"2012, Robinson sold the newspaper to Berkshire Hathaway. The ""Tribune-Herald"" is best known for a series of stories in February and March 1993 about the Branch Davidian sect which was headquartered in a compound in Mount Carmel, near Waco. The series reported that leader Vernon Howell, later known as David Koresh, had turned the group into a cult, engaged in polygamy, abused children living in the compound, and was amassing an arsenal of weapons. The ""Tribune-Herald"" had been reporting on a number of issues about the compound in the months before the series. Federal authorities asked managing editor Barbara Elmore"
"Marshall Applewhite Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. (May 17, 1931 – March 26, 1997), also known as Bo and Do, among other names, was an American cult leader who founded what became known as the Heaven's Gate religious group and organized their mass suicide in 1997, claiming the lives of thirty-nine people. A native of Texas, Applewhite attended several universities and, as a young man, served in the United States Army. After finishing school at Austin College, he taught music at the University of Alabama. He later returned to Texas, where he led choruses and served as the chair of the"
"Marshall Applewhite Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. (May 17, 1931 – March 26, 1997), also known as Bo and Do, among other names, was an American cult leader who founded what became known as the Heaven's Gate religious group and organized their mass suicide in 1997, claiming the lives of thirty-nine people. A native of Texas, Applewhite attended several universities and, as a young man, served in the United States Army. After finishing school at Austin College, he taught music at the University of Alabama. He later returned to Texas, where he led choruses and served as the chair of the"
"Jon (Kimo) and his mother, Carolyn Louise Moore Layton, both died during the events at Jonestown. Jim Jones James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American religious cult leader who, along with his inner circle, initiated and was responsible for a mass suicide and mass murder in Jonestown, Guyana. Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple cult which he began in Indiana during the 1950s. He was officially ordained in 1956 by the Independent Assemblies of God and in 1964 by the Disciples of Christ. He moved the Temple to California in"
"Jim Jones James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American religious cult leader who, along with his inner circle, initiated and was responsible for a mass suicide and mass murder in Jonestown, Guyana. Jones was the founder and leader of the Peoples Temple cult which he began in Indiana during the 1950s. He was officially ordained in 1956 by the Independent Assemblies of God and in 1964 by the Disciples of Christ. He moved the Temple to California in 1965 and gained notoriety with its activities in San Francisco in the early 1970s. He then"
"1939. During the early 1980s, a small group of Christian Identity survivalists, led by Michael W. Ryan, began living in a religious cult located on a farm two miles north of Rulo, along the Missouri River. The farm was converted into a compound and the members of the cult would commit thefts throughout the Nebraska-Missouri-Kansas area. The stolen property would be sold in order to buy weapons and survival equipment for the group. Ryan was ultimately convicted and sentenced to death after the Nebraska State Patrol discovered that he was responsible for the torture murders of a 26-year-old cult member"
"Terri Hoffman Terri Lee Hoffman (March 21, 1938 – October 31, 2015), later known as Terri Lilya Keanely, was an American religious cult leader known for the mysterious deaths of her followers, including two husbands, shortly after they had willed their possessions to her. The devotees in her Dallas-based new religious movement, Conscious Development of Body, Mind and Soul, fought against the ""black lords"" on various planes of existence and protected themselves with powerful gems. The goal was joining God and the twelve ""masters"" through reincarnation in the spiritual realm. A four-year investigation by Dallas district attorney's office failed to"
"him. Adolfo Constanzo, the leader of the cult, told his followers that human sacrifice granted them immunity from law enforcement for their drug smuggling operations. The killing drew worldwide media attention and initiated an international police manhunt because of the unusual circumstances of the crime. After the bodies were discovered on 11 April 1989, Constanzo fled to Mexico City but was eventually tracked down. As the police surrounded his apartment complex, Constanzo died after ordering one of the cult members to kill him with a machine gun. Sara Aldrete, another high-ranking member of the cult, was arrested at the scene"
"Heaven's Gate (religious group) Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian cult based in San Diego, California, founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985). On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group, who had participated in a mass suicide in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp. Just before the suicide, the group's website was updated with the message: ""Hale-Bopp brings closure to Heaven's Gate ... Our 22 years of classroom here on planet Earth is finally coming to conclusion 'graduation'"
"the group as a cybersect, due to its heavy reliance on computer mediated communication as a mode of communication prior to the group's collective suicide. Heaven's Gate (religious group) Heaven's Gate was an American UFO religious millenarian cult based in San Diego, California, founded in 1974 and led by Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985). On March 26, 1997, police discovered the bodies of 39 members of the group, who had participated in a mass suicide in order to reach what they believed was an extraterrestrial spacecraft following Comet Hale–Bopp. Just before the suicide, the group's website was updated"
"2008 by Lashkar-e-Taiba, and the November 2015 Paris attacks in November 2015 by ISIL. Certain cults, especially religious cults, have committed a number of mass killings and mass murder-suicides. These include Jim Jones' Peoples Temple in Jonestown, Guyana, where 919 people died in 1978; the Order of the Solar Temple in Canada, Switzerland, and France, where 75 died in 1994, 1995, and 1997; Shoko Asahara's Aum Shinrikyo, which killed 12 in Tokyo, Japan, in 1995; Marshall Applewhite's Heaven's Gate in San Diego, California, where 39 died in 1997; and the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God"
"Adolfo Constanzo Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo (November 1, 1962 – May 6, 1989) was a Cuban-American serial killer, drug dealer, and cult leader of an infamous gang dubbed by the media as The Narcosatanists (Spanish: ""Los Narcosatánicos""). His cult members nicknamed him The Godfather (""El Padrino""). He led the cult with Sara Aldrete, who their followers nicknamed “The Godmother” (""La Madrina""). The cult was involved in multiple ritualistic killings in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, including the murder of Mark Kilroy, an American student killed in Matamoros in 1989. Constanzo was born in Miami, Florida to Delia Aurora Gonzalez, a Cuban immigrant"
"along with several others. In 1993, the cult members were found guilty of a number of charges, including capital murder and drug trafficking. Several of them, however, claimed they were not guilty of Kilroy's murder and told the press they were tortured to confess. Only two suspects remain at large. Mark James Kilroy was born on 5 March 1968, in Chicago, Illinois, U.S. His parents were James ""Jim"" William (father), a chemical engineer, and Helen Josephine (mother), a volunteer paramedic. They moved to Texas from the Midwest after their son was born. Kilroy grew up in Santa Fe, Texas, a"
"Terry Ratzmann Terry Michael Ratzmann (1960 – March 12, 2005) was an American mass murderer who killed seven members of his Church congregation, the Living Church of God (LCG), before committing suicide at a Sheraton Hotel in Brookfield, Wisconsin in 2005. Previously living with his mother and sister, Ratzmann was known as an avid gardener who often shared his homegrown produce with the church congregation and had a passion for carnivorous plants. On the verge of losing his job as a computer technician with a placement firm, Ratzmann was known to suffer from bouts of depression, and was reportedly infuriated"
"ex-members of the group still remain in hiding for fear of retribution from LeBaron's remaining followers. However, when LeBaron's daughter Anna LeBaron, who escaped from the cult aged 13, published an account of her life and the cult in 2017, when she was 48, she said that the blood-letting was over and family members were no longer in danger. Ervil LeBaron married 13 women and fathered more than 50 children. He also raised several stepchildren. cult leader Ervil LeBaron Ervil Morrell LeBaron (February 22, 1925 – August 15, 1981) was the leader of a polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group who ordered"
"1970s and 1980s, sexually suggestive photographic depictions of Rodriguez (aka ""Davidito"") with adult caretakers were disseminated throughout the group by Berg and Zerby in a childrearing handbook known as ""The Story of Davidito"". In January 2005, Ricky Rodriguez murdered one of the female caretakers shown in the handbook before taking his own life several hours later. The sociologist Dr. Thomas Robbins argued that Berg's leadership of the Children of God was based on charismatic authority. David Berg David Brandt Berg (February 18, 1919October 1, 1994), frequently known by the pseudonym Moses David, was the founder and leader of the new"
"the murder of Mark Kilroy. Sara Aldrete Sara María Aldrete Villareal (born September 6, 1964) is a convicted Mexican serial killer who headed a drug-smuggling and human sacrifice cult with Adolfo Constanzo. The members of the cult, dubbed by the media as The Narcosatanists (Spanish: ""Los Narcosatánicos""), called her The Godmother (""La Madrina""), with Constanzo as “The Godfather” (""El Padrino""). The cult was involved in multiple ritualistic killings in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, including the murder of Mark Kilroy, an American student killed in Matamoros in 1989. Born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, she attended high school in Brownsville, Texas, United States"
"Mount Carmel Center New Mount Carmel Center was the name of the Branch Davidian home in the Axtell area outside Waco, Texas, United States, led first by Benjamin Roden and later David Koresh. Named after the Biblical mountain in northern Israel, it was here that the Waco siege of 1993 occurred and the home burned, in which four ATF agents and 82 Branch Davidians died. Some news reports about the siege referred to it as the ""Branch Davidian compound"". The name derives from a particular verse from the Bible, on which the Branch Davidians base their beliefs: In 1935, Davidian"
"Sara Aldrete Sara María Aldrete Villareal (born September 6, 1964) is a convicted Mexican serial killer who headed a drug-smuggling and human sacrifice cult with Adolfo Constanzo. The members of the cult, dubbed by the media as The Narcosatanists (Spanish: ""Los Narcosatánicos""), called her The Godmother (""La Madrina""), with Constanzo as “The Godfather” (""El Padrino""). The cult was involved in multiple ritualistic killings in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, including the murder of Mark Kilroy, an American student killed in Matamoros in 1989. Born in Matamoros, Tamaulipas, Mexico, she attended high school in Brownsville, Texas, United States while still living south of"
"allowed them all to move in. Two months later, Jordan took his wives and children and the LeBaron children with him on a camping trip. He was shot and killed at the campground. A week later, Aaron was arrested after pulling a gun on Jordan's wives and children and telling them he had been given a revelation giving him authority over the family. On June 27, 1988, the cult targeted three names that were prominently on Ervil LeBaron's blood atonement list. Within the span of a few minutes around 4 pm, cult members killed four people in three different locations"
"Roch Thériault Roch Thériault (May 16, 1947 – February 26, 2011) was a Canadian cult leader who led the small religious group the Ant Hill Kids in Burnt River, Ontario, between 1977 and 1989. Thériault, a self-proclaimed prophet under the name ""Moïse"", founded the doomsday cult in Quebec based on Seventh-day Adventist Church beliefs. Thériault maintained multiple wives and concubines, impregnating all female members as a religious requirement, and fathering 26 children. Thériault's followers, including 12 adults and 22 children, lived under his totalitarian rule at the commune and were subject to severe physical and sexual abuse. Thériault was arrested"
"events of 1993 on the property have been altered over the years since 1993. Mount Carmel Center New Mount Carmel Center was the name of the Branch Davidian home in the Axtell area outside Waco, Texas, United States, led first by Benjamin Roden and later David Koresh. Named after the Biblical mountain in northern Israel, it was here that the Waco siege of 1993 occurred and the home burned, in which four ATF agents and 82 Branch Davidians died. Some news reports about the siege referred to it as the ""Branch Davidian compound"". The name derives from a particular verse"
"which 909 members of the Peoples Temple, an American religious group led by Jim Jones, ended their lives by drinking grape Flavor Aid laced with cyanide and various prescription drugs. Thousands of Japanese civilians took their own lives in the last days of the Battle of Saipan in 1944, some jumping from ""Suicide Cliff"" and ""Banzai Cliff"". The 1981 Irish hunger strikes, led by Bobby Sands, resulted in 10 deaths. The cause of death was recorded by the coroner as ""starvation, self-imposed"" rather than suicide; this was modified to simply ""starvation"" on the death certificates after protest from the dead"
"Cult of the Dead Cow Cult of the Dead Cow, also known as cDc or cDc Communications, is a computer hacker and DIY media organization founded in 1984 in Lubbock, Texas. The group maintains a weblog on its site, also titled ""Cult of the Dead Cow"". New media are released first through the blog, which also features thoughts and opinions of the group's members. To further the cult's stated goal of ""Global Domination Through Media Saturation,"" over the years cDc members have granted interviews to major newspapers, print magazines, online news sites, and international television news programs. The group was"
"cocaine and marijuana. On March 13, 1989, Constanzo's henchmen abducted a pre-med student, Mark Kilroy, from outside a Mexican bar and took him back to the ranch. Kilroy was a U.S. citizen who had been in Mexico on spring break. When Kilroy was brought to the ranch, Constanzo murdered him. Under pressure from Texan politicians, Mexican police initially picked up four of Constanzo's followers, including two of the Hernandez brothers. Police quickly discovered the cult and that Constanzo had been responsible for Kilroy's death; he sought a ""good""/superior brain for one of his ritual spells. Officers raided the ranch and"
"strategies, suggesting that the FBI ""attempt to embarrass Koresh by informing other members of the compound about Koresh's faults and failures in life, in order to convince them that Koresh was not the prophet they had been led to believe"". The ATF also contacted Ross in January 1993 for information about Koresh. Several writers have documented the Cult Awareness Network's role in relation to the government's decision-making concerning Waco. Mark MacWilliams notes that several studies have shown how ""self-styled cult experts like Ross, anticult organizations like the Cult Awareness Network (CAN), and disaffected Branch Davidian defectors like Breault played important"
"drum, an organ, and a bed of daisies growing where the bodies once lay. Mass suicides: Jonestown The Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, better known by its informal name ""Jonestown"", was a remote settlement established by the Peoples Temple, an American cult under the leadership of reverend Jim Jones, in north Guyana. It became internationally known when, on November 18, 1978, a total of 918 people died in the settlement, at the nearby airstrip in Port Kaituma, and at a Temple-run building in Georgetown, Guyana's capital city. The name of the settlement became synonymous with the incidents at those locations. In"
"at a jungle airstrip in Guyana in November 1978. Hours after Mr. Ryan and four others were shot to death at an airstrip near Jonestown, which was the headquarters of the cult, the cult's leader, the Jim Jones, and 912 of his followers died by poison and gunfire in mass killings and suicides. Peckham sentenced Layton to life in prison, as well as to three concurrent terms of 15 years each in related charges. In 1990, the Robert F. Peckham Federal Building Courthouse in San Jose, California was named in Peckham's honor. Robert Francis Peckham Robert Francis Peckham (November 3,"
"beverage used as a controlled resource of consciousness expansion - and ended in 1971 with the death of Raimundo Irineu Serra, also known as ""mestre Irineu"", the Brazilian preacher who started these cults. This strict focus permitted the keen knowledge of what was really preached by master Irineu, by the study of the specific content of the hymns adopted by him, which is the written testimony of the true identity, method and purpose of his beliefs. All the stories about his life and works were preserved only by oral tradition after he died, and the result of these researches (1993–2002)"
"Juan Francisco Murillo Díaz Juan Francisco Murillo Díaz, also known as ""El Güero Jaibo"" (Mexican Spanish slang: ""Tampico Whitey""), was a member of the Tijuana Cartel (Arellano Félix Organization), believed to be one of the masterminds and shooters behind the assassination of Cardinal Juan Jesús Posadas Ocampo in Guadalajara, Jalisco, in May 1993. Although he was never arrested, Murillo was identified as the actual shooter, along with Édgar Nicolás Villegas, AKA ""El Negro"" (The Negro). Murillo was killed in a shootout with judicial police in Sinaloa de Leyva, Sinaloa, in August 1993. Murillo's nephew, Ulises Murillo Mariscal, also a member"
"Sup Ct (1955). After his death two of his followers, Sister Thedra (Dorothy Leon) and Sister Wali, both moved to Mount Shasta, California, where they channeled messages supposedly from him. Krishna Venta Krishna Venta (born Francis Herman Pencovic; March 29, 1911 – December 10, 1958) was the leader of a California religious group in the 1940s and 1950s. Venta founded his WKFL (Wisdom, Knowledge, Faith and Love) Fountain of the World cult in the Simi Valley, California. Pencovic was born in San Francisco in 1911 to Albert Pencovic and his wife Maude Busenbach. His father was a Jewish immigrant from"
"money and sexual favors, but after a prostitute named Magdalena Solís entered in the organization, she inaugurated human sacrifices inspired by ancient Aztec rituals as a method to control disciples. During the 1980s, other case of serial murders that involved human sacrifices rituals occurred in Tamaulipas, Mexico. The drug dealer and cult leader Adolfo Constanzo orchestrated several executions during rituals that included the victims' dismemberment. Constanzo had several accomplices, one of them was Sara Aldrete, a woman who participated actively in around 15 murders between 1987 and 1989. Between 2009 and 2010, in Sonora, Mexico, a serial killer named Silvia"
"in 2005. Licht-Oase Licht-Oase (Light Oasis) was a cult led by Arno Wollensak and Julie Ravell with around 40 members. Reports of sexual abuse of minors within the cult lead to a police investigation. In 2007 Wollensak failed to appear in court and fled to Uruguay with Ravell in 2008 using forged Surinamese documents. Wollensak was arrested by police in Uruguay in 2015. He was found murdered in Uruguay August 28, 2016 . Lea Saskia Laasner has described her experiences in the cult in her book ""Allein gegen die Seelenfänger. Meine Kindheit in der Psycho-Sekte"" for which she won the"