At age 78 and as the oldest prosecutor in California, Timothy Oliver Stoen decided it was time to write his memoir to “give hope to people who have made huge mistakes in their lives—to give them hope that their lives are not over.” In 1970, Stoen, who graduated from Stanford Law School and worked as an assistant district attorney in California, joined a utopian movement called the Peoples Temple of the Disciples of Christ and became the pro-bono attorney for its leader, Jim Jones. After seven years and a falling out with Jones, Stoen left the group, while the majority of the cult migrated to the Jonestown settlement located in Guyana. In 1978, over 900 Jonestown inhabitants died in the now-infamous mass poisoning. Among the dead was Stoen’s six-year-old son. RELATED STORIES: The grief and guilt Stoen felt following Jonestown led to a decade-long depression. Stoen says writing his […]
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