Background:

This is happening in your town
Essay recounts the Satanic Panic of the eighties- Michelle remembers, the McMartin daycare trials, and the great Satanic conspiracy that never was.

Satanic, occult, ritualistic crime
A special report for the FBI, written by agent Kenneth Lanning, in response to rumors of "Satanic" crimes.

The FBI investigator's guide to ritual Abuse
Another of Agent Lanning's infamous reports.

The Myth of Satanic Ritual Abuse
Atheist site discusses the FBI's official report on SRA (Satanic Ritual Abuse), the debunking of the book Michelle remembers, false memories, and questionable therapeutic techniques. Also contains links to more than a dozen relevant articles, books, and television shows.

Timeline of the Ritual Abuse Panic

Case Histories:

Rochedale: Dozens of British children removed from their homes after social workers attend a Christian seminar; some remain in state custody for years.

McMartin Preschool Unfounded allegations of abuse ruin lives and rack up millions in expenses; no convictions

Kelly Michaels/Wee Care An innocent woman sentenced to 47 years in prison

Broxtowe case

Satanic cults: how the hysteria swept Britain

Landmark decision in the High Court

Ritual Abuse Convictions (The site that compiled these appears quite proud of this)

Therapists, "Recovered Memory Syndrome," suggestive questioning:

Imaginary Crimes
The dark side of "repressed memory recovery." Details several miscarriages of justice.

Memory and Reality
The False Memory Syndrome Foundation delves into false memory syndrome, and explains why we don't always remember what we think we do.

Remembering Dangerously
A critique of bad therapy.

Suggestiveness in child interviews

Debunkings:

Michelle remembers?
An honest title: Michelle makes it all up! Site debunks many of "Michelle's" claims. 'Michelle Remembers' is widely credited as the book that began it all. Includes pictures and geographical evidence, and testimony from Michelle's family, and details her new life as a faux holocaust survivor.

Selling Satan: The Tragic History of Mike Warnke
First, there was the stunning expose of Satanism: college student turned Satanic High priest converted to Christianity and wrote a tell all book about his days of sex, drugs, and human sacrifice. Next came another expose: it was all a lie.

Charles Manson, Son of Sam and the Process Church
Debunks the popular Satanic conspiracy theory that revolves around the Son of Sam killings and the Process Church of the Final Judgment.

Empirical Study Found Cases of Lone Abusers, But Not One Eksample of a Well-Organized Cult

Inside the "Satan Scare Industry"

Inquiry dismisses satanic abuse as evangelical myth

Miscellanious:

Satanic Panic
A few dozen articles on the subject, from many sources.

Witch Hunt information page
A large collection of links to Panic-era convictions. Some cases are resolved, some are not.

The best Satanic panic literature- Hysteria
Sloppy scholarship, Satanic panic, and hilarious misconceptions. A rogue's gallery of the worst offenders in satanic rumor mongering and all around religious bigotry.