Summary

PKG 1 FOCUSES ON THE LEGAL TROUBLE YAHWEH IS FACINGPKG 2 DEALS WITH THE FALLEN YAHWEH EMPIRE THE LEADER OF A BLACK RELIGIOUS SECT ONCE HAILED AS THE SAVIOR OF BLIGHTED NEIGHBORHOODS FACES TRIAL ON CHARGES HE USED MURDER, FIRE BOMBINGS AND EXTORTION TO BUILD A BUSINESS EMPIRE YAHWEH BEN YAHWEH, WHO WAS BORN HULON MITCHELL JR, IS ACCUSED OF DISPATCHING DEATH ANGELS TO KILL DEFECTORS AND RESIDENTS WHO RESISTED THE GROUP'S EFFORTS TO TAKE OVER NEIGHBORHOODS ALSO AMONG THE 15 VICTIMS WERE SEVEN ``WHITE DEVILS'' WHO WERE SLAIN TO GAIN ENTRY INTO THE MIAMI SECT'S INNER CIRCLE, PROSECUTORS ALLEGED SOME VICTIMS WERE DECAPITATED OTHERS' EARS WERE CUT OFF AND TAKEN TO YAHWEH AS PROOF THEY HAD BEEN KILLED, PROSECUTORS SAID PROSECUTORS AND LAWYERS FOR YAHWEH AND 15 OF HIS FOLLOWERS JOINED THE JUDGE FOR A CLOSED-DOOR SESSION TODAY BEFORE THE START OF JURY SELECTION IN THE RACKETEERING TRIAL

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 99706
Story Slug YAHWEH TRIAL (1992)
Location FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA
Format 2 PKGs
Date 01/02/1992
Archive Time 1:05:49
TRT 1:27
Supers PKG 1: FORT LAUDERDALE, FL SUSAN KELLEHER, REPORTING ALCEE HASTINGS, BEN YAHWEH'S ATTORNEY ALBERT LEVIN, YAHWEH ATTORNEY PKG 2: MIAMI, FLORIDA JANE AKRE, REPORTING NOVEMBER 1986/MIAMI DANNY CORDERO, MANAGER THOMAS FERGUSON, BISCAYNE BLVD CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
Video Description COURTROOM SKETCHES (NOT LICENSABLE), FILE OF YAHWEH, SHOTS OF YAHWEH PROPERTY, GREAT FILE OF LITTLE CHILDREN IN RELIGIOUS GARB AND TURBANS,
Description PKG 1 FOCUSES ON THE LEGAL TROUBLE YAHWEH IS FACINGPKG 2 DEALS WITH THE FALLEN YAHWEH EMPIRE THE LEADER OF A BLACK RELIGIOUS SECT ONCE HAILED AS THE SAVIOR OF BLIGHTED NEIGHBORHOODS FACES TRIAL ON CHARGES HE USED MURDER, FIRE BOMBINGS AND EXTORTION TO BUILD A BUSINESS EMPIRE YAHWEH BEN YAHWEH, WHO WAS BORN HULON MITCHELL JR, IS ACCUSED OF DISPATCHING DEATH ANGELS TO KILL DEFECTORS AND RESIDENTS WHO RESISTED THE GROUP'S EFFORTS TO TAKE OVER NEIGHBORHOODS ALSO AMONG THE 15 VICTIMS WERE SEVEN ``WHITE DEVILS'' WHO WERE SLAIN TO GAIN ENTRY INTO THE MIAMI SECT'S INNER CIRCLE, PROSECUTORS ALLEGED SOME VICTIMS WERE DECAPITATED OTHERS' EARS WERE CUT OFF AND TAKEN TO YAHWEH AS PROOF THEY HAD BEEN KILLED, PROSECUTORS SAID PROSECUTORS AND LAWYERS FOR YAHWEH AND 15 OF HIS FOLLOWERS JOINED THE JUDGE FOR A CLOSED-DOOR SESSION TODAY BEFORE THE START OF JURY SELECTION IN THE RACKETEERING TRIAL
Script LEAD: PKG 1: HE CLAIMS HE'S THE SON OF GOD BUT A JURY IS GOING TO DECIDE IF YAHWEH BEN YAHWEH IS IN FACT A KILLER JURY SELECTION GOT UNDERWAY TODAY FOR THE CULT LEADER AND SEVERAL FOLLOWERS ACCUSED OF MURDER AND AS SUSAN KELLEHER REPORTS, PICKING AN IMPARTIAL JURY MAY NOT BE EASY PKG 2: SO WHERE ARE THE YAHWEH'S NOW THT THEIR LEADER IS ON TRIAL? AT ONE TIME THE SPIRITUAL LEADER ESTIMATED HE HAD TWELVE THOUSAND FOLLOWERS IN THE MIAMI AREA ALONE THEIR WEALTH ESTIMATED AT SEVEN MILLION DOLLARS BUT AS JABE AKRE RPEORTS, THE ENTREPENEURS' EMPIRE SEEMS TO BE CRUMBLING
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