People's Temple follower Larry Layton stands with police following his arrest November 18, 1978 in the shooting of two people on a remote Guyana airstrip. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images) ...

People's Temple follower Larry Layton stands with police following his arrest November 18, 1978 in the shooting of two people on a remote Guyana airstrip. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images) ...

Former cult member Larry Layton was convicted of conspiracy Monday in the killing of California Rep. Leo Ryan and the wounding of a U.S. diplomat in a 1978 jungle ambush that preceded the mass murd… ...

Deborah Layton, once a highly trusted member of Peoples Temple, still feels ashamed for being involved in the cult led by Jim Jones. “I always want to deny I had anything to do with it,” she ...

Peoples Temple follower Larry Layton (C) stands with police following his arrest on Nov. 18, 1978, for the shooting of two people on the Port Kaituma airstrip.

It is being republished here this week because Deborah Layton, a survivor of Jonestown who is mentioned in this post, will appear at Lincoln Land Community College's Trutter Center from 1-3 p.m ...

SEDUCTIVE POISON: A Jonestown Survivor’s Story of Life and Death in the Peoples Temple By Deborah Layton Anchor Books, 309 pages, $23.95 In the late 1970s, religious cults like the Hare Krishnas ...

People's Temple follower Larry Layton stands with police following his arrest November 18, 1978 in the shooting of two people on a remote Guyana airstrip. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images) ...

People's Temple follower Larry Layton stands with police following his arrest November 18, 1978 in the shooting of two people on a remote Guyana airstrip. (Photo by David Hume Kennerly/Getty Images) ...