Update: High court rejects sect leader’s bond petition, (KOB-TV/AP, 10/27/09)
Update: Attorney John McCall Responds to the AG (strongcity.info, 10/19/09)
(Note from Mark: This development in the Wayne Bent case was addressed with an “update” link in a previous post, A message from Jeff Bent. However, I thought it would be best to provide this separate [...]
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AG asks NM Supreme Court to deny Bent's petition
A message from Jeff Bent
Update: AG asks state Supreme Court to deny Bent appeal (kob.com, 10/16)
Advisory: Comments in this thread have been re-opened
Update: “Imprisoned For Sabbath Keeping” (strongcity.info, 10/7)
*NEW*: VIDEO, “Wayne Bent defends his hunger strike” (krqe.com, 9/24)
Update: “Judge rules in favor of force feeding imprisoned cult leader” (koat.com, 9/23)
Update: “Judge puts fasting cult leader [...]
Wayne Bent fasting in prison again
New: A message from Jeff Bent (Beyond90Seconds.com, September 17, 2009)
Update: Bent may be forced to eat (Albuquerque Journal North, September 7, 2009).
“At the very least, the warden told him if this religious fast progresses into the extent of a hunger strike, force-feeding could be on the table,” Bland said. (Albuquerque Journal North)
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(September 1, 2009) Convicted [...]
Journalist who returned to Wayne Bent story shares insights into case
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In today’s audio interview, freelance journalist Alex Hannaford speaks about the controversial Wayne Bent case. It’s a case that has been covered extensively by Beyond90Seconds.com. It’s also been featured on numerous television programs, including Larry King Live (transcript) and Dr. Phil.
In the 2008 National Geographic documentary, “Inside a Cult,” [...]
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Johnny Miller update: Divorce "finalized"
Just a quick post here to follow-up on an August 10, 2008 Beyond90Seconds.com video featuring a former member of Wayne Bent’s Lord Our Righteousness Church.
As regular readers of this blog may recall, *part one of Return to Castle Dome profiled former LOR member Johnny Miller. Although Miller had left the New Mexico church and moved [...]
Wayne Bent speaks from prison
LISTEN: “Turning Point” (Wayne Bent speaks from prison)
The imprisoned leader of the Lord Our Righteousness Church isn’t letting incarceration keep him from espousing his foreboding pronouncements from his familiar post in cyberspace. A new audio recording featuring the voice of Wayne Bent appeared on the LOR’s Web site today. It sounds as if it [...]
Wayne Bent trial transcripts emerging Online
TRANSCRIPTS
Two frequent contributors to the comments sections of this blog have teamed-up to post written transcripts of the Wayne Bent trial on the Internet.
Sam Redman and Jan Brennan are publishing the transcripts at Redman’s Strong City “mirror site“.
According to Redman’s mirror site, the names of the victims will be redacted from its published transcripts.
Redman is [...]
"Esther" returns to Strong City
Update (February 9, 2009 / 2:35pm PST): A note from Esther
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She’s back.
25-year-old Aquinnah O’Keefe (aka Esther) returned to the Lord Our Righeousness Church compound known as “Strong City” on Saturday afternoon. According to strongcity.info, O’Keefe returned to “the land” in remote northeastern New Mexico around 2:30pm local time.
A photo posted on the church’s Web site [...]
Strong City posts its video of "Esther" interview with KOB-TV
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When KOB-TV sent reporter Jeremy Jojola more than 300-miles for an exclusive interview with a woman who’d been fasting for nearly a month, his station would not have the only camera in the room. Members of Wayne Bent’s “Strong City” also videotaped KOB’s unfolding interview with Aquinnah O’Keefe (aka “Esther”).
Today, Strong City published [...]
VIDEO: KOB-TV's exclusive interview with "starving" woman
Just hours before authorities removed Aquinnah O’Keefe (aka “Esther”) from a “cult” compound in northeastern New Mexico last Wednesday, KOB-TV’s Jeremy Jojola conducted an exclusive interview with the young woman.
O’Keefe, who said she’d not eaten since December 30th, had been fasting to protest the imprisonment of Wayne Bent (aka “Michael Travesser).
O’Keefe’s sister is now overseeing [...]
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