Introducing "American Scandal: Hare Krishna Murders"

Join Lindsay Graham, the host of Wondery’s show American Scandal as he dives deep into the heart of the most shocking moments of fraud and deception in American history.

In this six-part series “The Hare Krishna Murders” he explores an eastern religion with pure intentions that, in the hands of its western followers, became a criminal enterprise of drug running, molestation and murder.

In 1966, America was at war and freethinkers across the country were looking for an alternative to their parents’ boring, conventional lives. An elderly swami arrived from India with a message of peace and love capturing the zeitgeist of the 1960s counterculture.

But soon rivalries broke out between devotees hoping to earn the Swami’s favor and eventually take over as leader. When he died without naming a successor, the movement took a dark turn.
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