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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]
Mihee Lee, 54, was charged with felony murder false imprisonment, concealing the death of another, tampering with evidence, and false statements
Alleged Georgia cult leader charged with rape, false imprisonment. ... I’m the return of the Christ,” he said. ... Bishop and 20 others were arrested in Hawaii for violating COVID-19 ...
In 1996, Marina Tsvigun, Yuri Krivonogov, and another leader, Viktor Kovalchuk, were sentenced to 4, 7, and 6 years of imprisonment, respectively, for organizing mass riots, seizing state and public buildings, and assaulting the health of citizens under the pretext of performing religious ceremonies.
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.
The NXIVM Executive Success Programs sign outside the office at 455 New Karner Road April 26, 2018, in Albany, N.Y. Keith Raniere, founder of NXIVM, was arrested by the FBI in Mexico in March 2018.