Hey all, thanks for listening to Killer Queens.

Or KQ If you nasty, welcome to the show where two 90s love and country chicks gab about

true crime and tell each other to talk to the hand because of face ain't listening.

I'm Torella, and I'm Tori, and we're sisters who have always loved true crime and decided

to turn that obsession into a show with a light take on the topic.

Kind of like diet true crime, it's all the flavor of pure calories.

Now with our show, you'll get true crime, 90s nostalgia, and a few four letter words sprinkled in.

Because I always say that polypockets and true crime go together like peas and carrots.

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This episode contains discussion of child abuse, child sexual abuse, grooming, cults, religious,

cults, radical religious beliefs.

Yes.

So listener discretion advised.

On April 19th, 1993, FBI agents began pouring tear gas into a compound known as Mount Carmel

in Waco, Texas.

It was the final act of a 51 day standoff that had taken place between law enforcement and a

religious group known as the branch dividends.

After a failed attempt by the ATF to serve a warrant to arrest the group's leader, David

Kuresh, for stockpiling illegal weapons, the standoff began.

By the end, 82 branch dividends were dead, including 28 children and four ATF agents had been killed.

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