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Podcast: True Crime Uncensored with Burl Barer and Mark Boyer
Episode: DOOMSDAY CULTS --The World is Ending so Follow me off a Cliff. Allen R. Warren returns to the show.
Description: Jim Jones convinced his 1000 followers they would all have to commit suicide since he was going to die. Shoko Asahara convinced his followers to release a weapon of mass destruction, the deadly sarin gas, on a Tokyo subway. The Order of the Solar Temple lured the rich and famous, including Princess Grace of Monaco, and convinced them to die a fiery death now on Earth to be reborn on a better planet called Sirius. Charles Manson convinced his followers to kill, in an attempt to incite an apocalyptic race war.
These are a few of the doomsday...