This
group, which consisted of between 90 and 120 men, women,
and children, was founded in 1970, on a farm in Elijah,
Missouri. In 1976, the founder of the group bought a secluded
220 acre farm from the Campus Crusade For Christ, located
on the Missouri-Arkansas border, approximately seven miles
southwest of Pontiac, Missouri. They made this property
their settlement house and named it Zarephath-Horeb. They
stockpiled food, weapons and trained themselves in military
and survival procedures. By 1982, the group had been reduced
to fewer than 70 people. The group had become a paramilitary
survivalist group professing a belief in the Christian
Identity Movement. On April 21, 1985, the leader and others
were arrested for violation of Title 18, Section 371,
United States Code.
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