Ministry of Evil, Part 1: The Cult of Personality
The Truth About True Crime with Amanda Knox
SundanceTV and Sundance Now
4.4 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 11 February 2019
⏱️ 31 minutes
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Summary
In the beginning, Tony and Susan Alamo were street-corner hucksters, handing out apocalyptic leaflets to hippies in Hollywood, using the horrors of war and civil unrest in the 1970s as a way to tap into the psyche of the times. Amanda Knox takes a look at the Alamos' fire-and-brimstone evangelism that sucked members into their cult and trapped them there through manipulation and exploitation. Guests include former member Carey Miller, expert and author Debby Schriver, and Ministry of Evil docu-series producers Fenton Bailey, Leslie Mattingly and Eleanor West.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Amanda Knox, host of the podcast series The Truth About True Crime. |
| 0:05.5 | Check out Sundance Now's original audio drama, Exeter, a gripping crime mystery starring Jean Triplehorn and Ray McKinnon. |
| 0:13.6 | Follow a veteran detective as she is forced to reconcile with the errors of a past case |
| 0:18.5 | while struggling to solve a series of grisly |
| 0:21.3 | and ritualistic murders |
| 0:22.7 | rocking her South Carolina town. |
| 0:25.0 | Be sure to subscribe so you never miss an episode. |
| 0:30.0 | From Sundance TV and Sundance Now, |
| 0:32.8 | this is the truth about true crime. |
| 0:34.7 | I'm Amanda Knox. |
| 0:36.1 | Join me as I explore the dark corners, dig into |
| 0:39.1 | the unresolved questions, and get personal with the humans at the heart of Sundance |
| 0:43.6 | true crime documentaries. |
| 0:48.8 | Tony and Susie were our gods. Fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Amen Christians. In the 60s, young people |
| 1:01.7 | came to California, wanting to find a better life to join this cult meant eternal salvation. |
| 1:08.6 | Him that believeth not shall be damned. |
| 1:11.7 | I said, I need to leave. |
| 1:14.0 | And she said, I'll fucking kill you before I let you do that. |
| 1:23.0 | Susan rocked her head back and cackled like a hi-hany. |
| 1:26.1 | She says, can you believe how fucking |
| 1:28.5 | stupid these people are? That's Carrie Miller talking. He was a teenager when he got sucked |
| 1:34.3 | into the fire and brimstone congregation of Tony and Susan Alamo. It may not have been a cult |
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