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I mean, we were working out together, just the two of us, out in the barn. and he says, i just want you to know one thing, youre not bringing friends this time. lundgren approaches luff and tells him to dig a large pit in the barn. it is another command that luff follows without question. >> he knew that something bad would happen? >> i would say within a few days, at least, beforehand, those of us who had prepared the pit in the barn understood that someone could die. a tip from a former memb...

There he meet eye a local tour guide. he meets jeffrey lundgren. >> there are people saying this guy, jeffrey lundgren really knows it and hes a special one. and he taught sunday school classes there. >> but a disagreement with the church elders over his teaching practices pushes 37-year-old lundgren out of the temple. he moves his small group of followers to a nearby farm. >> it was roughly in 1987 is when i started to see jeff lundgren and his people move into the farm on u.s. route 6. >> jeff...

♪ >> lundgrens behavior becomes bizarre and even cruel. he tests his followers devotions by holding bible class from morning to 2:00 a.m. or later. and he challenges their willpower by insisting that they fast while he eats a lavish lobster dinner in front of them. luff follows lundgrens demands without hesitation. >> did any part of you ever say, gee, this is a little weird, i dont know? this fellows maybe just -- i dont know. >> by the time you realize anything, you dont realize it. >> cults...

Bring these things about because this is what has to be. its the only access to life. >> he controlled his followers lundgren also uses guilt as a manipulation tactic. luff is told the sins of the world rest on his shoulders. it is a burden that is almost too much for luff to bear. >> the whole ethiopian planner is personally attributed to me as being failure on my lives as these people die. i remember tears coming out of class, my god, all of these people are dead, its my fault. so i felt these...

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