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Blackburn Cult
The religious group known as the Blackburn Cult, the Divine Order of the Royal Arms of the Great Eleven, or the Great Eleven Club, was started in 1922 on Bunker Hill in Downtown Los Angeles, California; and later formed a retreat in the Southern California Simi Valley. The group's founder, May Otis Blackburn, is said to have received revelations directly from angels, and along with her daughter Ruth Wieland Rizzio believed she was charged by the archangel Gabriel to write books revealing the mysteries of heaven and earth and life and death.〔
Newspaper articles from the time period reported strange rituals including the sacrifice of animals, sex scandals and attempts to resurrect a dead 16-year-old girl.〔 Police found the corpse of Willa Rhoads under the floor at the Rhoads' residence, wrapped in spices and salt and surrounded by the bodies of seven dead dogs.〔''L.A. Exposed: Strange Myths and Curious Legends in the City of Angels'', Paul Young, St. Martin's Griffin, May 3, 2002, ISBN 0-312-20646-1 , Page 181.〕 Mr. and Mrs. Rhoads later confessed to the police that they had placed their daughter in the tomb fourteen months earlier at the suggestion of May Otis Blackburn.〔 The cult was also accused of killing a member in an oven, poisoning another during a "whirling dervish" ceremony, and making several other members disappear.〔"Cult of the Great Eleven", Samuel Fort, 2014, ASIN B00OALI9O4.〕
== Indicted for grand theft ==
In 1929 group leaders were indicted in Los Angeles for grand theft and investigated in the disappearances of several members.〔 These indictments created a media sensation at the time the background on the grand theft was revealed to the public.〔"Photos of Early Simi Valley Richly Illustrate History Book.", Douglas Clark, ''Daily News'', Nov 29, 1997.〕 May Otis Blackburn was charged with twelve counts of grand theft, and articles at that time referred to Blackburn as a "cult leader."〔"DIVINE ARM CULT CHIEF ARRAIGNED: Mrs. Blackburn's Plea Set for Monday on Charges of $28,000 Grand Theft", ''Los Angeles Times '', Dec 4, 1929.〕
According to ''TIME Magazine'' article "California Cults", the Blackburn Cult was also known as "The Great Eleven", and May Otis Blackburn was referred to as "Heel of God."〔(California Cults ), ''TIME Magazine'', March 31, 1930, Page 3.〕 The cult later collapsed after May Otis Blackburn was imprisoned for stealing $40,000 from Clifford Dabney.〔〔"Priestess of Mystic Cult Guilty in $40,000 Swindle: Jury Out Three Days Decides Finally Woman Defrauded Oil Man. PRIESTESS OF CULT IS GUILTY OF FRAUD", ''The Washington Post'', March 3, 1930, -- "Mrs. May Otis Blackburn, high priestess of the mystic cult known as the Divine Order of the Royal Arm of the Great Eleven, was convicted of grand theft today by a jury which began deliberation last Thursday."〕
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