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Dangerous Persuasions

Dangerous Persuasions

Who can you trust in this day and age? "Dangerous Persuasions" focuses on sexual predators, criminal masterminds, false prophets and sociopathic con artists who prey on the minds of innocent people. Using first-person accounts and detailed re-enactments, the hourlong episodes tell engrossing stories of everyday people who were lured into a web of deceit and torn from their path in life, becoming trapped in a cycle of abuse and manipulation instead.
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Season 15 of 6 Episodes

  • An organization's secret war against its critics is discovered.

  • Christine Marie meets a man whose promises lure her into a living nightmare.

  • Susan Hamlin's husband has manipulated her into believing that she has harmed her own children and is plotting to kill him.

  • Kerry Noble takes his wife to a Christian commune and are soon lead into a dark world.

  • Mary Rich and her family follow self-styled missionary Ron Larrinaga to a remote house in northern California, where things soon turn violent.

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10 episodes will be broadcast over the next two weeks

    Scientology: My Eternal Contract
    Prophet or Predator?
    False Memories, Real Evil
    Highway to Hate
    Diabolical Discipline
    Escaping Jonestown
    The Power of Hate
    Forsaken by God
    He's My Master
    Revolution Isn't a Tea Party
  • Scientology: My Eternal Contract

    An organization's secret war against its critics is discovered.
    Upcoming
  • Prophet or Predator?

    Christine Marie meets a man whose promises lure her into a living nightmare.
    Upcoming
  • False Memories, Real Evil

    Susan Hamlin's husband has manipulated her into believing that she has harmed her own children and is plotting to kill him.
    Upcoming
  • Highway to Hate

    Kerry Noble takes his wife to a Christian commune and are soon lead into a dark world.
    Upcoming
  • Diabolical Discipline

    Mary Rich and her family follow self-styled missionary Ron Larrinaga to a remote house in northern California, where things soon turn violent.
    Upcoming
  • Escaping Jonestown

    As cult leader Jim Jones becomes increasingly unhinged and despotic, teenagers Vernon and Leslie take desperate measures to escape from Jonestown, Guyana.
    Upcoming
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Who can you trust in this day and age? "Dangerous Persuasions" focuses on sexual predators, criminal masterminds, false prophets and sociopathic con artists who prey on the minds of innocent people. Using first-person accounts and detailed re-enactments, the hourlong episodes tell engrossing stories of everyday people who were lured into a web of deceit and torn from their path in life, becoming trapped in a cycle of abuse and manipulation instead.

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