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On March 26, 1997, deputies of the San Diego County Sheriff's Department discovered the bodies of the 39 active members of the group, including Applewhite, in a house in the San Diego County suburb of Rancho Santa Fe. They had participated in a coordinated series of ritual suicides, coinciding with the closest approach of Comet Hale–Bopp.
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.
Bonnie Nettles was born on August 29, 1927, and raised in Houston, Texas, into a Baptist family. [2] As an adult, she moved away from the religion. After becoming a registered nurse, she married businessman Joseph Segal Nettles in December 1949, with whom she had four children.
The Order of the Solar Temple was a religious group active in several French-speaking countries, led by Joseph Di Mambro and Luc Jouret.Founded in 1984, it was a neo-Templar secret society with eclectic beliefs sourced from many different movements like Rosicrucianism, Theosophy, and the New Age. [1]
Heaven's Gate is a cult--- very bad and full of POV because it doesn't explain the term. Sociologist use the term cult in a non-judgmental manner to describe any group with "novel beliefs and a high degree of tension with the surrounding society." Based upon this academic definition, Heaven's Gate a cult. Here the term is defined and referenced.
Akiki served with his wife as a volunteer babysitter at a church in San Diego County, California. In 1991, he was arrested and charged with 35 counts of child abuse and kidnapping and held without bail for 30 months before trial. [2] The government filed its first case against Akiki on May 10, 1991, in San Diego Superior Court. [3]
Cult Massacre: One Day in Jonestown, a 2024 National Geographic documentary miniseries; Mass suicides: Heaven's Gate in San Diego, California; Order of the Solar Temple in Canada and Switzerland; Movement for the Restoration of the Ten Commandments of God in Uganda; Puputan, mass ritual suicide in Bali, Indonesia; Malindi cult in Kilifi County ...
Alan Hale (born 1958) [1] is an American professional astronomer, who co-discovered Comet Hale–Bopp along with amateur astronomer Thomas Bopp. [2]Hale specializes in the study of Sun-like stars and the search for extra-solar planetary systems, and has side interests in the fields of comets and near-Earth asteroids.