David Koresh in an image from Netflix's "Waco: American Apocalypse." Koresh and his followers were killed during an FBI standoff at the Branch Davidians compound in Waco, Texas in April 1993.

WACO, Texas - Robert Darden, author of “Mad Man in Waco” and professor of journalism at Baylor University, described Branch Davidian sect leader David Koresh as a fiercely influential and ...