A friend of mine went to his ‘church’ for a while.
Thankfully she did NOT go to California with the rest of his converts.
Those busses he had.. All black people in them. He wanted control and evidently found some that would comply. . He had practice trials up to the actual poison.. And probably those who drank thought it was a practice. They were in a remote place.. He took them where he could keep them from changing their minds.
Word had reached authorities that his group was in danger. Someone was coming in an airplane to investigate, and that was the reason that days trial drink, had the real thing in it..
Sad ending.. He was a troubled man.