Don't you want devoted followers who leave their families for you, give their money to you, give their bodies to you, give up

their lives for you, consider you God, and will kill for you? Don't you want to become a cult leader?

Hello and welcome to serial killing a podcast, where we also veer off the serial killer path to delve into other topics

within our beloved true crime community.

Side note guys before I even get started. I got a new puppy. His name is Yukon. You're probably

going to hear him in the background chewing and doing puppy things, so I apologize ahead of time if it's really noisy in the background.

So this week's podcast will be on the order of the Solar Temple cult.

This cult was founded by two men, Luke Jore and Joseph

Demambro. So let's get started with them. Joseph Demambro was born on August 19, 1924 in the commune of Pont Saint Esprit France.

Joseph's father, Raphael de Mambro, was originally from Northern Italy and he was a

laborer. His mother was Fernand and she was a French seamstress.

Now Joseph was the oldest of three siblings having a younger brother Nicholas

and a younger sister named Florina. By all accounts his

childhood was normal. He attended private Catholic school his entire childhood.

He went to Mass every single Sunday. He took violin

lessons for many years. He was a music lover and was also interested in

esoteric writings. He was an above average student with an above average life.

But by the time he was 16 years old, World War II had begun.

In 1940, he saw the fall of France to German forces, where Germany occupied France until

1944.

So after high school, Joseph got a job in a local jewelry store

and also learned the art of clockmaking.

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