Podcast appearances and mentions of paul morantz

From the back cover: The snake stuffed in attorney Paul Morantz s mailbox by acolytes of Synanon, a once-hailed drug rehabilitation center that had devolved into a paranoid, militaristic cult, was an early strike in what would become a 35-year war with nearly every major cult movement this country has ever known. Mr. Morantz has been involved under frequently bizarre circumstances--with such infamous sects as the Charles Manson family, Patty Hearst and the SLA, Jim Jones and the People s Temple, the Moonies and the strange world of Scientology. His efforts have helped many escape from lives of torment and contributed to a sea change in how courts deal with the little-understood issues of brainwashing and cults. Now, in this important and compelling book, Mr. Morantz offers a comprehensive account of the origins and activities of cults and how they prey on society s most vulnerable elements. It also recounts the very intimate tale of how these confrontations with threatening and often, violent forces cost him the woman he loved and nearly, life itself.

From the back cover: The snake stuffed in attorney Paul Morantz s mailbox by acolytes of Synanon, a once-hailed drug rehabilitation center that had devolved into a paranoid, militaristic cult, was an early strike in what would become a 35-year war with nearly every major cult movement this country has ever known. Mr. Morantz has been involved under frequently bizarre circumstances--with such infamous sects as the Charles Manson family, Patty Hearst and the SLA, Jim Jones and the People s Temple, the Moonies and the strange world of Scientology. His efforts have helped many escape from lives of torment and contributed to a sea change in how courts deal with the little-understood issues of brainwashing and cults. Now, in this important and compelling book, Mr. Morantz offers a comprehensive account of the origins and activities of cults and how they prey on society s most vulnerable elements. It also recounts the very intimate tale of how these confrontations with threatening and often, violent forces cost him the woman he loved and nearly, life itself.

Author and attorney Paul Morantz (August 16, 1945 – October 23, 2022) discusses his book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults. Paul Morantz was one of my first interviews. After I reached out to him, he invited me to his place in Los Angeles to both meet and so I could pick up a signed copy of his book Escape, discussed herein. He invited me into his home to get his book and sign it. I remember him as an easygoing, gracious person. He walked me out to his driveway and as I turned to leave, I instinctively reached out to shake his hand. Morantz responded and placed his snake-bitten, damaged right hand into mine. Surprised, I tried to keep a straight face as I walked to my car. Driving off, I upbraided myself for extending my right hand to him with out thinking; however, meeting Paul Morantz remains a memorable event. Rest in peace. William Ramsey Paul Morantz dies; L.A. attorney nearly killed when cult planted rattlesnake in his mailbox https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-28/paul-morantz-dies-l-a-attorney-nearly-killed-when-cult-planted-rattlesnake-in-mailbox https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Life-Long-Against-Cults/dp/0615848699/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=paul+morantz&qid=1607185288&sr=8-2 Author website: http://www.paulmorantz.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode brought to you by MorningStar sausage patties.Hayly gets brainwashed into Chuck Dederich's Synanon cult, but is rescued by the snakebitten lawyer Paul Morantz. Whitney empathizes with Cleopatra and her troubles with her little sister, Arsinoe.Lisa travels to ancient England to find out if King Arthur was a real person. 

No one joins a cult; everyone joins a good thing, but once you're in too deep, it can be impossible to tell the difference.In 1958, Charles E. Dietrich Sr set out to do a good thing: create a drug rehabilitation center that was more inclusive, unlike AA which he found to be limiting. What started out as a new-wave addiction treatment movement turned into a violent and dangerous cult that was existing in plain sight and operating very differently on the inside than was being shown to the outside world.Headed by a troubled dictator, Synanon eventually became known as "one of most dangerous and violent cults America had ever seen".  Forced abortions and taking violent revenge on anyone who fought against them (especially lawyer Paul Morantz) are just some of the sinister details outlined in our discussion.FIND US ON SOCIAL MEDIA:Instagram: @crimefamilypodcastTwitter: @crimefamilypod1Facebook: Crime Family PodcastEmail: crimefamilypodcast@gmail.comCheck out our new website at crimefamilypodcast.caMusic (pre-theme) by LiteSaturation on Pixabay.EPISODE RESOURCES:"The Man who Fought Cults and Won" by Matt Novak. Published September 27, 2014.https://gizmodo.com/the-man-who-fought-cults-and-won-1634267961"The Story of This Drug Rehab-Turned-Violent Cult Is Wild, Wild Country-Caliber Bizarre" by Hillel Aron. LA Magazine. Published April 23, 2018. https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/synanon-cult/"Synanon's Sober Utopia: How a Drug Rehab Program Became a Violent Cult" by Matt Novak. Published April 15, 2014.https://gizmodo.com/synanons-sober-utopia-how-a-drug-rehab-program-became-1562665776"Synanon". Deadly Cults. (Season 2, Episode 8). Oxygen Network. https://www.oxygen.com/deadly-cults/season-2/episode-8/synanon

Author and attorney Paul Morantz discusses his book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Life-Long-Against-Cults/dp/0615848699/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=paul+morantz&qid=1607185288&sr=8-2 Author website: http://www.paulmorantz.com/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the back cover: The snake stuffed in attorney Paul Morantz s mailbox by acolytes of Synanon, a once-hailed drug rehabilitation center that had devolved into a paranoid, militaristic cult, was an early strike in what would become a 35-year war with nearly every major cult movement this country has ever known. Mr. Morantz has been involved under frequently bizarre circumstances--with such infamous sects as the Charles Manson family, Patty Hearst and the SLA, Jim Jones and the People s Temple, the Moonies and the strange world of Scientology. His efforts have helped many escape from lives of torment and contributed to a sea change in how courts deal with the little-understood issues of brainwashing and cults. Now, in this important and compelling book, Mr. Morantz offers a comprehensive account of the origins and activities of cults and how they prey on society s most vulnerable elements. It also recounts the very intimate tale of how these confrontations with threatening and often, violent forces cost him the woman he loved and nearly, life itself.

From the back cover: The snake stuffed in attorney Paul Morantz s mailbox by acolytes of Synanon, a once-hailed drug rehabilitation center that had devolved into a paranoid, militaristic cult, was an early strike in what would become a 35-year war with nearly every major cult movement this country has ever known. Mr. Morantz has been involved under frequently bizarre circumstances--with such infamous sects as the Charles Manson family, Patty Hearst and the SLA, Jim Jones and the People s Temple, the Moonies and the strange world of Scientology. His efforts have helped many escape from lives of torment and contributed to a sea change in how courts deal with the little-understood issues of brainwashing and cults. Now, in this important and compelling book, Mr. Morantz offers a comprehensive account of the origins and activities of cults and how they prey on society s most vulnerable elements. It also recounts the very intimate tale of how these confrontations with threatening and often, violent forces cost him the woman he loved and nearly, life itself.

From the back cover: The snake stuffed in attorney Paul Morantz s mailbox by acolytes of Synanon, a once-hailed drug rehabilitation center that had devolved into a paranoid, militaristic cult, was an early strike in what would become a 35-year war with nearly every major cult movement this country has ever known. Mr. Morantz has been involved under frequently bizarre circumstances--with such infamous sects as the Charles Manson family, Patty Hearst and the SLA, Jim Jones and the People s Temple, the Moonies and the strange world of Scientology. His efforts have helped many escape from lives of torment and contributed to a sea change in how courts deal with the little-understood issues of brainwashing and cults. Now, in this important and compelling book, Mr. Morantz offers a comprehensive account of the origins and activities of cults and how they prey on society s most vulnerable elements. It also recounts the very intimate tale of how these confrontations with threatening and often, violent forces cost him the woman he loved and nearly, life itself.

From the back cover: The snake stuffed in attorney Paul Morantz s mailbox by acolytes of Synanon, a once-hailed drug rehabilitation center that had devolved into a paranoid, militaristic cult, was an early strike in what would become a 35-year war with nearly every major cult movement this country has ever known. Mr. Morantz has been involved under frequently bizarre circumstances--with such infamous sects as the Charles Manson family, Patty Hearst and the SLA, Jim Jones and the People s Temple, the Moonies and the strange world of Scientology. His efforts have helped many escape from lives of torment and contributed to a sea change in how courts deal with the little-understood issues of brainwashing and cults. Now, in this important and compelling book, Mr. Morantz offers a comprehensive account of the origins and activities of cults and how they prey on society s most vulnerable elements. It also recounts the very intimate tale of how these confrontations with threatening and often, violent forces cost him the woman he loved and nearly, life itself.

From the back cover: The snake stuffed in attorney Paul Morantz s mailbox by acolytes of Synanon, a once-hailed drug rehabilitation center that had devolved into a paranoid, militaristic cult, was an early strike in what would become a 35-year war with nearly every major cult movement this country has ever known. Mr. Morantz has been involved under frequently bizarre circumstances--with such infamous sects as the Charles Manson family, Patty Hearst and the SLA, Jim Jones and the People s Temple, the Moonies and the strange world of Scientology. His efforts have helped many escape from lives of torment and contributed to a sea change in how courts deal with the little-understood issues of brainwashing and cults. Now, in this important and compelling book, Mr. Morantz offers a comprehensive account of the origins and activities of cults and how they prey on society s most vulnerable elements. It also recounts the very intimate tale of how these confrontations with threatening and often, violent forces cost him the woman he loved and nearly, life itself.

Author and attorney Paul Morantz discusses his book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Life-Long-Against-Cults/dp/0615848699/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=paul+morantz&qid=1607185288&sr=8-2

Author and attorney Paul Morantz discusses his book Escape: My Life Long War Against Cults https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Life-Long-Against-Cults/dp/0615848699/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=paul+morantz&qid=1607185288&sr=8-2

Author and Attorney Paul Morantz on Escape: My Life Among the Cults, hour one https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Life-Long-Against-Cults/dp/0615848699/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=paul+morantz&qid=1549752385&s=gateway&sr=8-2

Author and Attorney Paul Morantz on Escape: My Life Among the Cults, hour one https://www.amazon.com/Escape-Life-Long-Against-Cults/dp/0615848699/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=paul+morantz&qid=1549752385&s=gateway&sr=8-2

Jim Jax & Wanda Wiedman interview famed author, attorney & cult expert Paul Morantz. We talk about the cult Synanon & it's possible affects on Raiders great Warren Wells, as well as the attack by a rattlesnake which made national news.

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Los Angeles attorney Paul Morantz has devoted his professional life to fighting cults. But in the late 1970s that life almost came to an abrupt end when one of the cults he litigated against planted a live rattlesnake in his mailbox. Morantz speaks with California Lawyer editor Martin Lasden about his career and the dangers he faced. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24671]

Los Angeles attorney Paul Morantz has devoted his professional life to fighting cults. But in the late 1970s that life almost came to an abrupt end when one of the cults he litigated against planted a live rattlesnake in his mailbox. Morantz speaks with California Lawyer editor Martin Lasden about his career and the dangers he faced. Series: "Legally Speaking" [Public Affairs] [Show ID: 24671]