Murder at Ryans Run
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Investigative podcast with MOVE members exposing the CULT’s abuse, terror, fraud & crime. This is the story MOVE leaders don’t want you to hear.
A 6-year true crime investigation exposing the Philadelphia cult operating as the MOVE Organization. Told by survivors and insiders, the 2-season podcast reveals abuse, lies, and lost lives—plus exclusive tapes, FBI files, and real-time reporting of a cult escape.
23 years ago today, this 911 call brought police out to Ryans Run West apartments in Maple Shade, New Jersey.
They discovered a dead man in his car. It was enemy ex-MOVE member and ex-husband of leader Alberta Africa.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bethmcnamara/p/this-week-in-cults-a-2002-murder?r=5w99jk&utm_medium=ioss
14/09/2025
Saturday Night CULTstack
🔥 Do You Smell Smoke? Two years ago, MOVE headquarters went up in flames - the cult said nothing, and the press looked away.
04/09/2025
Keeping a lid on AUM is common sense.
Any group with a history of violence, death & destruction should not be given the benefit of the doubt or a historical rewrite.
And that of course brings me to the cult of which I am the expert - MOVE.
MOVE has always been a destructive cult created by a sociopathic narcissist named Vincent Leaphart. Destroying lives was his goal and he achieved it.
MOVE calls him John Africa.
I call him a criminal mastermind that used coercion and violence to control his disciples to commit crimes for him.
Read or listen to story about AUM cult and let me know your thoughts in comments.
Japan to keep restricting Aum Shinrikyo successor group's activities The Public Security Examination Commission extended the restrictions on Aleph, a successor group of the now-defunct doomsday cult, until March 20, 2026.
02/09/2025
New article about more MOVE members you don’t know because MOVE doesn’t want you to know.
Big M-1 Vibes
Big M-1 Vibes More MOVE Members MOVE Doesn't Want You To Know
21/08/2025
So many lives and families have been destroyed by the MOVE cult created by Vincent Leaphart.
This Day in MOVE History post tells just some of what happened to The Dotson Family.
https://open.substack.com/pub/bethmcnamara/p/carried-away?r=5w99jk&utm
Carried Away As I’ve written here on Substack (and reported in my podcast), the MOVE members charged after the deadly 1978 standoff with police turned their criminal trials into a three-ring circus.
14/08/2025
New substack!
https://open.substack.com/pub/bethmcnamara/p/bench-press?utm_source=app-post-stats-page&r=5w99jk&utm_medium=ios
09/08/2025
Is everything bigger in Texas, including MOVE lies?
Read my Substack for today.
Puga Does Dallas Michael Davis would like you to know him as Mike Africa Jr. — a name invented by the MOVE cult to hide members from accountability, confuse law enforcement and child protective services, and erase personal identity.
09/08/2025
47 years ago today, Vincent Leaphart ruined dozens of lives and murdered James Ramp. He did bot pull the trigger, but he pulled the strings and got away scot-free.
I wrote three substacks focusing on the victims of this day.
https://substack.com/?r=5w99jk&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=profile
04/08/2025
I am super into Substack right now and posted 3 articles on MOVE with images just since last night.
Providing visuals is what I was missing with just the podcast.
Hope you will check it out.
https://substack.com/?r=5w99jk&utm_medium=io
Beth McNamara | Substack Writer, Emmy-nom Producer, Podcaster, MOVE cult expert (6+ yrs of research, investigation & 45 ep pod).Here to share my writing, research, sample chapters, & deep-dive research into stories that have death grip on me.