Deadly Cults

Rod Ferrell became the youngest person on death row after he bashed the parents of his friend and fellow "Vampire" to death.

Just weeks after winning a suit against the Synanon cult, attorney Paul Morantz was bitten by a venomous rattle snake that had been stuffed in his mailbox.

Former Gatekeepers cult member Dan Jess was gunned down after calling the group’s leader, Christopher Turgeon, a fraud.

Polygamous doctor Rulon Allred’s 1977 murder was found to be one of several hits ordered by fanatical cult leader Ervil LeBaron.

Trailer park cult leader Gerald Cruz led his followers in a brutal rampage that killed four in Salida.

Marshall Applewhite's Heaven's Gate cult shocked the world in 1997 with a mass suicide in a mansion near San Diego.

Barbara Rogers claimed her boyfriend, Steven Mineo, asked her to kill him after he was ostracized from a strange online cult.

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

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

The details of the torture-murder of Yahweh cult member James Thimm are grisly.