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Police Watched as Mackenzie Abducted Children, Father Says in Emotional Shakahola Hearing

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The heartbreaking testimony of 66-year-old Safari Katana Yaa reveals how police repeatedly failed families trying to rescue their loved ones from Paul Mackenzie’s deadly cult before the Shakahola tragedy claimed over 450 lives. Katana’s nightmare began in 2017 when Mackenzie’s…[Continue Reading...]

DCI releases 10 Shakahola cult victims to families for burial

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Detectives from the Homicide Unit have released 10 bodies of the Shakahola victims, who were followers of controversial preacher Paul Mackenzie, for burial in the Western and Nyanza regions. Families of the deceased gathered at the morgue to view the…[Continue Reading...]

Lori Vallow Daybell speaks with East Idaho News reporter Nate Eaton in jailhouse interview that will stream Monday

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PHOENIX — Lori Vallow Daybell spent part of her 52nd birthday speaking with EastIdahoNews.com about a variety of topics, including her convicted crimes, her husband, the justice system and whether she would change anything that’s happened over the past six…[Continue Reading...]

Looking back on the deadliest cult disasters

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914 dead, Guyana jungle apocalypse In one of the most dramatic mass murder-suicides of modern history, 914 adults and children from a US cult died in the jungle of the small South American country of Guyana on November 18, 1978.…[Continue Reading...]

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