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198 Malisow, “Family Ties,” November 17, 2005
199 Laurie Goodstein, “Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult,” New York Times, January 15, 2005.
200 Esther Namugoji and Henry Lubega, “Sex Cult Claims It Is Living by the Law of Love,” Sunday Vision Uganda, February 23, 2008.
201 Goodstein, “Murder and Suicide Reviving Claims of Child Abuse in Cult,” January 15, 2005.
202 Ibid.
203 Ibid.
204 Don Lattin, “Ex-sect Members Fear New Violence,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 17, 2005.
205 “The Little Girl Seduced in the Name of God,” Evening Standard (London), March 9, 2005.
206 Don Lattin, “Deaths in the Family,” San Francisco Chronicle, January 27, 2005.
207 Lattin, “Ex-sect Members Fear New Violence,” January 17, 2005.
208 Lattin, “Deaths in the Family,” January 27, 2005.
209 Ibid.
210 Sherryl Connelly, “The Book ‘Last Night at the Viper Room’ Tells of River Phoenix’s Life Before it was Cut Short at 22,” The New York Daily News, October 5, 2013.
211 Tad Friendly, “River with Love and Anger,”Esquire, April 1994 121(3):108-110.
212 Randi Kaye, “Young Man’s Suicide Blamed on Mother’s Cult,” CNN, December 5, 2007.
213 “The Little Girl Seduced in the Name of God,” March 9, 2005.
214 Malisow, “Family Ties,” November 17, 2005.
215 Ibid.
216 Ignacio Badal, “Cult Leader Arrest Stirs Joy in Chile,” Reuters, March 12, 2005.
217 Stephen Brown and Oliver Ellrodt, “Insight: German Sect Victims Seek Escape from Chilean Nightmare Past,” Reuters, May 9, 2012.
218 Cecilia Espinosa, “New Book on German Sect Says Abuses Were an Open Secret,” Inter Press Service News Agency, May 3, 2005.
219 Badal, “Cult Leader Arrest Stirs Joy in Chile,” March 12, 2005.
220 Larry Rohter, “Guru of Sadism, Safely in Jail, Leaves Cult to Fend for Itself,” New York Times, May 16, 2005.
221 Marcelo Mackinnon, “Inside Chile’s Colony of Terror,” Ohmy News (South Korea), February 1, 2007.
222 Ibid.
223 Ibid.
224 Espinosa, “New Book on German Sect Says Abuses Were an Open Secret.,” May 3, 2005.
225 “Cult Leader Must Pay Victims,” News 24 (Cape Town), May 25, 2006.
226 Rohter, “Guru of Sadism, Safely in Jail, Leaves Cult to Fend for Itself,” May 16, 2005.
227 “Chile Discovers Weapons Cache on Cult Grounds,” Reuters, June 16, 2005.
228 “Chile Officials Take Over Colony,” BBC News, August 27, 2005 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4189920.stm (accessed May 16, 2014).
229 “Former German Cult in Chile Apologizes for Abuses,” Reuters, April 19, 2006.
230 “German Cult Leader in Chile Gets 20-year Sentence,” Deutsche Welle, (Germany) May 25, 2006.
231 “Ex-Nazi Soldier Gets More Prison Time in Chile,” Associated Press, March 26, 2008.
232 Alexei Barrioneuvo, “Paul Schaefer, German Guilty of Chile Child Abuse, Dies at 89,” New York Times, April 24, 2010.
233 Charlotte Karrlsson-Willis, “Former Leaders of Chilean Cult Turn Themselves In,” The Santiago Times, (Santiago, Chile) February 19, 2013.
234 Sandra Weiss, “Its Horrific Past Exposed, A Notorious Sect Lingers on in Central Chile,” Die Welt, (Germany) August 17, 2011.
235 Hylton, “The Future of the Polygamist Kids,” April 15, 2008.
236 Benjamin D Zablocki, “Exit Cost Analysis: A New Approach to the Scientific Study of Brainwashing,” Nova Religion 2, no. 1 (1998): 219.
237 Linda Deutsch, “30 Years Later, Manson Cult Thrives,” Associated Press, August 9, 1999.
238 “Charles Manson Denied Parole,” CNN, April 12, 2012.
239 Charlie Gillis, “Charles Manson Still Casts a Long Shadow,” Macleans, (Canada) April 23, 2012.
240 State of California v. Charles Manson (January 15, 1971) Closing Argument of Vincent Bugliosi, http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/manson/mansonsummation.html (accessed May 16, 2014).
241 Linda Deutsch, “Charles Manson Follower Krenwinkle Denied Parole,” Associated Press, January 11, 2011.
242 Sarah Netter, “Leslie Van Houten Denied Parole for Role in Manson Murders,” ABC News, July 6, 2010.
243 “Youngest Manson Family Member Denied Parole,” Sky News, (UK) June 6, 2013.
244 Ibid.
245 Gillis, “Charles Manson Still Casts a Long Shadow,” April 23, 2012.
246 William Schiffman, “Hearst Abduction Riveted the Nation,” Associated Press, February 4, 1999.
247 Don Oldunberg, “Stressed to Kill: The Defense of Brainwashing,” Washington Post, November 21, 2003.
248 “Media Heiress Patty Hearst Pardoned,” Associated Press, January 2001.
249 Patricia Hearst, interview by Larry King, Larry King Live CNN, January 22, 2002.
250 Patricia Hearst and members of the Smart family, interview by Larry King, Larry King Live CNN, March 13, 2003.
251 Johanna Saleh Dickson, Pamphlet Architecture 23—Move: Sites of Trauma (Princeton, NJ Princeton Architectural Press, 2002), 14.
252 “Philly Radicals Fortifying House,” Associated Press, September 17, 2002.
253 Dickson, Pamphlet Architecture 23, 20.
254 “Philly Radicals Fortifying House,” September 17, 2002.
255 Frank Trippett, Kenneth W. Banta, and Joseph N. Boyce, “It Looks Just like a War Zone,” Time, May 27, 1985.
256 “Percussion or Concussion, It Was Still a Bomb,” Los Angeles Times, May 18, 1985.
257 “Philly Radicals Fortifying House.”
258 “1985 Bombing in Philadelphia Still Unsettled,” USA Today, May 11, 2005.
259 Monica Yant Kinney, “Father Grieves as Cold Case Simmers,” Philadelphia Inquirer, September 26, 2006.
260 “Cult Slayings Still Haunting Ten Years Later,” Associated Press, April 11, 1999.
261 “Cult Leader Loses Execution Appeal,” Irish Examiner (Cork), October 24, 2006.
262 David W. Jones, “Four More People Being Paroled in Kirtland Cult Killing Case,” News Herald (Cleveland), November 11, 2010.
263 Ibid.
264 “Killer Cult Leader Is Denied Parole,” The Canadian Press, July 12, 2002.
265 “Quebec Cult Leader’s Chilling Story Told in New TV Movie Savage Messiah,” The Canadian Press, June 19, 2002
266 Ibid.
267 “Killer Cult Leader Is Denied Parole,” July 12, 2002.
268 “Cult Leader Roch Theriault Dead in Jail,” The Canadian Press, February 26, 2011
269 Ibid.
270 Barbara Kantrowitz et al., “Secrets of the Cult: The Messiah of Waco,” Newsweek, March 15, 1993.
271 Ibid.
272 Ibid.
273 Ibid.
274 Wendy Cole and Richard Woodbury, “In the Grip of a Psychopath” Time, May 3, 1993.
275 “Files Details Evidence of Huge Cult Arsenal,” Dallas Morning News, May 26, 1993.
276 “Six Branch Davidians Due for Release 13 Years after Waco Inferno,” Associated Press, April 19, 2006.
277 Nolan Clay, “Papers Show McVeigh Had Little Remorse,” Oklahoman, December 30, 2007.
278 “Oklahoma Bomber Confessed to Catholic Priest,” Universe Catholic Newspaper, August 18, 2006.
279 Committee on Government Reform, The Tragedy at Waco: New Evidence Examined (1996) House Report 106-1037 106th Congress 2nd Sess, Washington, D.C. Printing Office 1-89 http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CRPT-106hrpt1037/html/CRPT-106hrpt1037.htm (accessed May 16, 2014).
280 “Jury Finds U.S. Not to Blame in Waco Case,” Reuters, July 14, 2000.
281 “Final Report from John C. Danforth, Office of Special Counsel, Waco Investigation,” PR Newswire, November 8, 2000.
282 Michael S. Serrill, “Remains of the Day,” Time, October 24, 1994.
283 Richard Lacayo, “Cul
ts: In Reign of fire,” Time, October 17, 1994.
284 Ibid.
285 Ibid.
286 Rudolphe Landais, “French Police Fear Collective Suicide in Sect,” Reuters, September 3, 2002.
287 Serrill, “Remains of the Day,” October 24, 1994.
288 “1997: Solar Temple Cult Claims Five More Lives,” CBC Digital Archives, 1997.
289 “Spanish Cops Arrest Sect Leader,” Associated Press, January 8, 1998.
290 Roy Probert, “Geneva Seeks to Temper Influence of Cults,” Swiss Info, November 3, 2001.
291 Ibid.
292 Ibid.
293 “List of Mass Suicide Victims,” New York Times, March 29, 1997.
294 Jonathan Broder, “Marshall Applewhite’s Cry for Help,” Salon, March 31, 1997.
295 Marc Fisher and Sue Ann Pressley, “Founder Sought to Purge Sexuality via Cult,” Washington Post, March 29, 1997.
296 Frank Bruni, “The Cult’s Two-Decade Odyssey of Regimentation,” New York Times, March 29, 1997.
297 Ibid.
298 Ibid.
299 Joshua Bearman, “Heaven’s Gate: The Sequel. Ten Years after the 39 Suicides, the Sole Survivor Is Back—and He Has Something Urgent to Tell Us,” LA Weekly, March 29, 2007.
300 Marshall Applewhite, “Final Offer from the Evolutionary Level Above Human,” USA Today, March 27, 1993 http://culteducation.com/group/968-heavens-gate/9560-final-offer-150-from-the-evolutionary-level-above-human.html (accessed May 16, 2014).
301 Marshall Applewhite, “Last Chance to Advance beyond Human,” Heaven’s Gate website, January 16, 1994 http://www.heavensgate.com/misc/lastchnc.htm (Accessed May 16, 2014).
302 Dan Whitcomb and James Nelson, “Police Say Smart Girl Mentally Joined Captors,” Reuters, March 13, 2003.
303 Tom Mashberg, “Experts: Teen Was ‘Brainwashed,’” Boston Herald, March 3, 2003.
304 Ibid.
305 Stephen Hunt, “Elizabeth Smart Tells Story of Her Survival,” Salt Lake Tribune, November 8, 2010.
306 Rebecca Boone, “Smart Returns Home a Changed Girl,” Associated Press, March 14, 2003.
307 Mashberg, “Experts: Teen Was ‘Brainwashed.’”
308 Timothy Egan, “In Plain Sight, a Kidnapped Girl behind a Veil,” New York Times, March 14, 2003.
309 Ibid.
310 Mark Hume and Stacey Burling, “Elizabeth Smart Was ‘Brainwashed,’ Father Says,” Ottawa Citizen, March 15, 2003.
311 “Smart Was Brainwashed, Family Says,” Baltimore Sun, March 17, 2003.
312 Patricia Hearst; friends, members of the Smart family, interview by Larry King, CNN, March 13, 2003 http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0303/13/lkl.00.html (accessed May 16, 2014).
313 James Nelson, “Elizabeth Smart’s Kidnapper Gets Life in Prison,” Reuters, May 25, 2011.
314 “Elizabeth Smart Opens Up to People,” Deseret News (Salt Lake City), June 12, 2008.
315 Nelson, “Elizabeth Smart’s Kidnapper Gets Life in Prison,” May 25, 2011.
316 “Elizabeth Smart Marries at Hawaii Temple,” Associated Press, February 19, 2012.
317 “Toddler ‘Starved to Death by Cult,’” Press Association, August 12, 2008.
318 Ibid.
319 Ibid.
320 Marcus Baram, “Cult Murder Suspect’s Mom—It’s Not Her Fault,” ABC News, August 12, 2008 http://abcnews.go.com/US/story?id=5565557 (accessed May 16, 2014).
321 Ben Nuckols, “Family: Cult ‘Brainwashed’ Mom Charged with Murder,” Associated Press, August 16, 2008.
322 Ibid.
323 Baram, “Cult Murder Suspect’s Mom—It’s Not Her Fault,” August 12, 2008.
324 Tricia Bishop, “Witness: Accused Cult Leaders Had Her Committed to Keep Quiet,” Baltimore Sun, February 26, 2010.
325 Tricia Bishop, “Cult Steals a Daughter’s Love, a Grandson’s Life,” Baltimore Sun, March 7, 2010.
326 Nuckols, “Family: Cult ‘Brainwashed’ Mom Charged with Murder.”
327 Ben Nuckols, “Maryland Mom’s Starvation Plea Pegged to Resurrection,” Associated Press, March 31, 2009.
328 Ibid.
329 Ben Nuckols, “Mom Who Starved Son Praised By Judge,” Associated Press, August 4, 2010.
330 Ibid.
331 “Cult Members Made Me Starve My One-Year-Old Boy,” Daily Mail (London), September 5, 2011.
332 Lucy Ballinger and Colin Fernandez, “Rapist ‘Guru’ in a Bentley Cast His Spell on Hundreds of Terrified Young Women,” Daily Mail (London), July 27, 2010.
333 Ibid.
334 David Sanderson, “Self-Styled Guru Accused of Raping Seven Vulnerable Women,” Times (London), April 8, 2010.
335 Ballinger and Fernandez, “Rapist ‘Guru’ in a Bentley Cast His Spell on Hundreds of Terrified Young Women,” July 27, 2010.
336 Ibid.
337 Kyle Munzenrieder, “Michael Lyons, Cult Leader That Raped Female Followers, Might Have Victims in Miami,” Miami New Times, July 27, 2010.
338 “Michael Lyons May Have Raped Dozens More Women,” The Telegraph (Kent), July 26, 2010.
339 Ballinger and Fernandez, “Rapist ‘Guru’ in a Bentley Cast His Spell on Hundreds of Terrified Young Women,” July 27, 2010.
340 David Sanderson, “Self-Styled Guru Accused of Raping Seven Vulnerable Women,” Times (London), April 8, 2010.
341 Ballinger and Fernandez, “Rapist ‘Guru’ in a Bentley Cast His Spell on Hundreds of Terrified Young Women,” July 27, 2010.
342 Munzenrieder, “Michael Lyons, Cult Leader That Raped Female Followers, Might Have Victims in Miami,” July 27, 2010.
343 Jamie Satterfield, “Mother ‘Spiritual Father’ Convicted in Faith Healing Case, but Questions Remain,” Knoxville News Sentinel, May 8, 2012.
344 Ibid.
345 Syan Rhodes, “Religious Leader Facing Charges,” WBIR Knoxville News, August 6, 2002 http://www.culteducation.com/group/1150-new-lifetabernacle/19248-religious-leader-facing-charges.html (accessed May 16, 2014).
346 Teri Bowers, “Family Says Church Allowed Woman to Die Following Childbirth,” KTUL Tulsa News Channel 8, November 1, 2005 http://www.culteducation.com/group/921-general-assembly-church-of-the-first-born/7054-family-says-church-allowed-woman-to-die-following-childbirth.html (accessed May 16, 2014).
347 Kevin King, “Jury Delivers Verdict in Faith Healer Manslaughter Trial,” ABC News 8, May 25, 2012 http://www.culteducation.com/group/921-general-assemblychurch-of-the-first-born/7069-jury-delivers-verdict-in-faith-healer-manslaughtertrial.html (accessed May 16, 2014).
348 Jean Torkelson, “Church Holds Fast to Healing Beliefs,” Denver Rocky Mountain News, July 30, 2000.
349 Scott Hall, “Church Elder: Faith Cures Sick People, Not Doctors,” Daily Journal (Franklin, IN), August 23, 2000.
350 Ibid.
351 Ibid.
352 Steve Mayes, “Dale and Shannon Hickman Receive Six-Year Sentence, the Harshest Ever for Faith Healing Church,” Oregonian (Portland, OR), October 31, 2011.
353 Mark Larabee and Peter D. Sleeth, “Followers’ Roots Reveal Numerous Splinters,” Oregonian (Portland OR), July 6, 1998.
354 Mark Larabee, “Doubt, Secrecy Circle Followers of Christ,” Oregonian (Portland, OR), June 28, 1998.
355 Ibid.
356 Bill Sherman, “Faith-Based Healing Reviewed,” Tulsa World, December 31, 2010.
357 Mark Larabee, “The Battle over Faith Healing,” Oregonian (Portland, OR), November 28, 1998.
358 Ibid.
359 David Wedge, “Attleboro Group Not the First Questioned,” Boston Herald, September 3, 2000.
360 Todd Lewan, “Meade, the Self-Styled Prophet: A Man Cloaked in Lore and Mystery,” Associated Press, April 17, 2005
361 Todd Lewan, “A Self-Styled Prophet, a Legion of Followers, and a ‘Promised Land’ in Florida,” Associated Press, April 16, 2005.
362 Jon Walker, “The Preacher and His Flock,” Argus Leader (Sioux Falls), May 1l, 2005.
363 Ibid.
364 Larabee,
“The Battle over Faith Healing,” November 28, 1998.
365 Ibid.
366 Jackelyn Barnard and Dave Wax, “Family: Leader of Lake City Meade Ministries, Endtimers Has Died,” First Coast News (Jacksonville), April 13, 2010.
367 Sherman, “Faith-Based Healing Reviewed,” December 31, 2010.n
368 Madeleine Tobias and Janja Lalich, Captive Hears, Captive Minds: Freedom and Recovery from Cults and Abusive Relationships (Alameda, CA: Hunter House, 1994), 17.
369 I. E. Farber, Harry F. Harlow, and Louis Jolyon West, “Brainwashing, Conditioning and DDD (Debility, Dependency and Dread),” Sociometry 20, no. 4 (December 1957): 271–285.
370 Michael Langone, “Deception, Dependency and Dread,” International Cultic Studies Association website http://www.csj.org/studyindex/studyconversion/study_recruitconvddd.htm (accessed May 16, 2014).
371 Ibid.
372 Robert Jay Lifton, Thought Reform and the Psychology of Totalism (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2012), 423.
373 Langone, “Deception, Dependency and Dread,” (accessed May 16, 2014).
374 Ibid.
375 “Five Californians Held in Toddler’s Neglect Death,” Reuters, February 11, 2002.
376 Ibid.
377 Justin Pritchard, “Cultish Family Used Lovers,” Associated Press, February 15 2002.
378 Kevin Fagan and Peter Fimrite, “Family Court Papers Describe Ritual Beatings and Target Practice,” San Francisco Chronicle, February 22, 2002.
379 “Picture of the Family Comes into Focus,” ABC-7 KABC News (Los Angeles), July 11, 2002 http://www.culteducation.com/group/1235-the-wright-family/22304picture-of-the-family-comes-into-focus.html (accessed May 16, 2014).
380 Fagan and Fimrite, “Family Court Papers Describe Ritual Beatings and Target Practice.”
381 Gary Klein, “Judge Oks Cult Deprogramming,” Marin News, March 3, 2003.
382 Con Garretson, “Second Mother Wants Cult Therapy,” Marin News, February 25, 2003.
383 Klein, “Judge Oks Cult Deprogramming.”
384 Con Garretson, “Woman Sentenced in Death of Toddler,” Marin Independent Journal, April 19, 2002.
385 Ibid.
386 Mark Prado, “Leader of Marin’s ‘Family’ Paroled 400 Miles Away at Request of Victim,” Marin Independent Journal, November 23, 2010.
387 Carolyn Marshall, “All Nine Fresno Victims Died by Gunfire,” New York Times, March 15, 2004.