First in a series
The Supreme Court may have finalized the death sentence for Shoko Asahara, but the truth behind Aum Shinrikyo's unprecedented string of heinous crimes and what its founder actually sought to achieve remain a mystery.
One thing, however, that is clear to Hiroyuki Nagaoka -- who succeeded in getting his son out of the cult -- and to the son himself, is why so many people were attracted to Aum in the late 1980s through the early 1990s.