David Koresh's mother stabbed to death

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[JoeProBono]

The mother of infamous Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh has been stabbed to death, and Koresh's aunt was in custody on a murder charge yesterday. Bonnie Clark Halderman, 60, was found Friday at the Texas home of her sister, Beverly Clark, in a rural area near Chandler, Henderson County Sheriff Ray Nutt said. "It's still under investigation, and we really don't know what the motive was," Nutt said. In 1993, a standoff at the Branch Davidians' compound outside Waco ended when the complex caught fire and burned to the ground, killing Koresh and nearly 80 of his followers.

[atomic conspiracy]

60? Don't think so. David Koresh (aka Vernon Howell) was born August 17, 1959. According to the linked biography, his mother was 16 at the time, making her 65 or 66 now.

[chuck_the_tv_out]

At the end of the day, Koresh was a nut. That didn’t give the clinton admin the right to burn them to death, but he was a nut.

So his family are nuts too. Not really surprising

[alexander_busek]

60? Don't think so. David Koresh (aka Vernon Howell) was born August 17, 1959. According to the linked biography, his mother was 16 at the time, making her 65 or 66 now.

That was likewise my first thought, like a knee-jerk reaction.

Wouldn't any normal person (let alone a copy editor) bother to use a little commonsense, and consider that a cult leader who died 15 years ago probably didn't have a mother who was now 60 years old? My instant reflex was to check the dates of birth.

Regards,

[atomic conspiracy]

KLTV-Longview: Mother of David Koresh identified as murder victim

[wita]

a standoff at the Branch Davidians’ compound outside Waco ended when the complex caught fire and burned to the ground, killing Koresh and nearly 80 of his followers.

Pretty simplistic and sanitary explanation for what took place at the home headquarters for a church. The deaths included women and children and all of the deaths were completely unnecessary.

[JoeProBono]

[atomic conspiracy]

What a revolting comparison by that deranged icon of the media-industrial complex, Time. Koresh was a bad guy, but I have yet to hear of his followers blowing up a pizza parlor, beheading helpless captives, crashing a hijacked airliner into a skyscraper full of innocent people, or passing out candy when somebody else did.

[A knight without armor]

I agree. That is a poor comparison.

[JoeProBono]

[DooDahhhh]

Let’s make it a threesome and put jim jones on this magazine cover.

[JoeProBono]

[DooDahhhh]

Great reply : )

[TexasCajun]

Waco was a real-life, modern-day Salem Witch Hunt!

I don't remember anyone asking Eric Holder any questions about Waco?

[TexasCajun]

U.S. attorney general nominee Eric Holder not questioned about Waco Branch Davidian siege

[JoeProBono]

[JoeProBono]

[chuck_the_tv_out]

“Waco was a real-life, modern-day Salem Witch Hunt!
I don’t remember anyone asking Eric Holder any questions about Waco?”

Totally. Horrible stuff. But I’m just saying that Koresh obviously thought he was some kind of messiah, so I’m not surprised that some people in his family are nuts

[LaineyDee]

But I’m just saying that Koresh obviously thought he was some kind of messiah, so I’m not surprised that some people in his family are nuts

I'm sure. Just can't wait to find out what the Messiah O has rattling in his closet as well. :)

[politicalmerc]

Was WACO really 15 YEARS AGO? Man how time flies.