Let's all take a moment to meet Mr. Glenn Taylor Helzer:

A lapsed Mormon accused of bludgeoning and dismembering five people in an elaborate extortion racket intended to hasten the second coming of Jesus Christ.

Whose band of merry "men" included:

his younger brother, a former girlfriend turned Playboy centrefold model, and a self-described "good witch" who once offered to raise money for Armageddon by appearing in porn films.

What they did was almost as sick as that German guy who ran an ad in the paper so he could find someone to volunteer as his dinner. Ok, no, that's a lot sicker. Anyway, looks like a standard (if lurid) case of a charismatic guy with a severe and unmedicated mental illness managing to lure yet another bunch of soft-headed losers into a death cult with him. Manson family, anyone?