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Feb 9, 2010 · Following an anonymous tip, police enter a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, an exclusive suburb of San Diego, California, and discover 39 victims of a mass suicide. The deceased—21 women and 18 men ...
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- Marshall Herff Applewhite, 65, Music Teacher Turned Cult Leader
- Cheryl Butcher, 42, Computer Trainer
- David Van Sinderen, 48, Environmentalist
- Alan Bowers, 45, Oysterman
- Margaret Bull, 54, Farm Girl
- Alphonzo Foster, 44, Bus Driver
- David Moore, 40, Computer Ace
- Julie Lamontagne, 45, Nurse
- Darwin Lee Johnson, 42, Musician
- Robert Arancio, 45, Artist
Missouri prosecutor Tim Braun never forgot the car-theft case that came his way in 1974, when he was a novice St. Louis County public defender. "Very seldom do we see a statement that 'a force from beyond the earth has made me keep this car,'" he says. The defendant: Marshall Herff Applewhite. The sentence: four months in jail. His early life offer...
Butcher was a shy, bright, self-taught computer expert who spent half her life in Applewhite's orbit. Growing up in Springfield, Mo., she was "the perfect daughter," says her father, Jasper, a retired federal corrections officer. "She was a good student. She did charity work, candy striper stuff." But according to Virginia Norton, her mother, she w...
"When I was 4, he saved me from drowning," says publicist Sylvia Abbate of her big brother David. The son of a former telephone company CEO, David became an environmentalist. "'Don't be hurt, I'm not doing this to you,'" Abbate says he told his family after he joined the cult in 1976. "'It's something I have to do for me.'" Visiting his sister in '...
Bowers had spent eight years with the cult in the '70s before returning to Fairfield, Conn., in the early '80s to work as a commercial oysterman. In 1988 his life derailed when his wife divorced him and his brother Barry drowned in a boating accident. Bowers, who had three children, moved to Jupiter, Fla., near his stepsisters Susan and Joy Ventule...
Peggy Bull, among the cult's first adherents in the mid-'70s, grew up on a farm outside little Ellensburg, Wash. Though shy, she was in the high school pep club and a member of the Wranglerettes, a riding drill team. Later "she belonged to all the intellectual-type groups," says Brenda McIntosh, a roommate at the University of Washington, where Bul...
On the surface, he was full of promise. Intelligent and handsome, he devoured books on philosophy and spirituality. But, says James Hannon, who roomed with Alphonzo Foster in Minneapolis in the '70s, "he didn't do so well on the practical details of his life." A free spirit who was rarely able to hold a job, Foster sank into a deep depression after...
Moore was an angry, often emotional 19-year-old with a shock of dark, wavy hair when in 1975, he stumbled on a cult meeting in a park near his home in Los Gatos, Calif. He disappeared soon afterward, and for 21 years, his mother, Nancie Brown, tried to track him down and organized parent support groups. Finally, after seeing him twice over the year...
Raised by a foster family, LaMontagne spent much of her childhood studying and eventually got her nursing degree from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, graduating cum laude in 1974. Shortly afterward, she saw her best friend drown and her birth father, Jules, with whom she had remained close, die of cancer. The deaths "just made her colla...
A firm believer in UFOs and space aliens, Johnson had briefly joined Heaven's Gate in the '70s. But he appeared to have found a new home as the guitar player and lyricist for the Utah-based rock band Dharma Combat. Then, in 1994, according to the band's then-producer, Joe Clarke, Johnson saw an ad for a Heaven's Gate seminar. Two days later, he was...
Born in Brooklyn and raised in Miami, Arancio had studied architecture at two Florida colleges before moving in the mid-'70s to Berkeley, Calif., where he met the cult leaders then known as Bo and Peep. "He felt he had a purpose, he was part of a community," sister Joanne Bosma, 40, says of his decision to become part of the group. After joining in...
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Heaven's Gate was an American new religious movement known primarily for the mass suicides committed by its members in 1997. Commonly designated a cult , it was founded in 1974 and led by Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985) and Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997), known within the movement as Ti and Do, respectively.
Mar 11, 2022 · The 39 victims found within the home were all members of a strange and secretive cult called Heaven's Gate, which had a goal to transcend to "higher beings" by spaceship. Watch the full story on ...
Mar 26, 2022 · Heaven's Gate Mass Suicide: 20 Years Later. Exactly 20 years ago Sunday, 39 people died in a mass suicide in Rancho Santa Fe. Heaven’s Gate made headlines around the world.
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Mar 7, 2023 · Inside a San Diego mansion, authorities discovered the remains of 39 members of a monastic religious sect—quickly dubbed a “suicide cult”—known as Heaven’s Gate.
Oct 15, 2020 · The suicides are believed to have taken place over the course of three days, with each member discovered wearing identical black outfits, box-fresh Nike Decades and arm bands reading, “Heaven’s...
