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Corpus Delicti

127: Cults: The Family (Anne Hamilton-Byrne)

Corpus Delicti

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🗓️ 12 May 2020

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

A woman who always longed for a family lost her husband and suffered a series of miscarriages after her first born. She went on to start a family of her own, only... not the kind you're probably thinking. Believing she was Jesus reincarnated, she formed "The Family", which aimed to raise perfect children who would take over the world after an impending apocalypse. Content warning: This episode does discuss abuse.

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Sources:
https://wrldrels.org/2018/01/03/the-family/

https://www.abc.net.au/triplej/programs/hack/the-family-cult/7686506

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7140809/Australias-notorious-cult-leader-Anne-Hamilton-Byrne-dies-age-98.html

http://www.leavingsiddhayoga.net/unseen.htm

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Family_(Australian_New_Age_group)

https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-49400118

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2016/nov/20/growing-up-with-the-family-inside-anne-hamilton-byrnes-sinister-cult

https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/why-infamous-cult-leader-never-saw-jail-time/ar-AACXfjt

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/not-the-messiah-anne-hamilton-byrne-s-legacy-of-ruined-childhoods-20190615-p51y1u.html

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anne-hamilton-byrne-obituary-dg9fxbhdq

https://culteducation.com/group/1191-anne-hamilton-byrne-the-family/29882-inside-the-bizarre-1960s-cult-the-family-lsd-yoga-and-ufos.html

https://culteducation.com/group/1191-anne-hamilton-byrne-the-family/27738-read-the-secret-diary-that-reveals-the-bizarre-beliefs-of-aliens-super-human-powers-and-twisted-child-mind-control-inside-the-family-cult.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFFAJkTRmWc

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey everyone, it's Jen.

0:25.5

And this is Lindsay.

0:27.0

And this is Corpus Delecta the podcast.

0:29.3

Welcome back for another week of our deep dives into cult.

0:33.5

Yes, for you guys, it feels like a week.

0:35.5

For us, it feels like two minutes because we're recording

0:37.6

these back to back, which we very rarely do these days. So we're doing a lot of talking.

0:42.7

Quick warning, tonight's story is a little heavy. It does involve children and it does involve

0:49.9

abuse. So just please know that going into it. And this story, as we talked about in the last

0:56.3

episode, occurs in another country. So as Jen said, she wanted to kind of look at when did it

1:02.9

happen? Was it after something, you know, big in the world or whatever? So we will have a chance

1:09.0

to hopefully talk about some of that tonight. And tonight we are going to be

1:12.9

discussing what is known as the family. This is not Charles Manson's the family. This is a different

1:18.6

another the family. Tonight we're going to talk about Evelyn Grace Victoria Edwards. Now she was

1:25.0

born on December 30th, 1921. However, she's not really known by that name.

1:31.4

She's more well known by the name of Anne Hamilton Burn, an infamous cult leader. She was born

1:38.9

in Saly, Victoria, to Ralph Edwards and his second wife Florence Oyo in 1971.

1:46.1

And when we say she was born in Victoria, this was in Australia, just if you're not familiar.

1:52.9

Now, she was the oldest of seven children born into a poor family, and their parents weren't

1:58.8

really what you'd call involved with their kids. They were in and

2:02.8

out a lot. This is because her mother was a schizophrenic and she had several stays in mental

2:09.3

hospitals, at least four, according to the sources. And later, they would find out that her mother

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