But it wouldnt last: Zerby ordered him to return to the compound in Portugal. A few locals figured the base for a methamphetamine lab. He considers himself very smart, but I can tell from speaking with him numerous times that hes used to dealing with stupid people. Skinners sidekick, Gunnar Guinan, she says, spilled the beans., Looking back on his life, Pickard wrote, All in all, a complex story. It was an occupation, finally, that Ricky enjoyed. Before long, having taken his secretary (second, from right) as his lover, Berg and the cult began practicing group sex, pedophilia and incest. One January day in 1969, the restless young woman, who had recently left her secretarial job, decided to check out the Full Gospel Business Mens meeting in Phoenix, attended by thousands of evangelicals. Pickard alleges that Skinner, in Vegas, had more on his mind than solenoid valves. Carroll or Gerard T. Finegan. There, he showered and polished off some beers and beef jerky. Pickard and Apperson set about loading the Ryder truck with military crates full of glassware and chemicals. [Karen is] fucking dead. After leasing a 78-foot oil-field utility vessel for use off the coast of Louisiana, Skinner installed fancy electronic gear on the boat, then wrecked the craft, which he had failed to insure, off the coast of Jamaica in a hurricane. When it was over, Ricky tossed the K-Bar under the living-room sofa and fled the apartment. I didnt use condoms but never got pregnant, so I thought that was Gods will. When Williams ended up marrying one of her fish, she quit bedding strangers in the name of the Lord. A few months later, in June, authorities in Deland, Florida, pinched him for distributing MDA, the Ecstasy analogue. Eighteen years old and freshly removed from Princeton, Pickard was arrested twice in Alabama in 1964 for forging checks. I hold Sasha as a real hero, says Pickard, who claims to have received letters of condolence from Shulgin after his arrest. This guy wove a web. But when he talked about Karen, his blood would just boil., Ricky quit socializing. Pickards manners impressed him: He looked like a distinguished old gentleman. Product details Publisher : Pond Press; First edition (April 1, 2004) Language : English Hardcover : 80 pages ISBN-10 : 0966677684 ISBN-13 : 978-0966677683 Berg had his pick of the female followers, says an ex-member. Berg instructed his flock not to vote, pay taxes or open bank accounts. In 2001 he formed Digital Interactive Television Group Limited where he retains a 40% shareholding and is Executive Chairman. Yeah, somebody went into [her] house or [her] fucking motor home or whatever, and poured gasoline on [her], lit a match and had a fucking barbecue. Wow, can you imagine? All along, Skinner would tell Seligman that he loathed drugs. The temptations of Greenwich Village jazz clubs, a brief train ride away, distracted him, and after less than a year, he dropped out: I wasnt as smart as I thought I was., Supported by his trust fund, Pickard hit the road, looking for greater experience of the human condition than tenure track might have provided. As he wandered the country in the mid-1960s, trouble found him everywhere. Most consist of vast, multilevel underground chambers, connected by metal ladders. (The late River Phoenix grew up in the group, as did the actress Rose McGowan. Besides Warren Buffett, Skinner also claimed to know Sting. I wore Dior dresses, ate good food and drank good wine. And, boy, as soon as I pulled in there and walked up to the Quonset hut to clock in, here comes Gunnar: Whose pickup is that? I said, Im driving that. I dont see why I should have to pay for their sins.. He got friendly with my client and said, Hey, we can make a million bucks, giving my guy visions of the life of Riley, whoever the black Riley is. Peter Wilkinson Rolling Stone Concerned, Pickard approached Skinners mother, Katherine Magrini: I talked with her numerous times about Todds profligate ways and about how hes very accident-prone. Other times, he wandered around California and the Caribbean, sometimes with a friend from Holland who described himself as a manufacturer of powdered milk. Skinner, like Pickard, used a number of aliases, telling different people in different places that he was Dwayne Miller or P.C. Then he called me. Remembering the conversation, Pickards eyes hardened. They didnt get far before a unit of the Kansas State Highway Patrol clicked on its red lights and pulled them over. Rickys dark hair was cut military short. He's the author of several books and he's the author of a new book called "The Fairway" that he's releasing as an email newsletter. The muscles in his arms bulged as he snapped bullets into magazines. True Hollywood Story (TV Series documentary) Self - Writer, 'Rolling Stone' Magazine - Savannah (1999) . New York: Jul 5, 2001. , Iss. Skinner and Pickard talked about a number of LSD-related topics, including the eventual setup of an offshore lab. David Lindley, Multi-Instrumentalist Who Shaped the Sound of Soft Rock, Dead at 78 The case of U.S. v. Pickard is just the latest, and perhaps final, chapter in the strange and often fantastic tale of William Leonard Pickard and his journey from a privileged boyhood in Atlanta, through the manic, hallucinogenic heart of the 1960s, to the forefront of social-drugs research in the 1990s, conducted at some of the nations most prestigious universities. Like Berg, Zerby lived in hiding. The big weed dealers dont do that, Skinner tells Worthy on tape. The previous Christmas theyd received a rare visit from their daughter, the ever-elusive Mama Maria. We want to hear it. Leonard had his little trust fund, so he could just dedicate himself to going out. Unemployed, he crashed at friends apartments, sleeping on the floor. Either caught red-handed or very carefully set up, said Blanche Hartman, the Abbess of the San Francisco Zen Center. And thats more true from the old days, from the pot dealers. Wade answered. May the long-time sun shine upon you As a prince, Ricky filled a role, which bothered him as he grew older. Peter Lanzani en revista Rolling Stone Argentina (sigue abajo). Nothing ever happened with him.. His real name was William Leonard Pickard. We are the true lovers of peace and love and truth and beauty and God and freedom; whereas you, our parents are on the brink of destroying and polluting all of us and our world if we do not rise up against you in the name of God and try to stop you. The hippies were hooked. Almost every week, Pickard wrote letters from jail. Ricky chuckled mordantly. One day in April 1999, the party turned deadly. That evil cunt. After losing contact with their kids, a group of parents began to publicly label the Children of God a brainwashing cult and tried to kidnap their loved ones from the communal homes. That sort of shifted when the pot dealers got into coke. Armendria grew worried: I saw something in his eyes that scared me.. The following year, Moses David died at the age of 75 of unspecified causes and was buried in Costa da Caparica, Portugal. No premarital sex was allowed not even dating or kissing or handholding. Pickard was there, too. It's very 2018. Josh Lykins, who left the Family at the age of 18 after suffering physical abuse, shot himself in the head on January 26th, 1999, in Show Low, Arizona. Rick had the time of his life, partying and staying out as late as he wanted, a friend recalls. To Pickard, Skinner was something of a fellow traveler. Ricky told me he had nightmares of seeing Mene screaming in the basement., Eventually, in the early Nineties, Mene was institutionalized in Texas. The following January, he was arrested for stealing a car, joy riding, as he recalls. The speakers, one of only five pairs in the United States, went for 85 grand. Even rank-and-file members were now encouraged to engage in group sex, and younger and younger members were pulled in teens became fair game. Youve hit a subject here that Im not going to relive. Im better than this. Current Bid: USD 10.99 Bid Online More Books from auctioneer: Lenin for Beginners (Pantheon Documentary Comic Book) - Paperback - GOOD 0 bids . In April 1969, barely three months after Zerby joined the Children of God, Berg began an affair with her. He told me a couple of days before he died that he couldnt go on. 03 Mar 2023 22:35:42 Then, in 1988, reports came into the Bureau of strong chemical smells emanating from a warehouse in the city of Mountain View, California, about 45 miles south of San Francisco. R.I. Victims Seek Relief According to sources, the Family was by that time communicating via military-grade encrypted e-mail. Along the way under various aliases he crossed paths with such rock stars as Sting, and befriended members of the British House of Lords, State Department officials and the district attorney of San Francisco, Terence Hallinan. A psychiatrist.. This was a relationship like nothing she had never experienced.. In the book, Ricky, seen at ages between 17 months and three years old, is photographed naked in bed with his nanny Sara, then in her twenties and also nude. An article about the case in a California forensics journal describes what happened next: The agent was taken to the hospital, where they administered Valium by IV to calm the anxiety. I believe it was genuine, his belief that psychedelics were helpful, says Rick Doblin, a Harvard Ph.D. who is leading the effort to have Ecstasy approved for clinical study in the United States, and an acquaintance of Pickards. If somebody said to me, Hey, theres a big-time doper over there, Pickard would be the last guy youd ever think of., Metcalf visited the missile base during a cleanup that lasted several days and employed a squadron of technicians wearing bright-blue hazardous-materials suits. Life in Tacoma, meanwhile, did not turn out to be the fresh start Ricky had hoped for. Shes doing it slowly.. Im going to go up and sue his ass with a bevy of lawyers.. From afar, even Bergs most bizarre sexual dictates were digested as holy gospel. Most believed he wanted to kill Zerby but settled for Angela Smith. Sustained exposure to unknown but massive dosages of LSD, Pickard pointed out, as experienced by the few unknown individuals worldwide who are responsible for its distribution, has no parallel in clinical settings. Guide your way home. It was a totally new field of ministry to us! After sex with a hotel waiter named Carlos, Maria finally became pregnant. Ricky formally broke from the Family a few weeks later and moved to Tacoma, Washington, to look for work. October 23rd, 2000, 8:40 P.M. Driving a rented Tan Buick Century, Leonard Pickard swung into the parking lot of the Four Points Sheraton Hotel in San Rafael, California. But "Like a Rolling Stone" is going to need a bit more tweaking to fit a jazz setting. I came home from there and told my wife, I met a man named Leonard Pickard, and he was a distinguished gentleman. Most of the acid consumed in the past 30 years is believed to have been made in temporary basement and warehouse labs I thought I was doing Gods work, sharing his love with other people and changing the world. Problem was, Ricky had few skills and little money. Since July of 1984, our friend has taken 30 grams in that year, 30 grams in the second year and 75 grams in the last six to eight weeks. He was beyond university before he ever got to university. As I prepare my third kilogram of LSD, it said, I think with amusement of our last conversation three years ago, when you called me a liar, and I had to walk you down the hall to get you the very first gram that was supposed to be offered to you preferentially. Ricky threw himself into the gig and seemed calm and pleasant. Ashes smudged on their foreheads, clad in red sackcloth robes and carrying shepherds staffs, members of Teens for Christ hit the streets in cities across America, from New York and Washington, D.C., to Chicago what they referred to as the mission field. Strumming guitars, they handed out stacks of literature to passers-by in exchange for donations. Im too fuckin busy. What Berg was selling that the corrupt modern world was doomed and only Jesus could lead a Christian revolution proved irresistible to hundreds of idealistic young people, Karen Zerby among them. LSD today is a much lower dose (20 micrograms versus 200-plus) than the high-test stuff Augustus Owsley Stanley III sold as orange sunshine in the Sixties; more of a party high than an eight-hour trip. Based on a Loving Jesus revelation Zerby claims she received in 1995, Family members were taught that Jesus wants to have sex with them; when masturbating, men were instructed to visualize themselves as women so that Jesus could make love to them. I always knew Id lose him, she says. Before the viewing ends at 4 p.m., 975 people pass through the evidence rooms, many of them former students, survivors, and friends and relatives of the dead. Speculation also centered on Sara Davidito, one of Rickys chief abusers, who lived in Texas. Being with Berg reshaped Karen Zerby. I just dont want to do this anymore. Everything, as Rick Doblin says, needs to be done with the permission of the DEA and other government agencies. Everybody to them was a puppet Ricky included. And even in private moments with his mother, he saw that she had hardened into a fearsome personality: cold, manipulative, terrifying. ', Katherine Magrini, there at Skinners invitation to celebrate Mothers Day, was less impressed by her sons new friend. ', Magrinis voice exploded over the phone when I asked her to verify this exchange. From London, as the sexual revolution raged, Berg used his skewed reading of the Bible to justify more extreme displays of free love. It was a huge lab, says Ron Brooks, special agent in charge of the BNEs San Jose office, who was on the scene that day in Mountain View. For years, by remaining out of sight and unphotographed, Zerby, like Berg before her, had helped fuel her mystery and her power. Crowded on the table in front of Ricky was everything he needed: a Glock .40-caliber handgun, several high-capacity thirteen-round magazines, Golden Sabre hollow-point bullets, a K-Bar Marine Corps knife, an electric drill, a soldering iron, a 775,000-volt stun gun, a large fork, a thick roll of duct tape and a couple of gags. Ricky eventually took a $450-a-month apartment in a crummy complex in a bleak, ignored section of the city. Along with his prison blues, he wore sandals with socks. No.. All of a sudden to hear one day, Guess what? He was an excellent chemist.. Toggle navigation. Some fishers dropped any pretense and worked as prostitutes for escort services. It was an extraordinary time, she says. Alone, he drifted to San Diegoand stayed with two former Family members, both now 31: Armendria and Sarafina, a glamorous redhead who works as an office manager for a commercial sport-fishing business. When Pickard comes to trial, most likely later this year, the proceedings promise to shed light on the dangerous and secret world of LSD manufacturing for the first time in decades. Skinner employed a number of local people, at around $7 an hour, to clean, paint and garden, paying them with checks drawn on the Tulsa accounts of Gardner Spring Inc. Much of the time, it didnt seem to matter what work got done or how quickly. Peter Wilkinson frequently sees patients for Annual Pap Smear / GYN Exam, Annual Physical, Arthritis, Dermatology Consultation, and Illness. Peter Wilkinson Rolling Stone Apr 2004 Religion Inside 'The Order,' One Mormon Cult's Secret Empire A polygamist clan descended from four original families, the Order are believed to run the largest organized crime operation in Utah. On Bergs command, some parents lived separately from their own children. Skinner offered her a deal. A buddy, assigned to each new member, followed the recruit everywhere, even to the bathroom. Peter Bailey Wilkinson January 1, 1948 - June 15, 2021 Print Email Plant a Tree Service First United Methodist Glass Chapel Tuesday 6/22, 1:00 pm Well, Pete finally retired..he passed away at home peacefully June 15, 2021 .. on his own terms. A number of contractors sued to get their money. She lived in fear of them. Zerbys father didnt hesitate to use his wide leather belt on Karen, who suffered bruises on her legs and buttocks. I didnt know what to believe. Ben Farnsworth, the son of a top Family leader, jumped to his death from the roof of a building in Hong Kong. You did things his way or you were out. Within an hour or two, Houser went into convulsions. Now Theyre Out for Justice. There are only a very few people in the whole world that might have the capability., It was a beautiful, pure white, needlelike crystal, recalls Brooks. There was always an air of mystery about him. 'Children of God': Life and Death of the Messiah - Rolling Stone (Sub)Culture The Life and Death of the 'Children of God' Messiah Ricky Rodriguez was raised as the cult's Chosen One but. Karen Zerby bought into Bergs doctrines and personal practices heart, mind, body and soul, a former member says. These calls are almost comical. I dont know what the hell age has to do with it when God madem able to enjoy it practically from the time theyre born! wrote Berg in a Mo Letter. Find Peter Wilkinson's email address, contact information, LinkedIn, Twitter, other social media and more. The mans name was William Leonard Pickard. Following the lead of Rick Doblin, another member of the Harvard drug-research crew, Pickard applied to the Kennedy School of Governments masters program. With Elixcia, he would forge a new life in the System. Augustin Sedgewick and Peter Wilkinson - Rolling Stone Music Politics TV & Movies (Sub)Culture RS Recommends Got A Tip? Thinking about this tearful moment later, Pickard wrote, It was a glimpse of limitless joy. A flurry of e-mails arrived atRolling Stones offices, purportedly from members around the world, extolling the group. This was Rickys life. Screengrab of video courtesy of Dan Roselle, David Brandt Berg founded the children of God in the late-Sixties. He struck me as a really bright kid. He was in the shower when the Valium began to wear off and he began convulsing again. How big is this, and who is this guy? he asked one of the DEA chemists on the scene. It was something new: People actually liked him for who he was, not who he was supposed to be. Humble and soft-spoken, Ricky never acted like a little prince. ), Family leadership immediately began a public campaign to disparage their dead Messiah, portraying him as falling under the spell of disgruntled ex-members. They mix a little of this and a little of that. Benevolent as he seemed, Berg ruled as a dictator, centralizing all decision-making power at the top. Richard Peter Rodriguez was born on January 25th, 1975. Skinner also hired a few local people to work a small spring-making machine. He would try to right some of the wrongs he had witnessed over the years and try to bring some of the prime abusers, the Family leadership, to justice in some way. Rickys work ethic impressed Flynn. Suits on Sunday, no alcohol, learned to handle rifles at nine. Articles by Peter Wilkinson on Muck Rack. Murder? The lab was contained inside a trailer of the type you might see at a construction site that had been dragged into a warehouse in an industrial section of the city. Wearing a shimmering purple silk dress with a plunging neckline, smiling a blissful, toothy smile beneath a pair of unstylish eyeglasses, her long silver hair falling past her shoulder blades, Zerby looks like an aging Deadhead, somebody youd bump into at a co-op in Marin County, California. Ricky told me that Berg wanted to continue his family line through his granddaughter.. It was one of his recurring nightmares. On December 28th, as the narcs arrived to execute a search warrant, a tall, pleasant man of forty strolled out of the warehouse, carrying multiple pieces of identification bearing a number of different names. This is all bad stuff, Pickard advised. Where is our apology? Copyright 2023 Penske Business Media, LLC. Intestinal problems plagued him, and his mind was going. Theres too much light. Pickard and a friend of his, Clyde Apperson, a computer consultant from Sunnyvale, California, appeared at the Wamego missile base a few days later, on November 4th, driving two rented vehicles, a silver Buick Le Sabre and a 15-foot Ryder truck. Maria lost all concept of compassion, says Honey, Bergs secretary before Zerby. 113, 10 pgs Abstract (Summary) [Gordon Todd Skinner] told [William Leonard Pickard] he was an expert in international finance and boasted about various celebrities he supposedly knew, including Warren Buffett, the Omaha, Nebraska, superinvestor. She and Ricky married and found a tiny apartment in a low-rent neighborhood. As far as any sexual practice went, Zerby later wrote, I hardly knew what a penis looked like, except from books.. Rolling Stone - Summer Double Issue 977/978, June 30-July 14, 2005 By Peter Wilkinson Born into the deviant religious cult Children of God, Ricky Rodriguez was raised as the Messiah who would lead believers against the Antichrist. Months and months dragged by while Skinner supposedly arranged for the money to come from a foundation run by Warren Buffett. A princely mane of silver hair fell almost to his shoulders. It has been scrubbed from the internet, likely due to legal purposes, but it is important to preserve the original piece because it does expose transphobic bias in media that is so casually done in this piece for the sake of a story. A member of Pickards defense team says that Skinner has been seen around Mendocino, the picturesque village north of San Francisco, in between trips to Topeka to huddle with federal prosecutors. Learn about Peter Wilkinson on Muck Rack. Bear, as he was known, claimed to have turned out a total of three or four kilos during his storied career. Sam performs 'Like A Rolling Stone in week 1 of The Voice Kids UK Blind Auditions!Subscribe for more: http://bit.ly/2rAkmopBroadcast on: 08/06/2019Like, foll. His girlfriend gave birth just days after he was arrested. Having piqued Worthys interest, Skinner went straight to the D.A. Sydney, Australia. Alongside a number of translations of historical works, he has translated . Ultimately, Leonards analogue argument failed. For 50 years, Peter Wilkinson has been among the most respected figures in British television. Youthful members of an informal Christian group called "Children of God" sing before sitting down for lunch at their headquarters building in the skid row section of Los Angeles on Feb. 2, 1971. Rolling Stone magazine #82 May 13 1971 Peter Fonda Dennis Hopper bootleggers. He's a contributing editor at Rolling Stone. Sources say that after the murder she quickly fled wherever she was last living and may have moved to New Mexico or Colorado, hunkered down in an RV. More important, as far as Pickard was concerned, Skinner wasnt making good on a promise to come up with $440,000 to fund some new drug research at Harvard. It was a lifestyle that moved them closer to the Almighty. Growing up in modern society is an education in and of itself, a friend says. By Tulsa standards, Skinners family was well-to-do. I didnt know their reputations, recalls Moore, who knew nothing of Pickards criminal record. From the moment of his birth, Ricky, a.k.a. Mornings began with Bible study. Theyre not even fucking sorry, Ricky said, as he took stock of his weapons. Much conversation. Something of a science prodigy, Pickard spent the summer of 1962 interning at the Argonne National Laboratory in Illinois. One day he tells me to move out, at enormous cost, Magrini recalls angrily. Images courtesy of Don Irwin, In 1995, Ricky fell in love with Elixcia Munumel at a family home outside Budapest. Its a dark record, and it set the mood Ricky Rodriguez wanted. Security, always tight, included a sophisticated camera monitoring system, motion detectors and infrared sensors. Already rebelling against his appointed role, Ricky left the cult in 2000 and moved to Tacoma, Washington. And, in recent years, a wave of suicides decimated this damaged collection of young people who seemed to find living in the System too much to bear. The first call came at 7:15 p.m. Killing somebody is harder than I thought it would be, a shaken Ricky told his wife. She was one of those stupid girls who signed up with the cult and ended up being one of the most dedicated, mindless followers of Bergs inner circle, says Don Irwin, who was born into the group and later angrily abandoned it. Family leadership puts the number of suicides in the past 13 years at 10, but its detractors count at least 31. Absent, as they have consistently been in the five years since the massacre, are Wayne and Kathy In a letter from prison, Pickard offered up an elaborate excuse, denying that he had been brewing illegal drugs. in a mall. BNE believes he was part of the legendary Brotherhood of Eternal Love, which operated in and around the Acid Triangle in the late 1960s and early 1970s, selling hashish and LSD cooked by Owsley and other important chemists like Tim Scully and Nick Sand. During a brief visit to a Family home outside Budapest in 1995, Ricky met and fell in love with a voluptuous, dark-haired 17-year-old girl, Elixcia Munumel, who had left Ecuador at the age of 14 at the direction of her father, a cult leader based in England. Sect life was rigidly structured. Wed rather not comment at all on this entire matter, she said. He was dressed in a little V-neck sweater. Celeste Bell: Falcon Stuart was an avant-garde filmmaker who first met my mother at the Oval House in south London, where she was involved in experimental theatre [in 1975]. Ricky became increasingly mortified byThe Story of Davidito he objected when anyone called him by that name. Peter Wilkinson, Actor: Cast: Free Me. Gods in the business of breaking up little selfish private worldly families to make of their yielded broken pieces a larger unit one family, one wife, Berg wrote in 1972. We were sort of the rich, bright kids, she says. By now, Angela Smithhad started a new life. Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). You dont learn that in the cult. 1989 adalah album studio kelima karya penyanyi-penulis lagu asal Amerika Taylor Swift.Album ini dirilis pada 27 Oktober 2014 oleh Big Machine Records.Setelah para kritikus musik mempertanyakan statusnya sebagai seorang musisi country menyusul perilisan album keempatnya Red (2012) yang dipengaruhi oleh musik pop dan elektronik, Swift terinspirasi oleh musik synth-pop 1980-an untuk mengkalibrasi . For PR Pros . In some ways, the story of Leonard Pickard and Todd Skinner is a story about the collision of Sixties idealism with the materialism and pragmatism of the Nineties Timothy Learys America versus Bill Clintons, if you will. Late last year, a new prisoner arrived at the Shawnee County Jail in Topeka, Kansas a polite beanstalk of a man from the San Francisco Bay Area who stood out among the petty criminals who make up the majority of Shawnees inmate population. One BNE agent on the scene, Max Houser, somehow got dosed upon entering the lab, even though he wore a full-body protective suit and a respirator. Skinner employed local cops to work around the base as security officers and gardeners. Its a need for justice. Ricky wondered if she might come back again. She was worried that Mene would become Mos next wife, says Irwin. But Smith didnt seem to get it, couldnt understand Rickys anger at the Family and his mother. Im not afraid of the Mafia or the government! Pickard recalls Skinner declaring, Im more powerful than you realize! whereupon Skinner left for parts unknown. LSD distributors, BNE agents told me, traditionally use businesses like these to ship their product. The Buffett money, Pickard figured, would be a ticket back to Harvard. The photos were apparently taken by a traitor in her inner circle. 13-year old Sam surprised the coaches with his emotional self-written song during the Blind Auditions of The Voice Kids UK. He played a lot of things close to the vest. I was hanging on because I really wanted to do this project, Pickard says. Davida Kelley, then 11, lay on the bed next to them that day, having sexual contact with David Berg. He came to be known to his children as Moses David, or simply Mo. His life was unraveling. Zerby had sex 137 times with eighteen workers at the Bel Air hotel, where the group stayed. Please download files in this item to interact with them on your computer. The son of a carpet-industry executive from Hoboken, New Jersey, Guinan, like Skinner, loved computers but didnt seem to have an extensive employment history. Coming home from work one day last spring, Ricky had a car accident on the freeway. Her parents were disciplinarians, an acquaintance says. Angela was a thin, spacey blonde who had drifted into the cult from her home in Virginia in the early 1970s, at the age of 18, and would spend 30 years as Zerbys personal secretary.