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| | CALIFORNIA / Murder-suicide case in desert evangelical sex cult / Sect heir apparent, woman who reared him are found dead |
 | | Rodriguez, known as "Davidito" when he was growing up in the Children of God, had been groomed as a child to be the heir apparent of the sect, founded in the late 1960s by the late David "Moses" Berg. |
 | | Police in Arizona and California said they are investigating an apparent murder-suicide involving the son of Maria David, the prophet and spiritual leader of the Family, an international evangelical sex cult previously known as the Children of God. |
 | | Early Sunday morning, the body of Richard P. Rodriguez, 29, was found behind the wheel of a car in an industrial area in Blythe, a Riverside County town in the Mojave Desert on the Arizona border. |
| sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2005/01/11/BAGNFAO7MI1.DTL (693 words) |
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