Career
After the 1993 fire, she attracted notice by beginning a one-woman reoccupation of the sect"s Mount Carmel property. At one point in her reoccupation, when another ex-husband, Tom Drake, rejoined her, she was also known as Amo Paul Bishop Roden Drake or Amo Roden Drake. The standoff with the government five years later wiped out Koresh"s group, giving Amo the opportunity to move onto the Mountain.
Carmel grounds.
In November 1994, she had an armed standoff with a group that included future militia figure Ron Cole. Roden"s notoriety has been spread by the electronica group Boards of Canada. She has written many tracts and pamphlets explaining her version of events and her religious ideas.
Major tracts include Cracking the Coverup, The Second, Babylon Is Fallen: The Legacy of David Koresh, and Scrapbook of a Protest.
