Logsdon Was Templar
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
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