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Timesuck with Dan Cummins

189 - The Children of Thunder Cult

Timesuck with Dan Cummins

Dan Cummins

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion, Conspiracies, History, Biographies, Education, Adult Humor, Comedy, Dark Humor, Conspiracy, Cults

4.721.6K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 150 minutes

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Summary

The crazy story of Taylor Helzer's descent into madness and murder and the formation of his Children of Thunder cult.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Boy, oh boy, do I have a tail for you today?

0:02.8

For me, this was a top 10 suck.

0:04.3

I'm excited to tell this story.

0:06.0

So strange and fascinating and horrible and darkly hilarious in moments.

0:11.3

Today we appear into Glenn Taylor-Helzers, twisted world of opposing ideologies and more than

0:16.0

half baked plans for prostitution and murder and stopping and apocalypse.

0:21.3

Plans fueled by so much meth.

0:23.4

We're talking today about the children of Thunder Colt and the unbelievably cruel crimes

0:27.2

they committed.

0:28.2

A good prelude for this suck would be our Mormonism suck since Taylor's very twisted plans revolved

0:33.3

around taking over the church he grew up loving the Latter-day Saints.

0:38.0

The crimes committed by the children of Thunder would shock millions of Northern Californians

0:42.4

due to their sheer brutality.

0:44.2

The tiny Colt would come to an end shortly after three of their members committed five

0:47.5

gruesome murders, including the slain of the daughter of a beloved Bay Area Blues musician

0:52.4

Elvin Bishop.

0:54.0

The body parts of three of their victims will be found mixed together in duffel bags,

0:58.0

floating in the San Francisco Bay Delta.

1:00.7

What led to that?

1:01.9

Today's tale is of one highly egotistical and mentally unhinged, delusional man who once

1:07.3

seemed destined for a promising future preaching the Mormon gospel.

1:11.1

And then later seemed destined for wealth as a young successful stockbroker.

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