A man has revealed how he escaped a polygamous Mormon cult before its former leader was sentenced to life behind bars for child sex offences. Ben, based in Utah, appeared on a recent episode of the Cults to Consciousness podcast to share what…[Continue Reading...]
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI – In 1975, self-styled prophet William A. Lewis, a charismatic, Chicago-area radio preacher, led a handful of followers to the House of Judah, a communal compound five miles east of South Haven. The congregation grew to maybe…[Continue Reading...]
ST. ANTHONY — Chad Daybell’s attorney is asking a judge to take the death penalty off the table in his client’s case because he says Daybell is less culpable than his wife, Lori Vallow Daybell, who did not face the…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX — Jacob Chansley, who may be better known as the "QAnon Shaman," has filed a statement of interest to run for Arizona’s 8th Congressional District in Congress. Chansley stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 and pleaded guilty…[Continue Reading...]
NAIROBI, Kenya -- Paul Mackenzie, the Kenyan preacher at the center of a doomsday cult in the country that led to the deaths of more than 400 people, was on Friday found guilty of operating a studio and distributing films…[Continue Reading...]
Idaho’s governor signed extradition papers last month, but MCSO said there is no plan to pick her up until she is done with her appeals process in Idaho.[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX - We have an update on the trial of Chad Daybell, a man accused of murdering his wife, in addition to allegations he was involved in the deaths of his wife Lori Vallow's children, Joshua ‘JJ’ Vallow and Tylee…[Continue Reading...]
ALLEGAN COUNTY, MI – Forty years ago, a 9-year-old Daniel Yarbough held his dying brother in his arms. The 12-year-old was beaten so badly he couldn’t take a sip of water. The men at the camp put him in the…[Continue Reading...]
Now a subject of multiple true-crime works, Warren Jeffs was once a cult leader of FLDS and admired by many followers. This continued until recently when the truths of his ghastly polygamy first surfaced. As the Churh’s head, he had…[Continue Reading...]
NEW YORK — A federal judge denied NXIVM leader Keith Raniere's bid for a new trial, rejecting his argument that FBI agents planted evidence to frame him for possession of child pornography. In a decision issued Monday, Senior U.S. District…[Continue Reading...]
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