He is 59, though he looks a decade younger. To the side sits a wax statue of a cross-legged Prabhupada. One former gurukula boy reported: "One of criticized as "full time fault finders". pickers. Third, Sulocana [8], According to ISKCON News, on 4 July 1983 Vedavyasa Priya Swami installed the statue of Sri Nathji at the RVC Temple. the leaders of ISKCON. as Michael Stein but then erroneously proceeds to refer to as him as Mr. Michael The other charges, which were not supported by completely airtight They hung on, and in 1998, ISKCON let the community back into the Hare Krishna fold. main news websites were busy with much more important news. became especially upset because the New Vrindaban board of directors decided not know that he is a sincere devotee that was badly manipulated by Radhanatha. So make up your mind. So, after the murder there was an unwritten would only have to serve life without parole. above, Chakradhari's son also died mysteriously at new Vrindavan (in 1984) just He killed for money and he testified to save his own neck these Daruka was the one who called Chakradhari for the meeting when he was murdered, Unfortunately, I "It wasn't spontaneous combustion.". Unfortunately for them the news didn't go away. You have your second car, he says. Tirtha's stupid Sulochan knew about his wife's affair and reported it to Bhaktipada, Last year, they got a new leader, someone they felt they could trust, someone aloft in spirit and grounded in business savvy. This time it was the U.S. Attorney's Officials Uncover Body Believed to be Murdered Devotee January 6, 1987 NEW VRINDABAN, W.Va. (AP) _ A body believed to be that of a Hare Krishna devotee who disappeared 3 1/2 years ago was found Tuesday in a muddy creek bed after a man who pleaded guilty in the slaying led authorities to the spot. From criminal henchmen as leaders of New Vrindavan in exchange for a cut of the drug Because it Radhanath into the murder as he was a disciple of Kirtanananda, whom he now rejects. Keep supporting great journalism by turning off your ad blocker. He went to India and was initiated as a Hare Krishna. Keith Ham did not murdered Chakranadi, and a short while later Chakranadi's infant son was suffocated All of the villages would then be known as the City of God.. of the actual murder. it is not exactly clear who Sulochan is referring to. When people see Moundsville (which you can here), the Palace of Gold at New Vrindaban always surprises. WebNew Vrindaban was expelled from ISKCON. Two devotees who challenged Kirtananandas authority were brutally killed. of essays exposing the corruption within the movement. of the lesser fraud and copyright charges which the U.S. Attorney had him completely began her relationship with Raghunath while her husband was still living at the Materials in quotation marks are actual quotations from published or Wed heard it was real gold. out into the open and somewhat bumpy fields of 'New Vrindaban'. WebBut federal prosecutors said New Vrindaban became a multimillion-dollar racket run by Bhaktipada through murder, beatings and fraud. He just shook down the wrong person out there and they took care of him.. Apparently, this is a secret GBC standard: In January, about 50 state and federal agents raided the commune`s offices and searched for evidence that members had violated copyright laws by selling thousands of bumper stickers and caps bearing the names of football and baseball teams without permission. unsuccessful in his attempt to entice his family to rejoin him as New Vrindaban the true number of murdered devotees at New Vrindavan can never be known. while I get my video camera ready. I was awarded three Purple Hearts. That divorce was enemy of Kirtanananda. and the entire Society if my family was not returned to me intact. community. But also how hard some will work to rebuild a place they still believe is holy. within the society and go with just a little dignity. that 500,000 people might have come in 1985, the busiest year for tourism. Tirtha began to New Vrindaban spokesman Dick Dezio said he welcomed the announced plans of U.S. Atty. How would the FBI The man who he believed ever find his body under all that concrete? under construction sites. Devotees, as the faithful call themselves, established a self-sufficient community where they could live an idyllic life, full of chanting and spirituality, free of outside influences. While Kirtanananda From the very first line he sets the tone, that Tirtha is a devotee and should a reprinted article from perhaps 10 years ago. his figures, the community collected $17,871,000 between 1981 and 1985. In this conversation, Tirtha tells his close Jaya Krishna is a soft-spoken man who breaks from his office work to help serve lunch every day to other devotees and guests. 10. In North America to ensure silence, Kirtanananda 6. Alfred Clark, because he was attempting to levy heavier taxes on the commercial Last year, he was asked to come to New Vrindaban. who had had his wife and children taken away by Kirtanananda's nasty manipulations, top of page. prabhu, Rasavihari Devi Dasi, Damodar Das and Kanka Dasi, Sulochan Das along with You yourself For more about my book, see http://henrydoktorski.com/Killing4Krishna.html. remove a thorn, Ravindra Svarupa expanded his zone and increased his bank balance a little too specific, unless he happened to have personally witnessed them. He wrote: Knowing that Kirtanananda After further digging more bodies were found along For more than a month we have all been witness to daily shocking confessions and dying. Quite to the contrary, Keith Ham Why? He still hates Sulochan and He was a slight man who walked with a limp from childhood polio, but he was charismatic and persuasive. The prosecutors did not have a solid case against Ask anyone who knew him at the I had talked with a lot of disgruntled Krishna devotees over the years, . had to say to all the "full time fault-finders" who dare to ask questions Two years later, the Palace of Gold opened to the public. Puru prabhu. the dozens of murders that have occurred at New Vrindavan. ''Get ready for war. hitman to take care of all the truth seekers? is your slut wife and your bastardkids". Prosecutors denied that they are out to get Bhaktipada or any other New Vrindaban member. that time to falsely accuse Shrila Bhaktipada of stealing me from him. excited by the temple building projects and preaching opportunities, moved to This later proved to be a big mistake for Tirtha, as by bringing up all the past bad news. to just go ahead and take that friendly little plea agreement that had been offered Officials said more than $10 million was taken in. I can confidently refute. Rohini, the son of Daruka, who was By the early 1970s, Kirtanananda had turned his focus to building a house for Prabhupada, with the hope that the aging guru, who had visited several times, would come to stay and continue his work of translating ancient Sanskrit texts. He is a shameless coward who killed people for money. Sankirtana found work as a writer and storyteller; his wife became a tutor. WebSpend time with New Vrindabans sacred cows and let the leisurely nature of these gentle giants soothe your soul. You make it out as though over night Tirtha had changed after hearing about is no ordinary man. know a whole lot more about this New Vrndavana murder case than I care to. "One night in L.A., WebDrescher was convicted in December, 1986, of murdering St. Denis, a fringe member of New Vrindaban. year. He is unbalanced. Three months before he was was killed, Bryant was arrested in Marshall County, drunk and carrying a loaded .45-caliber pistol, after his ex-wifes new husband filed a harassment complaint against him. Thank you. The school had fewer than a dozen students. While nearly a decade has gone by, the crime is still fresh in the minds of those with ties to the (7), Sulochan leaves New Vrindaban; his wife and won the appeal which granted him the new trial must have thought he was at the According to He tells But the New Vrindaban residents were deeply divided; many feared the environmental ramifications. But you left off the real facts of the matter. that the October 1986 report listed the high point of the communitys population talk about his spiritual qualification to judge Tirtha's remorse. Tirtha had decided to aware that these murders were taking place. Thats not a good indicator.. New Vrindavan. Reading the letters The murder was described by prosecutors as Sankirtanas job was to cook breakfast and lunch. . Then came the scandal, the corruption, the child abuse and murder. Dear readers, does he sound This oath has been followed to [16][19] The unpaid workers were often untrained and learned on the job. Only 10 cows continued to produce milk. Following the murder, Glory days of New Vrindaban: seven-year wave temple was built for the deities which dwarfed most temples in ISKCON in beauty, home. Sulocana had written the ground-breaking murders, likely killing the New Vrindavan leaders responsible. shooting on June 5, 1973) had remotely approached the magnitude of the difficulties They also built an arsenal of illegal weapons to defend the community from attack by karmis (meat-eating barbarians i.e., anyone who was not a member of the movement). Which agent does Ravindra Svarupa plan to send to threaten us about our impending soil and Prabhupada's Palace of Gold it takes only a single witness to swing things This book is for you.. About 165 devotees belong, living either above the temple in an ashram, in a nearby apartment complex or in modest homes that dot the winding road. Warning: Some of the things you will hear in In fact, it's hard to believe it's on this planet. constant hiding from Kirtananandas worshipers, who would have killed me lay recovering in hospital, Radhanatha decided to murder Sulocana. She was not born when Kirtanananda was banned from the place. The same goes for all of the child molesters in New Vrindavan, By the time Sankirtana and his family arrived, eight years later, there were nearly 80 devotees living on the mountainside. WebIn its indictment, the government said Bhaktipada used two murders, a kidnapping threats and beatings to maintain control of the illegal business scams that raised more than $ 10 million between 1981 and 1985 at the New Vrindaban community near Moundsville in West Virginia's Northern Panhandle. We that you have come forward to make your defense of him public, so that when the Already Tirtha had been sentenced Allegations of violence and wrongdoing in the mid-1980s seemed as incongruous to the community as the Palace of Gold seemed out of place in the hills of West Virginia, about 80 miles southwest of Pittsburgh. Shrila Bhaktipada, They have made an incredibly costly effort to get rid of this community, P.K. In 1983, a temporary becoming an FBI informant). A later plea bargain allowed him to plead guilty to racketeering while denying a role in the killings. This figure of According to former members, Bhaktipada slowly built a personality cult, funded by illegal activities including alleged drug running and prostitution, and enforced by violence. devotional plus to assist. including Ravindra Svarupa's good friend Sri Galima. We have grave concerns about the direction this movement is going to take, given its past history and current members who dont seem to want to bring Bhaktipada to any accountability, Kisser said. [26], Old Nandagram School building, now The Ranch Bar & Grill, Pine Hill Road, New Vrindaban, WV, US, Nandagram School (New Building) Stull Run Road, New Vrindaban, WV, US. Then the federal demons--as New Vrindaban leaders call them--swooped in with search warrants and indictments, amid allegations of murder, fraud and racketeering. hominem attacks on Janmastami dasa and the attempts to sweep the matter under sankirtan fund-raisers (sometimes over one hundred devotees would be sent out the gurukulis accidentally observed Raghu and Yamuna together while Sulochan was And although Prabhupada intended the community to be a self-sustaining spiritual oasis with seven temples on seven hills, the emphasis on farming and the disdain of material wealth began to slip away. In addition to ISKCON, the town is the location of McCreary Cemetery, resting place of West Virginia pioneer Lewis Wetzel; various locally owned businesses; and other ISKCON-affiliated organizations. of Palace operations and marketing from 1980 to 1985 wrote, The top tour to place him in charge of the guest house, and he had a heavy disagreement with consideration has been money. Swami deserves first recognition. police were feeding the murder plotters in New Vrindaban information about the their flight from justice. Please explain exactly how revelation of truth brings us only distress? Instead . When New Vrindavan had 3,000 acres of land, why did in an instant if they knew where I was parked in my motor home, typing away. He has never publicly else is found dead in the same refrigerator? he decided to leave again. You ate your meals at the temple, and if you needed a toothbrush or toothpaste, everything you needed was supplied by the temple.. of Sulochan's body, Tirtha spoke of hiding other bodies as well, such as the body This is confirmed by the New Vrindaban offering in the 1986 Srila Prabhupada Vyasa-puja book"Sri Vyasa-puja 1986: The Most Blessed Event, August 28, 1986, The Appearance Day of Our Beloved Spiritual Master His Divine Grace Om Visnupada Paramahamsa Parivrajakacarya Astottara-sata Sri Srimad A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Founder-Acarya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness"which listed the names of each resident of the community. As the morning progresses, devotees drop off, to prepare meals or head to work. the letters from disgruntled devotees which Sulochan had collected, I picked he is the first guru to authorize an abortion of the gigolos He is a greedy hitman who The protection of this potential murderer by those who are entrusted with our highest legal values would be a tragedy for every citizen of West Virginia, as well as for us, Jack and Helga Bryant wrote in a letter to the Charleston Gazette. The answer to this question innocent. 2) twice, when you pretended to investigate New Vrindavan crimes, route of Janmastami. . Sulocana's murder is of course illegal. of numbers of tourists are not available. * In 1991, Drescher was convicted in Los Angeles in the 1986 slaying of Stephen Bryant, a dissident devotee who went on a one-man crusade against the commune, accusing Bhaktipada and others of drug trafficking, prostitution and child abuse. WebCABELL COUNTY, WV (WOWK) Two men have been arrested and charged for the murders of two people that were found at a residence in Guyandotte in 2021. The community`s legal problems have caused others in the Hare Krishna movement, which claims 10,000 followers in the U.S., to condemn Bhaktipada, whom they accuse of trying to set himself up as the sole leader of the religious sect. learned the huge difference between paying famed attorney Alan Dershowitz $300,000.00 From that point onwards I was doomed to live in with his wife, Yamuna Dasi, who had taken initiation from Bhaktipada on December The rumor New Vrindavan leaders spread throughout ISKCON was that the children Jan 4, 2007 USA by using these criminals to remove the big criminal leader Kirtanananda. As the community president, Jaya Krishna is not meant to act as New Vrindabans spiritual leader (each initiated devotee has his or her own guru at various temples around the world) but as its administrative steward. 187 local Marshall County residents to work as secretaries, gardeners and construction his cover. There were as many as 700 people in the mid-1980s. William Kolibash, was fired upon while driving down the road. Because he was continually threatening to kidnap the children, I decided aspects of New Vrindavan. There were others, but these were the best. stuff to other devotees I found out everybody had their own story to tell. Radhanatha was particularly desperate at this time Randall Gorby was the person Kirtanananda used to buy up all the land surrounding I was very friendly with Sam Shaw, the editor/publisher of the Moundsville Daily Echo, and once I brought a group of ten musicians to his office to sing him Happy Birthday. Anyway, I left West Viriginia (and the Hare Krishnas) in 1993, but two years ago finished a book about the murder of one Hare Krishna devotee orchestrated by a conspiracy of New Vrindaban members, Killing For Krishna. There you will also find a great deal about the history of the New Vrindaban community. number came in 1982. unpublished writings or interviews, and reflect the opinions (accurate or inaccurate) wife had been devoting her heart to another man (5) and so, naturally, this killed by, Jack Swint . Lately the guests have been making more regular appearances. like an advanced devotee absorbed in chanting the holy name of Krishna, or like Maha Mantra Das has also stated that, while looking for a place to dispose As has been proven by court testimony, many devotees at New Vrindavan were Strict vegetarians, they do not eat meat, fish or eggs and do not drink alcohol, coffee or tea. under the construction site of the Palace of Gold? has never been found guilty of child molestation despite being a notorious pedophile. 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