re: True Detective S1E5 "The Secret Fate of All Life"

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It all could be a dream in Rust's head and he wakes up at the end of episode 8.

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He wakes up at Dora Lange's crime scene. Time is a flat circle.

I figure there's several figures we've seen involved (as to who is "the" murderer I don't know) in order for there to be a large enough coverup that they're fricking with police files (and marking them as reported "in error") without anyone noticing for several years.

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It all could be a dream in Rust's head and he wakes up at the end of episode 8.

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Have you noticed that Rust's hallucinations have ceased after the first 1-2 episodes? It's odd for a show / movie to abruptly quit using a device like that. Or am I missing something?

The red winged black bird symbolizes an understanding of the forces of nature as they come into your life, and connected to primal feminine energies.
Re: the logo on Audrey's door.
The words "real estate" is on the poster. Prolly nothin.

Re: Decatur's theory, this poster on reddit sums it up:

"Hart isn't sufficiently competent to do something as simple as conduct a single affair with a courthouse stenographer without detection. He sure as hairy donkey arse can't successfully manage a clandestine, multi-layered murder-cult over the course of decades."

Mother frickin this^

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That would probably be the most disappointing outcome for me

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Its not the preacher.

Way too simple.

If Audrey is involved in the cult, I agree with people that guessed it is through someone in her school...likely a teacher or principal that came to her school from one of the closed-down Tuttle schools.

I wonder if the drug-dealing hooker that knows Rust has any cult connection. I also wonder if Daddario might have some cult connection. She could be crazy enough to get involved and corrupt Audrey just to spite Hart.

Going back to the coonass bunny ranch, I didn't get the impression that the madam was involved in the cult, but the sheriff who is involved would sure fit into the "powerful men" theory.

While traveling preacher and preacher Tuttle sure seem like big suspects, I have some trouble with their motives. They seem all-in on preaching Christianity and, at least from the tent revival scene, the message seemed to be pretty straight up biblical, not some weird spin-off leading to Carcosa.

I could see them killing random low-lifes and nobodies and setting the deaths up in a creepy manner to scare the locals into going to church and keeping up their congregations/money. However, the depth of the cult mythology/kids in the woods/numerous seemingly connected abductions that aren't really public knowledge wouldn't do anything to further the community cult scare angle. That points to true believers.

So, if the Tuttle folks are behind everything, it seems like they are legit hardcore psycho Christians trying to boost their numbers by any means possible (by itself less likely), or they are psycho cultists using Christian ministries to find vulnerable people (kids/whores/druggies) for their true occultist aims and as a side product are pushing people to their moneymaking day jobs. However, except for the big staged murder, and the 2012 murder, there haven't been many public spectacle deaths...

So, why so hush hush about things and why all of the effort by "powerful people" to keep the murders and details out of the public eye? That would diminish efforts to drive people to the various Tuttle ministries.

There haven't been piles of dead kids, except for the boy at the Ledoux compound, so are the cult folks kidnapping kids so they can raise them and indoctrinate them?

This thread is still alive and well

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While traveling preacher and preacher Tuttle sure seem like big suspects, I have some trouble with their motives. They seem all-in on preaching Christianity

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you need to go back and listen to the sermon Joel Theriot preached in ep3 in full (6 minute version). he is using some interesting imagery but what he is preaching ain't really christianity.