Guests Erika Lantz and Elin Lantz Lesser join to discuss season 3 of their investigative podcast The Turning, which follows the journey of a young woman named Lindsay, a former member of a Christian group in Minnesota called River Road Fellowship. They talk about the background of the leader Victor Bernard, how Lindsay&rsquo;s parents moved the family to the cult compound, and what it was like living there&mdash;with rapture drills that required the members to never venture far from the compound, a massive bonfire designed to destroy the members&rsquo; attachments to their pasts, and other forms of strict control.&nbsp; They discuss how Lindsay was selected as a teenager to be one of Victor&rsquo;s ten &ldquo;maidens,&rdquo; a group of girls and women living next to his lodge who were subjected to coerced labor and eventually sexual exploitation in what Lindsay only later learned was meant to be a lifelong commitment, the escape plans she was making, and how glimpses of the outside world led her to finally leaving. SOURCES:&nbsp; <a href="https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1119-the-turning-seasons-1-2-3-82262169/">The Turning: River Road</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

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