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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader Spencer, Henry coming to you live from my closet portal and holy shit what a week.

Now, first things first, we have a new website. I'm super excited, Cult Leader.com. Shout out to top podcast for the redesign. I'll update you guys. It's a work in progress. There's lots of new things coming.

So make sure you're on the Cult Leader Podcast Instagram page. So you see those updates. One thing I want to talk about is Mercury is going into retrograde from June 18th until July 12th.

Now, if you will leave in this sort of thing, here's what you should expect. One, do not purchase anything electronic, no cars, nothing of the sort during these few weeks. Two, miscommunication will be a common occurrence. You're probably going to fight with your partner.

You will feel like gravity is just working against you. Three, do not sign any important contracts or releases during those few weeks. Lastly, if you have unavoidable travel, expect major delays. That's the bad news.

But let's see, I can't even think of like, I don't want to talk about anything, I just want to talk about what's going on. So let's fucking go, right? Because exactly one week ago on Tuesday, June 9th, news broke that the FBI, along with Idaho law enforcement, were at Chad Debel's home in Salem, Idaho.

Now, I've been covering this case since February, and since then, I've already done two follow-up episodes and a little leader, I think, most recently at the end of May. And who to thunk just two weeks later, we'd be here again with answers we have been looking for for months.

On May 30th, I released episode 69, Doomsday Debel Part 3, and this was after a three-part interview with Lori Valas, former best friend Melanie Gibb came out, with some jarring information in regards to Chad and Lori's relationship, and the cult as a whole.

Now, we talked about closet portals, we talked about Chad and Lori's affair that was apparently a result of previous lives they've lived together, but most importantly, Melanie described in occurrence when Chad and Lori asked her to lie to the authorities and pretend that JJ was with her.

Though we left that interview with a lot of questions, the biggest one was, where are the children? The question folks have been asking since late last year.

And I don't want to sound like a broken record, so if you're new or haven't listened in a while, go back and listen to the first three parts to get us all a timeline of who was involved and when, because this story has taken us all on so many twists and turns.

And so, last Tuesday, June 9th, authorities show up at the house with a warrant, cadaver dogs, and equipment, and they start digging.

Now, this was not the first time authorities had shown up with the search warrant. From an article on the East Idaho Times, law enforcement removed 43 items from the house during a multi-agency raid on January 3rd of this year.

The officers searched a shed on the property, they also used metal detectors, probes, and rakes to go over several portions of the yard, so they've been on to something since January.

Now, Laurie, as we know, has been sitting in jail for some time now, mainly for two counts of desertation and non-support of a dependent child.

She was arrested three days after the first episode I aired came out on February 20th. Since then, she's kept mum, as has Chad in regards to where the children were located.

Alright, so back to June 9th. Like I said, they show up to Chad's house. This was around 7 o'clock AM. Apparently, authorities had received an alert from a neighbor that Chad was having multiple bonfires on the property, which is allegedly what prompted the authorities to show up in the first place.

He's present throughout the adoration of the authorities digging in his yard. I guess he was sitting in his car for a while, but he was on the property the entire time.

And then when they find what they believe is human remains, things progress. You guys, my eyes were glued to the fucking Twitter everywhere, the Twitter, the Facebook, the YouTube.

While this news was breaking, it was just so fucking crazy. But Chad is immediately taken into custody shortly after they discovered human remains around 11.30 AM.

He is booked into the Fremont County jail on two felony charges of concealment, distribution, or alteration of evidence. And I honestly didn't know what to think when the news broke.

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