On this day, April 17, 1989, Jeffrey Lundgren, the leader of a religious cult, ordered the death of a family of five on a farm in Ohio. Lundgren had been a lay minister for the Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, but was defrocked in 1988 for preaching radical doctrines.
He formed his own sect, and moved his followers to a farm about 25 miles east of Cleveland.
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