The 10 Most evil and terrifyingly killer secret cults in history - Their evil deeds will leave you speechless! (+Photos)

The 10 Most evil and terrifyingly killer secret cults in history – Their evil deeds will leave you speechless! (+Photos)

1. The Children Of Thunder

Brothers Glenn (who went by his middle name, Taylor) and Justin Helzer were born into a Mormon family and were active in their church, each completing two years of missionary work. However, by his early twenties Taylor had grown to dislike the confines of religious life. He was eventually expelled from the church for drinking, doing drugs, and engaging in extramarital affairs.

In 1999, prior to Taylor’s expulsion, the brothers met Dawn Godman at aMormon Murder Mystery. Dawn started dating younger brother Justin, although she seemed to be enamored with Taylor. A short time later, Taylor started claiming God was speaking to him and would shush people in order to hear what the Lord was saying. Apparently God gave him a plan, which involved starting a deeply unorthodox new religious movement.

In order to raise money for his new religion, Taylor decided to start pimping out women and selling drugs. When that didn’t work, he decided to straight-up steal the money. Justin was a stockbroker and Taylor asked him for a list of possible targets.

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In order to steal the money they needed a patsy to launder it through. So in the spring of 2000, Taylor started dating 22-year-old Selina Bishop. Taylor told her that his name was Jordan and refused to give his last name. He also wouldn’t tell her where he lived and wouldn’t meet her friends and family. The only person to see him with Selina was her mother, who happened upon them twice.

On July 30, 2000, the Children of Thunder went to the home of 85-year-old Ivan Stineman and his wife, 78-year-old Annette. The couple had been married for 55 years and had been clients of Justin Helzer. The cult forced the Stinemans to drink Rohypnol, took them back to the brothers’ house, and made them write out two checks, totaling $100,000. Dawn Godman, in an incredibly misguided attempt at a disguise, went to the bank in a wheelchair while wearing a giant golden cowboy hat and tried to deposit the checks into an account Taylor had set up in Selina’s name. However, the bank became suspicious and Dawn ended up leaving without the checks or the money.

Back at the Helzer house, the cult had hoped the couple would die from the Rohypnol overdose, but they just lost consciousness, forcing the brothers to improvise. Justin slammed Ivan’s head into the bathroom floor until he died and Taylor slit Annette’s throat. Taylor then got Justin to cut up the bodies with an electric saw. Later, the trio prayed over the dismembered bodies.

The cult’s next victim was Selina. Taylor brought her to his home and invited her to lie on the floor for a massage before Justin emerged and beat her in the head with a hammer. The brothers then brought her upstairs to dismember her. Once in the bathroom, they discovered she was still alive, so Taylor slit her throat before cutting her body up with the saw. They stuffed the body parts from the three victims into different gym bags and threw them in the river.

Taylor realized there was only one person who could tie him to Selina—her mother. Two days after Selina’s murder, Taylor went to the apartment where her mother and a friend were sleeping and shot them both dead.

The victims were soon reported missing and the trio were quickly arrested. Godman testified against the brothers and Justin was given a life sentence without parole. Despite a guilty plea, Taylor was given the death penalty. In 2010, Taylor tried to commit suicide by stuffing pens and pencils in his eye sockets, which only ended up blinding him. On August 14, 2013, Taylor hanged himself in his cell using his bedsheets. He was 41 years old.

–Robert Grimminck

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