(KTLA) – The leaders and two members of an alleged cult-like religious organization in Southern California have been charged with murder in connection with the deaths of a 4-year-old boy and a missing 40-year-old man.
The Hemet-based religious group, called “His Way Spirit Led Assemblies,” has been at the center of an ongoing investigation after two former members, Emilio Ghanem, 40, and Ruben Moreno, 49, were reported missing in 2019 and 2023, respectively.
The group was also being probed in connection with the case of Timothy Thomas, a 4-year-old boy who died in January 2010 after his parents gave custody of the child to the religious group.
On Dec. 11, Redlands police arrested six members of the group — including its leaders Darryl Muzic Martin, 58, his wife Shelly Bailey “Kathryn” Martin, 62, and high-ranking member Rudy Moreno, 43 — on murder and gun charges at the group’s headquarters…