A neglected boy who held funerals for roadkill and studied dictators in the library grew up to orchestrate one of the most infamous acts of mass murder in modern history. This episode traces the contradictory evolution of Jim Jones, showing how genuine civil rights work was weaponized into a totalitarian nightmare.

We unpack the psychology of vulnerability, utopian ideals and a predatory need for control.

• His isolated, impoverished Indiana childhood and early obsessions with religion and authoritarian control.
• His hidden Marxist politics, his use of the pulpit as cover, and faked faith healings borrowed from other preachers.
• His real integration work in Indianapolis and his rainbow family as mechanisms of loyalty.
• The move to California and Guyana, the confiscated passports, and the terrifying White Night  ...