When director Chris Smith first heard Hoyt Richards tell his story, he almost couldn't believe what he was hearing. "The mix of this world of fashion and modeling, and this other life that he was leading — it seemed hard…[Continue Reading...]
The summer Hoyt Richards was 16, his family made their annual migration to Nantucket, where he spent long, unstructured days at Nobadeer Beach. It was there, on the pale sand, that Richards first encountered Frederick von Mierers: older, lean, striking,…[Continue Reading...]
Documentary film-maker Chris Smith made the seminal 1999 film American Movie, about an indie director’s struggle to complete a horror film, which he hopes will then finance the completion of his dream project. More recently, he’s profiled well-known subjects in…[Continue Reading...]
Before Hoyt Richards became known as the first male supermodel in the late 1980s and 1990s, a mysterious, captivating man from Manhattan laid a towel down next to him on a Nantucket beach. Richards was 16 years old, hailing from…[Continue Reading...]
The night Hoyt Richards escaped the Eternal Values cult, after nearly 15 years spent in what he now calls a “mental prison,” he crept past the German shepherds guarding the group’s North Carolina compound. Once he was out of earshot,…[Continue Reading...]
You’ve seen them in movies and on TV, but cults are more prevalent than you think—and they’re armed with strategies that can brainwash and persuade even the most unlikely of candidates.But how do individuals get involved with cults in the…[Continue Reading...]
A high-profile murder suspect deeply tied to the notorious Shakahola cult has died while in police custody, leaving behind a disturbing final testament that demands his remains be interred within the very forest that claimed hundreds of innocent lives. The…[Continue Reading...]
The second integrated special prosecutor team led by Kwon Changyoung, which is investigating lingering suspicions following the three major special prosecutor probes, has raided former Commissioner General Yoon Hee-keun in connection with allegations of covering up the Unification Church overseas…[Continue Reading...]
Just days before the March 20, 1995 sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway system, an agent for Aum Shinrikyo — the Japanese apocalyptic cult that would go on to kill 14 people and injure thousands in one of the…[Continue Reading...]
When police investigating a homicide arrived at an Auckland home linked to a religious sect, they found five women. It was discovered those women - “potential eye-witnesses” - were unlawfully in New Zealand and were later deported. The sect’s leader,…[Continue Reading...]
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