
This week Murder Made Me Famous turns the spotlight on cult leader David Koresh. David Koresh was born Vernon Wayne Howell in 1959 in Texas, where he was brought up by his 14-year-old single mother for several years before being taken to his grandmother’s place for three years. His mother returned and married, but despite being in a fairly stable family and having a half-brother he described his childhood as lonely. He later dropped out of High School and when he was 22 Koresh got a 15-year-old girl pregnant. After this he found god and became a born-again Christian with his...read more