Media Reports

CNN Interview with Janja Lalich CNN Impact/March 30, 1997 Moderator says, “Welcome to the TIME/CNN IMPACT forum. Tonight at 10 p.m., we’re discussing the mass suicide in San Diego last week with Janja Lalich, the Educational Director of Community Resources on Influence and Control, an outreach service directed at educating the public about the potential…

From the Oakland Tribune By Jill Tucker and Jason Dearen Sunday, November 16, 2003 THE WHITEWASHED chair is empty. Several bodies are face down on the floor in front of it, their arms wrapped around each other — a final attempt at comfort, frozen in death. Hanging above, a wooden sign with stark white words deliver…

originally from http://www.livescience.com/health/080409-cults-sects.html by Jeanna Bryner The allegedly polygamous group whose compound was raided this week in Texas is either a religious sect or a full-blown cult, depending on whom you ask. The raided compound was founded by jailed polygamist leader Warren Jeffs, who took over in 2002 as prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus…