Seven Deadly Sinners

The cult of Tony and Susan Alamo "The Alamo Christian Foundation," began shortly after Tony Alamo moved to Los Angeles in the 1960s.  He was convinced his big break as a musician would come any day but he spent most of his time lying and scamming others out of money and into believing he was a big deal.  What he claims happened next is he heard the voice of God and linked up with another con artist Susan Alamo, who claimed the same.  What happened next is shocking.  Decades of stealing money from their followers and abusing children and their starry eyed followers.

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Ministry of Evil by Sundance

splcenter.org

tonyalamonews.com

latimes.com

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wikipedia

John D White is a true monster, and he knows it, admitting in police questioning that he is a real life monster who cannot control his lust for devious sex, dominance and blood.  He was also a coward. After being sentenced to life in prison for murdering his fiancee's daughter in order to have sex with her corpse this evil man committed suicide at the age of 56 leaving behind a legacy of hatred and violence toward women. 

Sources for this episode:

ID's Sinister Ministers
Mlive.com
Murderpedia.com
Mercury News
USA Today

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Happy Thanksgiving - Part 3

Wrath…Jane Whaley’s deadliest sin, can be described as, the uncontrolled hatred for someone or something, and the unquenchable desire to exact revenge on said object/person. Sure, that definition might make sense if the wrathful person is responding to someone harming or even killing their loved one.

But where in the hell did Jane Whaley’s wrath come from?  Because she directed her wrath fueled fury on the most naive and faultless, children who simply laughed, babies who naturally cried, and adults who were just trying to get by in their day to day lives.

Currently, Jane Whaley, is 80 years old. She’s flashy. She frames her angry face with hair that seems almost purposely shaped into bold parenthesis meant to emphasize her anger.  Two large aqua-netted curls that look like they were formed by hot rollers the size of a Costco sized coffee can.
She wears St John suits tons of jewelry and looks like a 1980s poster woman for the working gals movement.  But she is not the head of Redbook magazine, or the CEO of Sears, she is an evangelical oppressor with no formal theological training, just the incessant need to manipulate and control people to fill the void of what would have been an average existence. 

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SOURCES: 

Broken Faith: Inside One Of America's Most Dangerous Cults by Mitch Weiss and Holbrook Mohr

Religiouscultsinfo.org by John Huddle

Multiple survivor accounts listed in the episode

Articles by AP

The Pretend Radio podcast by Javier Leiva

In Part 2 we will hear about the night Kari Baker died, how Matt Baker paraded around his mistress within days of Kari's death, his isolating of his daughters and Kari's family's newly formed plan to get the truth. 

Sources:

Deadly Little Secrets: The Minister, His Mistress, and a Heartless Texas Murder by Kathryn Casey
psychologytoday.com
texasmonthly.com
wacotrib.com
48 Hours
Crimes of Passion Podcast

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Lust in the simplest of terms can be described as an intense longing, perhaps a coming of age confused - constant thought of a high school crush or a celebrity you see on TV.  People who are in the throes of lust may lose their sensibilities, since lust seems unable to recognize the reality of a situation or motivates one to neglect it. It’s a excuse that can be slightly valid in the most innocent of cases but there’s a fine line between a crush, and lust crossing dangerously over into stalking, non consent, or even worse violent sexual assault.
But the crush excuse or innocent lack of “sensibility” in the moment does not describe the subject of this season’s lustful lecher Pastor Matt Baker.  No, in fact he was callous, unashamed, and unapologetic in his pursuit to control and take what he felt he deserved. 
He “ordained” the time or place of the encounter. He sought to conquest and manipulate,  but mostly barrel his way into groping or finding the most disgusting of times to violate innocent teens, women, and overall, everyone that knew him.  But the person he manipulated, gas lit and violated the most was his unbelievably devoted wife, who’s life was destroyed by her husband Matt Baker...

Sources:

Deadly Little Secrets: The Minister, His Mistress, and a Heartless Texas Murder by Kathryn Casey
psychologytoday.com
texasmonthly.com
theoverwhelmedbrain.com
wacotrib.com
48 Hours
Crimes of Passion Podcast