First, it was Glenn Cooley, a 20-year-old college dropout.

Then it was Devorow Cleaver, 14-year-old girl.

Next to a sandy Cleaver, Devorow's mom, who died along with Sandy's housekeeper, Luis

Watson, in the same accident.

One by one, people connected to a woman named Terry Hoffman just kept dying.

By 1979, 11 people who were either members or family members to members of Terry Hoffman

and strange cult conscious development would die under mysterious circumstances or disappear.

Many of them were suicides.

Some of them would claim and suicide notes they left behind to be suffering from a terminal

illness.

They wanted to end it all and avoid needless and unavoidable suffering before they're

inevitable and untimely death.

But then a corner would find no trace of that illness in their remains or a trace of

any other illness.

After their deaths, these people would often leave Terry Hoffman and conscious development

thousands and thousands of dollars.

These are entire estates, confusing children and family members they left behind and raising

suspicions.

While some of these family members knew that their departed loved ones had been interested

in new age spirituality and that Terry built herself as a kind of guru, they generally

had no idea how deep the devotion to Terry and her wild ideas went.

Terry Hoffman was an unusual cult leader.

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