were you able to say to yourself well, i began to doubt whether i could continue any farther because god had gotten too ugly, just plain too ugly to follow anymore. that grew eventually into serious doubts about whether or not what we did was right and then eventually to a conviction and it was wrong. luff s growing realization he participated in a terrible crime prompts him to turn himself in to authorities. it is a step that initiates the end of jeffrey lundgren s cult. coming up you sit here today, i think anyone listening to you speak would say you seem bright, you seem rational. how in the world well, you can recover. is that how you view this? as a recovery from a recovery from, i mean, you can say a nightmare. all those dreams of what was going to be turned sour. one month after the
i wish there had been. to me, it was like going into jericho. it was terrible carnage that day, but it was something that was commanded and so that s what had to be done. conscience, itself, becomes malleable at this point. when i compare luff s interviews with serial killers, serial rapists, luff comes across as very serious. he takes, i think, his role in this crime seriously in the sense he s not proud of what he did. after dinner, lundgren brings ron luff and five other men into a bedroom. there, he lays down their final test. he instructs luff to escort the averys into the barn one by one. there, they will be duct taped and put in the pit. it is the last time the averys would be seen alive. was it a power trip or
aw. aw. thirsty? they said it would make me cool. they don t sound cool to me. guess not. you got to stick up for yourself, like with the name your price tool. people tell us their budget, not the other way around. aren t you lactose intolerant? this isn t lactose. it s milk. april 17th, 1989. the avery family, along with several other cult members, have dinner on the farm. it is not a typical night. ron luff knows lundgren is preparing a test for the evening. he knows it will involve the avery family, and that their lives hang in the balance. in fact, what i said before
members, including three children. i don t see how it could be much more atrocious, much worse, much more violent. as kirtland investigators begin the search for suspects, they receive a surprising phone call. ronald luff has turned himself in to authorities. he informs then that lungren s cult is responsible for the killings. a suspect in another murder case tonight, jeffrey lungren, the leader of a fanatic religious group. tonight he and four of his followers are wanted by police. luff also 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 any time. do you understand that? yes, i do. he makes his confession after hearing about the discovery of
this entire famine rests on your shoulders? and the fate of the world. a state of dread. you become completely dependent upon the one that s in charge, the prophet. and you have no ability, no capability of your own. so you completely relying on him and it s dreadful because there s nothing you can do about it. and so you re desperate. and it s desperate as somebody that s floundering around in the water looking for a breath of air. as lundgren s control continues to take a dark turn, some group members fear what is to come. one man flees the group and warns authorities that this cult is on a path toward carnage. curry, who left the group and finally called the fbi, said they were afraid to leave. he was afraid to leave. he was afraid that jeff had enough information, was powerful enough he would track him down and kill him for sure. as the fbi begins to monitor the group, lundgren devises his next test for his followers.