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What events led to Terry Hoffman's wrongful death suits?
The Bench. It had been over 15 years of Terry Hoffman being in the spotlight.
Glenn Cooley overdosed on drugs. In 79, Devereaux Cleaver drowned. Sandy Cleaver's car went over a cliff in 1981.
Wrongful death suits. Wills contested.
Robin Lynn Otstadt, Mary Levinson, and Richard Hoffman committed suicide. Jill Bounds was murdered.
Smoke was filling up the room so thick, you can't find the handle of the door. But where was the fire? Ever since Gail and Chuck contacted Cecil Emerson, the assistant DA, he'd been looking into Terry. At this point, Cecil had known about Terry for a decade, since Devereaux's death.
Can these cults be deadly? Oh, they're very deadly.
but he hadn't brought criminal charges yet. Then new evidence came to light. Cecil found out that Terry Hoffman might be pushing pills on her acolytes and even injecting them with God knows what. In fact, Cecil had some evidence that Terry was throwing out needles, syringes, countless pill bottles. Her trash even had a suspicious letter postmarked from San Diego.
It read, here's your bulk order plus the samples. Number one is a new formula that's slightly more complex and will cost 35 cents more per capsule. It should contain more amphetamine along with a balancer to mitigate side effects. Number two is the basic E formula without the final purification step to remove all amphetamines. E, here, I think is safe to say, is ecstasy. The white pills?
The drug that was found in Don's system? Terry was no doctor. Why was she buying amphetamines? If she was giving her followers drugs, then maybe Cecil could go after her for a new charge. A local TV station interviewed him in February of 1990.
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