Cult Tied to 6 People Who Vanished From Berkeley Spread on TikTok
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Six people who disappeared in August after sharing a house in Berkeley, Missouri, had ties to an alleged cult run by a social media influencer currently in prison for child molestation.
The missing six include four women, two from St. Louis: Mikayla Thompson, 25, and Ma’Kayla Wickerson, 36, as well as Wickerson’s 3-year-old daughter, Malaiyah, and another child.
Prior to their disappearance, those three St. Louisans were living in the Berkeley house with three others: 30-year-old Naaman Williams of Washington, D.C.; Gerrielle German, 27, of Mississippi, and German’s 2-year-old daughter, Ashton Williams.
The investigation into the missing women has made national news this week. Berkeley Police were concerned about the strange goings-on at the house not far from St. Louis Lambert International Airport where the six people lived. The women could be seen in the backyard worshiping the sun, sometimes naked.
Major Steve Runge with Berkeley PD told the Post-Dispatch that the women’s disappearances were “extremely troubling” to their families.
“The level of disconnect these cult members have demonstrated with friends and family members is unfathomable,” he said.
The six women lived in the single-story vinyl-sided house in Berkeley before relocating to a hotel in Florissant. After the women left the hotel, authorities searched the Berkeley house, finding no signs of foul play but ample evidence, including food still in the microwave, that indicated it had been left in a hurry. It was then that a search of the women’s social media activity revealed them to all be avid followers of Rashad Jamal.
Jamal has been described in various media outlets as a cult leader and a social media prophet. On his own Twitter account he describes himself as an “Author/Poet /Revolutionary/Luminous Being” based out of Chicago. He operates a website, the University Of Cosmic Intelligence, where for $333.33 a year subscribers can access lectures and other materials.
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