On a June afternoon in 2018, a man named Mickey Barreto checked into the New Yorker Hotel. He was assigned Room 2565, a double-bed accommodation with a view of Midtown Manhattan almost entirely obscured by an exterior wall. For a…[Continue Reading...]
REXBURG — In December 2019, the world learned that two children, Joshua “JJ” Vallow, and his sister, Tylee Ryan, were missing. Since then, a complicated story spanning multiple states and law enforcement agencies has unfolded. Here is a timeline of…[Continue Reading...]
India Oxenberg, daughter of 'Dynasty' actress Catherine Oxenberg, detailed the slow 'brainwashing process' that led her into sexual slavery in the NXIVM cult. Watch the video.[Continue Reading...]
Chad Daybell and his wife, Lori Vallow Daybell, were charged in the deaths of Vallow's children and Daybell's first wife, Tammy Daybell. Watch the video.[Continue Reading...]
Cult leaders often get a bad rap, and for good reason. Among the 20th century’s most notorious cult leaders were Jim Jones, who led 909 followers to their deaths in “Jonestown”, Guyana, and Charles Manson, who committed countless crimes as…[Continue Reading...]
Kenyan government officials ignored "credible reports" that could have prevented the death of more than 400 suspected doomsday cult members, a state-funded human rights watchdog said on Friday. The piles of human remains were discovered in April 2023 in Shakahola…[Continue Reading...]
Wednesday marked the 29th anniversary of the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult's sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system that killed 14 people and injured more than 6,000. At Tokyo Metro's Kasumigaseki Station, 16 station staff members offered a…[Continue Reading...]
If someone who seemed larger than life offered you a glimpse of a brand-new self, would you believe it? Keith Raniere had the ability to make the people around him see a vision of hope and success with his group,…[Continue Reading...]
PHOENIX (AP) — A businessman pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiring with the leader of an offshoot polygamous sect near the Arizona-Utah border to transport underage girls across state lines, making him the first man to be convicted in what authorities…[Continue Reading...]
Madzibaba Ishmael Chokurongerwa, and his seven church members have been denied bail on the basis that they may interfere with witnesses and that they may be a public outcry. The ruling was made Norton Court Regional magistrate Christine Nyandoro today…[Continue Reading...]
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