Episode 197 - Manna From Heaven

Cults: Power, control, and stories that will make your skin crawl. This week on the BTC, we're breaking down the two sketchy groups and what makes them tick.

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Research links below!

ResearchGate - "Cults: Angel's Landing"
Springer Nature Link - "Cults: Angel's Landing"
A-Z of Cults - "A is for Angel's Landing"
Oxygen - "Deadly Cults: Angel's Landing"
E! News - "Oxygen's Deadly Cults Sneak Peek: Daniel Perezs Former Follower Recalls Mother's Untimely Death"
The Witchita Eagle -"Case of Kansas cult killer and rapist Daniel Perez, AKA Lour Castro, Featured on TV"
Oxygen - "Lou Castro Told His Followers He Was A 1,000-Year-Old Angel"
Times Now World - "Who is Daniel Perez and Where is the Leader of Angel's Landing Now?"

The New Yorker - "The Cult in the Forest"
PBS News - "Kenyan authorities find 39 bodies during investigation of religious cult leader"
BBC - "Kenya cult: Children targeted to die first, pastor says"
Aljazeera - "Kenya cult leader Paul Mackenzie on trial for manslaughter"
Mpasho - "11 Things you didn't know about Shakahola Pastor Mackenzie"
CBS News - "Kenya starvation cult death toll hits 90 as morgues fill up: 'Nothing prepares you for shallow mass graves of children'"
The Guardian - "Kenyan cult leader accused of inciting children to starve to death"
Nation - "'I started a church with Mackenzie, then he ruined our lives': Tale of fight for church and the rise of a cult leader"
The Standard - "Stalled case of pastor in cult-like deaths exposes cracks in justice system"
Good News International Ministries
Tuko - "The Making of a Cult: Rise of Pastor Paul MacKenzie's Good News International Empire"
Nation - "Why court advised DPP to reduce murder charges against Shakahola suspects"