St. Louis Disappearances Traced to Bizarre New Cult, Police Say

Four adults and two toddlers who mysteriously vanished from St. Louis are believed to have joined a bizarre new cult run by a TikToker and convicted sex offender—and police say the group likely has a compound somewhere where other followers from across the country may have flocked to as well.

“They have to turn up somewhere. This cannot be the only case of missing people in this country tied to this cult,” Berkeley Police Maj. Steve Runge told reporters on Tuesday.

Police said they became aware of the cult after the disappearances of 25-year-old Mikayla Thompson, 36-year-old Ma’Kayla Wickerson, and Wickerson’s 3-year-old daughter, Malaiyah Wickerson. They went missing around the same time as three others in the area: 30-year-old Naaman Williams; 27-year-old Gerrielle German; and her 2-year-old, Ashton Williams, authorities said.

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