Posted by Religion News Blog on January 11, 2005 at 11:36:56
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Murder-suicide case in desert evangelical sex cult
Sect heir apparent, woman who reared him are found dead
San Francisco Chronicle, Jan. 11, 2005
http://www.religionnewsblog.com/9880
Police in Arizona and California said they are investigating an apparent murder-suicide involving the son of Maria David, the prophet and spiritual leader of the Family, an international evangelical sex cult previously known as the Children of God.
Early Sunday morning, the body of Richard P. Rodriguez, 29, was found behind the wheel of a car in an industrial area in Blythe, a Riverside
County town in the Mojave Desert on the Arizona border.
Rodriguez, known as "Davidito" when he was growing up in the Children of God, had been groomed as a child to be the heir apparent of the sect, founded in the late 1960s by the late David "Moses" Berg.
Police said Rodriguez died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound after making several calls on his cell phone.
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