Josh Clark

One of the first things he did was he married a 14-year-old member of the church, and her parents consented and said, yeah, sure, be married to our 14-year-old daughter who you're

10 years older then, which made it legal in Texas at the time.

That was, you know, sign number one.

But if you rewind a little bit before he showed up at the Branch Davidian compound, he had actually been de-fellowshipped, is what it's called, where the Adventists kick you out.

Because he had seduced, which I think means that he sexually assaulted and actually successfully sexually assaulted a 15-year-old daughter of one of the church's elders.

For sure.

And over the years, he kind of got into guns.

He really got into the Bible.

That was one of the things that I think people were drawn to about him at the Branch of the Divinity sect was he knew what he was talking about.

He was also very charismatic, and he could essentially run Bible studies that ran—

you know, 10, 12 hours at a length and people weren't getting fatigued.

Like they were still just jazzed the whole time.

So he definitely knew what he was talking about.

He wasn't just making stuff up off the top of his head.

Like he very much understood the book of Revelations in particular.

Man, you know how the world found out about that too, Chuck?

Well, about him sexually abusing minors, children.

It was a current affairs show.

Well, first, the Waco Tribune-Herald did a series of articles on it.

So that caught the local attention.