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Morning Cup of Murder

The Cult of Conscious Development - March 21 2024

Morning Cup of Murder

Morning Cup of Murder

Society & Culture, History, Documentary, True Crime

4.7723 Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

March 21st: Terri Hoffman Born (1938) Strong beliefs can make or break a person. On March 21st 1938 a woman was born who would command an entire movement of people. Some of whom were worse off for knowing her and may have lost their lives in the name of her beliefs. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Hoffman, https://www.texasmonthly.com/true-crime/curse-black-lords-new-age-cult/, https://www.dmagazine.com/publications/d-magazine/1982/december/rise-and-fall-of-a-north-dallas-cult-conscious-development/, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-13-mn-22283-story.html, https://www.dmagazine.com/religion/2014/06/d-magazines-40-greatest-stories-death-in-a-north-dallas-cult/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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There were two more murders, 15 miles away.

0:02.6

When police arrived, they found the telephones and electricity lines.

0:06.0

We have a weird homicide.

0:08.8

A scene described by one investigator as reminiscent of a weird...

0:12.0

A cup of murder...

0:15.2

Strong beliefs can make or break a person.

0:18.2

On March 21st, 1938, a woman was born who would command an entire movement

0:23.8

of people, some of whom were worse off for knowing her and may have lost their lives in the names

0:30.6

of her belief. So if you like her coffee hot, but your bones chilled, sit back and start your day

0:36.7

with a morning cup of murder.

0:40.1

Terry Lee Hoffman was born on March 21, 1938 into poverty, and at the age of nine, was sent

0:47.3

to a Lutheran orphanage where she saved for two years before being adopted and given the last

0:52.2

name of Benson. Made to pick cotton when she was just a child,

0:56.4

according to her claims, Terry knew from the time she was just four years old that she was

1:01.2

destined to be something special. How did she know? Well, allegedly God himself appeared to the

1:07.9

young girl in visions. And while sitting under an apple tree to get some relief from the stifling sun,

1:14.0

she said she saw three men in splendid robes appear suddenly

1:17.8

and tell her that she could be anything she wanted as long as she wanted it bad enough.

1:23.4

Also telling her to think of God when she was troubled,

1:26.5

they warned the child that they could not be seen by many others and that she was chosen specially.

1:32.9

Relying on this vision to get her through her early years and to survive her alcoholic father, they began again when she entered that orphanage.

1:41.2

And this time, the men taught her how to pray when despondent, and Christ himself

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