Yahweh Ben Yahweh and 15 followers eventually were convicted on counts that included murder, attempted murder, racketeering, arson and extortion In October 1990, the mayor of Miami presented Yahweh ...

The Miami-based sect's leader eventually was sentenced to 18 years for conspiracy to commit murder After a 1986 double-murder, the Miami-based Nation of Yahweh was at risk of losing its good name ...

The first time Khalil Amani saw religious sect leader Yahweh ben Yahweh deliver his sermon as “the Son of God,” Amani truly believed he was in the presence of someone divine. The Nation of Yahweh ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During a secretive reign of terror and killing carried out by his followers across Miami in the ...

In 1986, nine murder victims in Miami-Dade County, Florida, were found with their ears severed. While local authorities initially believed the gruesome acts could be the work of a serial killer, an ...

Black supremacist leader Yahweh Ben Yahweh tangled with a federal prosecutor over Old Testament references to vengeance against blasphemers in the sect leader's racketeering trial Thursday. "Isn't it ...

A federal appeals court Friday affirmed the conviction of Miami sect leader Yahweh Ben Yahweh and six disciples, depicting their religion as a volatile brew of brotherly love and racism in which blind ...

Yahweh Ben Yahweh, the Miami cult leader convicted in 1992 of running a murder and arson conspiracy, is scheduled to be paroled from federal prison on Aug. 17. Before the prison gate swings open, ...

As they say, there are two sides to every story. But, after two months going back into Local 10 archives and doing countless interviews, I realize that the story of the founder of Miami's most ...

Cult or religion? Community saviors or criminals? Yahweh Ben Yahweh and his followers dominated the Miami criminal justice system in the early 1990s. After a years-long investigation, the ...