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Officers coincidentally came to Lundgren's farm to talk to Lundgren on April 18, 1989, the day after the murders. After this he left town. Lundgren and the rest of his group went south to West Virginia. But as months went by and nothing happened, Lundgren became disillusioned, and he and his family returned to California, leaving the rest of the surviving cult members behind.
Nine months after the killings, in 1990, police, following a tip from an informant, returned to the long-abandoned farm and uncovered the five bodies of the Avery family.
The Lundgrens became fugitives. Media attention increased, and police began to track the cult members. The FBI joined in the hunt. Eventually, all of Lundgren's followers were found, and they helped catch him and his family.
Thirteen of Lundgren's sect were arrested, including Lundgren and his wife. Alice Lundgren received five life sentences for conspiracy, complicity and kidnapping. Jeffrey Lundgren was given the death penalty.
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