In the weeks after their home burned to the ground, a dozen Branch Davidians found shelter in the Brittney Hotel, across a parking lot from the Waco Convention Center in Texas. They took comfort in a shared belief in what they saw as scriptural assurances that their fallen leader would return. But no resurrection has come, and the few who lived in the Brittney have become fewer still. "There are only a couple of us left here now," says Catherine Matteson, 77, who had been arrested and led away in shackles after leaving Mount Carmel. A few weeks ago, a neighbor,...
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