing more than 20 members to the church” or for donating $US20,000 ($23,200) or more. The “church” typically tries to disconnect from any potential source of embarrassment such as suicides, murders, and even the death of its members from natural causes. It never offers counselling, shows any respect for the dead or responsibility for what has happened, or helps bereaved families in any way.
https://theyshouldnothavedied.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/suicide-and-violence-o-to-z/
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So we never forget the damage of Scientology, or the people whose minds and lives were wrecked or ended because of it.
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