{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Heinous beliefs","title":"\"Shakahorror\" — The Shakahola Massacre.","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":2260,"description":"Heinous Beliefs — Season 2, Episode 1\n\"Shakahorror\" — The Shakahola Massacre\nWe're back. After a six-month hiatus, Season 2 opens with one of the deadliest cult-related tragedies in modern history — and one still unfolding in a Mombasa courtroom right now.\nEpisode Summary\nIn April 2023, Kenyan police acting on a missing-persons report walked into a remote stretch of forest in Kilifi County and found people starving to death in the name of God. By the time the exhumations stopped, the official count stood at 429 bodies — nearly 200 of them children. The man behind it, self-proclaimed pastor Paul Mackenzie, had spent over two decades building toward this: from taxi driver to televangelist to the architect of a \"fasting schedule\" that sent children first, women second, and his own family last.\nThis episode traces Mackenzie's rise through Good News International Church, the doomsday theology he built on borrowed American evangelist teachings, the whistleblower warning that police ignored five months before the raid, the human toll behind the body count, and the extraordinary legal fight still playing out in 2026 — including a fresh set of deaths at Kwa Binzaro, and Kenya's first-ever domestic prosecution for crimes against humanity.\nContent warning: This episode discusses starvation, child death, physical abuse, and psychological coercion in detail. Listener discretion advised.\nIn This Episode\nThe taxi driver who became a televangelist — Mackenzie's early life and the founding of Good News International Church\nHow William Branham's apocalyptic \"End Time Message\" theology got folded into Mackenzie's preaching\nThe 2017 arrest, the death of his second wife, and the warning signs authorities let slide\nWhy Kenya's regulatory gaps let unregistered churches like this flourish\nThe November 2022 whistleblower post — and how police helped Mackenzie identify and pursue her instead of investigating\nThe April 2023 raid and the death toll that climbed for months\nThe...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/ZjApH2K13_pM0Z0UyIWdDLBqxfcAYwKZRnvBM13-tHw/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS83ZWRk/YmIxNDg5MGYwMzcx/ZDVlOWIwNWM3YTdj/ZGExOC5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}