It was Jan. 17, 2025, when 82-year-old landlord Curtis Lind was walking outside his property on the 300 block of Lemon Street when an assailant wearing a mask and a black beanie stabbed him in the neck. Lind died on the sidewalk where he had lived and worked for years. Investigators later charged Maximillian Snyder with the murder, alleging Lind was targeted because he was a key witness in a previously violent attack on Lind, tied to the same group.
"When you think about the billions at stake and the radical transformation of lives across the world because of the eccentric vision of this group, how much more cult-y does it have to be for this to be a cult? Not much," says Harvard chaplain.