The Waco Siege And The Branch Davidians

Not Another True Crime Podcast

Betches

True Crime, Society & Culture, Comedy

3.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2021

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

Sara and Danny are back to breakdown one of the longest police standoffs in history: The Waco Siege. They start with the origins of the Branch Davidians and its eventual leader David Koresh, who was at the top of the cult at the time of the siege. They also go through the cult’s beliefs and what life at the compound was like, before getting into some of the darker detail’s of Koresh’s abuse of his followers. The end the show, they play Caught in The Vor-Texas!, where they take a trivia journey through the 6 flags that have flown above Texas throughout its history. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.8	On February 28, 1993, the FBI were on the brink of conducting a raid on the branch dividends.
0:36.5	This call, led by David Kuresh, had been founded decades earlier based on a series of twisted
0:41.3	religious beliefs, and they believed that the second coming of Christ was imminent.
0:46.3	Reports of dangerous military practices and abuse within its compound had led the FBI
0:50.6	to finally act against the cult, and what resulted was one of the longest standoffs in
0:55.0	US history known as the Waco Siege.
0:58.0	How did David Kuresh manage to persuade so many people to follow him on his depraved path?
1:07.0	Betches media presents.
1:10.0	Not another true crime podcast.
1:13.0	It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt.
1:19.0	Depraved indeed.
1:24.0	And a long path, this path, this street path.
1:28.0	And in a very long path, I feel like this group was around for a very long time before
1:34.0	meeting its end.
1:36.0	It was, yeah.
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