David Koresh, pictured here in 1987 ... around a fire in a barrel at a checkpoint near the Branch Davidian compound near Waco, Texas on March 22, 1993, nearly a month after the siege began.

In 1993, an incident that would shape occurred involving David Koresh, the leader of the Branch Davidian sect, who resided on a ranch near Waco ... warrant at the compound, they were met with ...

On April 19, the standoff came to a fiery end when feds decided to end it by firing tear gas into the compound. Only nine Davidians survived. In all, 76 perished in the fire. ”David Koresh was not ...

Mount Carmel, the site of David Koresh’s commune ... they saw as the fatal excess of the government in dealing with the Waco situation. But Mount Carmel also has a deeply emotional lure.

It was she, alongside colleague Mark England at the Waco Tribune Herald, who was first to fully expose the full extent of what David Koresh was ... botched raid on the compound the very next ...