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...federal jury in Texas acquitted 11 members of the Branch Davidian religious cult of murder and conspiracy to murder, convicting five of voluntary manslaughter and two on weapons charges. The case grew out of last year's raid on the cult's compound, which left four federal agents dead...
...Antonio, Texas, the trial began of 10 men and one woman who are members of the Branch Davidian cult and who are charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder in connection with the death of four federal agents. The agents were shot during a raid on the cult's compound near Waco in February...
...Waco last year, while the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and the FBI were laying siege to David Koresh and his followers, few have more painful memories than Robert and Marcia Spoon, who live on narrow Double EE Ranch Road, across from Mount Carmel, the former Branch Davidian compound. Startled by gunshots early on the Sunday morning in February when agents of the ATF raided the compound, the couple and their daughter Amanda, now 6, waited out the fighting crouched in back rooms. Later, with only the clothes on their backs, they fled across a pasture to safety...
Spoon, like many of his neighbors, has heard rumors that Davidian cultists eventually hope to build a new worship center at the apocalyptic site, and he is concerned that some of Koresh's followers could come back. Eleven cult survivors go on trial this week in San Antonio for conspiracy in the murder of the four ATF agents who died in the February raid, and it is anybody's guess whether some of them will be acquitted...
...only person on the scene providing a definitive answer to this question is Amo Bishop Roden, a Branch Davidian woman who for months has conducted a lonely sit-in in an effort to reclaim the land once owned by ex-cult leader George Roden, her former husband, who is in a state mental hospital. Amo emerges from a tiny metal shack to point visitors to an altar she has fashioned from concrete slabs and sell them $15 videotapes purporting to show how the FBI started the fire with a tank-mounted flamethrower. She hints of missing corpses and CIA involvement...