It started with one family. Then another arrived, then another. Soon there were enough of them to begin clearing a section of the forest, cutting down the moringa and acacia trees, and uprooting thick shrubs. The forest, known as Shakahola,…[Continue Reading...]
A year after school teacher Francis Wanje lost eight family members to a Kenyan doomsday cult, he is still reckoning with the horror and haunted by unanswered questions. His daughter was one of 429 people whose bodies were exhumed last…[Continue Reading...]
In April 2023, following a missing-person report filed by a man whose wife and daughter had left their home to join a church owned by preacher Paul Mackenzie, Kenyan police raided Mackenzie’s 800-acre commune in Shakahola forest on Kenya’s coast…[Continue Reading...]
BOISE, Idaho — Melanie Gibb, the former best friend of Lori Vallow Daybell, testified Thursday about multiple disturbing conversations she had with Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell in the months before and during the murders of Vallow Daybell’s husband and…[Continue Reading...]
A year after school teacher Francis Wanje lost eight family members to a Kenyan doomsday cult, he is still reckoning with the horror and haunted by unanswered questions. His daughter was one of 429 people whose bodies were exhumed last…[Continue Reading...]
A former Mormon has revealed the bizarre list of rules she had to follow when she was a member of the strict religious group - from a ban on coffee to extreme regulations about dating. Alyssa Grenfell, 31, regularly shares…[Continue Reading...]
Three days after Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow got married on a beach in Hawaii, the doomsday cult author sent an email to a realtor inquiring about a property on the islands for a “clean couple with no kids or…[Continue Reading...]
The day before Lori Vallow’s 16-year-old daughter Tylee Ryan was burned and buried in a shallow grave on Chad Daybell’s Idaho property in 2019, the Doomsday author searched online about wind direction, his trial heard Tuesday. Mr Daybell, 55, faces…[Continue Reading...]
BOISE, Idaho — Aliases, evil spirits and a 'patriarchal blessing' were the focus of Chad Daybell's capital murder trial Tuesday, as a jury heard testimonies for the fourth day. Chandler, Arizona police officer Nathan Duncan was questioned on the stand…[Continue Reading...]
The victims were members of the outlawed Good News International Ministries Church belonging to embattled Pastor Paul Nthenge Mackenzie who was arrested on April 15, 2023 and has since been under police custody. They said the families did not have…[Continue Reading...]
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