Demon in Disguise: The Cult at Angels Landing

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🗓️ 25 September 2020

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Summary

Most of us go looking, at one point or another in our lives, for something…more. Something to give us a purpose. Make us feel like we belong here. For some of us, it’s friends or family. For some, it’s art, or music, or helping people. But then, some of us take a wrong turn on that quest for fulfillment. Come up against just the right kind of charismatic personality—one who makes us feel loved, needed, special…chosen…and we can lose our compass. It’s scary, how much sway one person can have over another. And how quickly we can give up our own sense of reality for somebody else’s dark vision.

Sources:
NBC's Dateline: Angels and Demons
Oxygen's "Deadly Cults," Episode "Angels Landing"
Investigation Discovery's "My Murder Story," Episode "The Devil's Angels"
https://www.insurancejournal.com/news/midwest/2015/02/20/358230.htm

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0:00.0	Hello, campers. Grab your marshmallows and gather around the true crime campfire.
0:05.0	We're your camp counselors. I'm Katie and I'm Whitney.
0:08.0	And we're here to tell you a true story that is way stranger than fiction.
0:12.0	We're roasting murderers and marshmallows around the
0:13.8	true crime campfire.
0:16.7	Most of us go looking at one point or another in our lives for something more, something to give
0:27.0	us a purpose, make us feel like we belong here. For some of us, it's friends or family.
0:33.0	For some, it's art or music or helping people.
0:36.3	But then, some of us take a wrong turn on that quest for fulfillment, come up against just
0:41.2	the right kind of charismatic personality, one who makes us feel loved, needed, special, chosen, and we can lose our compass.
0:50.0	It's scary how much sway one person can have over another and how quickly we can give up our own sense of reality for somebody else's dark vision.
0:59.0	This is Demon in Disguise, the cult at Angels Landing. So, Camper's, we're in Wichita, Kansas, 2003. Detective Ron Goodwin of the Sedgwick County PD got an intriguing
1:26.6	tip. The tipster didn't say a whole lot, just that Goodwin should look into a guy named
1:31.6	Lou Castro and a place called Angels Landing.
1:35.0	Angels Landing turned out to be a sort of compound just north of Wichita.
1:40.0	Several families had built homes there, million dollar homes, and seemed to live together as a sort of collective.
1:46.0	None of them were Wichita natives, and they clearly had a shitload of money.
1:50.0	In addition to the fancy houses, the people at Angels Landing had a collection of expensive cars,
1:55.7	corvettes, range rovers, dodge vipers, the kids had their own horses, they flew pricey model airplanes. So we're talking about well-to-do folks here, but the thing was there was no obvious source for all that money.
2:09.0	Now that campers is a red flag for a detective, especially one with experience in narcotics like Detective Goodwin.
2:16.0	The whole thing smacked of drug money.
2:18.0	Yeah, money doesn't just come out of nowhere, so investigators look for money that appears to just exist for no reason.
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