Category: Cult Crimes

Trial to begin for accused cult leader next week

Published February 17, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Atlanta, criminal trial, cult leader, Eligio Bishop, Georgia

Eligio Bishop, otherwise known as "Natureboy," is set to stand trial on Tuesday, Feb. 20.[Continue Reading...]

How many wives did Warren Jeff have?

Published February 16, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged child abuse, FLDS, Polygamist cult, sexual abuse, Warren Jeffs

Though Warren Jeffs was sentenced to life plus 20 years in prison for child abuse, rape, and arranging marriages between young girls and older men, many still consider him the leader of the FLDS today. Part of the FLDS religious…[Continue Reading...]

‘Cult Mom’ Lori Vallow Daybell to Go on Trial in Arizona on August 1

Published February 15, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Arizona, criminal charges, cult mom, Lori Vallow, murderer

The so-called “Cult Mom,” already serving three life sentences for the deaths of two of her children and her fifth husband’s first wife, will now stand trial beginning on August 1 on conspiracy charges in the death of her fourth…[Continue Reading...]

Police arrest notorious cult leaders allegedly responsible for killings in Anambra

Published February 13, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged criminal arrest, cults, gangs, Nigeria

The police in Anambra State, south-east Nigeria, say they have arrested two notorious leaders of cult groups in the state. The police spokesperson in Anambra State, Tochukwu Ikenga, said in a statement on Monday that the arrested cult leaders were…[Continue Reading...]

The dark secrets of televangelist TB Joshua’s cult

Published February 10, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged coercive control, faith healer, sexual abuse, TB Joshua, televangelist

Perpetrators of abuse often isolate their victims, stopping them from interacting with the general population and restraining them from deciphering the extensive system of oppression in the relationship. Televangelist, creator of Emmanuel TV and founder of the Synagogue Church of…[Continue Reading...]

Valentine Michael Manson, Son of Infamous Cult Leader Charles Manson

Published February 8, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Charles Manson, son of cult leader, Valentine Michael Manson

Since his childhood, Valentine Michael Manson has been in the limelight because of his family’s heinous crimes. Being in the spotlight can be overwhelming; however, being in the spotlight for negative things is a whole new experience. Valentine Mason is…[Continue Reading...]

‘He’s Able’: Inside the album recorded by the Jonestown cult

Published February 7, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult compound, cult leader, cult massacre, Jim Jones, Jonestown, music

At the end of the 1960s, the counterculture started to become more dangerous by the day. As much as artists wanted to believe in freedom of expression, the heinous acts of people like Charles Manson cast a dark shroud over…[Continue Reading...]

Taxi driver appears in court accused of leading starvation cult that killed 400

Published February 6, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, Kenya, murder charges, Paul Mackenzie

Kenyan cult leader Paul Mackenzie and 29 associates were charged on Tuesday with the murder of 191 children whose bodies were found among more than double that number buried in a forest. The defendants all denied the charges brought before…[Continue Reading...]

Kenya cult leader, who incited followers to starve to death to ‘meet Jesus’ charged with 191 counts of murder

Published February 6, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, doomsday cult. Paul Mackenzie, Good News International Church, Kenya, murder charges

A Kenyan court on Tuesday charged the leader of a starvation cult and dozens of suspected accomplices with murder over the deaths of nearly 200 people in a forest near the Indian Ocean. Self-proclaimed pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie, who has…[Continue Reading...]

10 hospitalised as police, cult groups clash in Lagos schools

Published February 5, 2024 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged arrests, cults, gangs, Nigeria, violence

There was pandemonium on Wednesday, January 31, after a fight broke out among some cult groups said to be students of Community Senior Grammar School and Ikotun High School at Ikotun in the Alimosho Local Government Area of Lagos State.…[Continue Reading...]