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Judge sanctions attorney who filed last minute, error-filled motion to have Daybell case delayed

Published April 21, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Chad Daybell, cult leader, Idaho, murder trial

BOISE — Judge Steven Boyce sanctioned a Mountain Home lawyer Thursday afternoon for filing a late-night error-filled motion asking to intervene in the murder case of Chad Daybell. Boyce told attorney Terry Ratliff he was angry when the motion was…[Continue Reading...]

Inside the Kenyan Cult That Starved Itself to Death

Published April 20, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, doomsday cult, Good News International Church, Kenya, Paul Mackenzie, starvation deaths

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...]

‘Cried every day’: Kenya cult families struggle for closure

Published April 20, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult lader, doomsday cult, Good News International Church, grieving families, Kenya, Paul Mackenzie, starvation deaths

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...]

The Cult Killings of Shakahola

Published April 20, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cult leader, doomsday cult, Good News International Church, Kenya, Paul Mackenzie, stravation deaths

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...]

Chad Daybell and Lori Vallow Daybell used ‘castings’ to pray for spouses’ deaths, ex-friend testifies

Published April 20, 2024 By admin with Comments 0

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Chad Daybell, cult leader, Idaho, murder trial

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...]