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10 Terrifyingly Evil Killer Cults Cults are a mind-boggling aspect of civilization. The question always arises, how is it possible for people to get caught up in that type of madness? Even scarier is when the cult turns deadly. How could a group of people possibly go through with the murder of another person? Yet, if the right people get together, it does happen—and it’s always terrifying. 10The Vampire Clan Like many teenagers, 16-year-old Rod Ferrell was obsessed with dark subjects, speci...

>> yeah. while we were covering the bodies, i dont recall really looking in. i dont think i really wanted to. i think that was sort of, you know, just didnt want to, and i didnt. and i have vague images of the pit, but i didnt really focus on that. >> immediately after the murders, the cult leaves the farm and roams the country for the next few months. slowly, the members disband. and luff returns to missouri. his role in the murders starts to weigh on him. >> nine months, i got out. >> you got ...

Conference, they introduced a new direction for the church. and now, for me i was getting out of military and i was starting a new life. but the church was a huge part of my life was in utter turmoil. >> looking for answers, luff takes a fateful trip with his family to an ohio town known as a kind of mecca for mormons. kirtland, ohio, a small farming town that hosts hundreds of mormon tourists annually, they come to visit the kirtland temple one of the first structures for mormons. >> its primar...

>> i wish there had been. for me it was like going to jericho. there was terrible carnage that day but it was something that was commanded, that that had to be done. and conscience itself becomes malleable at this point. >> when i compare luffs interviews with serial killers, serial rapists, luff is very serious. he takes this role in this crime seriously, in the sense hes not proud of what he did. >> after dinner, lundgren brings ron luff and five other men into a bedroom. there, he lays down t...

And but, each person had to be prepared the same way and delivered into that pit. i placed them down in and then i walked away. >> you literally walked away? you didnt watch them get shot? did you hear them scream? >> no, trina said ouch. >> i dont imagine that there was an awful lot of ambivalence that he focused on, sizing the situation, probably that he was proud and able to participate in this thing as he was asked to do. >> after lundgren delivers the final shot, he leaves ron luff and the ...

As ron luff and his wife become more immeshed in the cult, they begin to lose sight of reality. luff is captivated by the teachings of the groups leader, jeffrey lundgren. and like all the groups members is a devoted follower. >> you havent considered yourself a cult. >> in fact, i dont think the idea came into mind, the whole notion of a cult which i knew nothing about anyway. >> how many could would be in the group at the time. when did the requests of dictates become even more unorthodox, mor...

Saying, okay, you have to go to ohio to get it. i became convinced that we would have to move up there if we were really going to get the answers we were looking for. >> abruptly, he decides to move his family from missouri to ohio. >> the step, it was like a seduction, and people are awfully welcoming, theyre awfully nonjudgmental, somebody looking for that attachment bigger than themselves finds the seduction very appealing. >> six weeks after moving to ohio, ron luff settles into his life wit...

So, yeah, i can i understand the time and place in that. >> after getting married and starting a family, luff leaves the navy. a lack of structure leaves him floundering. he turns back to his religion for stability. >> he needed an awful lot psychologically. he talks about going to the navy and finding satisfaction with associating himself with a larger group, structure, he could follow directions and commands. on one side of the navy, still searching for something. in this case, what he was sea...

Didnt really understand each other real well. one thing i saw in my dad he had a tremendous amount of love but he didnt always know how to express it real well. >> there is something in there, even his own temperament that left him feeling alone, disconnected and particularly in need of a bigger stroke here, like a different direction to make him feel part of something. >> like a lot of teenager, luff begins to rebel and distances hills from the church. >> i began to drink and act wild. >> its n...

>> i began to doubt whether or not i could continue any farther because god had gotten too ugly. at this point, too ugly to follow anymore. that grew into serious doubts about what was right. and then eventually to a conviction that was wrong. >> luffs growing realization that he participated in a terrible crime prompts him to turn himself into authorities. it say step that initiates the end of jeffrey lundgrens cult. coming up -- >> how in the world. >> if you can recover. >> is that how you ...