Jim Jones is alive and back in the U.S.: Cult leader vanished in jungle after
Jonestown followers died in mass suicide
By DEREK CLONTZ
Your World Report
The notorious Reverend Jim Jones, evil architect of the 1978 Jonestown
massacre, is alive and back in America - planing another mass suicide that could wipe out
thousands of men, women and children, a police source says.
The sinister cult boss - who ordered the death of 900 followers at his religious
camp in Jonestown, Guyana - survived the mass poisoning and escaped, the lawman said.
He returned to the United States in 1986 from South America and, in hiding,
secretly has rebuilt his religious empire, attracting thousands of followers
through Internet sites and private chatrooms.
Now the paranoid preacher is convinced authorities are after him - and once again, he
plans to lead his devoted disciples to their deaths.
“We have reliable reports that Reverend Jones has established yet another large
religious commune, this time in the mountains of the West - apparently Utah or
Idaho,” says the police source, who spoke on condition of anonymity.
“We believed Jones had died of a gunshot wound to the head, but apparently the
body found there was so badly mutilated that the identification was botched.
“We now know that he escaped, returned to this country and gathered devoted
followers at a new religious center over the last seven years.”
Authorities say Jones has amassed a flock of at least 2,000 - and possibly as many as
5,000 - men, women and children.
They live at an isolated mountain retreat, subsisting on food they grow themselves and
supplies bought with the proceeds of a logging operation.
The group attends several services a day, worshipping Jones as a messiah and swearing
allegiance to him.
The preacher lives in luxury, waited on hand and foot by eager followers, the police
official said. But his brainwashed disciples are underfed and overworked, and punished
severely for mild transgressions.
Complaints about Jones’ leadership drive him wild, and cult members who try to
leave are tortured or killed.
“At Jonestown, members of the group occasionally ran away, informed local
officials about conditions at the camp and triggered investigations,” the police
spokesman said.
“The attention made the minister paranoid - and the same thing could happen any
day now here in the States.
“Cult insiders have gotten away and informed us about the camp and Jones is
terrified that local police will show up soon and discover what he’s doing. He is
apparently becoming extremely agitated.
“Two weeks ago, we heard from someone inside the camp that Jones is talking about
death and putting his followers through practice suicide sessions, just as he did at
Jonestown.
“He has them all line up inside a special suicide tent and drink fruit juice he
sears is laced with poison. Then, when it’s all over, he tells them it was bogus,
that it was a test of their devotion.”
People close to Jones fear the mad minister will once again order his followers to kill
themselves-only this time the death toll will be far higher.
“Then he can drop out of sight for a while, until it’s safe to organize yet
another group of gullible followers,” the police spokesman says.
“He could do this again and again.
“He’s got to be stopped.”
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