How a Cult Leader's Private Plane Became a Floating Coffin over Tennessee

Aviation Survival Stories · Aug 12, 2026 · 16m

How a Cult Leader's Private Plane Became a Floating Coffin over Tennessee

Fear of betrayal and the lure of absolute certainty: a movement that grew from mall meetings to 250,000 enrolled in 21,000 classes would collapse into an isolated church whose leader amassed multiple luxury cars and mansions - how did a diet program end in brain-dead children and a private plane turned coffin?

In this episode, we lay out the rise of a woman with a master’s in biochemistry who built a nationwide ministry, the doctrinal rupture that shrank her network, and the personal wealth and properties that followed…