Susan Alamo

Edith Opal Horn, a two-time divorcée who already had a daughter, moved to Hollywood to become an actress but ended up supporting herself partly by scamming churches into believing her to be a missionary in need of money. 1966, met and married Bernie Lazar Hoffman, changing their names to Susan and Tony Alamo. Both of Jewish descent they converted to Christianity, established a church and began a Hollywood street ministry. 

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Their version of Pentecostal theology included a virulent paranoia and extreme anti-Catholicism that placed the Vatican as the real power broker behind the White House, the United Nations, and the media. Alamo also claimed that UFOs are divine messengers from heaven and signs of the end times. Members usually lived in a commune and worked at an Alamo-owned business.

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1982, Susan died of cancer. Tony believed she was an immortal prophet who would rise from the dead and ordered foundation members to pray for her resurrection, which they did for months in 'round-the-clock prayer vigils. She eventually was entombed. 1991, prior to a federal raid took Alamo stole Susan’s body from her mausoleum. In 1998, after a three-year legal battle, brought by Christhiaon Coie, Susan's daughter, her body was returned. (cited Encyclopedia of Arkansas)