David Koresh in an image from Netflix's documentary series "Waco: American Apocalypse." Koresh was married to Rachel Jones. She, their children and her family all died in the 1993 FBI siege at ...

I’ve looked at it introspectively and firmly believe – and I’ve been told this by people who survived the fire – that David Koresh needed to fulfill the destiny that he perceived was his.

Visitors to Estero’s Koreshan State Park often ask: “Koreshan as in David Koresh?”. They wonder if the cultured pioneers who built the handsome settlement on the banks of the Estero River ...

Messianic cult leader David Koresh comes under the microscope in a new Netflix documentary exploring the tragic events of 1993 that left more than 80 dead. By Adam Chapman.

Charismatic "cult" leader David Koresh was the head of the Branch Davidians, and was killed in April 1993 by government agents during a raid on his Waco, Tx. compound following a 51-day standoff ...

In his new book, Waco: David Koresh, The Branch Davidians and a Legacy of Rage, author Jeff Guinn describes the group's leader, David Koresh, as a religious demagogue who took multiple teenage ...

The toll of the 51-day standoff between federal agents and David Koresh’s Branch Davidians still shocks in Netflix doc.

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.

He ultimately changed his name to David Koresh and was the Branch Davidians’ leader during the Waco siege. By February 1993, authorities suspected that weapons were being stockpiled illegally on ...

David Koresh was only legally married to one woman Koresh was only ever legally married to Rachel Jones. They wed when she was 14 (via The Washington Post ).

Bonnie Haldeman—the mother of the infamous Branch Davidian leader David Koresh—was found dead last Friday at her sister’s home in the East Texas town of Chandler. The 64-year-old nurse had ...