237: Jim Jones & The Peoples Temple Part Three: The Move To Guyana

Seven Deadly Sinners

Rachael O'Brien | Morbid Network | Wondery

True Crime, Exhibit C, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2025

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this episode we highlight the pressures and motivations that led Jim Jones to migrate his flock to the middle of the jungle in a South American country in a location so remote - escape was almost impossible. Until Leo Ryan, a U.S. Congressman, touches down in jungle on a congressional investigation into the communist settlement known as Jonestown. After offering asylum to Jim Jones' brainwashed, religious hostages; Leo Ryan and his party of reporters and government employees are ambushed at the airstrip which they flew in on and Leo Ryan is murdered. What happens next is horrific and everyone knows about the Jonestown Kool-Aid cocktail.

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0:00.0	You're listening to a Morbid Network podcast.
0:06.3	In the depths of an Atlanta forest, a clash between activists and authorities ends in tragedy.
0:12.2	I'm Matthew Cher, and on my new podcast, we came to the forest.
0:15.6	We expose the hidden truths behind a shootout.
0:18.0	They left one activist dead and countless lives forever changed.
0:21.8	Binge all episodes of We Came to the Forest,
0:24.7	ad-free on Wondery Plus.
0:26.6	Mm-hmm. Welcome back to another episode of Seven Deadly Sinners.
1:00.2	Thank you guys so much for listening.
1:02.5	This is part three and the last part on Jonestown.
1:06.4	The survivors, victims, and the incredible imprint this story puts on one soul. I can't even imagine
1:15.0	being some of the people we will discuss today who lost their children, their wives, their
1:21.5	husbands, their friends, people who tried to help who traveled there, high-level officials who wanted to help,
1:28.9	but all got lost in the insane spiral of a man.
1:34.4	It is crazy to me how one person, one person, can begin a tornado that picks up people
1:40.8	like moths to a flame, just wrapping them up in your cyclone of pain
1:45.2	or mental illness you never addressed, pain from childhood, fueled by shame as a teen, and then
1:50.8	sparked by drugs and power, and you get the devil's recipe that was Jim Jones.
1:59.1	Honestly, though, I'm a bit sick of talking about his bloated ass. There are survivors
2:03.7	who have stories to tell, stories of their own, and stories of the friends and family they
2:08.5	lost in that murderous massacre. Trigger warning. This episode is going to be heartbreaking and
2:16.4	rough, so please take care when listening.
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