Ep. 213: Tony and Susan Alamo Part 2: The Stolen Corpse, Child Labor Jackets, and ALLLLL THE BAD STUFF

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4.5 • 709 Ratings

🗓️ 13 January 2025

⏱️ 89 minutes

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In this episode, we discuss the Alamo Christian cult following Susan's death in 1982 up until Tony's 2009 imprisonment and death in 2017. This episode contains discussions of child abuse including physical, sexual, and mental abuse, as well as exploitation of child labor.

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0:00.0	No rolling river of time.
0:07.0	You've healed me in too many days.
0:13.0	No regrets, no confusion.
0:18.0	There'll be no pollution
0:21.6	I'm so thankful I've decided to change my ways
0:29.1	Welcome back to the Leaving Eden podcast welcome welcome welcome welcome
0:34.7	We're here to talk about Tony and Susan Alamo.
0:39.4	Part two, where things get really wild.
0:43.0	We've talked about Tony's background, his upbringing, Susan's background, their upbringing, how they met each other, and their founding of their church, their evangelical ministry, I guess.
0:56.8	Yeah, Christian television show.
1:01.0	The pretty typical story of the ministry had businesses and members were expected to work in the church businesses and then either not get paid at all or turn their paychecks over to the ministry. But the founders of the ministry thought that they could
1:15.7	escape tax liability because they didn't technically own the ministry. Where we left off,
1:21.4	Susan Alama was diagnosed with cancer and they moved their ministry back to her home state of Arkansas, where she had, as a
1:31.2	child, seen a vision of God who had, and had then been cured of tuberculosis, according to her.
1:38.3	This is what happened.
1:39.2	So they moved the church back to Arkansas.
1:42.0	Right.
1:42.6	And we're going to pick up there because I know, I know the first part was not tame, but
1:49.6	this second part goes off the rails.
1:54.7	Before we get started and before I get into the before we get into that, I do want to issue
1:59.1	a correction because in the last episode,
2:02.7	we suggested that Father Flanagan's Boys Town was possibly a boarding school of some sort,
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