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Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. (May 17, 1931 – March 26, 1997), also known as Do, [a] among other names, [b] was an American religious leader who founded and led the Heaven's Gate new religious movement (often described as a cult), and organized their mass suicide in 1997. The suicide is the largest mass suicide to occur inside the U.S. [1]
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 Marshall Applewhite (1931–1997) and Bonnie Nettles (1927–1985), known within the movement as Do and Ti.
Applewhite told them the comet Hale-Bopp was being trailed by an alien spacecraft and, if they died, they could board it. 38 people committed suicide. 20 years after the Heaven's Gate mass suicide ...
In March 1997, 39 followers of Heaven's Gate died in a mass suicide in Rancho Santa Fe, California. The group, led by Marshall Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles, believed that through their deaths they were exiting their human "vessels", which would allow them to advance to the "Next Level" via a spaceship they believed to be following comet Hale ...
Bonnie Lu Nettles (née Trousdale; August 29, 1927 – June 19, 1985), later known as Ti (/ t iː /; TEE), was co-founder and co-leader with Marshall Applewhite of the Heaven's Gate new religious movement. Nettles died of melanoma metastatic to the liver in 1985 in Dallas, Texas, twelve years before the group's mass suicide in March 1997. [1]
The second section, "Contemporary Suicide Cults", discusses more modern "suicide cults": the Order of the Solar Temple, Peoples Temple, Heaven's Gate, and the Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God, four NRMs that made headlines for high-profile mass suicides. Henrik Bogdan first discusses the Solar Temple, a cult notorious ...
Darlene Diaz’s sister, Bernice Perez, claims in a lawsuit that their mother filed a police report — but church leaders had already “tipped off” Saracino, and he fled. Saracino’s alleged ...
He and Taylor joined Heaven's Gate for 3 months in the 1970s, traveling with the cult and secretly taking extensive notes on his experience before eventually leaving to go resume his life. [1] After leaving Heaven's Gate, Balch and Taylor published articles about Heaven's Gate. Eventually, they lost track of Heaven's Gate in the late 1970s.