At that time, the Mills were Elmer and Deanna Mertle, names they shed after fleeing the church. Mills and his wife joined the Jones flock in 1969 when the church was gathering strength in Redwood Valley, a peaceful spot tucked away 125 miles north of San Francisco. Their luck ran out 15 months after the Jonestown bloodbath, in February of 1980, when some unknown gunman, or perhaps more than one, murdered them execution style. This is Jeannie and Al Mills, two cult defectors that miraculously were able to escape the cult in 1974, after they had enough of what Nelson claims was "being a part of something that you feel is bigger than you." Meet two of who may have been the final victims of the "big family's" massacre. The cult "delivered" and "that's why they stayed"? So the mass murder final act was just something incidental then, Stan? It's been reduced to an overused cliche about the folly of "drinking the Kool Aid." Sadly, however, enough of the public got exposed to this propaganda and other apologists' revisionism that the reality of one of history's most destructive cults continues to be muddled. It was this kind of outrageous drivel, along with his widely circulated 2006 cult apologist film, that motivated me to create this website four years ago. That’s why they stayed.They stayed because it gave them what they wanted."ĭirector, "Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple" It promised them that they would be part of a big family and live in a new way. "I think what Peoples Temple offered, and some other movements offer, is a chance to be part of something that you feel is bigger than you.Peoples Temple delivered on what it promised people.
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