Seven Deadly Sinners

Amanda Wienckowski was found frozen solid, upside down in a garbage can in the middle of a Buffalo, NY winter in January 2009 - her case was somehow ruled an accidental suicide by the authorities despite her last known location being the drug dealer's house across the street who was later convicted of rape and strangulation.Rachael talks with Amanda's mother and older sister to divulge the details of the tragically mishandled case.

Amanda Wienckowski was found frozen solid, upside down in a garbage can in the middle of a Buffalo, NY winter in January 2009 - her case was somehow ruled an accidental suicide by the authorities despite her last known location being the drug dealer's house across the street who was later convicted of rape and strangulation. Rachael talks with Amanda's mother and older sister to divulge the details of the tragically mishandled case.

What do you think happened to the thousands of people that have gone missing in our National Parks ….and when I say missing… It's really more like vanished under the strangest of circumstances... There are stories where a group is hiking and they look back and they see their friend but when they look back again not even 30 seconds later - THEY ARE GONE… almost like they were plucked right off the trail into thin air. David Paulides does not give his exact theories to what is going on here….. HE LEAVES IT UP TO YOU TO DECIDE - BUT HE DOES PRESENT SOME COMPELLING CASES THAT LEAD ME TO BELIEVE IS THERE SOMETHING ELSE OUT THERE?

Rachael talks with a retired Buffalo Police officer about a side of True Crime we don't often hear from - the first responders and the emotional toll witnessing crime in person takes.

The cult-like worship of Santa Muerte by vicious drug lords and cartels alike....using the Saint of Death for various justifications in their mind... she will protect them from having a harsh death themselves though they are literally disposing of bodies in acid, she is guidance for them when they traffic millions of dollars worth of drugs, and kill their rivals, her statue often being placed at gruesome death scenes.Adolfo de Jesús Constanzo was an American serial killer, drug dealer and cult leader who led an infamous drug-trafficking and occult gang in Matamoros, Mexico that was dubbed the "Narcosatanists" by the media - his cult members knew him as "The Godfather"Mark Kilroy was a pre-med student at UT Austin and was sadly abducted off the streets of Matamoros on spring break with his childhood friends. His tragic death and investigation lead to the uncovering of 13 more bodies found at Constanzo's ranch buried in shallow graves. While Mark drew authorities attention it's important to remember the names of the others eventually named....and honor the unnamed and the never reported even missing...They deserve their stories to be told as well. Here are the names of the other identified victims buried at the ranch along with Mark Kilroy:Ernesto Rivas Diaz, 23Victor Sauceda Galvan, 22Ruben Vela Garza, 30Gilberto Garza Sosa, early 20sSpecial Thanks to:Ellen Mentor, Taurindb, Freesound.org, KRQE.com, Texas Monthly, Darkness Podcast by Haley Butler, Medium.com and The New York Times

Rachael interviews a dear friend who is a follower of Santa Muerte to get the good side of the story.

On the evening of May 23, 22-year-old Elliot Rodger killed six people and injured fourteen other by gunshot, stabbing and vehicle ramming near the campus of the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) and then killed himself.

Driven by Father Joe’s twin sister’s unwavering determination to get justice for her brother, an unlikely friendship with an outcast Priest and the autopsy tech who alongside the famous Dr. Cyril Wecht, exhume the body, perform a second autopsy and find disturbing evidence that should prove this could not have been a suicide.From the creators of Seven Deadly Sinners comes a podcast investigating a True Cold Case, Hosts and Producers Rachael O’Brien and Greg Hunter work along side Father Joe’s twin sister Sue and former autopsy tech, Joe Wedge, to expose the Diocese for what it really is - Deadly.For years the Buffalo Diocese has been covering up abuse, hiding money, exploiting children and adult men alike - This podcast investigates, boots on the ground in Buffalo, and unravels the cover up of the mysterious death of Father Joe Moreno.PREMIERES DECEMBER 21st 2022

Can a cult exist only on online forums? The Cult of Incels proves it to be possible. "Involuntary Celibates" or Incels are a community that started out fairly wholesome born from a men's liberation movement in the 1970s but morphed into a misogynistic, online hate group. By the early 2000s incels were carrying out pubic attacks in the name of hate and posting about it online. SOURCES: cnn.com; thegaurdian.com; noozhawk.com

Richard Allen is arrested for the murders of Abby & Libby in Delphi, IN.

This episode has it all: a politician, evangelical preacher, gospel singer, murder plots, husband and wife, mother to dozens of children, conspiracy - a reported Swinger’s Club. An arrest — or several.... The list goes on and on in this twisted tale of corrupt thoughts and actions under the guise of saintly acts. This is the cult of Flordelis dos Santos de Souza a Brazilian Gospel singer and politician - who happens to have 50+ children and no longer a husband....SOURCES: The Guardian, NY Post, Daily Mail, BBC, Reuters, New Yorker, Independant, Al Dia News, and Yahoo!

This is part three of the Larry Ray saga, a creepy, criminal father who moved in with his daughter in college as a 50 something year old man, after just being released from prison, and slowly groomed her and her friends into his bizarre brainwashed world, from the college housing of Sarah Lawrence to an apartment on the upper east side of New York City - Larry Ray, formed a cult of vulnerable college students who obeyed his every horrid demand. This is Larry Ray and the Sarah Lawrence cult. #cult #Larry #Ray #SarahLawrence #sexcult #sex

This is part two of the story of a father who moved in with his daughter in college as a 50 something year old man (who just was released from prison) and slowly groomed her and her friends into his bizarre controlled world, from the college housing of Sarah Lawrence to an apartment on the upper east side of New York City - Larry Ray, formed a cult of vulnerable college students turned adults who cowered to his every horrific whim. This is Larry Ray and the Sarah Lawrence cult. #cult #Larry #Ray #SarahLawrence #sexcult #sex

This is the story of a father who moved in with his daughter in college as a 50 something year old man and slowly groomed her and her friends into his bizarre controlled world, from the college housing of Sarah Lawrence to an apartment on the upper east side of New York City - Larry Ray, formed a cult of vulnerable college students turned adults who cowered to his every horrific whim. This is Larry Ray and the Sarah Lawrence cult. #cult #Larry #Ray #SarahLawrence

Rachael meets a card dealer that crossed over to the other side as a child and ever since his NDE (Near Death Experience) has had multiple bone chilling encounters with ghosts.

Left to rot into rumble, The Living Enrichment Center in Wilsonville, Oregon was shutdown and abandoned in the wake of Mary Morrissey's multi-million dollar scandal. Built on the former grounds of a mental institution the 94,000 sq ft compound featured an in-house bookstore, retreat center, café, kindergarten, elementary school, as well as an outreach television ministry studio. Pandering a prophetic tale from her childhood, Mary swindles her faithful selling practical advice with a price tag only a conman could come up with. #cult #truecrime #conman #falseprophet #televangelist

The Mansfield Reformatory is a historic prison located in Mansfield, Ohio made famous by the film The Shawshank Redemption. Closed in 1990 due to intolerable overcrowding and inhumane conditions - it is now host to a number of haunted souls serving out their sentences for eternity.

Highway 666 now renamed Highway 491

In the valley below Mount Pisgah, there is a meandering creek that for the last 30 million years has crept through a desolate prairie, carving into the core of an ancient volcano revealing nuggets of native gold that remained undisturbed on the surface until Bob Womack found a chunk in a cattle pasture in Poverty Gulch and staked the El Paso claim in 1890 - igniting the last Colorado Gold Rush and fostering: “The Greatest Gold Camp On Earth.”It’s true. More gold was pulled out of Cripple Creek than all of Alaska and California’s gold rushes combined. 28 Millionaires were made and the little mining enclave became the financial capital of the country in just a few years. Word of the Gold boom triggered a mass migration of gold thirsty men, with little to no experience mining, to a town that was primed to take their fortune faster than the Gold Fever packed their bags to get there. They say “Money doesn’t grow on trees” - yet it is the root of all evil - so what happens when men start pulling precious metals deeply rooted in the Earth out of the ground faster than Farmers can harvest crops?Greed. A gluttonous hunger for GOLD that erodes the morals of men and women; infecting their souls like a fever - and the contagious excitement of a gold rush spares no one.

Rachael along with her Husband and a local Rancher named Jeff trek into the vast nothingness of New Mexico ranch land to find the Strong City Cult compound.

A little hint of the sinister, paranormal investigations Rachael and Greg conducted across the ghost towns, abandoned mining camps and no-mans lands of New Mexico and Colorado interviewing locals and even sleeping in the old Folsom Hotel which hasn't had a guest in nearly 100 years.... Seven Deadly Sinners is profiling HAUNTED SINS the entire month of October as an ode to Spooky Season. Stay tuned.

Wayne Bent, the leader of the Strong City cult located in the vast ranch lands of Northern New Mexico, claims that one day while "relaxing" in his chair - God spoke to him and told him that he is now the modern day Messiah... Suddenly he needed 7 virgins and a compound in the middle of nowhere New Mexico....Featured Music from: Tunnel Vision Pipe Dream, Audiomirage and Vinyl Fields

‘Eastern Lightning’ almost sounds to me like a 1980’s metal band…but that’s far from the reality of the organization also known as Church of the Almighty God (among numerous other alias’s). We’re not talking big hair, power ballads and heavy guitar rifts … we’re talking accusations of kidnappings; coercion; alleged assaults; murder; brainwashing and targeting women. All under the nose of China’s Communist Party begging the question as to whether the crazy allegations surrounding the organization are, in fact, true or whether they’re completely fabricated by the CCP.

The final episode on Dwight York, the maniac messiah, egotistical “Egyptian”, he’s not Egyptian at all I’m sure or he is and it shows up on a 23 & me test somewhere but he’s not in the way he says he is...

Dwight York convinces everyone he is Egyptian royalty including a Sudanese family related to the 19th century Mahdi, Muhammad Ahmad and thousands of other New Yorkers in search of a savior.

He was the typical charismatic cult leader who brainwashed his loyal followers into not even questioning something as bizarre as the transition from following a muslim ideology to watching their Potentate release a disco record and transform their faith into believing their leader was a celestial alien being....and then an Egyptian Pharos...This is the story of Dwight York

I was going back and forth on if this could make a good case for 7DS but I decided it is the perfect case. While I don’t believe that Jack Kevorkian was a sinner or a saint, I believe he was a compassionate pioneer who was grappling with his own generational trauma in the face of the difficulty of being a doctor who has to watch people wither away and suffer - The crossroads of the death he knew as a child intersected with his profession and the unimaginable pain he had to walk his patients through on a daily basis until one day one of them just said Jack…. I’m done… I can’t do this anymore ….and Jack in his own weird way felt too much empathy not to oblige.

The worst psychic of all time.

After venturing to Fort Bridger on a recent road trip back home to Oregon; Rachael was inspired to cover the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

Doctor's take a hippocratic oath to protect their patients - Dr. Farid Fata not only lied to his patients but willingly poisoned them for profit.

Rachael tells to story of Jimmy Keene who was serving a 10 year sentence and sent undercover to a maximum security prison to elicit a confession from serial killer Larry Dwayne Hall in trade for his freedom. She then conducts a follow up interview with Jessica Roach's mother, Terry whose daughter was Hall's last known victim.

From 19 and counting to 12.5 years in prison - Josh Duggar got what was coming to him

Rachael conducts a second interview with a disfellowshipped witness weaving her first hand experiences with shunned former JW Lauren Stuart who was pushed to commit a quadruple homicide under the pretense of a rapture loop hole only Jehovah's Witnesses believe in.

In part two we peel back the layers of the Jehovah's Witnesses shunning practices and examine why they believe higher education is a dangerous waste of time.

The Church of Wells Part One

The horrific story of Roch Theriault and the Ant Hill Kids. This is one of the worst of the worst cult leaders. Take care while listening. Sources:https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news/chilling-insight-doomsday-cult-members-13995059https://www.investigationdiscovery.com/crimefeed/murder/roch-theriault-the-horrifying-savagery-home-surgery-of-canadas-most-violent-cult-leaderhttps://www.toronto.com/news/crime/behind-the-crimes-murder-mutilation-abuse-part-of-life-at-ant-hill-kids-commune/article_1a9021c1-c994-5323-964b-7d73c4763744.html?https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8431246/doomsday-cult-members-forced-break-legs-sledgehammers-sexually-abused-kids/https://www.inquisitr.com/10004768/the-ant-hill-kids-cult-doomsday-torture-and-murderhttps://roodepoortrecord.co.za/2018/09/28/today-in-history-leader-of-the-ant-hill-kids-cult-kills-a-cult-follower-web/https://cvltnation.com/ant-hill-kids-break-legs-sledgehammer-go-hell/https://murderpedia.org/male.T/t/theriault-roch.htmhttps://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/a-cult-leader-kills-one-of-his-followershttps://www.ranker.com/list/roch-moise-theriault-facts/stefanie-hammondhttps://en.geneastar.org/genealogy/theriaultr/roch-theriault

Rachael talks with her Fiancé, a former Indiana University student, about the mysterious disappearance of Lauren Spierer and a new theory that puts serial killer Israel Keyes in Indiana the night of her disappearance in June 2011.

Rachael interviews Christina, a true life near miss victim of Israel Keyes.

Israel Keyes, one of the most terrifying serial killers of all time that likely killed far more than we know, and no one was safe. He had no victimology, he buried kill kits across the united states and he showed zero remorse. SPONSORS:Lumi is the micro dose that has changed the way I relax and sleep! It's truly a life saver! To learn more about microdosing THC just do a quick search online or go towww.microdose.com and use code: sinners to get free shipping & 30% off your first order! Thrive Causmetics has my favorite skincare and makeup in one "cause" friendly brand! Now is a great time to try Thrive Causemetics for yourself! Right now, you can get 15% off your first order when you visit www.thrivecausemetics.com/sinners

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Televangelist Ernest Angely, was one of the original "Gluttons for God," and by that I mean, "Grifter for God." Con-men come in all shapes and sizes, walks of life and professions. SOURCES: https://www.christianpost.com/news/televangelist-ernest-angley-accused-of-pushing-vasectomies-abortions-inspecting-genitals-128061/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/10/15/the-shocking-allegations-rocking-rev-ernest-angleys-ohio-megachurch/ https://www.wkyc.com/article/life/faith/ernest-angley-expastor-settle-lawsuit-alleging-sexual-abuse/95-d37ba277-67fd-47d0-aef5-9b2aaac90e4e. https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2021/05/08/ohio-televangelist-ernest-angleys-death-leaves-unanswered-questions/5005942001/ https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2021/05/07/ernest-angley-controversial-televangelist-dies-age-99/4998601001/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8012891/Televangelist-ex-pastor-settle-lawsuit-alleging-sex-abuse.html https://www.cracked.com/blog/6-famously-awful-televangelists-who-are-somehow-still-around https://www.beaconjournal.com/story/news/2021/05/30/ernest-angley-life-greater-akrons-jetset-televangelist/7438844002/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/10/15/the-shocking-allegations-rocking-rev-ernest-angleys-ohio-megachurch/ Special thanks to Kate Kodman and Vinyl Fields!

Rachael had the amazing opportunity to interview the daughter of a Pagan Motorcycle Club OG this week.