He spent three decades on Nebraska’s death row and was housed at the Tecumseh State Correctional Institutional in 2015. With a host of incriminating evidence and first-hand witness statements at his trial, Micael was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced to death in 1986. Michael Ryan is no more as he died in prison in 2015. Finally, Michael began stomping on James’ chest, breaking his ribs before Timothy shot the victim in the head, killing him. Michael even broke James’ hands before asking Dennis Ryan and Timothy Haverkamp to break the victim’s legs. A shovel was used to sodomize the victim horrifyingly before others shot off the tips of James’ fingers on his left hand. With Luke dead, Michael then turned his anger towards James and had the cult members whip him mercilessly for hours on end. Finally, on March 25, 1985, Michael picked up the poor kid and bashed him against a cabinet, killing him on the spot. Michael did not even hesitate to torture the 5-year-old Luke as cult members testified how he spat on the boy, beat him brutally, and forced James to abuse him sexually. The show mentioned how Rick and James were kept chained up in a hog shed and demoted to slaves, while Luke was considered to be nothing better than a dog. Michael couldn’t take such insolence lying down and hence decided to imprison Rick, James, as well as Rick’s five-year-old son, Luke. According to the show, Rick Stice and James Thimm began raising doubts about some of Michael’s teachings and tricks. However, he wasn’t a benevolent leader and thoroughly despised people who fell into his bad books. Using trickery and deceit, Michael began increasing his followers and even began amassing weapons in preparation for armageddon. Michael claimed that he had spoken to Yahweh directly and insisted that the god had asked him to take multiple wives. Cult members testified how Michael Ryan self-appointed himself as the ruler and claimed that Yahweh was the only true god. Surprisingly, the public knew nothing about the cult’s activities, and thus, the details made public during the trials left the city of Rulo shook. Once the police recovered Luke and James’ bodies, they immediately arrested cult leader Michael Ryan as well as members Dennis Ryan and Timothy Haverkamp.
Besides, his limbs and ribcage were broken, while medical examiners also found a bullet wound in his head, which supposedly caused the death. There were numerous whip marks all over his body, and the victim appeared to have been sodomized with an unnaturally large object. Once the authorities recovered James’s body, they saw that he had been brutally tortured. Subsequently, Haverkamp and Andreas informed the police about James’ murder, leading to the recovery of the victim as well as five-year-old Luke Stice’s body, both of which were buried in unmarked graves. The arrests led to the police raiding the cult’s Rulo compound, where authorities found stashes of guns, ammunition, and stolen property. Image Credit: Erin/Find A GraveĪccording to the show, in June of 1985, cult members James Haverkamp and John Andreas were arrested for stealing farming machinery in Kansas. Although James was initially accepted and given a member status, the show mentioned that he expressed doubts in a few of the teachings and was demoted to the status of a slave. Run by Michael Ryan, the cult worshipped Yahweh and resided in a hog farm owned by Rick Stice. James Thimm was 26 years old at the time of his death and had joined the cult in Rulo, Nebraska.
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