The recent release of the documentary on Andrea Yates has sparked renewed interest in Moses Storm’s life.The three-part docuseries is called The Cult Behind the Killer, which re-examines the infamous 2001 case of Andrea Yates, who drowned her five young children amid severe postpartum psychosis. It premiered on January 6 on Investigation Discovery and is available on HBO Max. View this post on Instagram Instagram PostMoses Storm plays a prominent role in the documentary, serving as one of the key interviewees and a cult survivor. He is a stand-up comedian, an actor, writer and director. He is the nephew of Michael Woroniecki, a street preacher whose teachings strongly influenced Yates. It eventually led to the tragic killing of her children.Storm provided first-hand testimony about the intense fear-based indoctrination he experienced as a child. He draws direct connections between these experiences and the influence of these teachings on the Yates family.Continue reading for more information.Moses Storm talks about the influence of Michael Woroniecki’s teachings on his familyMoses Storm, who recently appeared in The Cult Behind the Killer: The Andrea Yates Story, discussed how Michael Woroniecki profoundly influenced his family.Explaining how the media coverage of Yates’ case has often overlooked Woroniecki’s role, he told TIME magazine:“When I watch news coverage and documentaries about Andrea Yates, it doesn’t do it for me. They are missing a huge part of the story: Michael Woroniecki.”He added that a large part of his teachings concerned the judgment day which often instilled fear in people, permeating their daily lives. In a recent interview, Moses Storm talked about how the 71-year-old evangelist influenced his family. Storm told the outlet:“He said there would be a thunderstorm that would prompt my mom to get on her knees and pray, ‘God please save us, save our kids.' It gave me nightmares. My older sister would have these visions and she would start hitting her body just to stop.”He further explained:“My siblings and I, we were born into it. And unless you’re in it, you don’t fully understand the amount of control that Michael Woroniecki had over us.”Moses Storm grew up in a family that was “well below the poverty line” and continued to experience extreme poverty during his childhood. He and his five siblings were raised in a nomadic household influenced by his uncle, Michael Woroniecki’s teachings. They were homeless, camped out in a van and relied on dumpster diving for food.After working at a grocery store, he tried to get a job at Taco Bell but was not hired because he misspelt some words. In one of the interviews Moses Storm said:“I can barely read or write. I have almost no social skills.”So he started performing stand-up at open mics because it was the only viable way to earn money and survive independently after moving to Los Angeles as a young adult. It eventually led to his breakthrough on Conan and his 2022 HBO Max special Trash White.A latest report in the TIME magazine indicated that Woroniecki referred to himself as the “Ambassador of Christ” who believed that every institution including college and hospital is a satanic distraction. David De La Isla, a former follower and fellow survivor of Woroniecki’s religious group said:“So you do everything except seek the real God. I thought the whole world was controlled by the devil.”His first encounter with him was on a college campus where he was initially draw towards him because of his message of salvation. He called it “the biggest mistake of my life.”According to the reports, on the morning of June 2001, Andrea Yates drowned her five children in the family bathtub which left the world in shock. Her children- Noah, John, Paul, Luke, and Mary were aged between six months and seven years. She called 911 and confessed her crime to the police.After her 2006 retrial verdict of not guilty by reason of insanity, she was initially committed to a high-security facility before being transferred to Kerrville in January 2007. Today, she remains a patient at Kerrville State Hospital in Kerrville, Texas.