Crime in Sports - The Business Of Cult Life - Robert Rozier - Part 3
Episode Date: June 2, 2026This week, we continue this craziness, with Robert finally getting his day in court, on 4 murder charges. But the cult decides that he's trying to extort them, for a new lawyer, so he is excommunicate...d. This leaves Robert free to begin to tell of the inner workings of the group, and their penchant for retribution, and violence. Meanwhile, the leader of the cult is being more accepted into polite society, and even the Florida business world, all while more tales of greed, sex, abuse, and outright violence begin to leak out from even more sources!! Get ready for your quadruple murder trial, be told you're no longer welcome in the cult that you killed for, and watch as the man who ordered you to murder appears at Chamber of Commerce meetings with Robert Rozier - Part 3!! Check us out, every Tuesday! We will continue to bring you the biggest idiots in sports history!! Hosted by James Pietragallo & Jimmie Whisman Donate at... patreon.com/crimeinsports or with paypal.com using our email: crimeinsports@gmail.com Get all the CIS, STM & YSO merch at crimeinsports.threadless.com Go to shutupandgivememurder.com for all things CIS, STM & YSO!! Contact us on... instagram.com/smalltownmurder facebook.com/crimeinsports crimeinsports@gmail.com
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We're talking about Robert Rozier.
He's currently sitting in jail awaiting a murder trial and all that kind of deal.
So they're trying to, basically the way the cult is portraying it as he's a rogue actor, essentially.
Wow.
You know, it's not us.
We don't say go murder people.
This isn't like a hierarchical mafia family.
This is a religion.
He's just overzealous, really, is what it is.
He's so committed.
He's so committed to the Lord is really what it is.
It's too much.
The love for and from God has overwhelmed him to the point of murder where he can't help it.
We wish his love was less.
We wish he loved a little bit less.
But hey, you know what?
He's a big guy and he's got a lot of love to give.
That's how it works.
So they say that the police say this, basically.
Quote, if he's convicted, there's a good chance that he might want to be a little more cooperative.
Oh.
Which is a very odd thing.
If he's convicted, so if we lose all leverage on him and he's already in prison forever, then he might want to be cooperative.
No, I don't know if that means to help him out in sentencing or even to help him out and putting him in a prison he'd rather be in or something like that.
He's got a lot of hope right now.
If we strip that, perhaps or open up.
Yeah.
They said without someone coming forward, it's going to be difficult.
to make an arrest.
But I'm confident that sooner or later something's going to happen.
This is an open case and far from being a dead case because they're talking about more murders.
They're talking about the fire bombings and all that kind of thing here.
They said, but this is from the newspaper.
But the Yahwehs shouldn't be admonished if one member did wrong on his own, Rubin said.
You don't indict the Catholic Church with the Pope if a member of the public.
has strayed.
So you don't want to indict the Pope if somebody from the church is straight.
No, but everyone in the Catholic Church doesn't live in a fucking warehouse.
Yeah.
You know, where one guy's allowed to tell you what to do and beat your children and fuck your wife and shit.
That's the difference.
Not every believer is at the Vatican.
Yeah.
They all lived at the Vatican.
You said it.
The old Vatican.
The old Vatican.
The sequel.
I like that comic Kathleen, Madican.
Madican.
Madican.
Yeah, she's good.
That again.
So May 27, 1987, from the Miami News, defense attorney asked to quit the Yahweh case.
Essentially, for the love of God, please don't make me do this.
I want out.
I would like out.
He's saying irreconcilable differences over how the defense should be prepared.
Because if you're a defense attorney, you're going to say, say the cult made you do it.
You look way less bad.
and he's going to say, I'm not saying the cult made me do it.
They didn't do it.
I'm a goddamn, yeah.
So that's not good for fucking anybody, obviously, there.
He wants to divorce him.
He reconciled the differences.
Yeah, I'm sorry.
Of a lawyers say that before.
That's what they all say at the time.
They have irreconciled differences with their clients.
Yeah, that's, I think seven Saraboon lawyer said that beforehand.
So June 4th, 87, three Yahweh members,
not guilty in assault, two others get mistrial.
Oh, that's the headline here.
A Dade Circuit Court jury has found three members of the sect, not guilty of aggravated
assault, a decision they said, their lawyers said, quote, ought to change public opinion
about Yahwehs.
It should.
They're all good now.
Yeah.
He said, this means that people are going to have to change their opinions when they hear
the name Yahweh.
There's been so much adverse publicity based on the...
the Opelaca incident and the fact that Robert Rozier was accused of murder.
And that spilled over onto the Yahwehs.
Now they're distancing themselves just because one crazy guy committed murder.
Now they're looking at it.
I was like, we're all bad.
This is crazy.
Spilled over on us.
Spilled over.
Just a little splash.
You know, they were rifle tower and somebody and one of the guys was in the splash zone.
That's how it works.
Sometimes.
A little jizz on his sleeve.
The other guy's jizz might land on your balls.
You never know.
That's part of the fucking part.
of the danger here.
So, yeah, they said this ought
to change that. Each Yahweh ought
to be judged by his individual
conduct, and that's what we tried
to show at trial.
Their lawyer also said that the jury
reached its decision yesterday following a one-day
trial. They found
Isaiah Brown and two other defendants,
each named Israel, Israel.
Two guys?
There's four Israel
between the two of them?
Israel, fucking, Israel, twice,
squared over here.
Israel 2 squared here.
Both named Israel Israel, Israel.
You can't do that.
Not guilty of assault. They did find them guilty of being complete assholes and told
one of them they have to get a different first name.
Sorry, you can't have that.
The jurors were unable to agree about verdicts,
Nap Folly Israel and Louis Mac.
Well, he hasn't changed his name yet.
That just sounds like a black dude from Cleveland.
I'm thinking to Kevin Mack, the running back.
That's why I said,
somehow my brain connected that to the Cleveland Browns.
Was Bernie not Midwestern?
Wasn't he from Chicago?
Bernie Mac?
Maybe.
Maybe, possibly.
But Kevin Mack made that fumble that got the Broncos into the Super Bowl, so you should remember him, too.
He's in the Hall of Fame, any?
Who?
Kevin Mac?
Fuck, no.
No?
Nah.
There's a Mac that's in the Hall of Fame.
Maybe.
I think he was played for the Browns.
Maybe, maybe.
I just found out yesterday, by the way, this is completely neither here nor there,
but fuck it, who cares.
It's sports.
It's sports related.
It is.
The very first NFL draft pick, the guy who was drafted number one overall.
I think it was 1936 when they did the first draft.
He was the Heisman trophy winner, and he didn't sign with the Bears who picked him because he was going, quote, into the rubber business.
Wow.
That's how shitty.
And they interviewed him years later, and he said, well, they were paying like a hundred bucks.
a game back then.
He said, and I asked for 25,000 for two seasons.
So 12-5 of season.
And they were like, we're not giving you 12-5 for both seasons.
You're out of your fucking mind.
And he said, well, I'll just go into the rubber business.
And that's what he did for the rest of his life.
And that's the same guy that the Heisman Trophy is modeled after.
Really?
That's who that is, is the first.
Charles Goodyear.
Yes.
No, it's, what the hell's his name?
I wrote it down.
He didn't make a big stamp in the rubber business, James?
No, he's, he's, he's,
Nitto or Falcon or something?
Jay Berwanger.
I don't, I don't have any burwangers on my car.
That's what you don't have a nice enough car for the Burwangers, neither of us do.
Those are on those.
You only go on fucking rolls.
Like Italian supercars, they put those on.
You can't get those.
Anyway, they go on to say,
the five men were charged in connection with the October beating of Thomas Robinson,
37, over $50 worth of roofing tar stolen from the Aweys.
50 bucks they beat them.
According to police, about 30 sect members surrounded Robinson,
whom they suspected of stealing from their Liberty City Temple of Love,
their big warehouse.
The sect members, quote,
prevented Robinson from running away until police came,
said the lawyer, their lawyer,
who contended Robinson was injured,
quote,
because he tried to run away and fought with them.
Oh, he shouldn't have run.
They wouldn't have fought.
I'm sorry.
I don't care if the cops are coming or not.
30 crazy religious fucking psychopaths are surrounding me.
I'm trying to punch my way out and you're going to have to, I'm getting out of there.
I'm not going to stay.
I just found out the police are not paid to protect you.
That's the other thing.
I'm running.
That out of small town murder there.
Yeah.
So I'm getting the hell out of there.
Two days after the stolen tar incident, that's when Robert Rozier was arrested for the murder and stuff.
So they're saying that's what caused this.
It's because of the murder.
Then they just started charging these, you know, sect members all over.
the place. June 11th, 1987, Yahweh follower gets boot after accusation of blackmail, is the
headline, the self-proclaimed son of God and founder of the controversial Yahweh religion on
Wednesday accused a follower of, uh, follower jailed on murder charges of trying to blackmail
the sect and banished him from the church. No longer here, because you're blackmailing me.
Guess who that was? Oh, that's Robert Rozier. Yeah.
Robert Rozier is accused at this point of four murders, and apparently, according to them, called Yahweh offices with, quote, a threat of extortion in blackmail in an effort to have the sect find him a new lawyer.
Yahweh Ben Yahweh said during a news conference.
So rather than trying to get this guy help because he committed a murder for you, obviously, they're trying to say that he's disconnected from us completely.
and he's trying to blackmail us and all this shit.
Meanwhile, he's saying, hey, I'm fucking sitting here for you.
Get me a goddamn lawyer.
Unless you want me to fucking start saying what the fuck really happened.
This is another level of turning your back on someone.
It's literally demonizing them.
Yeah, it's turning your ass cheek on him.
Never mind you on your cheek.
This is fucking.
Showing him, your hole.
You're showing him your butt hole.
Then he said, we stood before the world with him in his proclaimed innocence.
We offered Robert Rozier the divine.
choice of Yahweh, lawyer Ellis Rubin.
That's the divine choice of Yahweh.
God picked Ellis Rubin as your lawyer, so you got to go with that.
It's one thing if you get like assigned a public defender, but this is God assigning
you a public defender.
You got to take it.
He said, he rejected our choice, so be it.
Okay, because Rubin's the guy who got the last five guys off in the last case.
He was talking shit.
And he was throwing Robert Rozier under the bus.
Right.
He was his lawyer and he was saying, just because my other client's a murderer, doesn't mean to take it out on these guys.
Yeah.
So this, they were, this is in the works well before this.
They know what they're doing.
Yeah.
Rozier implied he might strike a plea bargain with prosecutors and, quote, this is according to Yahweh, quote, make up fictitious charges against us unless furnished with a new legal help.
Rubin, the lawyer, said that apparently was extortion.
I immediately took the three people who heard the threat to the state.
attorney's office and they gave a statement.
Conveniently, there was three people that, you know, are willing to do this.
Yeah.
They could, anti-corroborate?
Just speak against what he's going to say.
Well, say that he tried to extort us, basically.
Well, in other words, it's not extortion if you're both in a criminal enterprise.
If you go to your other person you're in a crime with and say, hey, if you don't give me more of the cut, I'll tell someone that it's not extortion anymore.
You're all in a criminal act.
It doesn't matter.
Yeah.
So it's not extortion to say, I will say the rest of our crimes if you don't get me a new fucking lawyer.
That is just negotiation between criminals at that point, isn't it?
It's just scumbags figuring out who's the bigger scumbag.
That's it.
It's scumbaggoying up a ladder of scum.
That's all we're talking about here.
Ruben withdrew as Roseir's attorney a few weeks ago because the two disagreed on legal strategy.
Yeah.
Ruben said, quote, I told him he's a car.
I'm a trial lawyer. I don't tell him how to build a cabinet and he shouldn't tell me
at a run a jury trial. Rubin said he did not know if state the state's attorney would bring
extortion charges against Rozier. Are you kidding me? No is the answer. That's ridiculous.
Yeah. The prosecutor handling the matter did not return telephone calls to the press.
Then he said, this is Yahweh himself speaking now. So this is the Lord, according to him speaking.
Yeah, this is the Lord's words, James.
Should we raising our arms for this?
Oh, it was something.
Should I put music under it of some kind?
Yeah.
Should I, not in their own, in their own heavenly words?
Yeah, yeah, hold your hands up.
There you go, Jimmy.
Hold your hand up high.
Maybe do one of these.
Maybe do one of these like they do.
Wave them back and forth.
Yeah, that's a nice one.
Wave them slowly back and forth.
And then when I'm done speaking, start just rambling and aimly in times.
Running around.
Just going, blah, blah, blah, fall on the ground and shit.
And make believe that that really affected you.
the room.
Run around the room,
waving your arms,
acting crazy,
falling down.
Those are my favorite ones.
The more ridiculous it is,
the funnier it is to me,
too.
That's the way I look at that shit.
The tongues thing,
I'll never take that serious
because they know.
That's the dumbest thing
I've ever seen.
And they know it.
Anyone who believes
that someone is,
that you're crazy.
You're crazy.
Yeah,
you're acting crazy is what you're doing.
That's all silly.
But the running around the room,
room, that's the guy I love the most.
That's funny.
That's just funny.
It's just so fun.
That's just fun.
Maybe he'll have a snake.
Maybe not.
So overcome, James.
He can't stand still.
That's all.
It's the spirit of the Lord is in him, Jimmy.
What's he supposed to do?
Think about that.
You know?
It's never a guy that should be running.
Look how people act when humans in them.
They move around, squirm all sorts.
Imagine the Lord's in you.
Oh, boy, you're going to have to run around the room.
Never mind.
Make moaning noises.
and gyrate.
I love that.
It's fucking hilarious.
Robert Rozier has now proven he is one of, oh, this is Yahweh.
Robert Rozier has now proven that he is one among the many black devils that has come
along pretending to believe in Yahweh and then sought to destroy the work of Yahweh.
Yeah.
So now he's a devil status he's reached now.
Yeah.
So they said excommunications in a short excommunications ceremony,
Yahweh opened a black spiral notebook marked Lamb's Book of Life that he got for 89 cents
at a Walgreens in the school supply aisle.
The composition notebook.
Yep, the black and white jobber there.
Yeah.
Yeah.
He got a fucking a pack of, a pack of those, were they scripto pens, those shitty pen tech,
one of those crappy ones.
The clear bicks, I think he went there.
Yeah.
They're efficient.
It says ink pen.
Yeah.
Opened it up.
Genuine ink pen.
We were just making jokes about genuine leather off the air.
So it's a fun callback just for us.
It's the kind of leather belt I buy.
You look at it and you can't pronounce it that.
You have to say genuine because you know it's a piece of shit.
We were both discussing how, you know, we do pretty decent for ourselves and all that.
Good all right.
We do our, we travel and do our live shows and Netflix shows.
You know, we can afford to live now at least.
We're not poor like we were.
I can buy a belt.
We both have belts that we got like when we started this show for like Ross for $8.
Like both of us have these shit belts that are like falling apart.
We're like, what's wrong with us?
We're not adults.
Genuine leather, but it's pronounced genuine.
It's genuine.
It's genuine leather.
All right then.
That's a damn nice belt.
It's a damn fine belt I got.
I could hang myself with this thing if things don't go right.
It'll hold.
That's the genuine leather.
That's really what it's used to.
That's why you want genuine leather.
You don't want things snapping on you
when you put too much pressure on it.
My waist isn't going to make it pop,
but maybe my neck will, you never know.
It's amazing.
So he opened up the Lamb's Book of Life
to page 20 of a section marked Miami
and crossed out Rosier's name with black ink.
Gone.
Gone out of the fucking rolls.
That's how you get excommunicated here.
One dash through the notebook.
Done.
Through a fucking seventh grader's history.
notebook and it's gone.
The Hebrew Israelites
called Yahwehs after the Old Testament's
name for God professed to be
the only true descendants of the biblical
tribe of Judah.
The sect began in the 1960s
traces its roots as we know back there.
Okay. Good
news is, this all
sounds crazy and the world is falling apart,
but the good news is right under that,
thank fuck, there is a
hush puppies' shoes sale
for Father's Day. Now that is something.
The other hush puppies.
The other hush puppies.
Yep.
Tampa's only, this is at the Tampa Bay Center,
Tampa's only exclusive hush puppies shoe store.
It's all hush puppies.
It's all the time.
Yeah, 2490 for their pair of hush puppies,
regular $33.
Yeah, at J.C's pennies.
Yeah, in gray brown, brushed pigskin,
and quote, hound apostrophe dog.
Not hound dog.
Hound dog.
All right.
June 29, 1987,
Yahweh sect acquires $5 million in property is a headline.
God damn, they got that much money.
Everyone has to give them all his money.
The Yahweh religious sect here has steadily acquired a $5 million portfolio of land,
rundown apartments, and motels.
They said that they have at least $4.7 million worth of property.
in 11 transactions since August 1983,
according to public property records,
and where the sect once bought one or two properties a year,
they're now picking up one or two a month.
Yeah.
A Broward County Sheriff's detective,
Eugene McLeod,
who's been monitoring the Yahweh's door-to-door fundraising efforts,
said they want to be as financially independent as possible.
In order to grow, they need money,
and real estate is the best investment going.
Okay.
Property records show that the sect headquartered at the fortress-like Temple of Love in Liberty City owes at least $3.2 million for the parcels.
Mortgage payments alone come to $31,726 a month.
A month.
A month just to keep their properties that they have.
Oh, fuck.
Now, Manuel Circon, who sold the Yahwehs a building and six vacant lots for $530,000, or $530,000, said,
They send us a check every month.
Their checks are always on time and they're always good.
The state of Florida used to rent from us and the rent was always five months behind.
So he said I'd rather let a cult use it than the state of Florida because they pay on time.
See, that's what's fucked up about America right here.
Sure, they're a cult that murders people, but those checks come every month.
I'd much rather rent to them.
That is wild.
They clear.
That's crazy.
That's a crazy number for a monthly payment when it's just $3 million a mortgage that $30,000 a month times $10,000.
Yeah.
That's a year.
They're paying $360,000 a year.
Interest rates were wild in the 80s, too.
That's unbelievable.
Like people complain now, like they would kill their mother for an interest rate.
Fuck yeah.
What it is now.
The 80s was crazy interest rates.
12% and shit like that.
Yeah.
Yeah. So they said the sect last month paid $475,000 for the dilapidated Elks Motel on a depressed strip of Biscayne Boulevard.
Temple members are now busy cleaning and painting the old motel for use as homes for members and their guests.
Yeah.
The quaint orderly renovation comes in sharp contrast to the violence that punctuated the Yahweh's takeover of an Opelaca apartment complex.
That's the one that Robert is sitting in jail for.
The sect has responded to the bad publicity by scaling back its door-to-door solicitations after the fire bombing incident in Del Rey, the dog-kicking firebombing shit.
The secretive group has said little about their expansion and how they fund it.
In past, recruits have turned over their personal property to the temple.
Some Yahwehs have surrendered wages from outside jobs or sold handmade crafts.
Former members say they were expected to bring back at least.
$50 a day or face disciplinary action.
If you don't bring back 50 today.
50. Yeah. Gee, what does that sound like?
Yeah.
I mean, where's my money, bitch?
Like, that's crazy. Wow. So you go out there, sell some trinkets, suck some dicks, whatever
you got to do for it. $50.
Just bring that 50. Yeah.
Wow. Leo Sandin, a former professor at Florida State University and an expert on American
cults says the Yahweh's real estate acquisitions follow a pattern set by more than 20 years
ago by the black Muslims under Elijah Muhammad.
Yahweh, Ben Yahweh, born Hewlan Mitchell Jr., belonged to that group, and according to a former
member, subscribed to Muhammad's philosophy of self-help and racial hatred.
She says, quote, they share the classic black Muslim views about independence and
black control of their resources and institutions.
Now, she said, this person, by the way, once testified on behalf of the Yahwehs in a lawsuit
that determined whether they were a bona fide religion or not.
Hmm.
She said the Yahwehs have tried so far unsuccessfully to obtain tax-exempt status on some of
their properties for religious purposes.
Oh.
Oh, yeah.
Yeah.
They're following the fucking.
The Scientologists got that either.
They're like, hey, good idea.
Yeah.
It is fascinating that we are, that we are always shocked when they have the ideals of
another place.
And then they're like, oh, well, that person went there.
That's how they all do it.
Like even Manson, Helter Skelter was stolen.
All this shit was stolen.
Everybody picks up shit from everywhere.
Yeah.
You pick up shit.
And they lift it and then it's in the process of radicalization.
You've got to gather from things.
Every human's personality is made up of a grab bag of shit.
They've come through along the way.
A little bit of your parents, a little bit of that fucking, that kid you hung out with in the third grade that you thought was funny.
Whatever movies you've watched 100 times.
You had all this shit and it's a big ball.
that's your personality.
Why are we shocked when people like Manson go bad when every experience he had was bad?
And of course it's going to create a bad guy.
Yeah.
But they never want to look at that because they say if you look at that, then you're letting them off the hook.
It's like, no, how about say, okay, you're fucked up and we don't care, but how do we make that not happen more?
Yeah.
They just go, no, fuck all that.
We're concerned about your behavior now.
Never mind that you were, you know, whatever that constantly happened to Manson.
when we put him in prison we're pointing the finger at him if we put him in prison for the right reason then we all have to point it ourselves and that sucks nobody likes that at all that's why they never wanted to hear what happened to manson to make him like that or anybody else we're just using him as an example not defending manson we're just using him as the exact i gotta say you know hey listen not for nothing uh actually no you made some good points you know mansson fucking we're just using him as the figure
of someone who basically you got a dog, you brought it home, you kicked it and raped it
its entire life, and then let it out into the streets and went, that motherfucker bit somebody.
I can't believe it. How dare he? It's, you know, that's what happened. That happens with a ton of people
and we have the same reaction every time. How dare he? How could he have free will and not use it
to be a good person? Well, why would he? And we used to be only concerned about people until they turned
18 and then they can go fuck themselves. But now
it's just if they do something bad. They could be 12
and getting raped yesterday and they'll say, we'll charge
and he as an adult, mister.
We have to, James, because Charles Manson was
stealing cars when he was 13. That's what'll
happen. Next thing you know, we got dead
actresses everywhere. This is terrible.
Slaughtered unborn babies.
Next thing you know, Polish director has to
fuck a child now. Now that's what this caused.
Do you understand?
Yeah.
A hairdresser is going to be almost hanged.
Yeah, almost.
hard to get him up.
They really did.
They weren't a real sturdy stout group.
They needed one guy that they just fed like hamburgers and shit that could really anchor a fucking noose if you had to.
They had to put their waifs.
Yeah.
In the middle of the desert.
What were they even eating out there?
Garbage.
They would go scavenge, remember?
They would scavenge the supermarket dumpsters and all that shit and bring back what they wanted.
They were feeding each other like fucking Tiger King.
Pretty much.
Yeah.
God damn.
Yeah.
Pretty much.
with a big bulldozer.
That's how they'd get it in there.
And he'd go, all right.
Pick away.
July 9, 87,
Yahweh's purchase crack complex.
A Yahweh spokeswoman
said the controversial religious sect
has bought an inner city apartment complex
termed by police
to be one of the most notorious
crack cocaine houses and dade.
Why don't these drug dealers
start shooting these idiots?
I don't understand, too.
Right.
And this, I root for the drug dealers.
in this one. If it's drug dealers
versus religious lunatics who are
also killing people, I root for drug dealers
all day. I understand capitalism.
I don't get what the fuck these idiots are doing.
I don't get that. There's bodies in the wake anyway,
yeah. Yeah, I get someone
selling crack for money. That makes sense.
You know, need money. Crack
gets money. This shit makes no
sense to me why anybody would believe any of this
poor shit. There's no money coming
from this for them. It's all going to him.
Like, what is the point?
It's crazy. The Yahweh's plan
to renovate Saxon Park Apartments,
a two-story 50-unit complex
at 6201,
Northeast 2nd Street,
said the spokesperson,
Judith Israel.
The Yahweh's attorney,
Ellis Rubin,
that's the guy that threw Rozier
under the bus,
said the sale was welcomed
by neighbors and the police.
This is the problem.
Yeah.
They're like,
oh, they'll do better than this.
No, these people are fucking nuts.
This is a lateral move at best,
you know?
You're just parking.
a thing there that's going to keep all of it, but behind the walls.
You're still going to have to investigate eventually.
Yeah, they're still going to be doing horrible shit.
They're like, I would rather basically keeping people hostage and stealing all their money
than have crackheads running around.
It's unsightly.
You know what I mean?
At least they do this behind closed doors.
Yeah, at least none of them will probably rob my kid on the way to the bus stop.
That's what they're looking at it like.
But they'll try to recruit them, which is way worse.
I'd rather have to be robbed and recruited into a psycho cult.
So the Yahweh's attorney said that it was welcomed.
The police have thanked us for coming in there, Rubin said.
We cleaned out a den of iniquity, which we do whenever we go to buy a property.
See, if you have a shit property, we come in, we're going to clean it right up.
Miami police and county officials said today they hope the Yahwehs, who strictly forbid the use of drugs among their members,
will put an end to blatant drug sales and run down housing conditions at the complex.
Yeah, they'll just have their fucking hostages there instead that they're kept there.
This is a clean community, huh?
Now it's going to be, yeah.
Yeah, the drugs aren't allowed.
I mean, that's a thing.
I'm sure some people are doing them.
I mean, they're human.
They're human for Christ's sake.
I mean, you're not supposed to fuck kids either, but plenty of priests and goddamn pastors and shit are doing that.
They're still living, yeah, a life that most in the religion would frown upon.
Over the past five to six years, the Saxon consistently has been one of the Miami's most rated drug houses, said Miami police major Bill Fleming.
Drug dealers and users and prostitutes have frequented the complex, he said.
The man believed to be the previous owner, Juliannecron, declined comment when contacted by reporters.
The Saxon apartments are well known for their really bad physical condition, said the acting supervisor of Metro's Minimum Housing Task Force.
So, yeah, they said that the Saxon complex is one of several buildings singled out by the state's attorney's office for an adequate electrical wiring, plumbing, leaking roof, peeling paint, and scattered debris on its premises.
You know, condemned.
You know, shitholes that are condemned, you know, crack houses.
There it is.
There fits.
They said, if they bought the Saxon, I hope they're going to make the necessary repairs.
Yeah.
They said that this guy said he had seen other apartment buildings and dade, purchased and rented.
by the Yahwehs.
He said, judging from what they've done in the past, they do a good job of repairs.
Okay.
So July 18, 1987, Robert Rozier, who was jailed on four murder charges, has been accused in plotting to get $20,000 to break out of the jail.
What?
Rozier talked with other inmates about the escape plan, which involved trying to
trying to smuggle clothes and a gun to use in the breakout.
Oh, my God.
Rozier was charged with attempted escape and conspiracy.
So you can add that to his four murder charges.
He's trying to, Jesus Christ.
July 22nd, 1987, two members of the Yahweh sect plead no contest to charges they beat a man
caught taking roofing paper from their Temple of Love.
$50, yeah.
$50 guy here.
as part of the plea agreement between defense lawyer Ellis Rubin and the prosecutor,
and this, they were probably told, even if they weren't involved in it, you two are taking a plea deal,
so this will get out of the papers and we could shut the fuck up about it.
So as part of this there, they sentenced Earl Collins and James Mack to two years of community control,
which is house arrest, and each ordered to pay $1,000 to the victim.
Robinson had told the prosecutors a group of the Yahweh members attacked him after he picked up roofing paper outside their head.
orders. Okay. August 5th, 1987, members of the Yahweh sect to open motel in Miami. Now they're
going to run a fucking motel. Is it this one? This is insane. The controversial members here
are expanding their business interests by opening the Yahweh economy in. A motel emphasizing
family values and tough rules. It's a motel. I'm not staying under your crazy rules.
Welcome to the Tough Rules Hotel.
Yeah, there's no rules in a hotel.
No.
You want to shit in the middle of the bed.
It's a hotel. Do it.
I don't wouldn't do it.
Go ahead.
People do crazy shit.
I've paid for the right to jizz on the curtains.
You've paid for the right to do whatever you want in that room.
Tough rules.
Yahweh Ben Yahweh, the sex leader and self-proclaimed son of God here, said the former Elks Motel will reopen for business under a new name and new management in two weeks.
He said the motel will maintain family values and will not go along with the more casual rules of some of the other establishments.
You know, economy in.
What are the, there are no rules.
Right.
Go in your room and do whatever you want.
That doesn't set it on fire.
Who cares?
And the lower, they're calling this an economy.
So a cheap place.
A motel.
The cheaper the hotel, the less fucking rules.
The less rules.
Yeah.
This is crazy.
I don't know what the more.
casual rules. The motel will not
admit prostitutes, unmarried
couples. Okay, goodbye.
What are you? What is
the 30s? What are you talking about? Unmarried
couples. Tell them how to fucking live.
Who brings their marriage license
with them to prove it?
I guess your idea if you have the same last name.
Maybe that's a lot of people don't have the same
last name. Not in the 80s.
Oh, yeah, I guess you're probably right.
This is 87. Now it's a more common thing now.
Yeah, in the 80s, most people had
and they probably wouldn't want that anyway.
Some uppity woman won't take her husband's last night.
You two can't stay here.
She's not going to submit to God.
Also, and also drug users, which I don't know how you would know if someone was a drug user.
And I guess you can just see someone think they're a scumbag and say they're drug users.
You can't come in here.
I fill this out and piss him this cup.
Yeah.
And women, you better dress modestly or you're going to be called a prostitute, not admitted.
Right.
guests will have to vow to not use their rooms for prostitution and not to smoke or drink.
No drinking on the property.
Oh, my God.
This is a place to drink yourself to death, a shitty motel in Miami.
A hundred percent of the women that were checking into the hotel we were, we stayed out in Detroit.
Shit face.
Would have been confused with being a prostitute.
And drug users and drunk.
All at the same time.
They were partying so hard.
They were having fun.
They were having a great.
fucking time. Tiddy's popping out.
Oh, it was nuts.
So they said the guests will have rules, but then so will the motel keepers.
They must not discuss religion or politics.
They said, quote, we're not interested in trying to convert anyone.
Strictly a business matter.
Well, I like that.
That's the only rule I'm into.
That's fine.
That should be every rule.
If you went to motel and they try to convert you, that's crazy.
I don't like it the goddamn fucking Bible's in the drawer.
I'll ask for one if I need it. Thanks.
Have you noticed that there's now the Book of Mormon in all these hotels?
They're the ones that put them all in there, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
I'm sure you don't open that drawer.
No, no, no, but I know that they did that.
They distributed all that shit, but yeah, I'm not open to the fucking drawer.
The last 10 of Staten, I've seen it.
That's crazy, yeah.
I know that. That was years ago.
They started doing that shit.
The motel they bought for $475,000 has been renovated by them and paid contractors.
The lodge has freshly painted paint.
in beige rooms with new furniture, wall-to-wall carpets, televisions with free HBO.
You bet. What?
Free H. They're going to be whacking it like crazy in there. There's going to be a movie with titties on it two in the morning, and then what happens?
You put HBO on. Put a religious shirt or hotel and then have HBO?
Have HBO. That was the shit back then.
Heathen box office, Jim.
That's a heathen box office.
Put a David Cross on Mr. Show. He say, get out of my HBO, Hebrew Box.
office.
That's what he said.
He's playing a
militia member.
Yeah.
Be in out and getting out of my land.
He goes,
Jew run media.
Hebrew box office.
Get off my land.
Hebrew.
With his big beard
and his pot belly.
Yeah.
I love him.
I love Mr.
show.
That's so great.
Sorry, I've been rewatching it lately.
It's funny.
Yeah?
So every once every couple of years,
I'll throw that on and go through
them real quick.
They're so goddamn funny.
I start,
anything that I watch,
that's a series or seasons and episodes,
I start watching it and I fall asleep, inevitably,
and then the thing runs through all these.
I don't know where you are. I don't know what the fuck I've seen.
I've seen it all in my sleep.
And parts of it here and there starting and stopping.
So the Yahweh leader said the hotel will charge between $30 and $50 a night,
slightly more than other motels on this boulevard.
There's cheaper ones?
Much.
I mean, it is 87.
The hotel will offer, quote,
first-class luxury rooms
at an economy price, he said.
He's got marketing slogans.
First class.
By the way, I'm God.
Imagine God was writing ad slogan,
ad fucking copy.
For an econolog.
For an economy fucking hotel
that doesn't allow hookers.
The sect had been described
as a secretive militant organization
with strict rules and harsh punishments,
but Yahweh Ben-Jawa said
people should have nothing to fear
from the Yahwehs. He said they're not a hate group and they try to get along with people.
What the fuck, basically? August 8th, 1987, sect branching out into tourism business.
Oh, Jesus Christ. Yeah, he opened the economy in. Yahweh says that the Elks Motel is now reopened
and they're ready to go and they're going to do more after this if this works.
Okay.
September 27th, 1987, from the Miami Herald,
woman's son killed as car and truck collide.
Oh, no.
Okay.
A Bradenton woman and her 13-year-old son,
among a group of Yahweh sect members,
returning home from the Temple of Love in Miami,
died Sunday when their small car collided head on with a tractor trailer.
Fuck.
Holy shit.
A Peter built.
What the...
Imagine what that looked like.
I don't want to.
I don't even want to.
That's gross.
Seven miles south of South Bay.
She died too?
Yeah, the mother and child whose English names were given as Araday Smith and Zori Devon Smith.
This is 29 and 13, they are, died at the scene of the accident on State Road 27.
The driver, 17-year-old Rufus Laverne Smith was comatose in critical condition at Glade's General Hospital, the driver of the car, not the truck.
Yeah.
Do that math.
29 and 13.
That was a poor 16-year-old mother.
15, 15 pregnant probably.
They said, we're having the usual trouble getting him somewhere that will take him,
is what they said for some reason.
Oh, they're like hospitals are turning you away because you're in robes.
What the fuck out of here?
Renard Washington 10, the fourth passenger in the late model Buick Skyhawk,
suffered comparatively minor fractures to the left leg collarbone and shoulder area.
The doctor said, all four passengers were related,
according to the Florida Highway Patrol.
They were capitulated.
It's an old newspaper.
So there's a line on, Jesus, catapulted is what I'm looking at.
They were catapulted from the Royal Blue Buick
onto the highway as the car collided with the truck.
They were shot from the fucking car onto the highway.
Was it a convertible?
I don't know.
Maybe they shot through the window, through the windshield.
I'm not sure.
Fuck.
Either way, thrown.
The Buick was destroyed. No shit.
Yeah.
The truck, an empty Newman Oil Company tanker, lucky that was empty.
It would be even heavier.
Headed for Port Everglades, careened into a shallow canal on the side of the road.
The driver, Roger Weaver, 41, got out of the cab on his own power.
Yeah, he hit a goddamn Buick.
He's fine.
He had a speed bump.
Yeah.
And he's a mess forever, too, now.
Oh, he's going to be horrified.
He saw a child fly through the air, for Christ's sake.
He was treated for minor injuries and released.
Weaver explained that the Buick, which was heading.
north had swerved off the road.
Then as the driver apparently tried to bring the car under control, he overcorrected
and swerved into the oncoming semi.
So they went off the road on the right, overcorrected to the left, like Clark
Rizwald falling asleep while he's driving essentially, but head on into a fucking semi.
Because that's the 17-year-olds drive, and they tend not to be the best most skilled
drivers at that age.
Yeah, they don't know the feel of the car.
Not like that.
They said the Buick was the first of three cars carrying a family of Yahwehs back from the headquarters of Miami, back to their home in Bradenton.
While doctors were treating the critically injured Rufus Smith, family members waited and grieved.
And a woman who identified herself as Garvila Israel said, it's Yahweh's will.
Yahweh is so righteous, so just.
He is a beautiful God.
He's a merciful God.
trust him.
This is just Yawai's real.
A Mack truck just killed a family and she's like,
Yahweh said so.
Yahweh wanted a Mack truck to obliterate a child.
That's what he wants, because he's just.
Sometimes that's how you get more people to believe.
I mean, he's very righteous.
What do you want?
That's how it works.
Wow.
September 21, 1987,
headline is,
don't be naughty at a Yahweh motel.
Oh, yeah.
Oh, boy.
They said a common practice among cult members.
or SEC members, the woman would not give her name or to provide any other information.
She referred the calls to the headquarters, which referred the calls to Ellis Rubin.
So they went to ask questions of the check-in person.
They said we don't answer questions.
Go to hear, Temple headquarters.
They call Temple headquarters who give you their lawyer's number.
Hi, Concierge has some questions.
Will you talk to our lawyer?
You've got to go through everybody, though.
We get to the lawyer, which is one way.
of taking the wind out of half the people's sales.
Where's the nearest cheese steak?
Well, I'll give you a phone number.
Yeah.
So they said the motel will maintain their family values, and they're still saying that.
So October 4, 1987, daughter of shooting victims, sues Opelaka in Yahweh case.
So now the city's getting sued, because remember, there's the big controversy that
the one cop wanted to solve what was going on, and the other cop told him no, and then
murders happen because of it.
Yeah.
They wanted to arrest Rozier before the murder happened.
So, yeah, the police, they say, of the lawsuit says, police violated the civil rights of a man killed last year when they tried to evict the tenants here.
So the Opelopopopalaka police actions were according to the lawsuit irrational and discriminatory and exposed the residents to imminent danger.
It sounded an awful lot like that anyway.
So, yeah, this goes on.
The suit seeks $5 million in punitive damages from the Yahwehs for their reckless disregard for human life and the rights and the rights and safety of Anthony Brown.
That's why it feels like they excommunicated Robert Rozier was to try to separate themselves from financial trouble is what it seems like to me.
They said, we just received a copy of the lawsuit a couple days ago and two of my attorneys are.
reviewing it, said Ellis Rubin, the lawyer representing the Awe's. We will respond to it in court.
So people are dead. There's probably going to be wrongful death, and we don't want anything to do with that.
You don't want anything to do with that. That's not good. That's going to bring everybody down.
It's so expensive. What won't bring everybody down, Jimmy. Oh, shit.
Is a new restaurant here open in Miami Lakes, Granny Field Goods. That's not an old lady jackshack.
That's not a, yeah, no, this is a natural.
food's restaurant serving lunch and dinner.
Dr. Fieldgood's grandma.
Granny Fieldgood.
Yeah.
That's a nice place for comfort foods.
Listen, I got Coke.
I got fucking, you know, I got junk.
I got whatever you need.
But if you're looking for a real nice, healthy meal, you should go see my grandma.
She's got a covered.
Hell of a fucking meatloaf.
I'll tell you what.
The things she can do with asparagus, you'd blow your mind.
October 22nd, 1987.
Yahweh's try to calm chamber fears,
saying we invest in future,
sect leader declares.
And there is a big picture.
Yahweh Ben Yahweh is welcome to the Greater Biscayne Boulevard
Chamber of Commerce meeting by President Jim Angleton.
Big handshake.
This guy, big smile on his face.
They love these guys because they're cleaning it up.
Oh, that is so dangerous.
It is.
But also think about the 80s,
all the just say no shit.
Basically, if you've ever touched a drug, you're a piece of shit and deserve to die.
So, even crazy.
Even crazy cults fucking get to be better than you.
It's fucking crazy.
Yeah, they said the chamber asked the Yahwehs to speak at the meeting to smooth merchants' concerns about the controversial sex answer and answer questions about the group's business goals.
So they said, we received flack from several for accepting their membership, the president Angleton said.
there's been many questions about the group.
They have proven to be good neighbors.
Just good neighbors.
They said two more inns are in the works since they've opened the one.
Third and fourth hotels to be called the Yahweh 79th Street Motel
and the Yahweh Resort are now being renovated.
Yahweh is really getting into it.
Yeah, he likes to put his name on shit.
It's funny occult leaders love to put their name on everything.
It's one of those things.
Yeah.
I love it.
Stamp that.
stamp the brand yeah well why the fuck else does he want to be a cult leader except worship me yeah you know
that's just yaweh ben yaweh's whole fucking his whole his whole thing so brand yeah i my name is the is the god
i'm the god like that's wild uh chamber members asked yahweh ben yaweh to explain the groups religious
and political beliefs stress habits and business dealings and plans for their hotels
Yahweh answered questions easily, often making jokes.
He told members that Yahweh follows,
that Yahwehs follow the God Yahweh
and believe in both Jewish Torah and the Bible.
The primary, you know, whatever's more convenient at the time.
Which everyone fits.
You figure out of the two of them,
we'll figure some shit to justify whatever we're doing at some point, right?
That's those two pretty big books.
We'll take the one that works best.
Yeah, that's what I mean.
You go, well, look in this book and figure it out.
They said that Yahweh said that he's main purposes to motivate blacks to become moral, ethical, and upright, and free from drugs and prostitution.
He said that business has not been great, but the group hopes to have an open house next month to attract customers.
Who stays at motels?
People who drink, smoke, fuck women, unmarried, whether they're paying for it or not.
That's what motels are for.
Family's on vacation.
And men on business.
That's it.
And what kind of a shit business if you can't even afford an H?
And yeah, and if you're staying at this, this is not good.
This is people in trouble.
This is people in trouble.
Yeah, families aren't going on vacation to stay at some motel in a shitty neighborhood in Miami.
I would think, I would hope.
I would say, don't go on that vacation.
It's not worth it.
You can't afford it.
You can't afford it.
They said, our motels may not be full today, but I'm willing to invest in the long run.
We as a group are willing to make the sacrifices that are necessary.
We're losing money today so Biscayne Boulevard can make millions tomorrow.
Tomorrow.
It's an investment in the future.
It's in the future here.
They said, we had all kinds of people from all nationalities and they love how we pamper them.
We're not prejudiced.
We're open to all people.
All people unless you're a prostitute, unmarried couple, or drug user, potential guests sign a moral code before they can register and get a room.
That's unbelievable.
Nope. They said, we've had some obvious prostitutes try to check in. We don't allow it. We turn them away. We won't compromise our principles for a dollar.
Obvious prostitutes consists of what?
And ladies would dildos in their back pockets.
Yeah, did they proposition you?
Right.
I'd like a room and I'll give you a blowjob for 20 bucks. Unless they said that, how do you know they're a prostitute?
What's an obvious prostitute? A footlong, like, band of condoms hanging out of the side of her.
skirt. Is that how they found out? Coming out of her purse.
Yahweh Ben Yahweh said the sect hopes to add more
properties to the depressed boulevard.
And they said, as we gain more funds, it will be
our delight.
Our delight.
To buy these shit properties. He said, I think some of the
ideas I had about them were incorrect,
said Dan Kinsley, manager of easy TV rentals on North
81st Street. So he went in there and
bullshitted everybody in the go, no, I guess they're fine.
Well, he also put a whole bunch of TVs in these places,
and he probably, that guy's probably thrilled with him.
No shit, yeah.
Here's a, from November 87, musical message.
A Yahweh disciple wants a pop singer, uses his musical background
to shed a little light on the religious group.
Field pop singer, okay.
Prince Gideon Israel used to be a famous pop singer under another name.
Prince?
In the mid, no.
Yeah, formerly known as.
Yeah.
It is Cornelius Brothers and Sister Rose, apparently.
And my cousin Ian, who is fucking the most into music of anybody I've ever met,
said they were damn good.
Really?
Yeah.
They said by the mid-70s, he went into a seclusion with a self-proclaimed son of God
and was not heard of again in the music industry.
Today, Gideon is trying to move back into the industry to shed a little light on the religious group that replaced his career.
As it did at the beginning of the year, in announcing plans for a chain of grocery stores,
the Yahweh sect is again allowing the world to peek inside its white walls.
This time, the peephole is in the Broward County, quote,
the slice of life scene, Yahweh style, the musical musings of Gideon.
Love Train, a nine-song album released this month by Hanger 18 Records,
is the first product of the Hollywood-based recording studio that's being offered for public
consumption.
Gideon said, I didn't write this just for the Yahwehs.
He said, I'm singing the truth.
It's music that your children can listen to.
Gideon is the mastermind behind what the Yahwehs think will soon be a booming music enterprise.
Yeah.
This is Hollywood, Florida, probably.
Yeah, yeah, Hollywood, Florida.
This, by the way, is the one thing that could possibly bring them down.
Nothing has completely bankrupted more athletes, fucking act.
People like that who then are trying to be a record entrepreneur.
That just breaks everybody.
Entrepreneur record, fuck, any musical.
Just anything musically.
Yeah.
Watch that broke documentary on ESPN.
Like every one of those guys is like,
I put a music studio in my house to try to get a record label off the ground,
and now they're on an up documentary called Broke.
It's not a good sign.
Bad sign.
Yeah.
The recording studio at 5800 Mayo Boulevard or Street, Hollywood.
is to be opened to the public soon and a second larger studio to be opened in Dania.
Plans are also underway to take on other Yahweh acts under the Hanger 18 name.
Wow.
Well, Gideon will eventually take his act on tour.
The album is available at Yahweh run stores and Dade in Broward counties,
and the group is working on getting it distributed locally,
even though record, or even through record stores.
The Yahwehs want to distribute the album nationally eventually.
Wow.
For Gideon, the album and the plan tour mean a return to the business he dropped out of more than a decade ago.
Known then as Carter Cornelius, Gideon hit the top of the charts in 1971 singing with his sister Rose and his brother Eddie as the Cornelius brothers and sister Rose, which is a very descriptive and accurate title for the group.
Yeah.
Two brothers and their sister Rose.
Treat her like a lady.
the group's hit that year,
featured Brother Eddie on lead vocals,
and was followed that year by too late to turn back now.
The group recorded a few lesser hits afterward,
but by 1974 was no longer a force on the charts.
Holy.
Two years later, Gideon disappeared from the music world.
He had gone into seclusion with Yahweh Ben-Jawi,
leader of the cult, of the sect.
I keep saying cult when it says sect.
I stepped out because I wanted to learn something different.
I had the style, but I didn't have any spiritual knowledge.
I didn't have any wisdom.
He said, last time I went out, I went out half-stepping.
Half-stepping's back again.
See?
Half-stepping is the weirdest fucking thing because it's got, it's got, we found out from a small-town murder episode.
Not only does it have a history in cowboys like 150 years ago saying that, but like black guys in cities say half-stepping in a completely different way.
Weird.
And it's the same thing.
So anyway, he said he went out half-step.
And this time it's a different situation because we've got our own everything.
Everything includes their own recording studio, which Gideon built and wired, their own label and their own publishing company and their own distribution company and their own promoters.
Holy shit.
That's a whole record label.
Yeah, it is.
Gideon wrote arranged and performed.
He played all the instruments, produced, engineered, and mastered the album himself and designed the cover.
the album cover even.
That's everything.
That's everything.
That is the Yahweh way, Gideon said.
And that, not a Yahweh sermon, is what people will get a glimpse of when they hear the record or see him perform, he said.
He said, I won't have a church.
I'm not a preacher.
I'm an entertainer.
I sing good.
I sing good.
Pointing to his white turban-like outfit here, it's okay.
I can't see it from the newspaper.
This is just my culture and belief.
he says.
That culture's come under fire in the past,
as the Awe's have been implicated
in several violent things, yada, yada, yada.
Gideon said the acts were done
by people trying to undermine the group.
Oh.
Yeah.
Despite the bad press,
Gideon says he thinks the album
will do well.
The controversy over the SEC
may even stir up greater interest
in the recordings,
and he says, quote,
we'll go platinum with it for sure.
Platinum.
No publicity is bad publicity.
Yeah, that is not good.
Yeah.
Platinum.
Platinum.
December 4th, you're not NWA.
This isn't going to help your fucking cause.
Like, oh, the cops are calling them out on stage and shit, so they're going to sell more albums.
That's not how this shit works.
We just think you're a weird cult.
December 4th, 87, another guy's in trouble here.
A man awaiting trial on charges of sexually assaulting two West Raleigh women received a sentence of life plus
50 years in prison.
That's a lot.
Fucking around after he was convicted of raping a woman in East Raleigh last December.
Rodney Kemp Jeter, like Derek, 22 of Raleigh, was given the maximum possible prison sentence by superior court judge here.
A jury deliberated only 16 minutes at the conclusion of a three-day trial.
I don't even know how you can make a, do a vote in 16 minutes.
Just to tear one sheet of paper into 12 squares would take half of that, wouldn't it?
I think they just open vote.
Everybody thinks they're guilty, right?
He's guilty, right?
We'll take a vote.
Now we're good.
Wow, 16 minutes before finding him guilty of first-degree rape and first-degree sexual assault in the attack on women who live near the Wake Medical Center.
So this is definitely North Carolina.
They said it's really satisfying to see him get what he deserves, assistant district attorney said in an interview.
I tried to make it easy for the jury, and I obviously succeeded.
He's a cocky son of a bitch this fucking...
I did something thought, and evidently that thought was correct.
I tried to be wonderful, and it turns out I am.
So, hey, problem solved.
I did it.
Isn't that great?
He said, Jeter testified he was at his aunt's home when the rape occurred.
Police fingerprint analysis or analysts testified that they had found Jeter's print on an address
book belonging to the women.
Prince were also found on the window ledges in the homes of the two West Raleigh women.
He's breaking into women's houses through the fucking window and raping him.
So he's saying he wasn't there.
I was home.
I was home.
With my aunt.
Just somebody else with my fingers must have been there.
I don't know what happened.
The East Raleigh women testified that she was unable to identify Jeter because he had
forced her to look away during the rape.
They permitted the prosecutor to call the two West Raleigh women to the stand to testify
they had been assaulted in a similar manner.
So they basically, I didn't see him,
but then they brought up two people who did see him
and said he did the same thing to me.
And that, yeah.
All three women testified they'd been awakened
by a man who broke into their homes,
through a window, and held a kitchen knife
to their necks. He threatened to kill them
if they did not submit to his demands.
They said the men also robbed them.
That's even, it's not bad enough that you,
it's not enough for you.
And do you have any money to?
Why take that too?
And I'll take money also.
Like that's just, I don't know why that makes it so much worse, but it's like, you know, what else can I do for you?
Anything else?
Well, probably because the robbery was-
You tell me all about your mother?
Like, what the fuck?
The robbery was likely after the fact, which makes it so much worse.
That's what I mean.
Yeah.
And then being like, and I'll take this too.
Like, what fucking scumbag, man?
So he threatened to kill them if they did not submit to his demands.
He held a kitchen knife to their next one.
did this.
Piece of shit
like the night stalker.
One of the West Raleigh
women identified Jeter as the man
who forced her to perform oral sex on him in
April. He was arrested by
Raleigh police on June 11th after
he was caught peeping into the windows of several
Raleigh apartments.
Wow. Police said at the time
that he was peeping.
Jeter fled when police approached him
and according to
Major R. Tom Justice.
That's the cop.
Major R. Tom Justice.
As if you couldn't.
You know, I've oftentimes wondered
if there was a perfect name for a career.
I think Major Justice is pretty good for a guy.
Pretty soft.
That sounds like a cheesy comic book character.
Captain America and Major Justice
are going to handle some fucking shit right now.
You looked at that kid and said,
he's going to be a cop.
Yeah.
That's right.
Look at a little square jaw on him.
He came out with a flat top.
Square jawed little bastards.
came out with a flat top
really was irritating
to his mom's vagina too
she didn't like that
on the way out there
the birth canal
is not meant for flat tops
shaved up
spilled his black coffee
on his way out
oh man
also his tie got caught
in her fallopian tube
which is tough
his shitty striped tie
got caught on it
that six pointed star
really hurts
his cervix
it's like here's the baby
and oh what's that
and then to tink tink
it fell out on the floor
and you just heard it
the metal hit on there
that's rough
So Jeter was charged with the attacks here.
They said police said they found him a short time later hiding in a 1976 Honda.
Whoa, how do you get?
How do you hide in there?
His head was probably sticking out of the top.
Jeter is charged with first degree rape, first degree burglary, and the May 21st attack of the one of the two rest Raleigh women.
The second woman was attacked April 24th.
Jeter is charged with first degree sexual assault, first degree burglary.
and armed robbery in that case.
Jeter also faces a first-degree burglary charge
stemming from a break-in May 13th in the same area.
After Jeter was arrested in June,
he told police that his name was Ahia Ahi Israel
and that he's a member of the Yahwehs.
Of course he is.
And he said also that, yeah,
so he's innocent is what he said.
December 19th, 19,
Yaways add parking lots to their business empire.
Oh, they're doing just the bottom rung of business empires.
But this is how you make money, though.
Yeah, yeah.
You know what I mean?
This is like, get it going.
This is what you do.
Well, if you don't have millions and millions to open a big thing, this is how you build it.
You know, open 20 laundromats.
They don't go out of business.
A bunch of car washes and parking locks.
You make your car washes are terrible investments.
Are they?
Yeah.
There's like, because every area there's like one that people go to and then all the others.
It's a number of Lenny Dike.
Extra. How many athletes have tried the car wash thing and lost all their money?
As long as it's not like a moving parts one, like the self-wash car wash, those things are expensive as fucking overhead is nuts.
But those self-car wash, self-carwash things with the gun, those things. I watched a guy recently on, I don't know, where the fuck it was, some entrepreneur.
He was showing how much money he made. He's making like fucking 50 grand a month.
The problem is if there's a couple of those already where you are, that's it. You've got to buy those or you can't open up a new one.
I don't have them in this country at all, though, right?
They're in everywhere, every damn town.
Every town has those, yeah.
I'm sure every town has those.
Every town.
There's a many, right?
There's a 10 trillion of them in Phoenix.
Is there?
I don't see them anymore.
They're everywhere.
They're everywhere.
Really?
They're all over the place.
I mean, maybe not in the past few years, but I've saw them when I've been out there
recently.
Yeah.
They're there.
No one.
I'm sure they exist.
No one's waiting for those fucking 45 guys to hand fucking white.
I'm not waiting for two hours for carwashed.
That's how long.
those take. Most people are doing just that
fucking sit in it and it runs
you through it now. Most of those have
the bays also. Yeah for sure.
With the self-washing. That's what I'm talking about.
You go through one and then there's also self-wash
and they have the vacuums you can do yourself, do
and all that. For that, yeah, but to
wash it, they don't have the bays anymore.
I haven't seen one of those with a bay.
In New York, they're all over the place. They're everywhere.
You guys got to wash all that shit
off your car too, right? All the salt and stuff.
Yeah, half the year. You have dust
every minute of every day.
So many of these motherfuckers don't clean the cars.
They're just dirty,
shit running around.
Dirty dusty shit boxes, yeah.
Yeah.
So, yeah, everybody's got shit to clean, but that's, you know, that's fair.
So they said the yaways are moving into parking spaces here.
They leased the parking lot that was part of the old Playboy Club.
Oh.
Property on Biscayne Boulevard just south of North 79th Street.
The INS building is right across the boulevard.
So they're going to get some parking from that.
Lawyer Ellis Rubin and a.
his family bought the club sometime after it closed, planning to someday move their law offices there.
Ruben is General Counsel to the Yaways. His son, Mark, says they've leased the lot to the Yaways to
operate as a public parking lot, and they'll service the INS building. That makes a shitload of money,
right? Park in downtown like that?
Absolutely, yeah. That's a sweetheart deal. No one can buy that property. This is their lawyer,
Hucking him up. Mark Rubin said the family still plans to remodel and move into the old club in the
future. We're waiting for the market to improve, he says. It has 35,000 square feet, too big for us
alone, and we'd rent out the remaining space. It would also cost about a million dollars to remodel.
That was late 87, huge stock market crash. Everything was not going well, especially in Miami.
So a million dollars worth of remodeling is a lot of remodeling. That's a lot, but I mean the rental market
for Miami office space is not good
because they built tons of shit with Coke
money in the early 80s.
Then the fucking stock market crashed.
Yeah.
And now it's nobody's
wants to be in these buildings.
Yep. And now they're religious
sect parking lots. So
they said it would cost about a million
dollars to remodel. They said
that the Yahwehs are continuing to expand
their property acquisition so fast,
Rubin said, we have a tough time
keeping track of it all. I believe it.
I believe it. January 27th,
88. Reno reveals negotiations in Yahweh murder case. Okay. This is Janet Reno, the future attorney general and through the whole 90s and Will Ferrell character on Saturday Night Live.
It was an attorney. Were they, she was in Florida? Yeah, that's where she came from. Yeah. Former.
Oh, never mind. I'm thinking of Napolitano. Oh, yeah, no, she's Arizona. They looked similar.
True. It's hard to deny that.
Former Yahweh sect member Robert Rozier accused of the two 1986 shooting deaths will either continue his first-degree murder trial or announce a plea agreement with prosecutors tomorrow.
Dade State Attorney Janet Reno made a rare courtroom appearance yesterday to ask for a two-day delay on behalf of her assistance handling the case.
They had to bring in the boss to talk to the judge.
Attorneys told the judge they needed more time to prepare pre-trial arguments and possibly strike a deal.
All right. January 28th, trial delayed.
So we're going to get delayed here.
The judge granted a two-day delay earlier this week to allow time, and now it's delayed again and been rescheduled for Monday.
So it's still happening pretty quick.
February 1st, 1988, plea talks break off in the Rosear trial.
They were trying to get a plea bargain going.
Yeah, right.
So they said they have broken off.
the defense attorney Jeffrey Winkle said the negotiations have broken down.
That's how it goes.
The pretrial hearings had begun, but they're not getting anywhere.
And now that's how it goes.
March 5th, 1988, he cuts a deal.
Yeah.
He cuts a deal.
He could have faced the electric chair in four slings.
But instead, he charged with four counts of first-degree murder pleaded guilty to reduce charges
and avoiding the death penalty.
So the talks probably broke down
because he wanted more out of this, right?
Yeah, exactly.
Somebody did. That's how that is.
That's a negotiating tactic, yeah.
Rozier scheduled to appear
before the judge for a sentencing report
after pleading guilty to four counts
of second-degree murder
in the deaths of Anthony Brown,
Rudolph Broussard,
Raymond, Roger Kelly, and Cecil Branch.
Brown and Broussard were shot to death.
They were the tenants of the apartment building there.
Kelly and Branch, both of whom had their ears cut off were killed the previous month.
Remember, and he went and killed those other people in their houses?
Even if he were not sentenced to die for each murder as Horn sought, a first-degree murder conviction would have carried a life prison term,
25 years of which must be served before eligible for parole.
Second-degree murder convictions carry no minimum mandatory sentence except for a three-year minimum mandatory if a gun is involved.
Oh.
Yeah, his attorney here, or I guess the judge told, the judge said to the prosecutor, Don, I'm sorry, I had to be so hard on this, but this case is just too old.
Yeah, what do you want?
The minimum three years?
Is that what he's trying to get?
No, they're talking about the prosecutor, I think he was talking to, saying, yeah, that basically the prosecutor admitted in court that conflicting testimony by some witnesses.
and the inability to locate other witnesses
were among the factors that led to his plea deal.
They were afraid that he was going to get acquitted.
Wow.
And the judge basically said,
look, I'm sorry I had to make this happen
because the judge kept saying
wouldn't delay the trial even more.
So they said basically, I needed it off my books
because it's an old case
and I'm not going to have...
It's so bad, yeah.
Just wanted it off my docket, basically.
Pre-trial, I mean, murder stay murder.
as Bunk says, but still.
You can't leave that just sitting there
when we've got a suspect
and an idea of going forward.
But also don't rush.
Don't do that either.
Don't just get it off your books.
So one witness here,
the conflicting witnesses,
one said Rosier was clean shaven
when he had a heavy beard.
Others incorrectly identified
the street clothing Rosier was wearing
when he was found laying in a field
near the scene of the murders.
They said,
in light of the discrepancies that have developed with respect to some of the testimony of the witnesses in this case.
That's what the prosecutor said.
The judge said, good luck, Mr. Rozier.
Rozier still wore the white garb of the Yahwehs, even though he's been excommunicated.
The judge made it clear to Rozier that he could still receive four life sentences and would definitely be going to jail.
He said, quote, you're going to jail.
I don't know for how long, but make no mistake.
You're going to prison.
You bet.
That sounds like you're in trouble, Mr.
Don't you think that you're not.
Just because we let you have ice cream
when you're grounded doesn't mean you're going out tonight.
You take that Sunday to your broom.
That's right in your,
you're still not playing wiffle ball.
I'll tell you that much.
I'm mad at you.
I'm mad, but everybody needs ice cream sometimes.
So March 7th 88, Yahweh sect offers help
against anti-Semitic acts.
Oh.
This is crazy.
They are insanely anti-Sept.
Semitic, this group. That's the base, the whole basis of what they're doing here.
But they said a pipe bomb exploded in a playground near a Jewish synagogue in Hollywood, bringing
new fears about a wave of anti-Semitic vandalism in South Florida and a Friday offer from sect leader,
Yahweh, Ben-Yawai to guard these institutions from vandals. We would like to put several foxes at the doors of your henhouses,
please. Yeah, well, it sounds like he's like, to guard them against the foxes. You know how it is.
The pipe bombs bring too much attention, though.
So if we participate, then maybe it'll all go away.
Yeah.
Also, who's to say they didn't put the pipe bomb there so they could then move into this and try to fucking muscle these people?
Or God knows what else.
They're a cult.
Who knows what they're doing?
Jewish officials are alarmed by the growing number of incidents involving anti-Semitic vandalism,
including the Thursday afternoon pipe bomb incident.
But the offer of the Yahweh sect was not warmly accepted by some Jewish officials.
No shit.
Art Teletelbaum, the Southern Area Director of the Anti-Defamation League, said it has the aroma of a publicity stunt.
What we need at this juncture are not civilian patrols or paramilitary security.
We need effective law enforcement.
Yeah.
We pay fucking taxes, is what that is.
They fix that shit, not these idiots.
Yeah.
He said, I want to reject any move that would blur the distinction between.
Jewish people and the Yahweh sect.
We are suspicious of any organization that characterizes white Jews as impostors.
Because their thing is a whole weird, they're the actual Hebrew.
We're the actual Israelites.
That's the whole deal.
The Yahwehs.
At a news conference, Yahweh Ben Yahweh, the head of the Yahwehs, said his followers would patrol the synagogues unannounced and would not wear their trademark robes.
That's, you don't even.
You know what?
You know what makes people at synagogue completely even more comfortable is just having just hordes of just random black people hanging out in front of their church?
That's what they really are not afraid of.
Random street-clothed individuals just wandering around.
And black people.
That's what they're afraid of that too.
So yeah, this is like they'd be less threatening in the robes probably to most of the people inside, even though they'd be more threatening in the robes.
But inside they're like, oh, God.
A black fella, no.
Church people don't like that.
A handful of sisters get out of a car at the airport this weekend.
And that, I wish they were on my plane.
If there's, you know what I mean?
If there's ever a group that's probably not going down.
I've never seen a plane crash that said,
you need nuns, not black ladies.
Yeah, sisters with the...
We were just talking.
You didn't see why I was confused.
I can understand.
Yeah, I get it.
Okay.
That's fucking hilarious.
I thought.
Yeah.
I was like, why would the black ladies keep the planes in the air?
I don't get it.
You've never heard of a plane going down.
The sole plane never crashes, James.
It never crashes.
Red man always lands nice.
That's right.
Always bet on black like Wesley Snipes said in a plane.
That's right.
I forgot all about that.
Jimmy, you're right?
You're right.
You're right. I changed my mind.
So they said at a news conference, he said,
that he would do that.
He said his group would patrol in unmarked cars,
even if they don't get the blessing of Jewish leaders.
But doing it anyway.
He said, it's a matter of all men who believe in good standing together.
That's what Yahweh said.
Fair.
He rejected claims by Teetelbaum that the Yahweh group is anti-Semitic.
He refused to estimate his group's membership,
but says they have branches in most major cities.
He said they're actually not anti-Semitic.
They're the true Semites.
chosen people of the Bible.
Pro-Semite.
Well, pro-us, who we believe is that you, on the other hand.
You're not the ones. Yeah, exactly.
You're the anti-Semitic one.
He says, quote, it's impossible for me to be anti-Semitic because I'm the original
semi.
You know, I'm God and all, is what he said.
That's fucking insane.
So, anyway, he keeps going here with all of this.
he appeared at the office of his attorney Ellis Rubin, a counsel to the Yahweh group, and Prentice Rashid, the Liberty City shopkeeper who became famous after he electrified...
What?
After his electrified grill killed an attempted burglar.
Wow.
Really?
What the fuck?
A grand jury refused to indict Rashid.
Rashid said he was at the news conference in support of Yahweh Ben Yahweh.
Rubin, the lawyer, who is Jewish, said Teetelbaum is.
not the spokesman for all Jewish people.
I am.
No.
Yawah is.
No, no.
Drubin is.
Oh, is that what he said?
No, he didn't say that.
I didn't say I am.
He said he is, he said the Yahweh move could spur other people to volunteer as well
as to patrol near Jewish institutions, which makes them uncomfortable, I would imagine,
as they would make me.
Tietelbaum said the motivation for the pipe bombing is not certain, but said it came after
a growing number of anti-Semitic incidents.
He said there's no direct indication through note or graffiti, but prudence demands that when a pipe bomb is exploded on Jewish property that it's presumed to be a threat to that congregation.
Sure.
He said there's been 37 serious acts of anti-Semitic vandalism in Florida this year.
Oh my God, that happens by noon in Florida today.
By fucking noon in Florida, there is at least 37 acts of anti-Semitic vandalism.
Are you kidding me?
Yeah.
Compared with 64 incidents in all of.
of 1987.
Wow.
Documented.
Fuck, man.
We are falling apart.
The majority of the incidents this year were in Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach
counties, where Jewish people are, generally.
They're not in fucking Tallahassee,
most of them.
That's why.
You're not going to see them up in fucking Jacksonville.
Nope.
Unless they're in the fucking...
Yeah, they're going to avoid that for sure.
Tietelbaum said the incidents are often carried out by teenage vandals,
but some of the rules.
recent incidents have appeared more serious with pro-Palestinian themes.
He said, we now see this latest incident, an element of potentially deadly violence.
While the victims of these incidents are Jewish institutions, it's the entire community that's threatened.
Other incidents have alarmed Teetlebaum and other Jewish officials include the breaking of windows in a Dade County synagogue.
Desecration of, I guess, there's a misprint in the newspaper.
So it says desecration or a month.
Miami institution, meaning it's supposed to be of.
So when I broke my brain, I'm like, or, or, uh, a Miami institution with pro-Palestinian
slogans in late April and similar incidents in Boca Raton and elsewhere in Palm Beach County.
Mordecai Levy, founder of the militant Jewish defense organization, said recent incidents
call for more radical action, such as the arming of Jews to protect their facilities.
Levy said he plans to send people to South Florida to train Jews to arm.
arm and defend themselves. But Tietelbaum said his group will continue its strategy of working with
congregations on prime crime prevention programs. He said, we produce a ham book for Jewish communal
organizations on basic security precautions and work closely with law enforcement. Okay. June 4th 88,
Yahweh ben Yahweh lashes out at Robert Rozier. Oh. Oh, yes. Okay. He said to say,
in the paper.
To say the Yahwehs are tied to murder or acts of violence or anything wicked by the mouth of a person or an individual who claimed at one time to believe in Yahweh is just ludicrous.
Yeah.
He said it's a very evil and wicked thing to do.
And I take it that it's an attempt to divide my people in general, the so-called black people specifically.
A story in Friday's Miami Herald reported that Robert Rozier had told state and federal investigators that members of the sect were responsible for the ritualistic murders of up to a dozen people.
Rosier said some of the murders were beheadings.
Yeah.
Rubin, the lawyer, criticized the Herald and its sources for an article that is absolutely indefensible.
He said they quote nobody.
They say from law enforcement authorities, we understand that Robert.
Robert Rozier is saying things that could implicate the Yahwehs in up to a dozen killings.
Now, how does one defend against such a terrible, terrible attack?
Yeah.
How?
Oh, boy.
How does one, yeah, Rubin said that, how does one defend against the guy saying what happened?
Rubin said that Rozier has been trying to make a deal with the prosecutors, and the Yahweh name is just enticement for that.
He says it was a year ago next week that Robert Rozier, while in the Dade County Jail, made a telephone
phone call to Yahweh to try to extort
monies and a new attorney
from the nation of Yahweh.
All right,
here we go. Sentencing day for
old Bobby R. here.
He makes a brief appearance
in court to receive his sentence
here. This is for
four murders.
Four, including
like cutting people's fucking ears
off in their own home, okay?
On a plea now. On a plea.
Wow. Now,
his attorney wouldn't say, because they said that these charges, they're talking about, all right, we'll get into that.
All right.
Part of the deal is if he's charged and convicted in a related federal case, the sentence would run concurrently.
So if he gets arrested for more, they don't even tack anything on to the end of it.
It just runs with this.
It's freebies, basically, is what they're saying.
His attorney wouldn't say what those charges might be, but he said, I anticipate that sometime in the future the federal government may fall.
while.
He is sentenced to you, sir, may fuck off 22 years for four bodies.
Four bodies.
Less than six apiece, five and a half per.
Dude, if he did this because this was some like drug retaliation, he'd have got the
goddamn chair.
But because it's some religious shit, he gets 22 years.
To life or just 22 years?
22 years.
Under law, he must serve.
At least, you know how many years he must serve what the minimum is here?
Yeah. Three.
Three. You got the three year thing.
That's it.
That's his, but 22 is the sentence.
So he could be out in five fucking years for fucking four murders.
That's insane.
That's what the, that's what the negotiations were about.
He wanted to just get three.
Yeah, I'll just take the three.
Prosecutors would not say why, but law enforcement sources close to the investigation have said that Rosier
has implicated sect members in a number of ritualistic slings and florists.
and other states, many of them were beheadings.
So they said he added Rosier, who wore his shit in the court still.
He's still wearing his robes and shit.
Wow.
That's communicated.
Still rocking it.
Still rocking it.
Under the plea agreement here, yeah, they said that, you know, that's all he's going to get.
He sentenced him to four 22-year terms, but to run concurrently, or concurrently.
So, 22 years.
They said, considering the defense attorney said,
considering the original charges, I'm not disappointed with the result.
I guess not.
Why would you be if you're the defense attorney?
You'd be thrilled with this.
Oh, defense.
All right.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh, yeah.
You aren't?
Prosecutor, 22 years for four murders.
You put that shit on your business cards from now on.
Yeah.
Hand that shit out to every drug dealer you're fine.
22 years for four murders.
What's up with that?
Wow.
A better one.
Prosecutors said he contacted the victim's family several months ago to tell them,
that the state planned to make a deal, and they agreed.
Okay, we'll see.
We'll see.
They said they thought the term,
the Barbara Malone, who represents the Brouss and others in a civil lawsuit against the Yahweh,
said the 22-year term was appropriate considering the objectives of law enforcement.
They said, I think it's realistic to anticipate that Robert Rozier will be in maximum security a long, long time.
That accomplishment and the understanding that he may help solve other violent murders is a worthwhile goal and one of my clients would support.
At least three Christmases.
At least, at least three.
I mean, that's, you know, June 18th, 1988,
ex-member statements accuse Yahweh sect of murder, extortion, and abuse.
Now, more people are being kicked out.
More people are leaving.
Two former members of the sect have given sworn statements accusing members of extortion.
child beating and murder.
God damn.
Holy shit.
They said that they ran
rigid, cult-like camps
with forced labor,
public beatings,
house meetings
that encourage violence
and tit-for-tat revenge.
Lloyd Clark
and Wilbert Roll,
who lived in the sect
in the early 80s,
made allegations
in Jane Doe
versus the Temple of Love,
which sounds like a movie.
That sounds like a porn.
Jane Doe versus the Temple of Love?
That sounds like...
Jane's getting raped a lot.
She's getting gang bang today.
Yeah.
Sounds like an Indiana Jones themed porn from just after the Temple of Doom era.
Was the one lady from that?
Oh, God, I can't remember what the fucking remember.
Yeah, her.
She's getting it.
Yeah.
The federal civil suit stems from the 86 execution style slings of the Opelaca men.
So that's Rosier's crimes.
U.S. District Judge dismissed the suit May 31st after the parties reached a tentative settlement.
but attorney Rubin said through a secretary Friday that he canceled the agreement and he wants
the sect to clear its name at trial.
We're going to fight.
He said it's just a terrible, bald-faced assertion of some terrible, terrible, terrible accusations or allegations, which are denied emphatically.
There's not one iota of evidence that backs up those allegations.
That's why you were just about done negotiating a deal.
He said that these are the remarks of someone who's obviously.
obviously very upset at the Yahwehs.
And he added that Clark and Roll
had been engaged in divorce proceedings
and child custody battles
against women who left their families
for the life in the Yahweh temple.
Yahweh Ben Yahweh would not comment on the story.
Of course, in a deposition,
he denied that he is a religion of violence.
99.9% of all the allegations
are outright lies, he said.
They are fabrications from the mouths of liars.
What about the point one?
Where's that?
Yeah, that's still a child beater.
According to Role,
Yahweh Ben-Jawi encouraged violence among temple members
and once urged a member to, quote,
take a head, a white head,
and bring it back in a bag.
This was supposed to avenge the deaths of black people
in the community, Ben-Roll said.
Yahweh-Bin-Yahuay spoke of death angels
who were to kill Yahweh enemies
or members who betrayed the sect.
sect members were responsible for several murders in Florida and other states.
Neither Clark nor Role claimed to have seen the killings.
Yahweh bin Yahweh and his followers also admitted, this is all their claims,
administered public meetings to disobedient sect members.
Children in the temple were often beaten with switches or rods.
Yahweh were told to Yahwehs were told to give false addresses in order to claim food stamps and welfare checks,
which then would be turned over to the temple.
You know, fraud.
Again, what all these fucking cults do.
That's Jones Town of the same shit.
That's how Arizona City thrived was through...
Absolutely.
Phony fucking Wic program.
And that's why they have so many fucking kids, too.
More kids you have, the more money you have.
That was one of the first things that they got Warren Jeff's for.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
That's something they could bring them in on that had paperwork attached to it.
Right.
The rest, they had to take a while to build.
To have sex, married temple members had to sign up for the conjugal room.
they claim too.
Yahweh Ben Yahweh private...
That is a sticky room.
That sounds gross.
It's a disgusting word too.
Ugh, it is.
Yahweh ben Yahweh privately enjoyed free access to most temple women,
including young girls while publicly preaching that too much sex was bad.
Clark and Roll statements offer some of the most detailed allegations in the public view.
Clark told attorneys he joined the Yahwehs in 80, lived in the fortress like temple on
northwest 62nd Street and who served as a high-ranking official in the New Jersey branch of the
Yahwehs before leaving the sect in 85.
According to his statement, Yahweh Ben-Jawi regularly held classes where he encouraged members to kill.
He said, quote, he would say many times, how many of you, how many of you all would like to
kill a white person?
God Jesus.
How many of you all of you would like to get ahead and everybody would raise their hand,
get ahead like of something get a head. Clark told attorneys that ex-Yahuay member Robert
Rosier had admitted to a sacrificial killing in Newark, New Jersey. Uh-oh. That's not going to,
that won't line up with that prosecutor deal in Florida. That's a whole other state and now
we're interstate. That could be federal. Who knows? He said he met Roseer in Newark on
Yahweh business in June of 84 and they went together to the 300 block of South Orange Avenue.
knew. Clark said, quote, Naraya, which is Rosier's Yahweh name, took me to a spot in the street that
had a big blood spot down the corner from the temple, and he said, we killed this white man last night
here. It's still got a grease spot. Yep. He said, I said, well, what happened? He said,
you know, we did it as a sacrifice for Yahweh ben Yahweh coming to our city. He taught us that white
people were goats, which was the devil and goats were to be sacrificed.
Right.
Fuck, you got against goats.
Goats are nice.
They're fun.
That's, uh, goats are hilarious.
A lot of religions.
I know.
I know the goat person.
The devil and shit.
Yeah, it's so good.
But I don't know why they pick goats because they're stubborn.
They got their own fucking, I think they just have their own minds and they wouldn't
follow some religious cult.
Goats are less dumb than these people.
They wouldn't fucking, you couldn't get a goat to do this.
They do what they want.
They're so cute.
They're fucking cute.
You ever seen the fainting goats or the cutest goddamn thing on the planet?
That's a recessive gene and it's the greatest recessive gene of any recessive gene.
I could never have any.
Like if I had a farm, I couldn't have those because I would get nothing done.
I'd be hilarious.
I'd be laughing all day long constantly.
Oh, my God.
Look at them.
The way their feet are stiff, like it's hilarious.
And then they just get up fine.
When they bounce walk, that's the greatest thing.
I've ever seen. A hop walk from a goat will make you smile no matter what mood you're in.
If they weren't stinky and constantly shitting, I would have goats. But they're disgusting animals.
They also will mow your lawn in a blink. He will never have a lawn. I don't want to take his job away. He mows my lawn because it's, I don't have time for that shit. But he mows my lawn and he doesn't shit everywhere when he does it.
If he left trails of shit all over my grass, I'd be like, we're lower in the price, mister. We need a little more grass.
to cover up all your shit.
All your shit.
Yeah, what's up with that?
We killed this white man.
What happened?
So, yeah, devils were goats.
Clark also linked the sect to the 1981 beheading
and a related shooting death,
even though he'd said he did not witness either.
Roll 29 joined the temple in March 82 and left two years later and said,
quote,
I didn't approve of violence and the punishments.
His deposition details a military-like life where the world.
days are long and the rules are strict.
All property is communal.
He said earnings were turned over to a squad leader, so that's like his capo.
And then you've got to kick upstairs to him.
Children were forbidden to attend public schools for fear of brainwashing, which is what
all the religions fucking think for the most part, all the crazy ones anyway.
Once, Roll said, he saw Yahweh ben Yahweh beat a person with a switch.
Other times, the whole group administered a beating.
Yahweh consulted the Bible to find the proper punishment, he said.
Well, that's, yeah, the Bible's known for its very reasonably meted out punishments.
Right.
You know, not for like stoning your daughter to death for working on a Sunday or something like they have in there.
You know, appropriate shit.
Very thoughtful, groove.
Very thoughtful.
The Jane Doe lawsuit was filed on behalf of tenants who lived at the Opelac apartment complex.
There, so there we go.
Interesting. By the way, below that, just in case they murder anyone in your family, take them on over to the Wigan Brothers funeral directors serving Greater Sarasota and Bradenton. They have Greg, Lance, Rick, and Gary will take care of your dead person here. That's them. Cremation, they really advertise here. Save hundreds of dollars in final expenses.
Because don't get, wow, okay.
Then it says National Call for a free brochure from the National Creamation Society,
which I not know the NCS was a thing.
And that industry now, and now I'm terrified of that shit after that guy on fuck that
that documentary that they had about that, where they're born and all, you know,
you don't get your family back.
It's a bag of concrete.
Yeah, you get back a souvenir.
You get some great best.
Yeah.
It's like, you can pretend.
Either way, what's a difference?
It's the same.
You don't know anyway.
You don't know anyway.
But that's crazy, though.
That's a fucked up thing to do.
It's a fucked up business.
So as this all happens here, basically, they are trying to polish their image because every day a story comes out that's bad like that.
They need three positive stories to try to, you know, be like, well, those people are obviously disgruntled and whatever.
So they're really big on these open houses where community leaders and journalists are allowed.
to just walk through the temple of love
and stuff like that.
And of course, they would make it
so anyone coming in
wouldn't notice anything amiss.
Everything's fine for the visits here.
Basically, you know,
the guys who are walking around with clubs,
now they have briefcases walking around
acting like they're doing business.
They'd show smiling children
in clean classrooms.
Remember how they were reciting
all the countries of the world
and all that shit?
Yeah, just he called
it. This is Yahweh said they were, quote,
one big happy family. That's all
it is, man. That's it.
And Rozier acted on his own. We don't
know anything about him.
Back to the, remember the Yahweh music
here? Right. Okay.
July 9th, 1988
they say a column on Friday's
TV page incorrectly stated
that Prince Gideon,
formerly known as Cornelius of the singing
duo Cornelius and Sister Rose,
had been involved in drugs
before joining the Yahweh sect.
A documentary about him will air today at 7.30 a.m.
And Sunday at 11.30 p.m. on W. BFS channel 33.
Who do you think fucking funded that probably?
Uh-huh.
Wow. That is, uh, that's fucking crazy.
December 10th, 1988.
This is funny as shit.
In the Miami Herald, the headline is,
a Miami focus on West 57th Street and 60 minutes.
Okay.
Miami, a regularly a TV backdrop for Crockett and Tubbs.
That's Miami Vice.
Oh, yeah.
For the young out there.
That's the characters, huh?
Yeah, Crockett and Tubbs is getting some extra network airtime this weekend.
Saturday, the CBS News Magazine, West 57th, will present two reports with local angles at 10 p.m. on channels 4 and 34.
A profile of Yahweh Ben-Jawa, self-proclaimed Messiah and leader of,
of the Liberty City Yahweh sect,
and then a segment on organ transplants
and the difficulty in finding private fundraising.
Okay.
So Melissa Malcovic, the Miami-based producer
of both West 57 segments, said,
one of the striking things about Yahweh is, quote,
for a Messiah, he's very down to earth.
Very casual.
And the thing is, he's seen TV, and he uses this.
Everyone expects him to come up and talk like a pope and be very pious and just, but he makes jokes and stuff.
So they somehow take that as, oh, he's very down to earth and normal just because he makes jokes.
Well, it's a very earthly God.
Yeah, no, I mean, yeah, he's got a son.
I never heard of Jesus having a sense of humor.
You know, that's one thing.
He's got cable.
Yeah, it's right.
You can look through the Bible all you want.
It says tons of great things about Jesus.
Not once does it say he was funny.
Ever?
Does it ever say he was funny in there?
No, I don't remember.
A knockout of this son of a bitch.
They were like, yeah, and we were walking through the desert.
We were thirsty and everything about that motherfucker killed us the whole time, man.
I mean, he just kept us in stitches all the way to Bethlehem.
It was fucking great.
Yawai's got a lot of influence with Don Johnson, though.
Oh, he does.
He can lots there.
So Yahweh bin Yawai talked about how Miami could become a bigger tourist spot.
He said, think of how many people go to see my representative.
in Rome.
Oh, is he talking about the fucking Pope?
Think about how many people going to see my representative in Rome.
Everybody's going to see my executive assistant over there.
I keep that.
That guy I keep him over there, they go check him out once in a while.
Wow.
So why wouldn't they come here to meet actual God?
That's much better.
That's a fascinating view.
Wow.
Now he has estimated, he has an estimated worth of $100 million in donations.
and business ventures and has revitalized parts of the inner city,
but it also has been linked to four murders and surrounded by stories of violence and extremism.
Yeah, but, you know, that's okay, though.
They made this block looks better now.
Wow.
January 1, 1989, judge throws out federal suit filed in Yahweh killing.
Victim's mother denied damages.
They said, plaintiff has simply not proffered evidence showing that the police were aware of a specific
risk of harm to her son or that the police committed itself to the protection of her son.
Okay.
That's it.
They don't have to protect you.
It was essentially it.
They said that the Anthony Brown, they said that the Opelaca Police Department knew the
plight of Anthony Brown but failed to exercise its police power and authority to protect
and sought damages based on that, but you don't have to.
They said our position was that there was enough criminal activity that there should have been
arrests made and seen to it that they were.
removed is what their thing said, but the judge throws it out.
So now, April 13, 89, the people they threw out of that Opelaca apartment complex
seek damages from the Yahwehs.
Sure.
That one thing was the worst fucking decision they ever made.
Wow.
All of this shit stems from that.
Without that one building, none of the murders, rosier, all these lawsuits, all of that goes
away. Think about that. That one fucking thing. So,
fuck, they did that. I mean, sucks. People had
to die, but it brought the attention to people.
So this article says, for the last two and a half
years, Kesheya Briggs has flinched in fear
every time she sees someone dressed in white.
She thinks white-robed members of the Yahweh religious sect
are after her and fears she will be murdered like her brother,
who was shot in the head by a Yahweh member.
one of the guys at the Opelaca place.
She says,
I sleep with every light on.
Every little noise I hear, I'm afraid.
A lot of times I just break down and cry.
She said, the fear has never left me.
So Briggs and 26 other former tenants in the apartment complex
want the Yahwehs and their Temple of Love
to pay for what they described as a three-day reign of terror
ending October 30th, 86,
when Briggs's brother, Rudolph Bersaw.
and another lieutenant Anthony Brown were murdered.
The 27 ex-tenants are suing the Temple of Love.
And, yeah, their federal court suit accuses the temple of racketeering and conspiracy,
saying the sect carried out a terrorist occupation strategy to force tenants from the building,
which they kind of did.
Yeah.
So that's another lawsuit now that they have to fucking deal with there, which is goddamn why.
They said they felt like they were living in a concentration camp because they were kicking in their doors and stripping down their apartments walking around with staffs and beating people.
April 15, 1989, a witness says here that Yahweh ordered two murders.
Oh.
There you go.
Yahweh Ben Yahweh here.
They said, he disagrees.
He said, all we have is a record of peace.
It's all we have.
Oh.
I mean, disregard all the fire bombings and the murders and things like that.
Other than that.
The ears and shit.
Yeah.
All right.
It's a piece.
You know what I mean?
So, Rozier, Robert Rozier, testified in U.S. district court.
Oh.
Here we go.
He's trying to get out early.
Yeah.
That the leader of the sect instructed his followers in various methods of murder,
beat women and children in front of temple members,
and ordered Rozier and another temple member to kill two men.
The testimony came in connection with a lawsuit filed by the 27 tenants of the Opel
apartment complex. They got him testifying for them. Yeah. That's wild. The tenants charged that they
were terrorized by 100 members, obviously, for three days. So he said that the,
Rozier said that Yahweh said when he heard about what was going on, he said, I'm going to
send out two death angels. And then said, Rosier and the fellow temple member then dug up guns
buried across the street from the Temple of Love
after being instructed by Yahweh
to kidnap Broussard and cut off
and Brown and cut off their heads.
So they bury guns.
That's a conspiracy to murder.
That's something.
But Broussard resisted and was shot,
Rozier said, and Brown was shot
as he tried to flee.
So they couldn't capture them and take their heads.
Rozier said that he was now in hiding
under federal protection denied killing either man.
He's out?
I mean, he's in custody of some kind, but he's under federal, he's not, he's in hiding.
That doesn't sound like in prison, does it?
No, it sounds like he's got some immunity and some protection.
Yeah, he said his testimony in the lawsuit was his first since entering the federal program
aimed at protecting witnesses and, wow, key federal cases from possible retribution from
those incriminated by their testimony.
We're all very familiar with that program.
Wow, that is unreal.
Where the fuck do they have him?
Wow.
I don't even know that is shocking.
Can you put a guy in federal protection?
Shocking.
Can you do that while they're in jail?
Yeah, Sammy the Bull did it.
He had to do a few years before.
They kept him.
He had to do a few years before they let him out after he testified, after he had the deal.
But he had a nice cushy.
Federal protective custody.
They don't keep them in Genpop, obviously.
But that is surprising and fascinating,
but also not as surprising and fascinating
as the article right under it
about the free wallpaper seminar that's coming.
Free?
Free wallpaper seminar.
What are you kidding me?
How do you give that away?
I can sit and learn about wallpaper
and you're not going to charge me anything.
I don't believe it.
I don't believe it.
What adheres it and what removes it both?
Someone's going to fuck my face in that.
room, right? That seems expensive. Someone's going to rate my mouth. I'm pretty sure if I try to
go in there and learn about wallpaper. They're not going to do that. That's to keep me occupied while
a member of my family is getting fucked, right? Well, I pillage my home, probably. Yeah,
kill my animals and stuff. It says, learn to hang like the professionals. There's a professional
wallpaper. Oh, yeah. That was a thing back in the day here. So there you go. June 23rd,
1989, Yahweh sect told to pay tenants for terrorist eviction.
Oh.
Federal judge has ordered the Yahweh sect to pay $940,000 to tenants who lost their homes
and a strong-arm eviction that ended in the deaths of two people.
Wow.
Wow.
Tenants attorney Thursday called for a police investigation of the sect, saying the civil
trial testimony demonstrated that the right white-robed Yahwehs engaged in.
in a policy of violence against anyone who opposed them.
They talk about, they quote,
they firebombed an entire block in Delray Beach.
They were involved in slayings in other cities.
I think the state and federal government
needs to carefully examine the judge's findings here.
Yeah, because they still have unsolved under the firebomings
and all that kind of shit.
Yahweh's attorney, Ellis Rubin, said he would appeal the ruling
saying the sex should not be blamed for what a few members did.
I mean, no, quibono, your ass.
Fuck you.
No, I mean, so what, we benefited?
He said, we're appealing as a matter of religious freedom.
Oh, we should be able to do what we want because we're religious.
Yeah.
Well, yeah, because we put robes on with our gang activities when we do strong-arm tactics like the fucking mafia.
We put a robe on instead of a suit, so that means it's okay.
Some people eat the blood of Christ or drink the blood of Christ.
Some people firebomb.
That's what you do.
There'll be blood to drink.
Don't worry.
Some people drink the blood of Christ, others spill it.
Yep.
He says, again, if a Catholic commits a crime, you don't punish the Pope or the priest because of his wrongdoing.
If the Pope told you to do it, then you would, though.
That's the thing.
If the Pope said, go kill that guy because I don't like him.
And he's a thorn in my side and my business interests are in the way.
I think the Pope is guilty there.
U.S. District Judge James Keough issued his decision Wednesday on the lawsuit.
filed by 27 former residents.
Hoof.
They said they will go into,
this is,
Rubin is still defending them,
saying they'll go into a distressed area
that's overrun by drug dealers
in the criminal element and they'll clean it up,
kick out all the wrongdoers,
then either sell or make housing available
for poor people.
We're gentrifying.
They're such good people.
That's all it is.
Yeah.
Yeah, according to the lawsuit,
they called the tactics,
terroristic occupation strategies,
which the judge backed up here.
They found that the church had engaged in a running criminal enterprise.
They said the judge did not rule on who was responsible for the deaths of the two tenants.
But he found that the church had engaged in a running criminal enterprise extortion and assault
and ordered it to pay $10,000 to each tenant for emotional distress as well as reimburse them for six times the value of the belongings they lost.
Wow.
An additional 500,000 impunitive damages will also be divided among the tenants.
former tenant Shaddell Hamilton, brother-in-law of one of those killed, said he was pleased by the verdict.
A verdict.
I bet he is.
He said, at first he didn't think it was possible.
He said, I gave up.
I said there wasn't any justice that nothing would ever be done about it because there were so many things that got away, they got away with before.
Sure.
Okay.
That means, of course, that, what was that June?
I got to find the date.
It's important here.
Okay, that was June 23rd, 1989.
They're found responsible for all this and, you know, legally responsible by a judge.
Financially, too, yeah.
Yeah.
July 18th, 1989, Yahweh sect leader to speak at economic function.
Which one?
Like, it never fucking happened.
No, he got to a point of being too legitimate that people are even, it's beneath him now.
Yeah.
Well, one guy, one person here,
Shafiga Nelson, a Yawa,
an owner of a beauty salon on North Main Street,
is helping organize the Liberation Night Banquet
on behalf of the Women's Opportunity Network
and Brothers of Superior Status,
two national groups that focus on black economic prosperity.
Ms. Nelson said the controversy
surrounding Yawa Ben-Yawi is irrelevant
to the banquet's theme of economic success.
Relevant.
She said, this is not a religious function.
This is an economic function.
Anyone who is for economic development, black, white, or whatever is welcome to come.
The cost of the banquet here at the Sheraton at St. John's place is $30 a person.
Wow.
A banquet flyer credits Yahweh Ben Yahweh with leading the sect whose members believe they are true Israelites and to amass more than $100 million in seven years.
Wow.
They said, Ms. Nelson said, we Yahwehs own five hotels.
Yahweh Ben Yahweh has created jobs for many, many people, so we feel that he's an authority in this area.
Wow, I guess so.
The Yahweh's past has been fraught with controversy.
Well, of course it has because it's fucking crazy.
But he's got, anybody that amasses $100 million over seven years is, I mean, anybody's going to be impressed by that.
That's what it is.
It's absolutely, that's exactly what it is.
Financial blindness.
Yeah, they're like, well, you must, they must be smart at something.
No, having money doesn't mean you're smart.
The National First Coast Chapter of the National Business League Inc, a group of about 70 black businessmen,
was originally planning to include tickets to the banquet along with a $100 price of a booth for Unity Day,
an all-black business trade fair scheduled for August 12th.
But William said the chapter decided against doing that when members,
learned that Yahweh Ben Yahweh would be the speaker.
Oh.
So many of our members are devout Christians, and some of them have a problem associating
with a speaker that doesn't recognize Jesus Christ.
What?
Let's take that apart.
Yeah.
Not, they don't want to be around some crazy fucking cult leader who has to pay a million
dollars to people he terrorized and whose guy killed four fucking people.
Don't worry about that.
They just don't like that he's not into Jesus.
Wow.
He kind of thinks he is Jesus, right?
He thinks he's God, not Jesus.
I mean, Jesus is a, you know, that's beneath him.
He's God, you know.
Wow.
Wow.
Okay.
I don't need Jesus.
I'm God.
I don't need Jesus.
I'm God.
Yeah.
So here we go.
This is August 18th, 1989.
Woman who fled Yahwehs is threatened.
Uh-oh.
When Rudolfo Brousard was murdered by members of the Yahweh religious sect during the Opelaca
incidents, his relatives fled to Georgia.
Broussard's mother, sister, and longtime girlfriend, Carleen Bryant, thought they'd be safe from threats in the southwest Georgia town of Albany.
They were wrong, Albany Police said.
On Wednesday, two and a half years after her boyfriend's murder, Bryant went to the Coachman Park Food Store across the street from her house to buy a Coke, Albany Police Detective George Fassler said.
Yahweh follower Rosetta Terry was inside recruiting for the Miami Bay sect.
Oh shit.
As Bryant left the store, Terry pointed her finger at her and told her she would be dead by nightfall.
Oh, Jesus.
Jesus, that's aggressive.
Terry is being held on $10,000 bond at the Albany County Jail.
Can you say you're just psychic?
I was trying to help you.
I got this psychic flash that you'd get killed.
I wanted you to take care of yourself, you know?
I diagnosed her with a heart attack.
It felt a vibe.
Yeah.
A premonition.
Wow, she's charged with making a terrorist threat.
The crime carries a maximum five-year term.
So, yeah, that's what they said.
Wow, Denise Broussard, who fled to Albany along with Bryant weeks after the murder,
said Terry owns a beauty shop, less than two blocks from their home.
When Terry converted to the Yahweh faith earlier this year,
she began calling herself Rosetta Israel and painted her beauty shop white and black,
the traditional Yahweh colors.
Right.
Albany Police and FBI agent arrested Terry in the beauty shop Wednesday less than seven hours after the incident.
Denise Broussard said family members were told that Terry also threatened the arresting officers with death.
The detective said, I'm not releasing that right now.
You'll be dead by nightfall, too.
Bryant became hysterical after the threat.
Denise Broussard said she was shaking and crying.
We are all upset.
I wish they would leave us alone.
Oh, man.
Okay.
We'll end it right there.
My God.
Open threats.
More crazy shit going on here.
See how it's all unraveling?
It's unbelievable.
And there'll be a lot more Rozier, too, because he's behind the scenes now.
And there's a lot of things that they're going to kind of want his input on.
Sure.
Because he can kind of corroborate.
Corroborate just to how they operate, how they do their fucking shit, basically.
Confirm or deny.
Yeah.
Confirm or deny.
So there you go, everybody.
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Jimmy, hit me with the names of the people who would never, ever join a cult and try to behead us.
Jimmy, hit me with them right now.
Firstly, thanks to everybody that came out to Boston, our Detroit and Buffalo, especially Emily, who makes those, she refurbishes the...
Yes, oh, she's great with all my little ponies.
We had such a nice time talking to her and her wonderful dad outside, too.
So sweet people.
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She's a good kid.
Thank you.
Executive producers this week are Penny Boyce, Tracy Pellets, maybe Potes.
I don't know.
Happy birthday.
Happy birthday.
Elena Zamil.
She's terrific.
She was in Buffalo, I believe.
Liz Vasquez.
Lisa Machowski.
Ashley Williams.
Happy birthday, Ashley.
Happy birthday.
Lisa Warden.
Gary Howard is in Kenwood, Michigan.
He missed that show, but he's up there.
Damn, Gary.
Sorry you missed you, buddy.
Happy hours in Nogadoches, Texas.
Oh, boy.
I don't think that's home.
I think he's on the road.
That's tough.
Other producers this week,
Matt Studer, he found $5 at a taco stand.
Didn't know who to give it to, so he gave it to us.
Well, thank you very much.
We'll take your taco money.
We appreciate that.
Peyton Meadows, Scott Rashard, or maybe Richard.
Dina Snyder, in life with an autistic child.
Janice Hill, Debrowsko.
What is this? Debrose. Oh, DeBrovsco. And Stephanie, the real estate broker. Thank you so much, you guys. You're the best. Thank you. Parker Adelson, Hannah Hockenberry, Vanessa Boondell. Bundell, Bundle, Pringle. C. Dundle, Primal. Crystal, Shamsie, Norma with no last name. James Barnhart, or Bullard, Ballard, Arr. Ari, I think it's Airy. I don't know. PJ Hatmaker. Elena Sergi, Michael Elliott. Hayley, what is this, Haley, Grace?
Glace. What? Glacier, perhaps. Millie Lemonade. Lemonade. Lemonade. Blanonade.
Brandon would no last name. Brandon. Wendy Brown. Judith Voight. Eric Chalito. Scott Gamerster. Tammy Cunningham. Richie's sister. Tony Delea.
Delea. Justin would no last name. Reagan. Baumgartle. Wow. Brett Caron. Jennifer Heights. Brian Wynch. Michelle
Hurd, Chris Butler, Jenna, Ryan, Cheryl Lucas, Tyler Smith, Diet Punk, Cynthia, Meinholt.
Minehold, Minehold, Minhold.
Sarah Beth, Robin Norton, Chris Kaufman, Leo F, Jonathan Peterhands.
Wow.
He has been just demolished his whole child.
Jim class was rough on him in seventh grade.
Peter Hans?
No.
That's a tough one.
That's a tough one.
Can't be that, John.
You had to drop out of school if you went in New York.
They were relentless.
He'd been tough.
I'm sorry.
He might have a GED.
We don't know.
I wouldn't.
I would.
Run.
Run from school.
It's worth it.
Jeremy Springer.
Jerry's kid.
Heather Fitzpatrick.
Ellen Hilt.
Alexis Sarber.
Kinsey would know last name.
Sonia would no last name.
Sonja perhaps.
Paula Donne Stevens.
Julie Strand.
Valerie Hardin.
Stephen K.
Sarah Leahy.
Dave Seigraves.
Brian Lurite.
Lorette.
Lorette.
Lorette.
Lorette.
Leret.
Brian, it's never going to happen.
We're trying our best here, Ryan.
Maureen Donovan, Courtney Andrade,
Jess Rice, Adriana Siski,
Alessandra, Alessandra,
Alessandra Grant,
Will would know last name, Melissa Taylor,
Nick Ardweeney,
Vanessa Evans, Lindsay Craig,
Corti, what is it, Courtney?
It's Courtney. God damn it, Courtney.
Cortecne.
Don't do this to me.
Randy Miller, Dave and Amanda Yarlote, Yarlow, Jessica Dylan, Peggy Perkins, Allison would no last name, me, Kim Ashdown, Riley B, the lead dispensary, or the lead dispensary, Jody Showmaker. It's not Shoemaker, it's Showmaker.
Maureen Maderos, that's Españal, Shameel, Camille, Aloha, Camille with Z-A-H-A-H-A-Ele with Z-A-A.
That's not right.
That's Shamil, right?
Like the...
Shamil.
What's the dress shit?
Is that Shamil?
Oh, chiffon.
Oh.
Chafon is CH.
Isn't it?
I don't fucking know.
I'm making shit up now.
Haley,
Macula,
Sammy Navar,
Navar perhaps.
Ava Mangiello.
Imagine...
Manjillo.
What is that?
There you go.
Close enough.
Rose Conklin, Clayton Love Lady, Chris would no last name, Dan Cops, Becca would no last name, Jericho Perkins, Go-24 K-K-R, Nikos Lynch, Jennifer Smith, Jenna Plating, Paige Harmon, Chase Mazur, Rae Mazur probably.
Rich Adam, Adam Eck, Adam Eck, Adam Eck, Shane and Ibbie, Glenn S, Keth, Keth, Bassett,
I don't know. That's not, is that Keith with an A?
No. No, Keith, Keith, Keith?
You can't put an A in Keith.
Tay would no last name.
Kyle Fell, Tell, maybe.
Jake Winkler, Crystal Brooks, Nick, Belgi Orno, R would no last name, just the letter R.
Alex Schumacher, Ron Barnes, Michael Mouse, Mous, Courtney Happner, Andrea Rafe Snyder,
Belinda with an eye, Elijah, Alicia.
Ludwig. That is Jeremy A. Laura Bennett, Heather Kostin, Lana Dovin, Devon, Devon.
I'm in. Cowboys, Fandau. Fan Dow, do you mean Fandum? That's a W, not an M. I didn't mistype that.
Bradley Burns, I made this for you. That's a person. Megan would know the last name. Catherine, Fiafila filialato. That's a tough last name to have. April Park, Maxwell, Bernard, J, just the letter,
Jack Chelsea, Katie Pernel, Tim Papp, Andrew New Schaefer, Mark Holmes, Mark Mike Erickson, Matt Maline, Cherie, Cheris, it's Sheree, Denny, right?
Carrie Kovitch, I'll talk my name out of anything.
Talk myself.
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