Netflix has dropped a true crime doc exploring who took over from Warren Jeffs as the leader of his controversial cult. Trust Me: The False Prophet has landed on Netflix with cult researcher Christine Marie and her husband and videographer…[Continue Reading...]
Samuel Bateman claimed he had divine authority to shepherd his own extremist sect of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS). In reality, he was orchestrating a multi-state scheme to conceal horrific sexual crimes. Netflix is reexamining…[Continue Reading...]
Neo-Nazi Matthew Althorpe, who urged his recruits to start a race war, has been sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to three terror-related charges. Superior Court Justice Jane Kelly rejected his lawyer’s recommendation of a 12-to-14-year term…[Continue Reading...]
The cult leaders, who attracted hundreds of believers to an illegal multi-level organization saying they "promise eternal life," were sentenced to prison in the first trial. On the 13th, Judge Kim Gil-ho of the Seoul Southern District Court sentenced co-leaders…[Continue Reading...]
Airdate: Tuesday, December 2 at 10AM In 2011, Nicole Daedone took to the stage at a San Francisco TedTalk to discuss her biggest business venture: the female orgasm. The founder of OneTaste, a company dedicated to “orgasmic meditation”, told a…[Continue Reading...]
Nicole Daedone had a problem, and to solve it, she needed some willing and able women. It was 2011, and Nicole was the co-founder and C.E.O. of OneTaste, a San Francisco–based sexual wellness start-up that sold courses on orgasmic meditation.…[Continue Reading...]
ALBANY — A panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit roundly rejected former NXIVM leader Keith Raniere’s request to have three lower court rulings overturned. The ruling was released Monday morning, less than a…[Continue Reading...]
MANHATTAN (CN) — A federal appeals court on Monday rejected NXIVM cult leader Keith Raniere’s bid for a new trial, finding that a “mountain of evidence” substantiated the government’s charges of child sexual exploitation and pornography predicate acts and his…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX — Lori Vallow Daybell has been ordered to pay nearly $12,000 in restitution to Kay Woodcock in connection to Charles Vallow’s murder case in Arizona. Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Justin Beresky ruled on the restitution amount during a…[Continue Reading...]
With only four years of his 120-year sentence in federal prison behind him, former NXIVM leader Keith Raniere can’t be judged too harshly for taking every opportunity possible to try to win himself a new trial. When it comes to…[Continue Reading...]
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