Cult Killer
About
On 7 January 2005 Rick Rodriguez slit the throat of his former nanny and then killed himself.
A few hours previously he had videotaped a suicide message leaving a deeply disturbing record of a life scarred by a childhood spent with the Children of God, a cult notorious for taking the 1960s culture of free love to its wildest extreme.
As a kid Rodriguez had been groomed to become The Family’s next leader by his mother and the cult’s founder, David Berg, who adopted him as a son.
It was a role he didn’t want and after escaping The Family, Rodriguez felt compelled to become a leader for those ex members who had suffered abuse as he had done.
