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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: KILLER CULTS -- STEVEN AND JOYCE SINGULAR, BURL BARER, AND FACT CHECKER MARK BOYER
Description: What’s scarier than a murderer? Someone with the charisma to compel others to kill for them . . . or to kill themselves. Meet these cult leaders–and get an inside look at their beliefs and how they controlled others.
Some cults, led by leaders like Charlie Manson, Jim Jones, and David Koresh, are notorious. But others are less well known, such as Shoko Asahara and his doomsday cult, Aum Shinrikyo, who orchestrated the sarin gas attack on the Tokyo subway. Or Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret, who founded the Order of the Solar Temple, a doomsday cult that...