Don't you want devoted followers who leave their families for you, give their money to you, give their bodies to you, give up

their lives for you, consider you God, and will kill for you?

Don't you want to become a cult leader?

Hello and welcome to serial killing a podcast, where we also veer off of the serial killer path to delve into other topics within

our beloved true crime community.

This week's podcast will be on the Nexium cult. This cult was founded by Keith Renary.

And after researching this, which was a rabbit hole so deep deep I knew I wouldn't have time to uncover every stone.

So I want to say that this story has a lot of players so I'll do my best to keep the people organized. So let's get

started with Keith. Keith Renieri was born on August 26th of 1960 in Brooklyn, New York.

So let's get into some history for that time.

In 1960, Italy hosted the Summer Olympics.

These were the first games to be completely televised.

83 countries and over 5,000 athletes participated in 150 events.

The Soviet Union, the United States, and Italy won portions of the

in preparation for the games Italy restored portions of the Rome

ruins and made it for a much more beautiful backdrop.

John F. Kennedy won the presidential election

defeating Richard Nixon.

Also in 1960, the United States sent over 3,500 soldiers over to fight in the Vietnam War to help support South Vietnam against the North and against what Eisenhower called the

domino effect meaning the spread of communism.

The U.S. sent a spy plane over to the Soviet Union called the U2 and the Soviet Union promptly

shot it down. The U.S US of course denied that there had ever been a spy

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