Leaders of Secretive California Cult Charged with Murdering Members
How Men Think
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🗓️ 17 December 2025
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
The husband and wife leaders of “His Way Spirit Led Assemblies” were charged with murder along with two other members after the death of a 4-year-old boy and a 40-year-old man. Police say the murders happened more than 10 years apart, and there is another member who has been missing since 2019. Former members of the group who managed to escape, describe the bizarre and at times frightening atmosphere they lived in, for years.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.2 | It is Wednesday, December 17th. |
| 0:09.9 | A four-year-old dead. |
| 0:12.1 | A 40-year-old dead. |
| 0:14.4 | Their deaths were 13 years apart. |
| 0:18.2 | But their deaths have now been brought together in a bizarre, twisted, winding murder |
| 0:24.8 | investigation involving what's described as a religious cult in California. And with that, |
| 0:30.6 | welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. I try my best there to build this story, |
| 0:35.0 | wrote the best I could at the top, but that's the way, it is a winding, bizarre, strange story involving two different deaths, now two different homicides, |
| 0:43.6 | and a whole bunch of people involved now in being charged with murder. And a missing man still, |
| 0:49.7 | a former member who they believe may also have been murdered. So there is still some intrigue into what |
| 0:55.0 | happened to a 41-year-old in that cult. And we're talking about a group that I had no idea about. |
| 1:01.9 | In fact, the city where they're based out there, was it Himmit? What is it called out there in |
| 1:06.1 | California? It's situated kind of between San Diego and L.A., but a little more inland. |
| 1:12.8 | I didn't know anything about it. |
| 1:13.5 | No man's land, basically, but... |
| 1:15.3 | What's this thing called? |
| 1:15.9 | His Way, Spirit, led assemblies? |
| 1:18.0 | Correct. |
| 1:18.4 | And there's a reason why we haven't heard of it, because even police described this as a secretive, California, religious group. |
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