Ash Kelley

And here's some more.

Oh, no.

In time, they dictated what people ate, what they wore, and most importantly, what kind of relationships they could have.

Oh.

And they informed everybody that if they wanted to ascend to a higher plane, quote unquote, they could not engage in any kind of sexual relationship with another.

Okay.

Okay.

So the first sign of like... This doesn't seem healthy.

No, it's definitely not.

The first sign of real, real trouble came in 1985 after Bonnie Nettles died from liver cancer.

Oh.

For over 10 years at that point, she and Marshall had been codependent and fully expected to receive their celestial rewards together.

But Bonnie's death obviously caused Marshall to spiral even deeper into his delusional thinking and he had a full-blown crisis of faith.

In the years that followed, the group bounced around the Southwest, occasionally adding new members, but mostly losing them.

And all at that time, Marshall's beliefs and expectations got much more rigid.

By 1993, the members of HIM, just so we don't have to say the full thing every time, had dropped to just a few dozen.

So in June, Marshall placed an ad in USA Today to try to recruit new members.

I actually had no idea that that happened.

I didn't know that.

Dave found this piece of information and I said, quoi?