David Koresh, the focus of new Netflix doc Waco: American Apocalypse, led a 51-day siege which ended in a deadly fireball and cost the lives of 86 men, women and children ...

Texas Waco doc: Cult leader David Koresh ‘needed to fulfill his destiny,' resulting in horrific tragedy Netflix's 'Waco: American Apocalypse' explores 51-day standoff between U.S. government and ...

From Feb. 28 through April 19 of that year, agents of the state including the FBI, ATF, Texas law enforcement, and the U.S. military occupied the premises of a Waco, Texas-area property belonging ...

Headed by David Koresh, the cult lived in a large commune at Mount Carmel Center ranch, which was right outside of Waco, Tx. Its members stockpiled weapons to prepare for what they believed would ...

David Koresh was born on August 17, 1959, in Houston, Texas, to Bonnie Clark. His real name was Vernon Howell, before changing it to copy Old Testament kings, and claiming to be God's prophet .

Read on to find out more about David Koresh and the Waco siege ... Originally a member of the Seventh Day Adventist Church, he moved to Waco, Texas, in 1981 and joined the Branch Davidians, ...

SALT LAKE CITY (KUTV) – Studio Synopsis: This immersive three-part Netflix documentary series is the definitive account of what happened in Waco, Texas in 1993 when cult leader David Koresh ...

Jeff Guinn’s new book Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and a Legacy of Rage, set for release January 24, explores familiar themes previously aired in government investigations, books ...

David Koresh, the focus of new Netflix doc Waco: American Apocalypse, led a 51-day siege which ended in a deadly fireball and cost the lives of 86 men, women and children ...

It began on February 28, 1993 with the biggest gunfight on American soil since the Civil War, and ended 51 days later with the deaths of more than 80 people. The siege at a religious compound near ...

Branch Davidian leader David Koresh is shown in this police line-up in 1987 (Image: Rex). Koresh, born in Houston, Texas in 1959, had an illegal relationship with a 15-year-old girl at the age of 19.