Overhead of smoking fire consuming David Koresh-led Branch Davidian cult compound. Time Life Pictures/Fbi/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty. The ATF began investigating Koresh and the Branch ...

The Branch Davidians were led by David Koresh, real name Vernon Howell, who came to see himself as a messianic figure. He took several "spiritual wives," some as young as 12, and was suspected of ...

Netflix’s 'Waco: American Apocalypse' revisits the 51-day siege between the federal government and David Koresh's Branch Davidians cult which still exists today.

AP Photo/Waco Tribune Herald ; Greg Smith/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty This 1998 file photo shows Branch Davidian leader David Koresh in a police line-up following a gun battle with former Davidians ...

A National Guard helicopter flies past the burning Branch Davidian cult compound in Waco, Texas on 19 April 1993 (TIM ROBERTS/AFP via Getty Images) Your support helps us to tell the story.

The 68-year-old, who was the head of the Nine O'Clock Service in Sheffield in the 1980s and 1990s, denies one count of rape ...

David Thibodeau -- a survivor of the infamous 1993 Branch Davidians siege in Waco, Texas -- is giving Justin Bieber some sage advice on religion, as some of his former friends question his ...

Produced only four years after the intense, 51-day-long standoff in Waco between law enforcement and David Koresh’s Branch Davidian cult, this engrossing documentary tells the story of how ...

We all know the notorious cults of our time, like the Manson Family and David Koresh’s Branch Davidians, but today the number of cultlike groups in the United States is growing exponentially and ...