Flashback:Marking the anniversary of the Heaven’s Gate tragedy in Rancho Santa Fe
· debbie l. sklar • times of san diego
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- 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult died in a mass suicide at a Rancho Santa Fe rental home on March 26, 1997.
- The group, led by Marshall Applewhite, believed they would be transported to a spaceship after dying together.
- The incident remains one of the most infamous cult-related mass suicides in American history.
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