190: Nightmare on Elm Street

Cult Liter with Spencer Henry

Spencer Henry | Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Society & Culture, Comedy

4.9 • 5.4K Ratings

🗓️ 3 January 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

It’s 2022 and we’re coming in hot with an eery story from a small California town where a 9-1-1 call in May of 1990 led authorities to a horrifying crime scene. What appeared to be a quadruple homicide later on revealed ties between one of the victims and a local cult where a Manson-like cult leader may have been responsible for orchestrating the massacre..only one way to find out…
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0:10.6	language, and other sensitive material.
0:12.8	With an emphasis on cults, murder, and other adult matters, listener discretion is advised.
0:17.1	On Cult Leader, I strive for telling stories in a truthful matter, though press media and
0:20.6	other resources cannot always be verified, sources can be found in the show notes.
0:50.6	Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader, I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry, and it looks
1:00.7	like we've made it to 2022.
1:03.0	How about that?
1:04.2	New everything, new year, new listener discretion, warning at the beginning of the episode.
1:09.4	When we came out with obituary, we put a listener discretion at the beginning of it and
1:14.5	I was like, I should probably do that for Cult Leader one day, so I decided, hey, new year,
1:19.0	why not just throw one of those up in the beginning?
1:21.2	Stuffy already knew what to expect, but hey, you never know, somebody could say hey, is
1:26.3	this a podcast about happy cults and nothing dark?
1:31.0	Well surely they'd be in the wrong place, but we gotta let them know.
1:34.4	Missed you guys last week, but I'm rested, recharged, and ready for another year of wild
1:39.7	stories with my cult faves.
1:41.8	Do you guys do resolutions?
1:43.3	I feel like that's something that's kind of fallen off.
1:45.9	I try, one of my top goals this year for this show specifically is to have some guests
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