Yisrael Amir was only 14-years-old when he was snatched from Israel to Guatemala by his father using forged passports to live among an extremist Jewish cult. The teenager and his five siblings were promised that their new life in Central…[Continue Reading...]
Warren Jeffs called himself a prophet, but he was, in reality, a polygamist cult leader and a perpetrator of sexual abuse. As the leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), an offshoot of Mormonism, Warren forced marriages…[Continue Reading...]
Thirty-two bodies have been exhumed in southeastern Kenya in the past week, in a tragedy that is sparking fresh criticism of authorities who had vowed to crack down on extremist sects after hundreds of members of a doomsday cult died…[Continue Reading...]
When Richard Ehiemere was accused of links to a neo-Nazi paedophile cult, he blamed his older brother Barthimaus. Bart, as he is known to friends, was caught with hundreds of indecent images of young boys in a raid on their…[Continue Reading...]
Two weeks after the leaders of a cult-like group in the Inland Empire were arrested, police have reopened an investigation into the death of a 4-year-old boy who had been placed in their custody. On Thursday, the Colton Police Department…[Continue Reading...]
A federal grand jury has indicted two people with ties to Taylor, Michigan, for an alleged forced labor and money laundering scheme through Kingdom of God Global Church, formerly known as Joshua Media Ministries International, as part of a nationwide…[Continue Reading...]
Over the last 10 days, 24 bodies have been exhumed from Kwa Binzaro, a small village near Kenya’s Indian Ocean coast and not far from the Shakahola forest – where 450 bodies were found in 2023. These were followers of…[Continue Reading...]
Homicide detectives have uncovered six more bodies during ongoing exhumations at Binzaro village, situated close to the Shakahola forest. The latest recovery raises the death toll linked to the new cult probe to 25. Officials said the remains would undergo…[Continue Reading...]
On November 18, 1978, the world witnessed one of the darkest chapters in modern history. A total of 912 people, including 276 children, lost their lives in a mass suicide at Jonestown, a remote settlement in Guyana (a country on…[Continue Reading...]
In September 1994, Hyojin and a colleague were driving to meet friends at Yangsu-ri river when their car was abruptly stopped by another vehicle ahead. Confused, Hyojin looked ahead, only to see a group of men emerge from the car…[Continue Reading...]
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