crime

2025, JULY 28

Antonio Montella: The Mobster, the Message, and the YouTube Video That Exposed It All

Italian authorities captured fugitive mob figure Antonio Montella after discovering a YouTube video showing his baptism into the William Branham “Message” movement, which provided investigators with enough geographic and contextual clues to locate his hiding place. His arrest unfolded amid a major ‘Ndrangheta drug-trafficking crackdown, highlighting an unusual intersection between organized crime and a controversial religious sect.

2025, JULY 28

Change of Identity or Stage Persona? What the Records Show About William Branham

Contemporary newspapers, court records, census data, and federal draft registration demonstrate that William Branham’s identity remained stable and publicly traceable through the Prohibition era and into adulthood, despite significant criminal activity and instability within his family. Later name variations—most notably the use of “Henry Branham” and the shift from Marvin to Marrion—align with the construction of a revival-stage persona rather than an attempt to evade law enforcement or conceal his past.

2025, JULY 28

Women Are Behind Every Crime

Later versions of William Branham's stage persona claimed that not only were women the cause for all sin on the earth, they were currently the reason for criminal activity. Branham supported this theory by agreeing with unknown statistics that claimed that ninety-eight percent of all crime — in any form — was either committed directly by a female or that a female was the mastermind behind it. The exact source of these statistics, however, was never mentioned.