White Supremacist kept a Sadistic 'Chamber of Horrors'

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"Neighbors thought Jerome L. Wigmore Jr., a drywall contractor who lived there with his wife, Betty, and mother-in-law, Alice Boozer, was using the container to store his work equipment.

"I thought, 'Hey, that's a pretty good idea for a tool shed,' " Kenneth Koen said last week. "I didn't know it was going to end up being a chamber of horrors."

According to police, Wigmore held at least two women captive in the padlocked container, which he had turned into living quarters complete with air-conditioning units.

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Wigmore, 36, is charged with aggravated sexual assault, kidnapping and criminal restraint, in addition to drug offenses for allegedly selling cocaine out of the windowless 8-by-20-foot gray cargo box.

Relatives and neighbors described Wigmore as a menacing presence who zoomed up and down the block on a dirt bike with a plate that read "666" - a number associated with the devil - and yelled racial slurs at black children in the neighborhood.

His head is shaved bald; his forearms and the back of his neck are adorned with swastika tattoos. He once hung a Nazi flag from the doorway of the container and used a Confederate flag as a curtain in a front bedroom window. He joined an Aryan group while in state prison on drug charges from 2000 through 2001, Boozer said."

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/local/13431204.htm