Federal prosecutors on Monday charged a 19-year-old California man linked to the extremist “764” cult with a string of crimes, including child sexual exploitation, animal abuse, and online threats. A federal grand jury in the Eastern District of California indicted…[Continue Reading...]
Aformer member of the Manson Family will remain behind bars after California Gov. Gavin Newsom denied her parole. Newsom announced his decision Oct. 13, rejecting the parole board’s recommendation to release Patricia Krenwinkel, 77, citing her “unreasonable danger to society.”…[Continue Reading...]
California Gov. Gavin Newsom has reversed a parole board’s decision to release Patricia Krenwinkel, a former follower of cult leader Charles Manson and one of the perpetrators of the 1969 Tate-LaBianca murders. In a decision issued Oct. 13 and obtained…[Continue Reading...]
A Solano County Superior Court judge vacated the October trial for two Zizian cult members, each charged with a November 2022 murder and attempted murder in Vallejo, and reset it for March 3. Judge John B. Ellis’ decision, after hearing…[Continue Reading...]
On the night of August 8–9, 1969, followers of Charles Manson brutally murdered Sharon Tate and four others at her home in Los Angeles. He reportedly told his followers to kill everyone at 10050 Cielo Drive “as gruesome[ly] as you…[Continue Reading...]
Decades before Charles Manson’s followers spread terror in Los Angeles and Jim Jones orchestrated mass suicide in Guyana, a bearded mystic named Thomas Lake Harris preached salvation in the hills above Santa Rosa. He claimed to speak with spirits, rewrote…[Continue Reading...]
Before a recent break in the 2023 disappearance of Emilio Ghanem, there hasn’t been much talk about Ruben Moreno. But things have changed rapidly in the past few weeks. Authorities are now trying to determine if there could be a…[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...]
Detectives in San Bernardino may have caught a break in a more than two-year-old missing persons case that they are now investigating as a possible homicide. Emilio Ghanem, 40, vanished in May 2023 while on a trip to the Inland…[Continue Reading...]
Social media accounts belonging to two dancers embroiled with a pastor's alleged TikTok dance 'cult' have mysteriously vanished after federal agents raided the church leader's home. Married influencers Miranda and James Derrick left fans baffled after their Instagram and TikTok…[Continue Reading...]
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