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Lori Vallow trial – live: Cause of death of cult mom’s children revealed as GHB found in JJ’s body

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The trial of “doomsday cult mom” Lori Vallow is underway in Ada County Courthouse in Boise, Idaho, where the mother-of-three is accused of killing her two youngest children and her new husband Chad Daybell’s first wife. The 49-year-old is charged…[Continue Reading...]

Kenya cult toll climbs to 98 as families await news of missing

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The number of victims linked to a suspected starvation cult in Kenya climbed to 98 on Wednesday as weeping relatives anxiously awaited news of loved ones after investigators unearthed mass graves last week. The discovery of dozens of bodies buried…[Continue Reading...]

Cult investigation: Kenya sets curfew on ranch owned by detained ‘pastor’

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*Movement will be restricted in the 320-hectare ranch owned by a Kenyan pastor who is accused of directing his followers to fast to death. The country's interior minister announced Wednesday (Apr.26) that for 30 days, the area will be subjected…[Continue Reading...]

Pathologists to conduct postmoterm on Kilifi cult bodies

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The government will on Thursday start conducting a postmortem on the bodies exhumed from the Shakahola forest in Kilifi. This follows a directive by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Noordin Haji earlier this week. The Kilifi cult death toll…[Continue Reading...]

Pastor Ezekiel Odero grilled by DCI over links to cult leader Paul Mackenzie

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Pastor Ezekiel Odero of New Life Prayer Centre and Church is currently under investigation by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations (DCI) for alleged indoctrination of members, following the recent deaths and recovery of bodies of suspected members of a cult…[Continue Reading...]

Good News International Church Pastor Paul Mackenzie during an interview with the ‘Nation’ in Kilifi County on March 24, 2023. The pastor is under arrest following the deaths of four followers, whom he reportedly told to starve themselves in order to “meet Jesus”. PHOTO | NMG

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A series of blunders by controversial televangelist Paul Mackenzie and his aides made his freedom short-lived after he was released by a court last month, leading to the discovery of mass graves in Kilifi’s Shakahola village. On March 23, Mackenzie…[Continue Reading...]

Kenyan father searches for wife and six children among dead cult members

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MALINDI, Kenya, April 26 (Reuters) - Stephen Mwiti was too distraught to go identify the bodies of his wife and six children among the corpses of dozens of cult members recovered from Shakahola forest and brought to a mortuary in…[Continue Reading...]

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