there he meet eye a local tour guide. he meets jeffrey lundgren. there are people saying this guy, jeffrey lundgren really knows it and he s a special one. and he taught sunday school classes there. but a disagreement with the church elders over his teaching practices pushes 37-year-old lundgren out of the temple. he moves his small group of followers to a nearby farm. it was roughly in 1987 is when i started to see jeff lundgren and his people move into the farm on u.s. route 6. jeffrey lundgren has more than 20 disciples. they gather daily at lundgren s farmhouse, taking in every word. ron luff and his wife suzie are captivated. it becomes clear to local authorities, this small
as they begin the search for suspect, they receive a surprising phone call. ronald luff has turned himself into authorities. he incomes them that lundgren s cult is responsible for the killings. a suspect in another murder case tonight, jeffrey lundgren, the leader of a fanatic religious group, tonight he and four of his followers are wanted by police. luff as professes to be a leading figure in the murder of the avery family. i want to reiterate, you have the right to stop this questioning at anytime. do you understand that? yes, i do. he makes his confession after hearing about the discovery of the averys bodies. the statement that you gave us previously, regarding your association with mr. jeff lundgren and others was that statement made voluntarily without any threat of intimidation? completely voluntary. he provides authorities with
lundgren s behavior becomes bizarre and even cruel. he tests his followers devotions by holding bible class from morning to 2:00 a.m. or later. and he challenges their willpower by insisting that they fast while he eats a lavish lobster dinner in front of them. luff follows lundgren s demands without hesitation. did any part of you ever say, gee, this is a little weird, i don t know? this fellow s maybe just i don t know. by the time you realize anything, you don t realize it. cults are not democracies, cults have a leader who calls the shot and there can be no room for cloistering. isolated on a remote farm,
details of the murders, as well as the motive behind their deaths? whole reason for the avery homicides was that they had to, what they call, clinch the fire of god, making the finest the fire. basically that s the interpretation of why they had to be killed. lundgren convinced his followers that the second coming of christ could only be possible through human sacrifice. clearly, you mentioned about feeding the fire. to put it in a simple explanation was that god s wrath must go out when there s wickedness. and there s always wickedness. and as wrath goes out, what produces the fire is that you send the wicked before him. as before his altar. so it must be where the judgments are. how would he get rid of the
stunk so bad. and then i cleaned out my nose with alcohol because the odor really is there. it s the taste of the death. it s really there. it s not your imagination. it takes crews two days to excavate two adults and three children. all five victims were found bound with duct tape and shot several times. during the excavation, police estimate the youngest victim to be 6 years old. there were three little kids, it s so tragic and so bad tos possess the human part of that, anybody who would carry a little girl to her death has to be a criminal mind. police quickly identify the victims as the avery family. they re also members of lundgren s group. i don t see how it could be much worse than you re talking about the murder of five family