New Season Preview: Ministry of Evil
The Truth About True Crime with Amanda Knox
SundanceTV and Sundance Now
4.4 • 815 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2019
⏱️ 3 minutes
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Summary
In the '70s and '80s, Tony and Susan Alamo promised personal salvation to those who joined their ministry, The Alamo Christian Foundation. Wielding the fear of damnation, they grew rapidly but soon began to face allegations of using cult-like tactics and abuse to control and exploit their followers. This season on The Truth About True Crime, former members share their stories as host Amanda Knox uncovers the methods the Alamos used to capture people, the mental and physical maltreatment Tony and Susan inflicted on their followers and the challenges the filmmakers faced in telling this story in SundanceTV's docu-series Ministry of Evil: The Twisted Cult of Tony Alamo.
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| 1:02.9 | about true crime. I'm Amanda Knox. Join me as I explore the dark corners, dig into the |
| 1:08.1 | unresolved questions, and get personal with the humans at the heart of Sundance |
| 1:12.1 | true crime documentaries. This season, I'm going behind the scenes of another cult story, but a very |
| 1:17.9 | different one, the upcoming Sundance docuseries, Ministry of Evil, the twisted cult of Tony Alamo. |
| 1:24.1 | Unlike Jim Jones and the People's Temple, the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation seems to have been a con from the start. |
| 1:30.3 | I could understand why people would flock to Jim Jones in the early days, as he fought to integrate Indiana, |
| 1:36.3 | even refusing to undergo appendix surgery until they began admitting black people to the same wing of the hospital. |
| 1:42.3 | But Tony and Susan Alamo didn't inspire |
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