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How easy is it to get trapped in a cult? Cult deprogrammer says it can happen to anybody.

Over nearly a decade Larry Ray used sexual, physical and psychological abuse to brainwash his daughter's college roommates.
United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, Geoffrey Berman (C) announces the indictment against Lawrence Ray aka "Lawrence Grecco." (Stephanie Keith/Getty Images)

A new documentary on HULU tells the , a twisted Pied Piper who lured his daughter’s roommates into a cult he created in

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