AUDIO: Former prosecutor Paul Spiers shares memories of “no body” case (runs 53:07)

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Welcome to Beyond90Seconds.com.  I’m Mark Horner.
As I sit at my desk at home this evening…recording these words…I do so thinking about a murder that began to unfold exactly 10 years ago tonight.
For it was right around this time…on the [...]

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For starters, please allow me to say, “Hello.”  After taking a new job that involves a lot of time on the road, I’ve become a bit of a stranger to those of you who had regularly read this blog.  Sorry for the absence, but there hasn’t been much free time.  And I’ve resisted the temptation [...]

O’Keefe’s/Esther’s “heart-to-heart” comments to KOB-TV investigative reporter Jeremy Jojola. Last night—in an audio interview with Beyond90Seconds.com—Jojola spoke about this moment. The video is shot by members of Strong City. Jojola was wrapping-up his interview with O’Keefe/Esther for his TV station.
Posted on Beyond90Seconds.com on January 29, 2009.

Strong City has titled this video, “Esther Taken By Sheriff Deputies – Cam 1 – Part I”
Beyond90Seconds.com posted this video on January 29, 2009.

(January 2, 2009) It’s official. The self-described Messiah who proclaimed that he would fast until death, if sent to prison, is now eating while behind bars.

KOB-Investigative reporter Jeremy Jojola learned of this latest development in the Wayne Bent case while opening an e-mail from a prison spokesperson. A few minutes later, Beyond90Seconds.com conducted a video interview with Jojola as he sat at his desk in the KOB-TV newsroom:

This is raw (unedited) video of a Beyond90Seconds.com January 28, 2009 interview with KOB-TV (Albuquerque) investigative reporter Jeremy Jojola.

(January 2, 2009) As reported on this blog Thursday evening, recently convicted sex offender Wayne Bent is expected to end his fast in prison today. KOB-TV’s investigative reporter Jeremy Jojola reported this story on his station’s 10pm newscast Thursday.

Minutes after his report aired, Jojola spoke with Beyond90Seconds.com in a video interview recorded via Skype. This interview about the embattled leader of the Lord Our Righteousness Church runs 12-minutes and 32-seconds.

(December 30, 2008) Beyond90Seconds.com interview with Jeremy Jojola. While there’s video here, the signal was too poor to include video of Jeremy. So, he spoke by telephone.

Jeremy Jojola’s live report for KOB-TV’s 12/30/08 noon newscast.

(May 6, 2008) WELCH, A FORMER STRONG CITY CHURCH MEMBER, SPEAKS OUT ABOUT WAYNE BENT’S ARREST AND MUCH MORE…

In a 46-minute *unedited* VIDEO interview with Beyond90Seconds.com, former member of the The Lord Our Righteousness church, Prudence Welch, speaks about today’s arrest of church leader Wayne Bent.

Welch also shares her thoughts on the 15-years she says she spent in the church.

Why did she join?

Why did she leave?

What does Welch say goes on inside the church?

Why has she been so determine

When KOB-TV sent reporter Jeremy Jojola more than 300-miles for an exclusive interview with a woman who’d been fasting for nearly a month, his station would not have the only camera in the room. Members of Wayne Bent’s “Strong City” also videotaped KOB’s unfolding interview with Aquinnah O’Keefe (aka “Esther”).

Today, Strong City published its video of the interview on its Web site, strongcity.info. The video runs nearly 7-minutes. But it’s not unedited, as it does include a single diss

Just hours before authorities removed Aquinnah O’Keefe (aka “Esther”) from a “cult” compound in northeastern New Mexico last Wednesday, KOB-TV’s Jeremy Jojola conducted an exclusive interview with the young woman.

O’Keefe, who said she’d not eaten since December 30th, had been fasting to protest the imprisonment of Wayne Bent (aka “Michael Travesser).

Read more at: http://beyond90seconds.com/2009/02/02/video-kob-tvs-exclusive-interview-with-starving-woman/

The following video is an excerpt from the January 14, 2009 episode of the Dr. Phil television program. Much of the episode, “Family Cult (part 2)”, focused on Wayne Bent and his Lord Our Righteousness Church. More specifically, it showed the efforts of two former LOR members who attempted to reach-out to relatives still living at Bent’s Strong City.

As the jury deliberates, Wayne Bent breaks his silence to speak with reporters and followers.




Much more on this case at Beyond90Seconds.com.

Cult leader Wayne Bent is on trial, bringing a young girl to the witness stand.




Much more on this case at Beyond90Seconds.com.

A pleasant look at bald eagles along Washington's Skagit River in early 2009. I shot the video, my brother took the pictures. We had a great day!

Again...another story I felt compelled to videotape and tell on my own time. Obviously, a story well worth telling. The ultimate sacrifice...

This was truly a sad day in 2008. I'll never forget it...

No golden light. No ethereal mist. No blue skies, to be sure. Just a very average winter afternoon spent along the beach in Mukilteo, Washington on Sunday, January 25, 2009.

When I was a kid, my brothers and I would go down to the pier at this location and fish for perch and flounder. We called this place"Taylor's Landing" (also once the name of a restaurant on the water's edge that's since been replaced by an Ivar's).

So, last night I thought I'd create a bed of music in GarageBand and string some of the

Like so many rivers in Washington State on this day, the Snohomish was very much on the rise.

When I set-out with my video camera on the morning of January 8, 2009, I thought I’d head for Arlington and the flooded Stillaguamish river. However, as I first approached the Snohomish exit on Highway 9, I felt compelled to take a quick look in that town.

It wasn’t a quick visit.

What I saw was enough to keep me busy for a couple of hours, while conveniently removing the threat of encountering even higher w