This photo from 2012 shows what once was the Angel’s Landing commune compound in rural Valley Center. The trial of commune leader Daniel Perez, accused of the murder of 26-year-old Patricia Hughes, is set to begin.
JAIME GREEN FILE PHOTO
[From article]
The leader of a Kansas commune that prosecutors say lived off life insurance payouts from its dead members faces trial this week in the 2003 drowning of a woman whose death he had allegedly foretold weeks earlier.
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Witnesses have testified Perez called himself a seer and portrayed him as a domineering leader who kept a tight rein on his young, mostly female followers.
Perez also faces multiple counts of lying on life insurance applications, rape, sodomy, criminal threat, making false statements on auto credit applications and sexual exploitation of a child.
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Self-styled 'seer' faces murder trial for death he foretold
By ROXANA HEGEMAN
February 1, 2015
[From article]
The leader of a Kansas commune that prosecutors say lived off life insurance payouts from its dead members faces trial this week in the 2003 drowning of a woman whose death he had allegedly foretold weeks earlier.
[. . .]
Witnesses have testified Perez called himself a seer and portrayed him as a domineering leader who kept a tight rein on his young, mostly female followers.
Perez also faces multiple counts of lying on life insurance applications, rape, sodomy, criminal threat, making false statements on auto credit applications and sexual exploitation of a child.
http://news.yahoo.com/self-styled-seer-faces-murder-trial-death-foretold-154726973.html;_ylt=AwrBJR7hTM5UH0UAseXQtDMD
Self-styled 'seer' faces murder trial for death he foretold
By ROXANA HEGEMAN
February 1, 2015
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