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Laurel Rose Willson
Laurel Rose Willson (August 18, 1941 – April 8, 2002) was an American author. She authored books as Lauren Stratford alleging Satanic ritual abuse (SRA), and later assumed the guise of a Holocaust survivor as Laura Grabowski. The general theme of her writing, from adolescence, was horror fiction, often violent and sexual, in which she was the victim.
Willson was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1941 to Marrian E. Disbrow. She was eventually adopted as an infant by Frank Cole Willson and his wife, schoolteacher Rose Gray Willson. She had one sister, five years older, named Willow Nell. A gifted musician from a young age, Willson learned to play the piano, clarinet, and flute. After college, Willson worked as a public-school music teacher. She later resided in Bakersfield, California, for a number of years, becoming known within evangelical Christian churches there as a vocalist and pianist.
She made allegations that she was psychologically and physically tortured from the age of four until her early twenties. In a book, she claimed that her adoptive mother allowed a laborer to rape her at six years old in lieu of paying for services, and by the age of eight she was supposedly forced into pornography and bestiality.
Willson's older sister, in a signed affidavit, noted:
My parents were devout Christians. They were both active members of the Bible Presbyterian Church in Tacoma. Both of them were fully committed to the Lord Jesus Christ. My sister and I were raised in a very sheltered, strict Christian home. There was no place in our home for anything remotely occult or pornographic. My mother continues as a dedicated Christian ...
Under the name "Lauren Stratford", Willson wrote three books. The most infamous of the them, Satan's Underground (1988), purported to tell a true story of her upbringing as a baby breeder (for sacrifices) in a satanic cult. Willson had also claimed to have firsthand knowledge of high-profile cases of alleged Satanic ritual abuse (including the child abuse cases in Kern County, where she resided), but her claims were dismissed by investigators as unreliable and fabricated. She befriended people connected to the high-profile Bakersfield and Manhattan Beach cases and incorporated SRA allegations into her own fabricated life story.
Willson, along with Michelle Smith (co-author of the inauthentic memoir Michelle Remembers), was featured on an episode of Oprah Winfrey's eponymous show in 1989, where Winfrey touted both stories as being unimpeachable fact.
In 1989, Willson published the Christian self-help book I Know You’re Hurting for victims of SRA, and in 1993 Stripped Naked, a fabricated trauma-and-recovery memoir in which she claimed that childhood abuse had caused her to develop Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). As “Lauren Stratford,” she appeared both on Geraldo and The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1988, presenting herself as an MPD patient.
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Laurel Rose Willson
Laurel Rose Willson (August 18, 1941 – April 8, 2002) was an American author. She authored books as Lauren Stratford alleging Satanic ritual abuse (SRA), and later assumed the guise of a Holocaust survivor as Laura Grabowski. The general theme of her writing, from adolescence, was horror fiction, often violent and sexual, in which she was the victim.
Willson was born in Tacoma, Washington, in 1941 to Marrian E. Disbrow. She was eventually adopted as an infant by Frank Cole Willson and his wife, schoolteacher Rose Gray Willson. She had one sister, five years older, named Willow Nell. A gifted musician from a young age, Willson learned to play the piano, clarinet, and flute. After college, Willson worked as a public-school music teacher. She later resided in Bakersfield, California, for a number of years, becoming known within evangelical Christian churches there as a vocalist and pianist.
She made allegations that she was psychologically and physically tortured from the age of four until her early twenties. In a book, she claimed that her adoptive mother allowed a laborer to rape her at six years old in lieu of paying for services, and by the age of eight she was supposedly forced into pornography and bestiality.
Willson's older sister, in a signed affidavit, noted:
My parents were devout Christians. They were both active members of the Bible Presbyterian Church in Tacoma. Both of them were fully committed to the Lord Jesus Christ. My sister and I were raised in a very sheltered, strict Christian home. There was no place in our home for anything remotely occult or pornographic. My mother continues as a dedicated Christian ...
Under the name "Lauren Stratford", Willson wrote three books. The most infamous of the them, Satan's Underground (1988), purported to tell a true story of her upbringing as a baby breeder (for sacrifices) in a satanic cult. Willson had also claimed to have firsthand knowledge of high-profile cases of alleged Satanic ritual abuse (including the child abuse cases in Kern County, where she resided), but her claims were dismissed by investigators as unreliable and fabricated. She befriended people connected to the high-profile Bakersfield and Manhattan Beach cases and incorporated SRA allegations into her own fabricated life story.
Willson, along with Michelle Smith (co-author of the inauthentic memoir Michelle Remembers), was featured on an episode of Oprah Winfrey's eponymous show in 1989, where Winfrey touted both stories as being unimpeachable fact.
In 1989, Willson published the Christian self-help book I Know You’re Hurting for victims of SRA, and in 1993 Stripped Naked, a fabricated trauma-and-recovery memoir in which she claimed that childhood abuse had caused her to develop Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). As “Lauren Stratford,” she appeared both on Geraldo and The Oprah Winfrey Show in 1988, presenting herself as an MPD patient.