Jeannie Mills was an early defector from the Peoples Temple

Peoples Temple

Peoples Temple was a religious organization founded in 1955 by Jim Jones that, by the mid-1970s, included over a dozen locations in California including its headquarters in San Francisco...

 cult, author of the book Six Years with God (A&W Publishers: New York, 1979), and co-founder of the Concerned Relatives of Peoples Temple Members organization and the Human Freedom Center. She and her family joined the Peoples Temple in 1969 but they left the group in 1975 when her daughter was beaten at least 70 times with a paddle. Before defecting she was head of the Temple's publications office; husband Al was the official photographer.

Murder

Jeannie Mills was murdered February 26, 1980, along with her husband Al and daughter Daphene, in their home in Berkeley. Despite their fear of retaliation after the mass murder and suicide of the Peoples Temple cult

Jonestown

Jonestown was the informal name for the Peoples Temple Agricultural Project, an intentional community in northwestern Guyana formed by the Peoples Temple led by Jim Jones. It became internationally notorious when, on November 18, 1978, 918 people died in the settlement as well as in a nearby...

in 1978 (at one point they had sought police protection), police do not believe the murders were related to the Peoples Temple cult.

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