Cults

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. 

Slaves in NXIVM were branded with the initials of leader Keith Raniere using a cauterizing pen, a medical device used to burn flesh.

Just hours before their death, Manson Family victims Leno and Rosemary LaBianca had been talking about the Sharon Tate murders that happened the night before.  

Charlie Manson seduced many of his female followers by targeting those who were “hungry for a connection” and becoming exactly what each woman had been looking for.  

Charles Manson’s followers made the 1970 Tate-LaBianca murder trial into a spectacle inside and outside the courtroom.

A Brooklyn jury took less than five hours to find Keith Raniere guilty on all counts of sex-trafficking and other charges accusing him of coercing women into unwanted sex using systematic shame and humiliation.

The witness, identified as Sylvie, testified that she was forced to provide naked photos of herself and a stamped letter telling her parents she was a prostitute to earn admittance into a secretive group that kept women as "slaves." 

Allison Mack entered her plea to racketeering charges shortly before federal jury selection was scheduled to start.