Word: waco
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Once she moved to Waco, Sherri withdrew even more. She was impossible to contact, and she sought to end David's regular visits with Kiri. He grew alarmed when Breault, who had broken with Koresh, warned him and Sherri's mother of the abusive practices going on in the cult. Sherri, Breault said, was one of Koresh's favored wives. The gold pendant worn by Kiri, only 10, was a sign that Koresh planned to take her too as a wife...
...asked me," says Isabel of Kathy. "She said, 'Mother, do you think I should go to Texas?' " Fatta had introduced Kathy to David Koresh, and Koresh had invited her to Waco for Davidian Passover in 1991. "I said, 'No, you don't know what you're getting into, and it's another state.' " Kathy went anyway. Isabel actually manages a smile: "She was stubborn." She and Fatta talked about marriage, but then broke up; Koresh had prohibited relationships...
Shortly after meeting Fatta, Kathy stopped wearing jewelry. Now, back from Waco, she said she had learned about the seven seals. She made plans to go again, saying she would stay only five weeks. But once there she talked more and more of Koresh. And she never returned...
Isabel visited the sisters in Waco in 1991. Now she knew more about cults and was trying to get them out. They did not mention the child Chanel, and she didn't either. Her daughters looked thin but healthy. Not brainwashed, despite Koresh's endless preaching...
...made his initial public appearance in the unfolding Waco tragedy as a substitute for a wounded David Koresh, grown weak after hours of haranguing FBI hostage negotiators. The bureau told the press that like his boss, Schneider enjoyed explicating Scripture, and that he seemed moody. But his background and character were of considerably more interest than they let on at the time...