S5E6: Children of God (Cults Pt. 4)

In the sixth episode of Season 5, your host JD Horror brings you the tragic story of the Children of God / The Family International. A bizarre sex cult led by a perverted pastor named David Berg who ruled his subjects with an iron fist covered in a velvet glove. They would ruin the lives on many through their indoctrination, sexual abuse, and torture of children. One in particular was Berg's own adopted son, Ricky Rodriguez aka Davidito, who Berg thought to be his successor and a second coming... but Ricky had other ideas and set off on a quest for blood and vengeance.

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This episode features research and writing by Mis Demeanor, music by Mechanical Ghost, Producer LB from the No One Likes Us Podcast, and The Quiet Type as well as Artwork by Nuclear Heat Graphics. Sources for this episode’s cases are available in the credits section of our website.

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S2E11: Cults Pt. 3

In the penultimate episode of Season 2 of True Crime Horror Story, your host JD Horror brings you the third part of our series on cults.

Case #1: Suffer the Children - At the behest of an offshoot of the Grail Movement cult, Klara Mauerova kept her sons locked in cages in her basement, where they were tortured for months in a misguided quest for enlightenment and transcendence. (The Mauerova Family, Czech Republic, Researched by Lana McCall, Written by JD)

Case #2: Superior Universal Alignment - Valentina de Andrade was the leader of the Lineamento Universal Superior or LUS, a bizarre cult whose beliefs blended the concepts of a space alien Jesus, and a hatred towards children born after the age of 1981. Her followers would leave a trail of castrated bodies all across the Altamira area of Brazil. (LUS / Valentina de Andrade, Altamira, Brazil, Researched by Lana McCall, written by JD)

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This episode features research by Lana McCall, music by Mechanical Ghost and The Quiet Type, and Artwork by Nuclear Heat Graphics. Sources for this episode’s cases are available in the credits section of our website.

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In the penultimate episode of Season 2 of True Crime Horror Story, your host JD Horror brings you the third part of our series on cults. Case #1: Suffer the Children - At the behest of an offshoot of the Grail Movement cult, Klara Mauerova kept her sons locked in cages in her basement, where they were tortured for months in a misguided quest for enlightenment and transcendence.

Season 1 BONUS Episode #3: The Kool-Aid Man (Jim Jones & The Jonestown Massacre)

This is a special Patreon preview of a bonus episode originally released on Sep. 10th, 2019. In the 1970's, a charismatic preacher named Jim Jones let his following deep Into the jungles of Guyana, South America. His congregation was promised a self sufficient communist paradise called Jonestown, but what they got was the iron fist of a drunken tyrant who used his power to abuse those who followed him, culminating with the deaths of over 900 people. (J. Jones, Jonestown, Guyana, South America)

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This is a special Patreon preview of a bonus episode originally released on Sep. 10th, 2019. In the 1970's, a charismatic preacher named Jim Jones let his following deep Into the jungles of Guyana, South America.

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