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Texas in the early 1990s. A stretch of flat, dusty land just outside of Waco's, it's quiet.

At first glance, it seems like just another compound

a few ramshackled buildings some trailers and a playground for kids but inside those walls

something else was brewing something dangerous and deeply devoted a man who called

himself the Lamb of God a prophecy of the end times, and an arsenal stockpiled for war.

This is a story of faith twisted into control, of prophecy, power, and the quiet terror that can grow behind locked doors.

It's about how one man became David Koresh, and how he let a community down

a path they would never return from. Crime, conspiracy, cults, serial killers, and murder, all

things that I love to consume, and I know you do too, you sick, twisted, beautiful, intellectually

minded. Beek!

Mm-hmm. Didn't expect that, did you? Or maybe you did. I don't really know anymore.

But today, we are diving into another cult. It's been a minute since we, we, uh, dove into one of those,

and my god, did I not miss it this this is this is a doozy so without

further ado let's unbuckle our seatbelts go mock five down the highway slam on the brakes

and bust through this windshield into this disturbing cult together. David Koresh was born Vernon Wayne Howell on August 17, 1959 in Houston, Texas.

And his mother, Bonnie Sue Clark, was only 14 years old at the time,

and his father was 20-year-old Bobby Wayne Howell and actually abandoned the family before Vernon was

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