In Hulu’s ‘How I Escaped My Cult: NXIVM / The Vow,’ the focus is on Keith Raniere and the NXIVM, which was a sex cult under the guise of a personal development organization. By manipulating women, the cult leader used to…[Continue Reading...]
The sister of a young girl killed at the hands of religious fanatics – who left her to suffer and die for days after her insulin was taken away – says justice has been delivered for her “bright girl with…[Continue Reading...]
Silicon Valley breeds visionary ideas, and with them, communities of dreamers. But not all those ideas and communities are benevolent. It can be hard to separate harmful movements from aspirational ones, but it’s easy to exploit those who mistake one…[Continue Reading...]
A former Zizian cult member widely believed to have died by suicide is actually alive and hiding from the “dangerous” group, The Post can reveal. Gwen Danielson was thought to have died in 2022 even by a lawyer representing her…[Continue Reading...]
Samuel Flores, the former leader of the La Luz del Mundo church, remains a controversial figure due to allegations of abuse and the cult-like environment fostered under his leadership. The Freeform documentary series How I Escaped My Cult explores his…[Continue Reading...]
An alleged killer linked to a cult-like group that's being investigated for as many as six killings was back in a Vallejo courtroom on Friday. Maximillian Snyder, 22, is facing murder charges for the stabbing death of 82-year-old Curtis Lind.…[Continue Reading...]
Tokyo, Feb. 21 (Jiji Press)--Japan's Public Security Intelligence Agency launched a special website Friday to prevent public memory of the 1995 sarin nerve gas attack on the Tokyo subway system by the Aum Shinrikyo doomsday cult from fading. The agency…[Continue Reading...]
Michelle Zajko, the daughter of a slain Pennsylvania couple, as well as Jack Lasota, an apparent cult leader tied to multiple murders, were both arrested in Maryland A Pennsylvania woman who was a person of interest in her parents’ murders…[Continue Reading...]
Ushered into her parents’ bedroom with her eight brothers and sisters, the eight-year-old girl felt bewildered. “Protected” from the “wicked outside world” by a strict religious community, she had been brought up to accept the teachings of the sect -…[Continue Reading...]
Here’s a look at the timeline of events in a series of killings that culminated in a Jan. 20 highways shootout that killed a Border Patrol officer in Vermont. It is based on Associated Press interviews and a review of…[Continue Reading...]
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