Amrhein, who owns a real estate agency, said Alamos followers have gone to Huntington to pass out literature that says Amrhein beat his children and is emotionally unstable. Alamo denies it. In February 1991, Alamo ordered his followers to vacate the Arkansas compound prior to a federal raid and to bring along the body of Susan Alamo. When Amrhein was arrested last week in New Orleans for trying to leave the country, her marriage license was reportedly not certified. Schriver, Debby. ET) on Investigation Discovery. Isabel Mendoza Unofficial wife of Tony Alamo Now Tony Alamo is also a grave robberat least in the eyes of an Arkansas judge, who has ordered him to lay to rest his wifes missing 13-year-old corpse. Alamo died in federal custody in North Carolina on May 2, 2017. Cookies collect information about your preferences and your device and are used to make the site work as you expect it to, to understand how you interact with the site, and to show advertisements that are targeted to your interests. It would later be determined that the church was mostly optics, as it became the way an increasingly erratic and unhinged Tony evaded paying any taxes on his growing fortune. [11], In 1976, the church relocated to Dyer, Arkansas, where Susan had grown up. Online at http://www.religionnewsblog.com/8506 (accessed February 23, 2023). Alamos church also lives, if in a far smaller and less organized fashion, said several sources including Alamos own lawyer. Coie, a 45-year-old singer, said last week she had not expected a monetary award but sued to preserve some semblance of her mothers dignity. She married Tony, who at the time was a fugitive, in hiding from charges of felony child abuse in California. 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The documentary series also features archival footage, including Tony Alamo's videotaped deposition, as well as interviews with former members of the cult and the FBI agent who brought Alamo down.[23][24]. Alamo began preaching in Los Angeles in the 1960s on a platform of anti-catholicism, homophobia and polygamy with young women, according to the AP. He apparently adopted the name Marcus Abad for some time and achieved some modicum of success as a big band crooner in Los Angeles, California. His booming voice could be heard on the radio from Alabama to Africa, trying to convert a new flock. By the time the church was at its height in 1980, they had their own television ministry and were bringing in tens of thousands of dollars each week. In 1982, the same year that Susan Alamo died,[15] the foundation was discontinued and replaced by the newly incorporated Music Square Church (MSC). In 1966, after serving jail time for a weapons charge, Alamo married Edith Opal Horn from Alma (Crawford County), also of Jewish descent. For every Chris Coie out there, there are hundreds of people who would say just the opposite with regard to her allegations about the church and about Tony, James said. Alamo, 74, faces up to 175 years in prison, plus fines that could total $2.5 million. His skin is very white and clammy. The U.S. State Department isnt sure either if Alamo and Amrhein are married. Executive summary: Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. Susan wasnt., I fell in love with Tony, she said. But he had to go back to his mother the day before his birthday. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. It was also extremely anti-Catholic, only accepted the King James Version of the Bible, and its members adhered to a moral code which condemned and forbade the use of drugs, homosexuality, adultery, birth control, and abortion. He also built a Christian empire on sex trafficking, embezzlement and lies. This newspaper traced the advertising agency promoting the association to the Alamo of Nashville clothing store. Acting upon reports of child abuse, on March 25, 1988, sheriffs deputies raided the Saugus, California, compound in order to reunite three boys with their natural fathers; the fathers had been members of the Arkansas compound but had been excommunicated. Donations made to the CALS Foundation are tax-deductible for United States federal income tax purposes. He is very talented. I knew how he thinks, and what he might do, she said. The 61-year-old Alamonow serving a six-year sentence in Colorado for failing to file tax returns and submitting a false onemust also arrange for her proper and legal entombment, Spears ruled. Kizers ruling upheld an earlier decision by the state Department of Finance and Administration that six Alamo businesses in Alma and Dyer have no religious purpose and must pay sales taxes. Amrhein is involved in a custody fight over her two children from a previous marriage but her marriage to the Alama-based minister is being called into question because Alamos second wife, Birgitta Gyllenhammar, 43, says she is still waiting for him to sign the divorce papers. Original Design by Gurpartap Singh, Eye Witness & First Hand Accounts of Abuse, Tony Alamos second wife says theyre not divorced, 1986-03-06 Press Argus Courier Alamos second wife says theyre not divorced. Eddy was 14 and Rodriguez just 12 when they. Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. He was heard on over a dozen radio stations in the U.S. and more in Africa, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. In return, their own needs would be met and their children would receive basic education through high school. They charged him with several counts related to his tax issues. He kept the presses at his print shop running day and night, churning out literature about Satanic conspiracy theories perpetrated against him and the church. The feds had narrowed in Tony fought Coie for custody of Susans remains. People may receive compensation for some links to products and services on this website. Tony Alamo died in prison on Tuesday night. 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This is how he shows his gratitude? In addition to clothing, the church produced music and began distributing Christian music and sermons nationally. John Wesley Hall, a lawyer who represented Alamo, told the AP that several former members of his evangelist community expressed relief upon learning news of his passing was true. 1A, 10A. Additional support provided by the Arkansas General Assembly. For additional information: It would be three more years before Alamo followers would finally deliver Susan Alamos remains to Tulsa, Oklahoma, for proper burial under Coies supervision. Pebbles was 12. History: In California in February 1993 Tony Alamo took Lydia , an African American, as a second wife. Ive been trying to divorce him since the end of January, she said. Creating an account gives you access to all these features. Last week the children were taken away from her in New Orleans when authorities suspected she was trying to leave the country. I dont get the feeling he is very smart.. Alamos Fort Smith attorneys say they do not know if Alamo divorced Gyllenhammar and if he properly married Amrhein. On June 8, 1994, he was convicted on one charge of filing a false income tax return and three charges of failing to file a tax return; testimony during the trial revealed that the church had a total income on $9 million during the three years when Alamo paid no taxes. Kenya was the son of Diana Elena Williams Alamo, a legal ex-wife of Alamos. Lydia and Tabor are no longer in associated with the group or Tony Alamo. Arkansas authorities report that Alamo (born Bernie Lazar Hoffman) died while in custody at the Federal Medical Center in. Susan Alamo died in April 1982. Their partnership brought in more members than ever. He remained in prison until his death in May 2017. In February 2014, a Miller County judgein the largest personal-injury judgment in Arkansas historyawarded $525 million in actual and punitive damages to seven former members of Tony Alamo Christian Ministries. With the assistance of some church members, the Alamos produced records and tapes. The civil contempt differs from his criminal incarceration in that Mr. Alamo holds the key to the jailhouse in his possession, Spears wrote. But last month Spears concluded after a weeklong trial that Mr. Staff of the CALS Encyclopedia of Arkansas. In September 1994, Alamo was sentenced by the Federal District Court for the Western District of Tennessee to six years in the Federal Correctional Institution in Texarkana, Texas. 100 Rock Street There the church grew to several hundred members and it also established printing facilities, a school, and a tabernacle. History: In 1993 Angela Marie Morales (aka Angel Streit) became a wife in Arkansas at age 20. Amrhein doesnt believe the children went to school while they lived at the foundation in Dyer. Ive done well. 2023 Encyclopedia of Arkansas. The court concluded Alamo also owed another $5 million to ex-members for unpaid labor. Widely regarded as a cult, Tony Alamo Christian Ministries was at the center of a number of lawsuits and government actions, and its leader was jailed on a variety of charges, including income tax evasion, the theft of his late wifes body, and taking underage girls across state lines for sex. Gyllenhammar said Alamo is attracted to blond women. The miniseries describes their founding and running of the Tony and Susan Alamo Christian Foundation which the program characterizes as a "cult" through which the Alamos became rich by exploiting their followers who truly believed in them. Alamo is the president of the Alama-based Alamo Christian Foundation. Alamos attorneys kept the issue before the courts from 1985 to 1992, arguing that church-owned enterprises were exempt from federal income taxes because they were churches in disguise. Tony Alamo (born Bernie Lazar Hoffman; September 20, 1934) is an American religious leader and convicted child sex offender.He and his late wife Susan are best known as the founders of an organization currently known as Tony Alamo Christian Ministries.The organization is based in and around Fouke and Alma, Arkansas, United States, and has been referred to as a cult. Sadly, there are many more under age children that were forced by Alamo to be another one of his wives. She said an address on his posters the urge music fans to send in the votes for entertainer of the year is Alamos post office box in Los Angeles. Tony Alamo was a well-known evangelist who, after a radical conversion to Christianity, founded what is now called Tony Alamo Christian Ministries with his wife, Susan, later establishing its headquarters in Dyer (Crawford County). At one time, Alamo owned as many as twenty-nine businesses in nearby Alma, including Alamo Western Wear, as well as Alamo Restaurant and Alamo Discount Grocery. Their ministry was part of the Jesus People movement, in which many of those involved in the counterculture of the 1960s began proclaiming a spiritual transformation and an allegiance to Jesus. The full weight of the crimes hed committed was finally coming to light, and in 2014, a judge from Miller County, Arkansas, ruled in a case brought by seven ex-cult members. On September 20, 2008, state and federal officials raided Alamos Fouke (Miller County)compound as part of a two-year investigation into allegations of child abuse and child pornography. 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