Introducing: Scary Terri

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Coming soon to The Binge,  it's Scary Terri. A tragic double suicide. A teenager suspiciously drowned. A mother and her childhood nanny drove off a cliff. Between 1979 and 1989, a dozen people died under mysterious circumstances, with one thing in common: a connection to a spiritual leader in Dallas, Texas named Terri Hoffman. In Scary Terri, investigative reporter Jonathan Hirsch unravels the web of lies, manipulation, and dubious deeds that surround Hoffman. A dark Texas Gothic about the Charlie Manson you’ve never heard of.

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Speaker 1 Drowning, freak accidents, double suicides, murder.

Speaker 1 A dozen people from Dallas, Texas died mysteriously.

Speaker 1 All of them had one person in common: a spiritual leader by the name of Terry Hoffman.

Speaker 1 That woman has always been a black cloud over our lives.

Speaker 1 The more I learned, the more I began to wonder: is Terry Hoffman the Charlie Manson you've never heard of? These shark eyes, those cold, dark eyes.

Speaker 1 The most sophisticated sociopath I've ever observed.

Speaker 1 Left behind a series of bizarre diaries and writings associated with Terry Hoffman and a group she founded called the Conscious Development of Body, Mind, and Soul, Inc.

Speaker 1 Bodies are piling up, and she's cashing in. There is no doubt that she can.

Speaker 1 Hundreds of thousands of dollars, property, and land.

Speaker 1 Really see how evil she really was, like heartless.

Speaker 1 The payoff was going to be in the other spiritual realms. It was not going to be here.

Speaker 1 And the deeper I get into this thing, the weirder it gets. Are those items that are used to control and combat shield against black lords.

Speaker 1 I vote the Fifth Amendment.

Speaker 1 Can nobody stop her? Why do you think it was so difficult to tie Terry to these deaths?

Speaker 1 Because there's no smoking gun.

Speaker 1 From Sony Music Entertainment, this is Scary Terry.

Speaker 1 Coming December 1st to the bench.

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