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2007
- Video May 8, 2007 Cancer Claims Yahweh Ben Yahweh, CBS 4, Florida (Video & Photo included.)
(CBS4) MIAMI The South Florida sect leader whose black supremacist teachings drew followers in the 1980's has died.
71-year old Yahweh Ben Yahweh died in Miami from prostate cancer, according to his lawyer...
...Yahweh served 11 years of an 18-year prison sentence on a federal conviction for conspiracy...
- Video May 8, 2007 Cult Leader Yahweh Ben Yahweh Dies, NBC 6 News, Florida
Former cult leader and self-proclaimed "Black Messiah" Yahweh Ben Yahweh died in his sleep Monday night, his attorney Jayne Weintraub said.
- May 8, 2007 Yahweh Ben Yahweh, former cult leader, dead at 71 - Associated Press via KTEN, Oklahoma
MIAMI A former cult leader from Oklahoma who was linked to nearly two dozen gruesome killings in the 1980s has died. An attorney for Yahweh Ben Yahweh confirmed his death today. He was 71...
2006
- October 16, 2006 Judge won't end Yahweh's parole, Kelli Kennedy, Associated Press via HeraldToday.com, Florida
MIAMI - A judge has ruled not to interfere with a decision on whether cult leader and convicted killer Yahweh Ben Yahweh's parole should be terminated because he has advanced cancer.
U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke on Oct. 10 denied a motion Yahweh filed requesting that she order the federal Parole Commission to quickly make a decision on whether to terminate parole in his case, a court order said...
- October 7, 2006 Dying Yahweh wants parole lifted, by Amy Driscoll, MiamiHerald.com
Murderous cult leader Yahweh Ben Yahweh is dying of cancer, and his lawyers say he should be released from parole.
Yahweh Ben Yahweh, the Miami cult leader whose brand of black supremacist preachings drew his followers into a conspiracy of murder and terror in the 1980s, is dying of advanced prostate cancer and should be immediately released from parole so he can die with dignity, his lawyers said Friday...
- October 6, 2006 Cult leader linked to beheadings asks to 'die with dignity' - Associated Press via CNN.com
MIAMI, Florida (AP) -- Yahweh Ben Yahweh, a former cult leader linked to nearly two dozen gruesome killings in the 1980s, is seeking immediate release from parole supervision because he has advanced cancer and wants to "die with dignity," his lawyers said Friday...
...Yahweh, a self-proclaimed "Black Messiah," served 11 years of an 18-year federal prison sentence for a racketeering conviction stemming from his role in up to 23 murders, some involving beheadings and severed ears and fingers...
...The law, however, gives the Parole Commission the final decision. A hearing officer is scheduled to consider the case on October 19 and then make a recommendation.
The process could take weeks, if not months...
...Cooke did not indicate when she would rule but ordered government attorneys to respond to Yahweh's petition this week.
- October 6, 2006 Yahweh Ben Yahweh Seeks End Of Parole, Associated Press via CBS 4, South Florida (Photo of Yahweh Ben Yahweh included.)
(AP) MIAMI Yahweh Ben Yahweh, a former cult leader linked to nearly two dozen gruesome killings in the 1980s, is seeking immediate release from parole supervision because he has advanced cancer and wants to die with dignity, his lawyers said Friday...
2001
- October 15, 2001 Followers of Yahweh reemerge in Canada, Miami Herald (...But in the late '80s, Miami police started tracing the bodies of blacks, who denounced the religion, and random whites back to the Temple of Yahweh and the teachings of their leader. By 1993, the Yahweh empire was in bankruptcy, the members dispersed, and Yahweh Ben Yahweh and six of his closest followers were in federal prison for conspiring to commit murder after murder...)
- On TV October 14, 2001 The FBI Files-Temple of Fear Discovery Channel (Decapitation of a young African American male led Miami-Dade police and FBI agents to a notorious cult. Agents convince a cult member to betray the charismatic leader in order to link the cult with dozens of suspected murder victims.)
- On TV October 14, 2001 TEMPLE OF FEAR, The FBI Files (In the early 1980s, the decapitation of a young African-American male led the Miami-Dade police department and the FBI along a trail of murder. Investigators quickly discovered that the victim was a dissident member of a religious sect headed by a man calling himself Yahweh ben Yahweh, or God, Son of God...)
- September 26, 2001 Sect leader Yahweh Ben Yahweh freed after 10 years in prison, by Jeff Shields, Sun-Sentinel (...Yahweh and six of his followers were convicted in 1992 of a racketeering conspiracy between 1980 and 1986 in which prosecutors said Yahweh directed followers to commit 14 murders...)
- September 25, 2001 Cult Leader Released From Prison, The Associated Press via Yahoo! News (Yahweh Ben Yahweh and the Nation of Yahweh in the news.)
- August 24, 2001 Yahwehs work Web to polish image, by Meg Laughlin, Miami Herald, Florida via the Wayback Machine
While Yahweh Ben Yahweh refuses to leave prison in protest of his parole conditions, his followers are using the Yahweh website to wage a public relations campaign and say that neither their leader nor they are to be feared.
They would like the world to know this about themselves and their Miami-based religious leader, convicted in 1992 of conspiring to commit 14 murders: They are not "religious fanatics" or "domestic terrorists." They do not view white people as the "incarnate manifestation of evil," despite earlier teachings...
- August 23, 2001 Yahweh Ben Yahweh, Here and Now (...Yahweh Ben Yahweh, whose birth name is Hulon Mitchell Jr., was convicted in Florida of ordering his followers to "kill for Yahweh."...)
- August 18, 2001 It's Miami or it's prison, No Freedom of Religion for Yahweh, Washington Post (Yahweh Ben Yahweh, Hulon Mitchell Jr, the Nation of Yahweh, Yahweh Ben Yahweh Day and the Temple of Love in the news.) (Photo included.)
- August 18, 2001 It's Miami or it's prison, Yahweh tells parole board - Miami Herald (Yahweh Ben Yahweh and the Yahwehs in the news.)
- August 17, 2001 Cult leader linked to killings denied contact with followers after leaving prison, Associated Press
via North County Times, California (MIAMI (AP) ---- A cult leader linked to a series of random killings cannot have any contact with followers after his release from prison unless he gets approval from a probation officer first, a judge ruled.
Yahweh Ben Yahweh, convicted of federal racketeering for his connection to the killings, sought an injunction against the U.S. Parole Commission's decision to bar him from communicating with followers.
He is due to be released to a halfway house Friday after 11 years in prison. But his attorneys say the strict conditions of his release are unconstitutional...)
- August 17, 2001 TO THE POINT, Opinion, Miami Herald (Information on Yahweh Ben Yahweh.)
- August 16, 2001 Yahweh leader barred from his followers, Miami Herald (Yahweh Ben Yahweh and the Nation of Yahweh in the news.)
- August 16, 2001 Cult Leader Can't Meet Followers, Associated Press via Las Vegas SUN
- August 16, 2001 Cult Leader Can't Meet Followers, Associated Press via Yahoo! News
- August 15, 2001 Cult leader linked to slayings to be freed, Associated Press via North County Times, California (MIAMI (AP) ---- The Nation of Yahweh was a mystery to most people when Aston Green, a breakaway follower, was beheaded with a machete in 1981.
But the public came to know the religious group well over the next five years because of a series of apparently random killings, notable for the severed ears of the victims. Ultimately, Green's slaying and several others were blamed on the commands of the group's charismatic founder, Yahweh Ben Yahweh.
Yahweh, whose birth name is Hulon Mitchell Jr...
...Yahweh, 65, wants to lead his sect again. But the U.S. Parole Commission is barring him from contacting any followers ---- including indirectly via the Internet, television or radio ---- until 2008, when his parole ends...)
- August 13, 2001 Even when free, leader cannot contact followers - Associated Press via St. Petersburg Times (Yahweh Ben Yahweh and the Nation of Yahweh in the news.)
- July 5, 2001 Sect Leader Nears Freedom, Balks at Parole Rules - Miami Daily Business Review via Law.com (Yahweh Ben Yahweh, "the Black Hebrew group," the Nation of Yahweh, "The Universe of Yahweh," Hulon Mitchell Jr. and "death angels" in the news.)
2000
- September 23, 2000 Prosecutors drop charges against admitted killer, Associated Press via News Tribune (...Rozier, 44, was a football star at the University of California-Berkeley, and he had a brief NFL career before he joined a cult founded in the 1980s by a Miami man, Yahweh Ben Yahweh...)
1999
- March 24, 1999 Former NFL player, Black supremacist charged with 1984 cult killing, Associated Press via News Tribune (...Rozier, who also called himself Neariah Israel, or "Child of God," was the leader of the Yahweh Ben Yahweh Temple in Newark at the time of the killing, prosecutor Patricia Hurt said...)
- March 24, 1999 Former NFL player, black supremacist charged with killing Amy Westfeldt, Associated Press via The Daily Kent Stater
1990
- 1991 Winner, Spot News Reporting, The Miami Herald, Florida (The Miami Herald Staff for stories profiling a local cult leader, his followers, and their links to several area murders.
Coverage of the religious organization founded by Yahweh ben Yahweh resulted in more than 80 stories in 1990, a reflection of a racially troubled city hungering for a black messiah. Reporting by Sydney P. Freedberg unearthed a 1983 incident in which 50 Yahweh followers beat a former U.S. karate champion to death in the temple. She tracked down defectors. The Yahwehs retaliated with legal motions...)
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