By Rachael Bell

April 3, 2006

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Haywood Courty, N.C. (Crime Library) — On March 21, 2002, Richard Peter Sciara, 61, moved from Topeka, Kansas into his newly rented mountain retreat on Peace Mountain Road in Waynesville, North Carolina.

He lived there with Michael Mendez, 60, and Danny Carroll Reeves, 49, employed by Harrah's Cherokee Casino located on the Cherokee Indian Reservation, which bordered the Great Smokey Mountains National Park. The secluded house was an ideal hideaway, allowing the men the privacy they needed to carry out their brutish sexual fantasies undeterred.  

 

According to police reports, the three men were lovers who allegedly engaged in a sadomasochistic "master-slave relationship," headed by Sciara, aka "Master Rick." Their sex-play also involved other people from around the country who were reported to have traveled to the house to undergo "slave training" conducted by Sciara. The training was often held in the basement, which was referred to as the "Dungeon.

The dungeon was where some of the most gruesome sexually motivated activities took place. Over the period of several years, the three men recruited up to eight willing participants from a sadomasochistic website to undergo extreme body mutilation. Most of the men came to the house specifically to be either castrated and/or have their penises removed by Sciara. According to police reports, an anonymous witness visited the house in 2004 and described to police that, "testicles were removed and replaced with artificial testes known as 'neuticles.'" The person also suggested that he witnessed over a year at least six surgeries on five different victims, most of which were videotaped and stored on DVD's and on computer hard drives.

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