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Week 1 recap: Lori Vallow Daybell trial focuses on dark beliefs, deadly motives

Published April 14, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes, Cult TV Tagged Arizona, cult mom, Lori Vallow, murder trial

PHOENIX — The first week of Lori Vallow Daybell's murder conspiracy trial has concluded and testimony, at times, was contentious. Vallow Daybell, who has already been convicted of killing her two children, Tylee and JJ, is defending herself against murder…[Continue Reading...]

Four die as cult groups clash in Delta community

Published April 14, 2025 By admin

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

Four persons have been killed in a rival cult clash in Jesse Community, Ethiope-West Local Government Area of Delta State. The clash between Eiye and Vikings began on Saturday evening, during which two persons were killed, and it continued until…[Continue Reading...]

Malaysian series ‘Bidaah’ on Islamic cult tops 1 billion streams but stirs controversy

Published April 14, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes, Cult TV Tagged cults, Indonesia, Malaysia, television series

A Malaysian online series about a fictional Islamic cult has topped a billion streams across local users and in Indonesia, with its disturbing depiction of a predatory cult leader igniting strong emotions and debate among Muslims in Southeast Asia. Bidaah…[Continue Reading...]

Via porn, gore and ultra-violence, extremist groups are sinking hooks online into the very young

Published April 13, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged children, online radicalization, radicalisation

PARIS (AP) — After his arrest, the boy’s mother was stunned to discover that her 12-year-old had been learning how to kill and gorging on videos of decapitation and torture so gruesome they made even case-hardened French court officials look…[Continue Reading...]

‘Jehovah’s Witnesses told me I would die at 15 – so I didn’t save for a pension’

Published April 13, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged doomsday prophecy, Jehovah's Witnesses, survivor story

Kit de Waal is an award-winning author who left school at 16. Her debut novel, My Name is Leon, was published when she was 56, and became a bestseller. It was turned into a TV movie for the BBC and…[Continue Reading...]

‘My mom married my step-grandpa,’ former Scientologist details wild family arrangements

Published April 13, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged former member, Scientologists, Scientology, survivor story

A love story between a strip club worker and a paraplegic man resulted in a life following Scientology for 35 years and one hell of an awkward re-marriage. It was a confusing time for five-year-old Natalie Webster, whose mom's relationship…[Continue Reading...]

Hugh Hefner’s ex-girlfriend Holly Madison says living in Playboy Mansion was like a ‘cult’

Published April 13, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged cult-like, Hugh Hefner, personal stories, Playboy mansion

Holly Madison has shared an insight into what it was really like living in the infamous Playboy mansion and some of the 'weird' things she saw. Former Playboy Bunny and ex of editor Hugh Hefner, Madison, lived and breathed the…[Continue Reading...]

3 Songs That Cult Leader Charles Manson Wrote (And 3 Musicians Who Covered Them)

Published April 13, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged Charles Mason, convicted murderer, cult leader, music, songs

For fans of true crime or those who were around when Charles Manson became the infamous cult leader he is known as today, Manson’s involvement in the music industry is pretty wild. Before people realized just how horrible he was,…[Continue Reading...]

Teen suspected of murdering parents now tied to ‘cult’ and conspiracy to kill Trump to spark a ‘political revolution’

Published April 13, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Cult Crimes Tagged cults, murders, neo nazis, Nikita Casap, Order of Nine Angles, Order of the Nine Angels, Wakesha, Waukesha, Wisconsin

A Wisconsin teenager accused of murdering his parents followed a neo-Nazi “cult” and hoped to further a plot to overthrow the U.S. government, including killing President Donald Trump, prosecutors say. Nikita Casap, 17, is accused of killing his mother Tatiana…[Continue Reading...]

LDS Church loses lawsuit against insurance companies over sex abuse settlements

Published April 12, 2025 By admin

Categorized as Uncategorized Tagged lawsuit, LDS, Mormon Church, Mormons, sexual abuse settlements

SALT LAKE CITY — A federal judge has ruled against The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in a lawsuit over who pays for sexual abuse settlements. The Church sued its own insurance providers, National Union Insurance and ACE…[Continue Reading...]

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