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  • Complete Monster: Eugene Hoff, alias Abraham Ophion, is the pedophilic leader of a cult of his 100 followers, which included his preteen victims and their families. Hoff separates the married couples, because he said that they couldn't be soldiers of God if they were slaves to the flesh, and uses all the women and girls of his cult for sexual favors, fathering seven children with them. His earliest victim was a 4-year-old Janie Buchman, who her father caught in the same room with a near-naked Hoff, causing his family to leave the church. Growing paranoid, Hoff began to prepare his followers for war, filling their heads with the idea of the U.S. government coming to kill them and having one member kill six of his children and then herself. He was also a greedy man, killing John Cramer and lying to his wife for John's million-dollar bank account and only keeping his latest victim Melanie alive so he can claim her two-million-dollar trust fund after their baby is born. Hoff is ultimately a depraved individual who believes himself to be greater than God.
  • Moral Event Horizon: Hoff obviously crossed it a long time ago when he became a cult leader that sexually enslaved its female members. In the episode itself, it was shown to the viewers when he executes the cult's children to cover his tracks. It is revealed he killed the husband of one of his female followers to gain access to his million dollar trust fund and hid the body.


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