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On March 26, 1997, police discovered a shocking scene behind the doors of an ornate mansion in Rancho Santa Fe: twenty women and nineteen men, all aged between 26 and 72, dressed identically in black with new Nike shoes, lying dead across cots and beds. Their bodies were covered with purple shrouds. Subsequent investigation revealed that these individuals were members of a self‑sufficient cult of computer web‑page designers, committed to ending their lives under the guidance of charismatic leader Marshal Applewhite, known as "Do". This account, written by a team of New York Post journalists, unfolds the unsettling reality behind the Heaven’s Gate cult and the circumstances of the infamous mass murder-suicide.
First publish date: 1997
Genre: History/Modern History
Authors: Bill Hoffmann
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