Smells Fishy...er...Like Sulphur

The Mayor of a town in Arkansas has decided to step down. Note, this supposedly isn't part of some scandal or political hubub on the horizon, it's actually because of Satan! You see, he was living in Indiana until he took up an assumed name.
...and of course, the reason he took up the new identity was because Satanists had kidnapped him and brainwashed him! The truth came out recently after being injected with truth serum (JEEZ! now THAT's a Halloween party!).

The story falls apart a little when he explained that he had a choice:

go with these people (hey! i thought you were kidnapped!?)
-OR-
see his family killed before his eyes (i thought you didn't remember them??).

He took a 3rd route and ran away (i suppose the killers didn't have his family address). Police say he's not suspected of any wrong doing. I say he's at LEAST guilty of abandonment (or worse) with this dubious story.