How Every Famous Cult Leader Died

Almost nobody who joined these cults thought they were joining a cult. They thought they'd found a family. Here is how all nine of history's most notorious cult leaders actually died, and why so many of them got a far softer ending than the people who followed them. This documentary walks through the deaths of Jim Jones and Jonestown, Marshall Applewhite and Heaven's Gate, David Koresh at Waco, Charles Manson, Shoko Asahara and the Tokyo subway sarin attack, Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, Paul Schäfer of Colonia Dignidad, Anne Hamilton-Byrne of The Family, and the Order of the Solar Temple. Nine leaders, nine very different final images, and one uncomfortable pattern connecting all of them. Every date, death toll, and detail in this video is drawn from court records, news archives, and published histories. ``` (Note, outside the box: channel handle/link is still TBD. Add your "Sources in description" list and one channel link here once the channel exists. Do not ship an @handle or URL that does not resolve.)