David Koresh, a native of Houston whose name was Vernon Wayne Howell, went down in history as the religious fanatic of the Davidian sect.

He was the one who lived with dozens of followers on a farm (ranch) in Waco (Texas, United States), where a true hell was recorded three decades ago.

TN on Koresh said this week that they put him in history as the pervert who founded a cult and killed over 80 people. There are different reports on the number of deaths.

They called him a pedophile. Those describing him emphasize that Koresh was “a leader who had sexual relations with underage girls”.

A deranged man, who “mentally controlled those who followed him, regardless of their age”, beat the weakest, the children, with whips and “accumulated firearms”.

Situation in Waco

This past April 19 marked the 30th anniversary of “The Assault on Waco,” defined as “a police intervention that lasted 51 days,” involving the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms and Explosives (ATF) and the FBI.

It all started, recalls El Diario NY, “when those agencies learned that a religious cult with apocalyptic leanings, installed in a complex known as Mount Carmel, had amassed an unwarranted arsenal of long guns.”

There was talk of a hundred people calling themselves Davidians who followed David Koresh, “a biblical scholar with messianic leanings.”

Already in February of the same year, “the first attempt to seize the weapons and arrest Koresh” was recorded. In that action, in the middle of a firefight, four ATF agents and six Davidians fell dead.

That shooting lasted more than two hours.

The Siege of the Davidian Sect

The farm was surrounded, besieged. About a thousand FBI agents approached the ranch. The idea was to negotiate.

The siege lasted 51 days. “David Koresh responded to the negotiators with verses and interpretations from the Bible, threatening violence while assuring that the cult members had no suicidal intent,” explains Mens Health.

“After several weeks, the authorities managed to exchange 30 members for supplies (…),” he adds.

The ideas for getting Koresh to turn himself in were diverse. “They cut off their electricity and put up speakers with Tibetan songs.” Nothing made him come out.

On Easter Sunday, April 11, 1993, according to TN, “Koresh had written a prophecy claiming that his group would be attacked in Easter Week, but that he and his disciples would rise again and establish the Kingdom of God in the Land. ” “.

The world marked the date of April 19, 1993. In Waco, a town in Texas’s McLennan County, the FBI fired “gases into the interior of the complex to force Koresh and his people to surrender” in the morning hours. but instead a fire ended Mount Camel and the lives of over 70 Davidians.

Armored vehicles and helicopters fired flammable tear gas and in less than half an hour the building was ablaze with members of the cult.

TN describes the arrival of the FBI

Nine members of the cult are said to have escaped the flames. Among the dead were 25 children and Koresh.

It was difficult for the firefighters to fight the flames: there was no water. That service was also broken at the ranch, remembered three decades after the Waco massacre.

The Davidian leader

When Koresh was born, his mother was 15 years old; the father, 20. He left home when the child was two months old.

TN delves into that past, pointing out that the mother found a new partner, but he was “an alcoholic and a batter.” Infobae points out that the boy grew up with his grandmother and the mother reappeared in his life when Koresh was 7 years old.

Koresh said he was gang raped by a group of men at the age of 8. He later joined the Seventh-day Adventist Church, but was expelled from school “for harassing the pastor’s daughter.”

David Koresh had Rachel as his wife and Cyrus was born. The man said he was the new messiah and his seed was “pure,” so he maintained a harem of 15 women with whom he had children, Infobae reports.

“He abused Karen Doyle, a 14-year-old girl, and took her as his second wife. A few months later, he became close to 12-year-old Michele Jones, the sister of his first wife Rachel.

He came to say “that he had the right to have 140 wives: 60 wives would be queens and 80 concubines.”

Moments of delirium overtook him. From the age of 22 he had gone to Waco and joined the Davidian group. The tragic story was about to be written.