Monte Francis

Sep 4, 2024 | newsbreak.com | Monte Francis

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Jul 15, 2024 | twosleuthspodcast.com | Monte Francis

An intelligent man, Marcus Wesson had become more erratic and deranged as the years droned on. He had been steadily building his family with unusual cult-like rules based on religious teachings of his own conception. He was a Vampire King. At other times, he was God, or Jesus Christ himself. He was physically and sexually abusive to his wife, daughters and neices, and believed the more children he brought into the world- the more favor he would hold with the second coming of Christ.

Jul 8, 2024 | twosleuthspodcast.com | Monte Francis

Waco had David Koresh and the Branch Davidians, San Diego had Marshall Applewhite and Heaven's Gate, and Jonestown had Jim Jones and the Peoples Temple. All well-known cults that ended with multiple deaths and widespread tragedy. But in the 1990s, there was another, lesser-known cult operating in the Fresno, California area and they were led by a man who believed that he was not only Jesus Christ, but also a Vampire King.

Jun 11, 2024 | france24.com | Monte Francis

Mammoth South Korean loudspeakers blaring BTS music. Large North Korean balloons carrying manure, cigarette butts and waste batteries. Small South Korean civilian leaflets slamming North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. Day after day, the Cold War-style yet bizarre campaigns continue at the heavily fortified border. Aidan Foster-Carter, an Honorary Senior Research Fellow in Sociology and Modern Korea at Leeds University speaks to FRANCE24's Monte Francis about the potential risks of escalation

May 29, 2024 | france24.com | Monte Francis

The first day of jury deliberations in Donald Trump's criminal hush money trial concluded after the panel sent their first two notes to the judge Wednesday afternoon, just a few hours after beginning deliberations. Pamela Falk reports from New York. Todd Belt, Director of the Political Management Program at George Washington University's Graduate School of Political Management tells FRANCE24 that the worse the outcome of the hush money trial is for Trump, the better will be for him politically.