{"id":181174,"date":"2021-10-14T21:24:45","date_gmt":"2021-10-14T21:24:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/love-has-won-sheriff-says-cult-used-essential-oils-to-hide-rotting-stench-while-worshipping-mummified-mother-god"},"modified":"2022-10-13T23:19:01","modified_gmt":"2022-10-13T23:19:01","slug":"love-has-won-sheriff-says-cult-used-essential-oils-to-hide-rotting-stench-while-worshipping-mummified-mother-god","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/love-has-won-sheriff-says-cult-used-essential-oils-to-hide-rotting-stench-while-worshipping-mummified-mother-god","title":{"rendered":"Love Has Won: Sheriff says cult used essential oils to hide rotting stench while worshipping mummified &#8216;Mother God&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Graphic new details have emerged of how Love has Won worshipped the mummified corpse of cult leader Amy Carlson, known to followers as &#8220;Mother God&#8221;. In an exclusive interview with NBC&#8217;s Dateline , the sheriff who discovered the body spoke out after prosecutors dropped charges over the morbid ritual. Saguache County Sheriff Dan Warwick tells Dateline &#8217;s Keith Morrison the group was burning sage in the room and covering Ms Carlson in essential oils to &#8220;keep the odour down&#8221; when he found her. In a preview of the two-hour special airing Friday night, Mr Warwick said the group was effectively worshipping the mummified corpse. &#8220;Wow, I mean, it&#8217;s just [you] shake and go wow. There&#8217;s not much more I can say. I&#8217;ve been doing this for 26 years. I used to say I&#8217;ve seen it all. I don&#8217;t say that anymore,&#8221; he said. Seven members of the spiritual cult were taken into custody after the decaying body of Ms Carlson,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Graphic new details have emerged of how Love has Won worshipped the mummified corpse of cult leader Amy Carlson, known to followers as &#8220;Mother God&#8221;.In an exclusive interview with NBC&#8217;s<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,291],"tags":[69,55],"class_list":["post-181174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-religion","tag-religion","tag-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}