Cults

After moving into his daughter’s Sarah Lawrence College dorm room, Larry Ray slowly exerted control over a group of students.

After Larry Ray started living in his daughter's dorm at Sarah Lawrence, he was able to form a predatory connection with some of the students he met there.

“When you look at people who have been in a cult, you certainly can’t separate them out in terms of their intelligence level or their sophistication,” Dr. Joni Johnston, a forensic psychologist and author of “Serial Killers: 101 Questions True Crime Fans Ask,” told Oxygen.com.

Larry Ray was able to bring a small group of Sarah Lawrence students under his control after moving into their dorm.

U.S. Attorney Damian Williams described Larry Ray as an “evil man” who used “violence, threats and psychological abuse to try and control and destroy” the lives of his daughter’s friends.

"Devil in Ohio," starring Emily Deschanel and Madeline Arthur, is based upon some true events that happened in Ohio — but producers are playing coy about which ones. 

The FX series is based upon the real murders of Brenda Lafferty and her infant daughter Erica, killed by Ron and Dan Lafferty.

Ron and Dan Lafferty slashed the throats of Brenda Lafferty and her baby daughter, Erica, in a horrific murder that haunts Utah to this day.

Ron and Dan Lafferty were cult members who murdered Brenda Lafferty and her infant daughter, believing God told them to "remove" the mom and child from Earth.

“Under the Banner of Heaven" will star Andrew Garfield as Detective Pyre as he investigates the murder of Mormon woman Brenda Lafferty and her infant daughter Erica, uncovering hard truths all along the way.