Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a five-part series on the life of Bay City native Shirlee A. Fields (nee Miller), who was among 918 people who died in a mass murder-suicide in ...

McGehee noted that dark tourism is popular, and that going to Jonestown means tourists could say they visited a place where more than 900 people died on the same day. Followers of cult leader Jim ...

"We should reconstruct the home of Jim Jones, the main pavilion and other buildings that were there." Today, all that is left is bits of a cassava mill, pieces of the main pavilion and a rusted ...

Jim Jones was a complex man. A sideburned communist and occasional Methodist minister, fond of tinted glasses, he founded his own pseudo-church in Indianapolis in the late 1950s, the Peoples Temple ...

No one knows more about the Jonestown massacre than journalist Tim Reiterman. He began investigating Reverend Jim Jones, the twisted leader of the Peoples Temple cult, for the San Francisco Chronicle ...

Disclaimer: This article contains mentions of murder and suicide. Reader discretion is advised. “An American Tragedy” is an episode of Dateline: Secrets Uncovered that will air on Oxygen on Wednesday, ...

In 1954, Infamous cult leader Jim Jones established the People’s Temple Full Gospel Church in Indianapolis as a pastor. Known for his charismatic preaching and idealistic views, Jones quickly ...

"I think if I were in Jonestown and I saw 900 people who I loved make a choice, I can't imagine wanting to survive that. We were just all devastated. We were crying, like I still cry now. I was a mess ...

The stories of apocalyptic cult leaders don't often end well, especially for their most devoted followers. The story of an Indianapolis preacher named Jim Jones ended with the deaths of more than 900 ...

Jim Jones was an infamous American cult leader who was responsible for the Jonestown Massacre, a horrific case of mass murder and suicide. In 1978, Jim Jones ordered his followers to consume cyanide ...