Cults

David Thibodeau and Branch Davidian leader David Koresh gave an impromptu concert for FBI agents after they cut the power to the compound in "Waco."

Lou Castro lived extravagantly in Kansas with his cult-like family and was found guilty of rape and the murder of Patricia Hughes. 

In "Waco," FBI hostage negotiator Gary Noesner butts heads with others in the FBI as he tries to get Branch Davidian leader David Koresh and his followers to surrender peacefully.

Followers of James Ray went to the “Spiritual Warrior” retreat seeking enlightenment; what they found was misery and death.

Survivors of the NXIVM self-help group-turned cult say Keith Raniere attracted people with his personality and kept them inside through fear.

Adolfo Constanzo led the Narco-Satanist Palo Mayombe cult in the gruesome torture and murder of college student Mark James Kilroy.

More than 20 years after Heaven’s Gate cultists took their own lives in hope of boarding a UFO hiding behind the Hale-Bopp comet, some still believe. 

Kristin Snyder, Barbara Jeske, Gina Hutchinson, and Pamela Cafritz all had connections to cult leader Keith Raniere before they died, according to a new documentary. 

The victims of drug cartel ambush were members of the extended LeBaron family, which has its own violent past marked by a fundamentalist belief in "blood atonement."

Catherine Oxenberg spent years trying to get her daughter India out of NXIVM, an alleged cult where women were reportedly treated as "slaves."