Los Angeles Times
August 11, 1998
Susan Alamo entombed in Tulsa
Van Buren, Arkansas — Susan Alamo’s remains were placed in a crypt in Tulsa, putting to rest a years-long fight over the body.
Mrs. Alamo, the wife of evangelist Tony Alamo, died of cancer in 1982. She was entombed Monday.
In: 1990-1999
Los Angeles Times
February 20, 1997
Cult Leader Loses Ruling Over Dead Wife’s Body
The Arkansas Court of Appeals on Wednesday dismissed on a technicality religious cult leader Tony Alamo’s appeal of an order requiring him to produce the missing body of his long-dead wife for burial.
The body of Susan Alamo, who died of cancer in 1982, disappeared from a Dyer, Ark., mausoleum owned by the cult in 1991, shortly after federal authorities moved to seize church assets for tax irregularities.
In: 1990-1999
Los Angeles Times
October 1, 1995
Preacher Tony Alamo Told to Return Wife’s Remains
He’s a convicted tax evader and a flamboyant evangelist who once ran what authorities called a multimillion-dollar, Saugus-based cult. Now Tony Alamo is also a grave robber–at least in the eyes of an Arkansas judge, who has ordered him to lay to rest his wife’s missing 13-year-old corpse.
“It’s putting closure to it, finally,” said Alamo’s stepdaughter, Christhiaon Coie of Reseda, who sued Alamo literally over her mother’s dead body and for whom the legal decision represents a symbolic burial of her mother’s and her tortured past.
In: 1990-1999
Los Angeles Times
March 30, 1992
Mystery Over Missing Body Stalks Tony Alamo
Lawsuit: His stepdaughter accuses the religious figure of spiriting off the remains of his fourth wife. His countersuit claims he has been slandered.
Call it a morbid sideshow, a strange offshoot to the ongoing tribulations of religious figure Tony Alamo.
In: 1990-1999
Southwest Times Record
November 9, 1991
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Evangelist says he doesn’t have body
In: 1990-1999
Los Angeles Times
February 20, 1991
Body of Cult Leader’s Wife Stolen From Mausoleum
Arkansas: A court order had forbidden members from taking remains of Susan Alamo. Marshals had seized the property to pay off debts.
The body of Susan Alamo, wife of fugitive cult leader Tony Alamo, was taken from a mausoleum on the cult’s compound in Arkansas after federal marshals had seized the property to satisfy a legal judgment, authorities said Tuesday.
In: 1990-1999
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – Preacher Tony Alamo whose church once ran businesses worth millions of dollars drew a maximum sentence Friday of six years in prison on an income tax conviction. He was also fined $210,000.
In: 1990-1999
Southwest Times Record
July 29, 1992
By Dave Hughes
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Creditors of Tony Alamo had their first chance Tuesday to question him about his assets and evangelical empire but they found it hard to pin him down.
In: 1990-1999
Southwest Times Record
June 24, 1992
By Dave Hughes
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The idea that led evangelist Tony Alamo to file for bankruptcy Monday may have been hatched a week earlier in the chambers of a federal court judge.
In: 1990-1999
Arkansas Democrat
June 23, 1992
BY LARRY AULT
Democrat-Gazette Staff Writer
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Cult leader Tony Alamo filed a $16.8 million bankruptcy petition Monday that lists $6.6 million in federal taxes and $5 million owed to the U.S. Department of Labor.
In: 1990-1999
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