Responding to a call, police raid the Philadelphia home of Gary Heidnik and find an appalling crime scene. A fourth woman, Josefina During a radio broadcast dealing with a Senate investigation into communists in the U. Lattimore soon became a central figure in the Live TV.
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In a strange twist, on the morning of the mortuary discovered at that mansion, Lawrence Jimenez was supposed to clean the pool but said he sensed danger and turned back at the gate. He told Inside Edition in he would never return to the home. In , during the 20th anniversary of the discovery, a man who identified himself as a former cult member named Sawyer told Inside Edition that he spent 18 years with Heaven's Gate and reached the rank of "overseer" before leaving in Gilman , R.
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Sign In or Create an Account. Sign In. Advanced Search. Search Menu. Article Navigation. Close mobile search navigation Article Navigation. Volume 3. Article Contents Abstract. Who Were Heaven's Gate? Decoding the Code. Web Sites Cited in the Article. Heaven's Gate: the End. Her dissertation explores instances of authenticity and identity in popular and virtual culture. In addition to Duke, Ms. They derived a large portion of their income from designing web pages. In the early s, founders Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles — a Texas music teacher and nurse that he met during a stay in a psychiatric institution — renamed themselves Bo and Peep and took a six-month-long road trip across the United States.
Thought Nettles died in , Applewhite kept the group together, and when the Internet was introduced to consumers in the early s, they began using the new technology to share their beliefs with a wider audience. The reclusive group also used it to make a living, deriving a large portion of their income from designing web pages. Applewhite told his acolytes that he was the second coming of Jesus Christ , that God was an alien, and that they were living in the end times.
They read the Bible, especially, Revelation Chapter 11 in the New Testament , a section about two witnesses that would prophecy. But then, in late March , 39 members including Applewhite wearing black track suits and sneakers, ate apple sauce laced with barbiturates and washed it down with vodka.
They then put bags over their heads, purple shrouds over their bodies, and laid down to leave their earthly vehicles behind. Instead, police found their bodies on March 26th, and the images of the white and black Nikes poking out from under a purple cloth would be burned into the eyes of a generation. The cult borrowed a lot of imagery from science fiction Applewhite and Nettles were huge fans of Star Wars and Close Encounters of the Third Kind , and they brought some sci-fi to the group — resulting in theories like that Mary had been taken aboard a spaceship and impregnated with Jesus.
They made headlines early on In September , the group visited the small town of Waldport, Oregon, to give a lecture about how U. At first the town thought it was a joke, but soon, 20 people — or about one in 30 residents of the town — packed up, told their loved ones goodbye, and drove off. They had gone to a meeting of about people in Grand Junction, Colorado, who believed they would be visited by alien beings.
The rendezvous never happened, but the congregation did escape with their lives. According to the Times, none of these Oregon residents were among those found in
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