Cults

India Oxenberg described being held down by other women as she was branded with the initials of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere.

NXIVM member Nicki Clyne, who claims that the group's leader Keith Raniere was wrongfully convicted, has been banned from speaking to her wife, former DOS ringleader Allison Mack.

Amanda Knox is among one of at least two wrongfully convicted individuals who signed a petition demanding answers from prosecutors in the Keith Raniere case.

Allison Mack is alleged to have come up with the branding ceremony that was a centerpiece of self-help organization NXIVM's secret inner sex cult.

Prosecutors have argued that Clare Bronfman used her “extraordinary wealth and social status” to fund NXIVM co-founder Keith Raniere's criminal enterprise, which included a clandestine sex cult hidden within the self-help group.

Leslie Van Houten is currently serving a life sentence for the 1969 murders of Leno and Rosemary LaBianca.

Leslie Van Houten, a member of the Manson Family cult, helped kill Leno and Rosemary LaBianca in August 1969,

Just weeks after winning a suit against the Synanon cult, attorney Paul Morantz was bitten by a venomous rattle snake that had been stuffed in his mailbox.

The controversial Cedu School had roots in the violent cult Synanon, as explored on the podcast “Lost Kids” and Oxygen’s “Deadly Cults.”

Lou Castro lived extravagantly in Kansas with his cult-like family and was found guilty of rape and the murder of Patricia Hughes.