EVIL CULT KILLERS (True Crime) by Ray Black Read Free Book Online

committed. This time, 16 people were found dead near Grenoble in France. Not all of them had departed willingly it seemed, as one woman had suffered a broken jaw, indicating a struggle. Fourteen of the bodies, lay together in the same circular arrangement as the bodies in Switzerland, but two bodies lay separately. These, it is believed, were the bodies of two people whose responsibility it had been to shoot the weak and to start the fire. All the deceased had been members of the Solar Temple, and the incident was therefore immediately linked to the preceding three mass suicides.
    But the families of the victims of Grenoble were not satisfied that the perpetrators had all died. They believed that some of the group were still at large.
    Police monitored the behaviour of the remaining members of the group carefully the following year, especially during the solstice and equinox seasons, but nothing aroused their suspicion, and there were no reported fires or suicides. They believed that the practice of the Solar Temple had finally come to an end.
    It hadn’t. One last journey to Sirius was made on March 22, 1997, from St. Casimir, Quebec. It was almost a failed attempt as the fire-starting devices did not go off. Having been given this reprieve though, the children in the group begged for their lives and were allowed to leave. They were released on the condition that they took sleeping pills and went to stay in a neighbouring workshop. They knew that their parents would be dead when they awoke. A second attempt was made, and this time it was successful. This took the total number of followers who had taken their lives to 74.
     
    M ICHAEL  T ABACHNIK
     
    With continued pressure from the families of the Grenoble victims, the police led a search for the remaining members of the Order of the Solar Temple and uncovered several of the leaders. One of whom was the Swiss musician, Michael Tabachnik. He went to trial for his involvement in what was now being termed a criminal organization and for his alleged knowledge of the murders before they occurred. Apparently lined up to be Di Mambro’s successor, Tabachnik had written quite a lot of the group’s literature and had declared the final mission of the group just before the first deaths happened. This, the prosecutors claimed, meant that he was conditioning people to die. Tabachnik’s own wife had died in the Cheiry suicide.
    Tabachnik, it was asserted, had travelled with Di Mambro to Egypt and it was there that they had taken the decision together to found the Golden Way. The principles of this sect were the same – members would achieve peace only in death. When they recruited Luc Jouret, the Golden Way became the Order of the Solar Temple.
    Tabachnik pleaded not guilty to all charges. He said that he had not been a member of the Order for over five years, and claimed to have had no knowledge of the intended mass suicides. A lack of hard evidence to prove otherwise meant that Tabachnik was found not guilty.
    With no high-profile arrests the commotion surrounding the sect died down, and it is now believed to be more or less dissolved. If there are any members still practising the beliefs of Jo Di Mambro, they are certainly not considered a threat, and are of no concern to the authorities. The ritual of mass suicide and murder perpetrated by the Order of the Solar Temple is believed to be defunct.

Movement For The Restoration Of The Ten Commandments
    A mass suicide in the Ugandan jungle

     
    In the late 1980s Credonia Mwerinde was in a cave just outside the Ugandan town of Kanungu when another vision of the Virgin Mary seemingly came to her.
    Mwerinde, who was born on July 30, 1952, was a daughter of a Roman Catholic catechist. She was a school drop out who had had a number of unsuccessful and unhappy marriages and ended up as a prostitute in the Kanungu trading centre.
    It was while being involved in this age-old profession that she met a local man who wished to