Cults Uncovered

True Stories of Mind Control and Murder

Ebook
On sale Feb 04, 2020 | 240 Pages | 978-0-7440-2200-1
The shocking truth about some of the most disturbing, criminal cults that have ever existed.

How did Charles Manson inspire his "family" to launch a campaign of murder? What twisted ideology lay behind horrific events like the Waco Siege, the Aum Shinrikyo's poison-gas attack on the Tokyo metro, and the mass suicides and murders of Jonestown? Why did the suicidal members of Heaven's Gate believe doomsday was at hand? How did the idealistic commune of Rajneeshpuram collapse into shocking controversies, involving biological terrorism and attempted murder?

Cults Uncovered explores these and many more strange and disturbing factions and sects from all over the world to expose terrifying stories of manipulation, coercion, abuse, and murder.
Emily G. Thompson is a true-crime author and freelance writer from Northern Ireland. She has her own website and award-winning podcast, Morbidology, which boasts of over 300k downloads each month. The weekly true-crime show looks at cases from all around the world and highlights systemic failures in various systems. It recently won "Best International Podcast" at the iHeartRadio awards. She is the author of Unsolved Child Murders: Eighteen American Cases, 1956–1998, the co-author of DK’s Unsolved Murders:True Crime Cases Uncovered, and DK’s Cults Uncovered: True Stories of Mind Control and Murder, Mysteries Uncovered: True Stories of the Paranormal and Unexplained. View titles by Emily G. Thompson

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The shocking truth about some of the most disturbing, criminal cults that have ever existed.

How did Charles Manson inspire his "family" to launch a campaign of murder? What twisted ideology lay behind horrific events like the Waco Siege, the Aum Shinrikyo's poison-gas attack on the Tokyo metro, and the mass suicides and murders of Jonestown? Why did the suicidal members of Heaven's Gate believe doomsday was at hand? How did the idealistic commune of Rajneeshpuram collapse into shocking controversies, involving biological terrorism and attempted murder?

Cults Uncovered explores these and many more strange and disturbing factions and sects from all over the world to expose terrifying stories of manipulation, coercion, abuse, and murder.

Author

Emily G. Thompson is a true-crime author and freelance writer from Northern Ireland. She has her own website and award-winning podcast, Morbidology, which boasts of over 300k downloads each month. The weekly true-crime show looks at cases from all around the world and highlights systemic failures in various systems. It recently won "Best International Podcast" at the iHeartRadio awards. She is the author of Unsolved Child Murders: Eighteen American Cases, 1956–1998, the co-author of DK’s Unsolved Murders:True Crime Cases Uncovered, and DK’s Cults Uncovered: True Stories of Mind Control and Murder, Mysteries Uncovered: True Stories of the Paranormal and Unexplained. View titles by Emily G. Thompson

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