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Charles Manson - Leader of the Manson Family who served life in prison for first degree murder until his death in 2017. [14] Shukri Mustafa - Egyptian leader of Takfir wal-Hijra who was captured and executed on March 19, 1978, for the kidnapping and murder of an Egyptian ex-government minister. [15] Fred Phelps - Leader of anti-gay Westboro ...
Charles Milles Manson (né Maddox; November 12, 1934 – November 19, 2017) was an American criminal, cult leader, and musician who led the Manson Family, a cult based in California in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [1] Some cult members committed a series of at least nine murders at four locations in July
James Warren Jones (May 13, 1931 – November 18, 1978) was an American cult leader and mass murderer who founded and led the Peoples Temple between 1955 and 1978. In what Jones termed "revolutionary suicide", Jones and the members of his inner circle planned and orchestrated a mass murder-suicide in his remote jungle commune at Jonestown, Guyana, on November 18, 1978.
Inside the Cult Leader's Life in Prison — and How He Avoided Death Row Despite His Gruesome Crimes ... aptly titled Cult. The Manson murders also serve as the backdrop for Quentin Tarantino’s ...
The cult leader did not commit the murders himself, but rather convinced his followers to kill. ... life of crime and his time as a commune and cult leader from the late 1960s to the early 1970s ...
Charles Manson suggested he was a killer long before he became the infamous cult leader who instructed his followers to commit a series of heinous murders, known as the Manson Murders, that ...
Jeffrey Don Lundgren (May 3, 1950 – October 24, 2006) was an American self-proclaimed prophet, cult leader, and mass murderer who, on April 17, 1989, killed a family of five in Kirtland, Ohio. Lundgren led a Latter Day Saint movement -based cult and interpreted scripture using an unconventional method that he described as "chiastic", which ...
Roch Thériault ([ʁɔk te.ʁjo]; May 16, 1947 – February 26, 2011) was a Canadian cult leader and convicted murderer. Thériault, a self-proclaimed prophet under the name Moïse (French for "Moses"), founded the Ant Hill Kids in 1977. They were a doomsday cult whose beliefs were based on those of the Seventh-day Adventist Church.