In 2018, the 13 Turpin family siblings were rescued from their family home after enduring years of abuse at the hands of their parents: David and Louise Turpin. It wasn't until then-17-year-old Jordan Turpin escaped their family's California home and…[Continue Reading...]
In the latest "can't believe it's true" tale from Lifetime, Surviving My Father: The Rachel Jeffs Story tells the real-life drama that the daughter of polygamist cult leader Warren Jeffs had to endure before she managed to escape her father's…[Continue Reading...]
“They were a church cult – whatever they called themselves. They kept me locked away because I knew what they were doing was wrong, like beating me every day.” Brie Byrd said she was battered and bruised on a daily…[Continue Reading...]
The Shincheonji Church of Jesus has condemned a joint investigation by prosecutors and police into alleged collusion between religion and politics regarding the religious sect, saying the group has faced “persecution” before and should stay focused on its mission. The…[Continue Reading...]
For more than five decades, Australian cult The Family has sparked both fascination and controversy. Founded in the early 1960s by yoga instructor turned spiritual guru Anne Hamilton-Byrne, this New Age group – predominately based in and around Melbourne’s Dandenong…[Continue Reading...]
The Gamut Podcast Network’s flagship true crime series American Nightmares returns February 3 with its most unsettling season yet: Gardens of Evil: Inside the Zion Society Cult, a firsthand account of a cult that thrived for years behind the appearance…[Continue Reading...]
A Spanish court has rejected an appeal by a group of excommunicated nuns who joined a sect and were ordered to leave their convent, confirming their eviction, an archbishopric said on Friday. Nine nuns from the Order of Saint Clare…[Continue Reading...]
A DOOMSDAY cult behind a deadly chemical attack is recruiting a new generation of followers – with fears of “indiscriminate mass murder”. Aum Shinrikyo released nerve gas on the Tokyo subway in 1995 – in the country’s most catastrophic attack…[Continue Reading...]
Yun Young-ho, former world head of the Unification Church, who is accused of offering bribes to former first lady Kim Keon-hee, the spouse of former President Yoon Suk-yeol, and Kweon Seong-dong, a member of the People Power Party, was sentenced…[Continue Reading...]
LAS VEGAS -- A Nevada jury on Friday convicted “Dances With Wolves” actor Nathan Chasing Horse of sexually assaulting Indigenous women and girls in a case that sent shock waves through Indian Country. The jurors in Las Vegas found Chasing…[Continue Reading...]
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