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January 8, 2010
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The Tony Alamo Story

Tony Alamo has a document on his website with headlines from newspapers stating “Lawyers Drop Alamo Case”, “Alamo Child Abuse Charges Dropped”, ” Evangelist Alamo Won’t Face Child Abuse Charges”, and so on, but there are no articles to follow, only the headlines. The reason for this is clear. Tony Alamo has claimed that the charges were dropped because he was innocent but the articles that belong to the headlines tell another story. A story of Tony Alamo in hiding for several years once he found out there was an investigation and then a long drawn-out trial for tax evasion that became the focus of prosecutors instead of the child abuse charges. Research the articles for yourself and you will not find one that says Tony Alamo was innocent of the charges or that the charges were dropped because Alamo was found not guilty. Below is just one of the articles in their entirety.

Los Angeles Times
March 7, 1995
by MarK Sabbatini

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Daily Herald
July 26, 1992

As part of a plea agreement that saved him from a possible death penalty, confessed killer Richard Church agreed to tell the full story of his three years as a fugitive, authorities say.

Church escaped Aug. 21, 1988, after killing Raymond and Ruth Ann Ritter and savagely beating his former girlfriend, Colleen, and her 10- year-old brother. He was arrested in Salt Lake City Nov. 21,1991. In between those dates, Church, 23, spent time in California and other states with a religious cult headed by the Rev. Tony Alamo.

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Sacramento Bee
May 22, 1991

CULT LEADER’S KIN EXPLAINS HER “CON”

I didn’t catch the show myself, but one interested viewer called with some thoughts about a segment of last week’s Unsolved Mysteries. It seems that a former Los Angeles street hustler named Tony Alamo, who had transformed himself into a religious cult figure in Arkansas, had disappeared owing the federal government $19 million.

According to the TV show, the FBI and U.S. Marshals Service are looking for Alamo on tax evasion charges, as well as threatening a federal judge.

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Tulsa World
February 18, 1991
By: MELINDA MORRIS

Few Mourn Tony Alamo Group’s Fall

DYER, Ark. – Resident John Chitwood said he thinks few in this town will be sad to see the Tony and Susan Alamo Foundation leave.

“They wouldn’t even talk to us. They looked down on us,” he said of the group that calls itself a Christian foundation and is known for distributing anti-Catholic pamphlets.

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Source: Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service
Publication Date: 11/27/1998
Author: Martin, Jeff

Townspeople worry Alamo may try to rebuild religious empire upon prison release

DYER, Ark. _ The guards who once kept outsiders away from the Alamo compound are long gone.

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The Tampa Tribune
July 13, 1991

Judge Orders Alamo To Returned To Arkansas To Face Charges

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The Tampa Tribune
July 7, 1991

Religious Leader Wanted In 2 States

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St Petersburg Times
July 6, 1991

Fugitive Cult Leader, Tony Alamo, is Arrested in Tampa

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TAMPA — A flamboyant cult leader sought by federal agents was arrested Friday at his upscale south Tampa home after two years as a fugitive.

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Los Angeles Times
June 10, 1994

Child Abuse Hearing for Evangelist Delayed Crime: A prosecutor says convicted tax evader Tony Alamo should be denied bail because he had married 15-year-old girls.

A Los Angeles hearing on child abuse charges was postponed Thursday for evangelist Tony Alamo, who remained in jail in Memphis, where a federal prosecutor accused him of marrying eight of his followers since 1993, including married women and 15-year-old girls.

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