Cults

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.

The controversial Cedu School had roots in the violent cult Synanon, as explored on the podcast “Lost Kids” and Oxygen’s “Deadly 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.

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."

Nashika Bramble was sentenced to two consecutive life terms without parole for her role in the cult murders of Makayla Roberts, 10, and Hannah Marshall, 8, back in September 2017.