About this episode

Felicia Rosario shares her experience of being recruited into a cult by Larry Ray, who manipulated her and her friends while living in a college dorm.

In 2010, fraudster Larry Ray got out of prison and started sleeping on a couch in his daughter’s college dorm. Within weeks, he was mentoring her friends. A year later, he’d recruited most of them into what would later be described as a “sex-cult.” Felicia Rosario was one of them. Introduced to Larry by her brother, she spent 10 years under his spell. She unpacks his incredible aptitude for mind control and how she rebuilt her life after his arrest. Contact Felicia Rosario via her website here: feliciarosario.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

People in this episode

Guest: Felicia Rosario

Topics covered

• cult
• mind control
• fraud
• personal recovery
• college life

Keywords

• cult
• Larry Ray
• Felicia Rosario
• mind control
• fraud
• recovery
• college dorm

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Acast, feliciarosario.com

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