In July 1985, Mary Beth Havel met a man at the Oregon County Fair. A man she thought would change her life. A man with a mystical name and mysterious past... Stryder Styarfyr -- pronounced like Strider Starfire.
Stryder Styarfyr was mesmerizing, and from the moment they met, Mary Beth and Styarfyr shared a special bond. Mary Beth trusted him, confided in him. Soon, Styarfyr began telling her his darkest secrets.
Styarfyr claimed he was a former Vietnam vet, a member of the IRA and a CIA operative who'd been living undercover in Mississippi as Curtis Jacoby. He told her about the horrors he'd seen, about his covert government operations and his travels to Ireland. Styarfyr told Mary Beth he'd married a woman in Ireland and adopted her sons, who were later gunned down by British soldiers. Within months, the two were married, and by 1990, they had a son and daughter.
But cops say Styarfyr's tales of war and living abroad were all mere figments of his own imagination.
A few years into the marriage, Styarfyr began pushing the idea of communal living. Mary Beth says he wanted to create a clan - an extended family of friends and neighbors. He wanted to be its leader. Styarfyr boasted of his lineage of royal blood, saying he was the last remaining heir to a Celtic clan. But what cops say Styarfyr really had in mind was a cult led by him as husband to many, many young wives - teenage girls he could train to be "proper wives" to serve him and bear at least 75 children.
Styarfyr used the promise of "princesses and Celtic castles" to lure in at least two young girls who'd become like sisters to his own children. According to officials, Styarfyr had so much control over one victim, they had sex in her house while her parents slept in another room.
As the truth surfaced, Mary Beth divorced Styarfyr. By 1998, two of Styarfyr's victims bravely came forward, telling of years of emotional and physical abuse. But just as the case was coming to trial, Styarfyr mysteriously disappeared. Cops are convinced others are still falling under this accused pedophile's spell.
After he disappeared, police discovered that Styarfyr's real name is pretty plain -- Daniel Clement Chafe. Chafe is wanted on 13 charges of rape and sexual abuse involving minors.
http://www.amw.com/fugitives/case.cfm?id=30829
