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The other cult leader was Sara Aldrete, a Matamoros native and an honors student and cheerleader at Texas Southmost College. [15] She was the girlfriend of Gilberto Sosa, a drug dealer linked to the Hernández clan to which Constanzo wanted an introduction. [16] [17] In 1987, she met Constanzo and eventually became the cult's main recruiter.
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.
Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. (May 17, 1931 – March 26, 1997), also known as Do, [a] among other names, [b] was an American religious leader who founded and led the Heaven's Gate new religious movement (often described as a cult), and organized their mass suicide in 1997.
Jim Jones and his wife, Marceline, in an image taken from a pink photo album left behind in the village of the dead in Jonestown, Guyana. Jones led more than 900 members of his cult to a painful ...
An Erath County judge sentenced Cadenhead to an 80-year state prison sentence, citing his self-described status as a "cult leader". [ 36 ] [ 14 ] After Cadenhead's arrest in August 2021, the group was led by a 21-year-old from Timișoara , Romania, named Francesco (nicknamed "Riley"). [ 1 ]
Now, Snohomish County police have placed 56-year-old Mark Christopher Downey in custody after a DNA sample linked him to her murder.
Actor turned cult leader told wives to take 'suicide pills' RIO YAMAT. February 2, 2023 at 2:44 AM. ... according to police, while another became a wife after turning 16.
Mass suicide by cult members at direction of cult leader [27] [28] 21: Black Widow Murders: Los Angeles: 1999, 2005: 2: Two elderly women convicted of murdering two vagrants, the first in 1999 and the second in 2005 [10] 22: Glenn Helzer: Concord: 2000: 5: Former leader of the "Children of Thunder" cult murdered five people as part of an ...