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Defector Says Missing NC Boy Was Killed by Black Hebrews Cult Leader

Police fear a missing 6-year-old North Carolina boy is dead after a former member of a polygamist cult said the child had been killed by the group's leader in a fit of rage. Jadon Higganbothan, whose mother is reportedly a member of a splinter group of the Black Hebrews sect, has been missing since October. An ex-member...

Missing Sect Members Found Alive, Leader Hospitalized

(Sept. 19) -- The leader of a religious sect was hospitalized for a psychiatric evaluation today after members of the group left farewell messages for relatives saying they were going to heaven to meet Jesus. The messages frightened relatives and police, thinking the group might be planning a mass suicide, and a massive...

Cult Blamed for Cemetery Vandalism, Theft of Body

Justin Graybill, Lancaster Newspapers / AP

(Aug. 28) -- Acts of vandalism and the theft of a nine-year-old girl's body have residents of Lancaster, Pa., concerned that a cult could be practicing black magic in the area. "The whole community is shocked," Linda Stienstra, a volunteer with the Lancaster County Historical Society, told AOL News. "They seem to be...

Headline Grabber John Mark Karr in News Again

(June 2) -- The bizarre story of John Mark Karr, who once claimed to have murdered 6-year-old child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, has turned even stranger. A woman who says she is Karr's ex-fiancee went on national TV today to claim he is living as a woman and is trying to recruit little girls for a kiddie sex cult. "His...

Israeli Cult Leader Faces Sex Charges

JERUSALEM (Feb. 14) – Some men dream of having a harem. According to police, Goel Ratzon fulfilled this dream. Ratzon, 60, was indicted Sunday on multiple charges including rape, sodomy, enslavement and sexual abuse within the family. Ratzon, who lived with 21 "wives" and had 49 children was the leader of a cult for...

Background on cult

The word cult in current popular usage usually refers to a new religious movement or other group whose beliefs or practices are considered abnormal or bizarre.

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