Kirtland Cult Killings- Alice Lundgren Makes A Statement After Being Found Guilty
WJW- Alice Lundgren makes a statement to the media after being found guilty and then is taken away by police on Aug. 29, 1990 in Kirtland, Ohio.
LUNDGREN PLEADS INNOCENT (1/26/1990)
THE WIFE OF A CULT LEADER PLEADED INNOCENT MONDAY TO 15 COUNTS OF HELPING HIM AND SOME OF HIS FOLLOWERS KILL A FAMILY OF FIVE LAST SPRING. ALICE LUNDGREN WEARING HANDCUFFS AND SHACKLED AT THE ANKLES APPEARED SOMBER AT HER ARRAIGNMENT OTHER THAT TO SMILE FAINTLY AT ANOTHER JAIL INMATE BROUGHT TO COURT. A JUDGE SET BOND AT $250 000 AFTER A PROSECUTOR EXPRESSED CONCERN MRS. LUNDGREN MIGHT FLEE IF RELEASED FROM THE LAKE COUNTY JAIL. SHE AND HER HUSBAND JEFFREY LUNDGREN WERE ARRESTED WITH THEIR 19-YEAR-OLD SON DAMON EARLIER THIS MONTH IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA.
ALICE LUNDGREN TRIAL (1990)
THE WIFE OF REPUTED CULT LEADER JEFFREY DON LUNDGREN TODAY WAS CALLED HER HUSBAND’S HEAD CHEERLEADER...AND AS SOMEONE DEFENSELESS AGAINST HER HUSBAND’S ACTIONS. THE TWO PORTRAYALS OF ALICE LUNDGREN CAME IN OPENING STATEMENTS OF HER TRIAL IN LAKE COUNTY, OHIO TODAY. THE TRIAL DEALS WITH THE RITUALISTIC SLAYINGS OF THE AVERY FAMILY 15 MONTHS AGO. ALICE LUNDGREN IS CHARGED WITH COMPLICITY AND CONSPIRACY TO COMMIT AGGRAVATED MURDER. THIS MORNING JURORS TOURED THE KIRTLAND BARN WHERE THE BODIES OF DENNIS AVERY, CHERYL, AND THEIR YOUNG DAUGHTERS WERE FOUND LAST JANUARY.
ALICE LUNDGREN / JURY SELECTION
JURY SELECTION BEGAN THIS MORNING UNDER HEAVY SECURITY IN THE TRIAL OF ALICE LUNDGREN, ACCUSED OF HELPING HER CULT-LEADER HUSBAND AND 11 OTHERS KILL A FAMILY OF FIVE. LAKE COUNTY, OHIO COMMON PLEAS JUDGE PAUL H. MITROVICH CONVENED THE PROCEEDINGS WITH 40 PROSPECTIVE JURORS IN THE FIRST TRIAL STEMMINGS FROM THE 1989 KILLINGS. MRS. LUNDGREN, 39, AND 12 OTHERS, INCLUDING HUSBAND JEFFREY AND THEIR 19-YEAR-OLD SON, DAMON, WERE ARRESTED EARLIER THIS YEAR IN THE DEATHS OF DENNIS AVERY, HIS WIFE, CHERYL, AND THEIR THREE YOUNG DAUGHTERS. MRS LUNDGREN HAS PLEADED INNOCENT OF ALL CHARGES. IF CONVICTED, SHE FACES A POSSIBLE LIFE SENTENCE. AUTHORITIES HAVE SPECULATED THE DEATHS MAY HAVE BEEN A RELIGIOUS SACRIFICE. ALICE LUNDGREN IS THE FIRST OF THE CULT MEMBERS TO STAND TRIAL IN THE CASE. FOUR CULT MEMBERS PLEADED GUILTY TO REDUCED CHARGES AND AGREED TO TESTIFY FOR THE PROSECUTION.
ALICE LUNDGREN GUILTY (1990)
A LAKE COUNTY OHIO JURY TODAY RETURNED A GUILTY VERDICT IN THE FIRST TRIAL OF A CULT MEMBER INVOLVING THE APRIL 1989 SLAYING OF A FIVE-MEMBER KIRTLAND FAMILY. THE WIFE OF THE CULT LEADER--ALICE LUNDGREN WAS CONVICTED ON FIVE CHARGES EACH OF CONSPIRACY AND COMPLICITY TO COMMIT AGGRAVATED MURDER, AS WELL AS KIDNAPPING. SENTENCING IS PENDING A REPORT BUT SHE COULD BE SENT TO PRISON FOR LIFE. SEVERAL OTHER CULT MEMBERS, INCLUDING HER HUSBAND AND ALLEGED TRIGGERMAN JEFFREY DON LUNDGREN, ARE STILL TO GO ON TRIAL. SOME OF THE 13 CULT MEMBERS INDICTED AND ARRESTED IN MICHIGAN, OHIO, MISSOURI AND CALIFORNIA, HAVE PLEADED GUILTY IN PLEA AGREEMENTS. THE INDICTMENTS CAME IN JANUARY AFTER THE BODIES OF THE FIVE AVERY MEMBERS WERE UNCOVERED IN A KIRTLAND, OHIO BARN. AUTHORITIES SAY THE CULT--WHICH HAD ROOTS IN THE INDEPENDENCE, MISSOURI AREA--BROKE UP SHORTLY AFTER THE APRIL 1989 SLAYINGS.
CULT LEADER SENTENCING (1990)
JEFFREY LUNDGREN SENTENCING. October 24, 2006) was a self-proclaimed prophet, former leader of a cult group, and convicted mass murderer of five people. He was married to Alice Keeler who was also convicted of conspiracy to commit mass murder.
LUNDGREN / JURY RECOMMENDS DEATH (1990)
Jeffrey Don Lundgren (May 3, 1950 – October 24, 2006) was a self-proclaimed prophet, former leader of a cult group, and convicted mass murderer of five people. He was married to Alice Keeler who was also convicted of conspiracy to commit mass murder.[1]
RELIGIOUS CULT LEADER SENTENCED TO DIE (1990)
JEFFREY LUNDGREN SENTENCED TO DIE. Jeffrey Don Lundgren (May 3, 1950 – October 24, 2006) was a self-proclaimed prophet, former leader of a cult group, and convicted mass murderer of five people. He was married to Alice Keeler who was also convicted of conspiracy to commit mass murder.