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  • Logsdon Was Templar

    Thu May 03, 2007 at 02:00:13 PM
    Logsdon
    Way before Kansas City knew him as the guy who killed people at Ward Parkway, David Logsdon achieved a kind of minor fame on-air at KKFI 90.1, as the host of a 30-minute program devoted to Celtic music and discussion of all things pagan.

    During the mid-´90s, Logsdon, using the on-air name Templar, ran the show for two years, according to Robin Martinez, a member of the station’s board of directors. The show was called The Witching Hour. He ran it with a co-host who used the pagan name Fiona Firefall.

    A friend of Logsdon’s, Patrick Chambers, called him a “bastion of the Pagan community in KC,” in an online message board post at cellar.org.

    “There are very few people who have spoken for the community the way David did,” says Barbara Criswell, who owns the new-age store Aquarius Books and heard Logsdon on the radio a few times. “Very few people are as well-read and informed about paganism and wiccan, so it was nice to have him on the air.” Unfortunately, we can’t post those shows for you. No tapes of the show exist, and station officials say they have no idea how to reach Fiona Firefall or even what her real name is.

    “I can tell you he was a good customer,” Criswell says. “He was very interested in runes. It’s a divination method.”

    Knowing what we now know, we can only imagine what Logsdon saw after tossing painted rocks to tell his future.

    Somewhere between being a bastion for local pagans and shitting in a box of kitty litter, Logsdon broke with the wiccan community for vague reasons that all sources connected to a woman. Chambers hinted that at least one former love interest committed suicide and said another, more recent one, had died of alcohol poisoning.

    “I think it was five years ago, he sort of broke with the community," says Russ Criswell, Barbara’s son, who runs the Vulcan’s Forge store. He says Logsdon was seeing someone who might not have liked the pagan community -- or the pagan community might not have liked her. "I’m not sure ... how it happened, but he turned away from it [the pagan community],” Russ says.

    When Logsdon did snap, lots of pagans didn’t realize that he had been one of the closest things the community ever had to a spokesman. Most of them didn’t know him by his birth name -- they made the connection only after seeing photos of him.

    As if they didn’t have to worry enough about bad publicity just for being pagans. Some of the sources we interviewed for this story said they knew of people who’d lost jobs or child custody cases. On May 2, KSHB Channel 41 reported that they were all satanists tied to a mass murderer. A story Channel 41 has since corrected. -- Peter Rugg

    Category: News

    8 Comments:

    Happy says:

    Nice work, Plog.

    Sick to my stomache says:

    This guy was a disgusting example for a human being. Anyone who would consider him a spokesman for their group should be mentally evaluated.

    Patrick Chambers says:

    Hey, Sick...you psychic? Like all the time, I mean? When people thought of Dave as a spokesman for the Pagan community, they weren't aware that he was going to become a killer...or that he had been one prior to being involved in the community.

    You'll be real hard pressed to find anyone who considers David a shining example of KC Paganism at this point, and, had anyone a clue about his previous involvement in a killing, let alone that he would snap and kill innocent shoppers and a neighbor, I have to feel like maybe he wouldn't have ever been terribly well thought of.

    However, if you are privvy to some sort of prescience that the rest of us lack, please consider holding classes?

    Chuck Tackett says:

    It is a shame how we have lost our humanity for people. What Dave Logsdon did was horrible. I knew him from 90.1FM KKFI.
    But it goes to show that anyone of us if the pressure gets too much can snap.

    If he would have lived, then of course he would have to pay for his crime. But name calling is very unecessary.

    Our thoughts need to go out to all the innocent people he murdered/their familes, the people he wounded, the people he traumitized, and the family members of Dave Logsdon. We need to try to understand and hopefully prevent something like this from happening again, instead of acting like a school yard bully

    We need to educate ourselves to look for the signs when someone is in trouble like that.

    Patrick Chambers says:

    Chuck is absolutely correct that this is a tragedy. It was especially tragic for the innocent victims, but it is tragic for Dave's family and friends as well.

    Those of us who knew Dave are now grappling with our feelings, both about how we could have failed to recognize or effectively intervene in his decline, and with his actions. The revelation that he had been involved in a killing in 1981 was another kick in the teeth for most, if not all of us. We never knew about the earlier incident, and so were unable to use the information to evaluate our relationships with him.

    Harder still is the task that is to come, namely, laying David Logsdon to rest. Those of us who will coordinate and effect this task are struggling with exactly how to do it. Every human being deserves a ceremonial acknowledgement of their existence before being returned to the Earth from which they've sprung. In cases like Dave's, it is difficult to know what to do and how to do it.

    arewynn says:

    In the 60s there was a young man at Woodrow Wilson High School, he was active in a local Methodist church serving as vice-president of the Methodist Youth Fellowship. He was involved with a local troop of the Boy Scouts

    his name

    TED BUNDY

    Ted would later work as a night-shift volunteer at Seattle's Suicide Hot Line, a suicide crisis center that served the greater Seattle metropolitan and suburban areas.

    Herbert Williams Mullin had numerous friends at school and was voted "Most Likely to Succeed" by his classmates.He succeeded as a serial killer who committed 13 murders in California in the early 1970s.

    In 1974 Dr Shipman took his first GP position in Todmorden, 12 miles west of Halifax, West Yorkshire. In 1975 he was caught forging prescriptions of pethidine for his own use. Sent briefly to a drug rehabilitation clinic in York, he was pronounced clean, and after a brief spell as medical officer for Hatfield College, Durham, he became a GP at the Donneybrook Medical Centre in Hyde, Tameside, Greater Manchester in 1977.Shipman continued working as a GP in Hyde throughout the 1980s, founding a clinic of his own in 1993, in Market Street. He became a respected member of the community.After his trial, an inquest decided that there was enough evidence to suggest that Shipman had killed a total of 215 people, mostly women. His youngest victim had been a 41-year-old woman. Some sources have suggested that Shipman may have killed over 400 people.

    Gary Leon Ridgway went door to door for his Pentecostal church ....he pleaded guilty to 48 counts of aggravated murder, although the estimates run much higher


    you cant judge a book by its cover.my prayers go out to the victims thier friends and family as well as his friends and family

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    Leave people alone says:

    This is what happens when you mess with people. Nobody should tell anybody how short their lawn should be. We should worry more about ourselves and not mess with people over silly things. You can only push someone so far until he will fight back. All he wanted was to be let alone and to live free. This is not possible when we don't have the right to keep your property the way you want without some nosy neighbor reporting you and the authorities bullying you to conform to what others say you must do to your own property. Until we have real freedom in this country to do as we wish with our property and our bodies there will be more people who lose it like David Logsdon. If you don't like tall grass cut yours if you don't like drugs or alcohol don't take them, don't force your will on others. That is not a free society.

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