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Matthew F. Hale - Former leader of Creativity Movement sentenced to a 40-year prison term for soliciting an undercover FBI informant to kill a federal judge. [7] Warren Jeffs - Once President of Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (a polygamist Mormon sect), convicted of rape as an accomplice (overturned in 2010). Jeffs ...
Kirtanananda Swami [1] (IAST: Kīrtanānanda Svāmī; September 6, 1937 – October 24, 2011), [2] also known as Swami Bhaktipada, was a Gaudiya Vaishnava guru, the co-founder of New Vrindaban, a Hare Krishna community in Marshall County, West Virginia, where he served as spiritual leader from 1968 until 1994, and a convicted criminal.
Warren Steed Jeffs (born December 3, 1955) is an American cult leader who is serving a life sentence in Texas for child sexual assault following two convictions in 2011. He is the president of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, a polygamous cult based in Arizona. [8]
A Georgia man accused of running a cult that views him as God was ordered held without bail Friday after being charged with rape and false imprisonment. Alleged Georgia cult leader charged with ...
Mihee Lee, 54, was charged with felony murder false imprisonment, concealing the death of another, tampering with evidence, and false statements
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
NXIVM sex cult founder Keith Raniere, 64, is serving a 120-year sentence at a federal prison in Tuscon, Arizona. Prosecutors said he recruited women and girls into a sex cult disguised as a self ...
The cult is known to have considered assassinations of several individuals critical of the cult, such as the heads of Buddhist sects Soka Gakkai and The Institute for Research in Human Happiness. After cartoonist Yoshinori Kobayashi began satirizing the cult, he was included on Aum's assassination list.