“New developments have surfaced in the case concerning the Mother Collective, a Vermont-based commune colloquially referred to as the ‘cult of motherhood.’ As the excavation of the grounds has continued since the cult’s raid last May, four bodies in varying states of decomposition have been recovered. All have been identified as male. Of the two victims originally found in critical condition, one has been released from the hospital. Five women who self-identify only as ‘Mother’ are standing trial, and two of their legal identities have been confirmed. One, a forty-three-year-old woman named—”

