Suspect Shared Twisted Fantasies On Web Group Held Regular Meetings On Days Women Were Abducted

An accused kidnapper is the president and co-founder of a bondage and sadomasochist group that has an elaborate Web page and an estimated 250 members throughout the Northwest.

Edmund “Eddie” Ball III, who calls himself “Sir Kame” and the “Evilone,” is president of the Spokane Power Exchange, the group’s Internet site says.

His pictures and those of his three female “sex slaves” disappeared from the group’s Web site shortly after his arrest Saturday on three counts of first-degree kidnapping, other members say.

“We’re glad he’s off the street,” said one member, who asked not to be identified. Ball, 40, is to be arraigned today in Superior Court.

The group, called the “SPeX and Co. BDSM,” uses its Internet site to list weekly events and members’ birthdays and e-mail addresses.

The bondage and sadomasochist group holds regular meetings on Saturdays. Five Japanese students were targets of kidnappings on Oct. 28 and Nov. 11 - both Saturdays.

Two Eastern Washington University students were abducted on Oct. 28 when the sex club was holding a “newbies discussion group” at “Sir Eddie’s house” at 208 S. Ralph in Spokane.

Three women were kidnapped on Nov. 11, the same day the BDSM group was holding a “slaves/submissive support group meeting” at another member’s home near Spokane.

The group’s Internet site includes four poems written by Ball, using the pen name “Evilone.’ In one of his poems, entitled “Vampire,” the former truck driver describes a young woman who “walks the night alone, afraid there are creatures out to harm her.” She is grabbed and assaulted by a man.

“His smile, so evil. She wants desperately to get away. She’s caught in his spell,” the poem says.

Three students at Mukogawa Fort Wright Institute were lured into a woman’s car. One was quickly released, but investigators say the other two were held for more than seven hours at a house in the Spokane Valley.

Lana C. Vickery, 43, and David M. Dailey, 38, lived at the house at 12910 E. Broadway. Investigators say they are friends of Ball.

“This whole case is going to shed a bad light on the BDSM group,” said a woman who’s had ties to the group. “For most of us, it’s a consensual, lifestyle choice. I’m 50, and I’ve been into this since I was 18.”

For its Saturday meetings, the Spokane group holds a “munch” - described on the Inter net site as a “casual lunch or dinner with other local people who have an interest or experience in BDSM.”

“Some are held in locations where a demonstration can be given on different techniques, but most are held in family restaurants or bars where `play’ or fetish-wear is not permitted,” the site says.

After the “munches,” members adjourn to a private home for a “play party” involving bondage and devices ranging from hot wax to electrical prods and whips.

Court documents show Dailey was the target of another sex crimes complaint filed in August 1999 by a 13-year-old girl. She alleged that Dailey took pictures of her dressed only in underwear.

Sheriff’s Sgt. Ron Ethridge said Tuesday that when sheriff’s detectives interviewed Dailey, he denied wrongdoing.

The girl who filed the complaint was the daughter of a woman who used to live with Dailey, detectives said. The pictures allegedly were taken while the teenager was visiting her mother, who did not have custody of the child, Ethridge said. The mother also denied inappropriate behavior.

The case was closed after investigators couldn’t produce enough evidence to charge Dailey with a crime. Ethridge said it isn’t illegal to take pictures of minors as long as they aren’t naked.

The girl also told authorities that Dailey did not make sexual advances toward her during the photo shoots.

Police Chief Roger Bragdon, through a spokesman, declined comment Tuesday on a call for his resignation at Monday night’s City Council meeting.

Terry Brown, former chief executive of Spokane Community Colleges, characterized the police response to the Oct. 28 abduction of the EWU students as “incompetence and gross negligence.”

Brown urged the council to seek Bragdon’s resignation “as soon as possible.”

For reasons that have not been explained publicly, a police officer did not file a report about the Oct. 28 abductions. The department is reviewing the lapse, and Capt. Steve Braun said on Monday that the probe is ongoing.

At EWU, an administrator had little to say about how police handled the Oct. 28 kidnapping.

“I don’t think it’s appropriate for us to be critical (of the Spokane Police Department),” said Judith Siminoe, associate to the president.

“There are professional relationships between international school advisers and law enforcement. Those relationships will be enhanced by what has happened.”

She said the failure to file a police report is “obviously a terrible thing,” but she doesn’t believe it happens regularly.