Waco: what really happened? For 51 days the world was gripped by the siege at Mt. Carmel, home to a community of devout Christians. Global media held the world spellbound spinning the tale of a deranged cult leader, David Koresh, and his seduced followers, who they claimed committed mass suicide, with 76 men women and children perishing in a fiery blaze on the Texas plains. David Thibodeau walked out, alive. This is his story. What the media, government and law enforcement agencies didn’t want you to know.