On 28 November 1988, Paul Ingram, a police officer, was arrested by colleagues in his office in Olympia, Washington State. His daughters, Ericka and Julie, had accused him of sexual molestation. Ingram made no attempt to deny the charges. He couldn't remember doing anything, but he said: 'My girls know me. They wouldn't lie about something like this.' He then started to build up the case against himself. Being a deeply religious man, he prayed feverishly for God's guidance. He'd read in a magazine that there was a way of sending yourself into a trance. You had to imagine yourself entering a warm white fog. He tried this out, and the images came to him.

LRB 23 March 1995 | PDF Download