“We know whatever happens to us after we leave our bodies is a step forward” — videotaped message by Marshall Applewhite, leader of Heaven’s Gate. Driven by the belief that the comet Hale-Bopp was ...

Among the cult's following, Marshall was known as "Do." Following the discovery of the Hale-Bopp comet in July of 1995, Marshall told the Heaven's Gate members that it was a signal from aliens.

Marshall Herff Applewhite and Bonnie Lu Trusdale Nettles arrested by local police on Aug. 28, 1974. Applewhite was charged with auto theft and Nettles with the fraudulent use of credit cards.

It’s impossible to pinpoint when a mind first veers from eccentricity into madness, but Marshall Applewhite may have hit that fork in 1969 when Neil Armstrong took humankind’s first step on ...

If suicide cult leader Marshall Applewhite knew how much his box of Nike Decade sneakers would be worth today, he might not have killed himself. In 1997, the crackpot captain of Heaven’s Gate ...

Per Deadline, Parsons has joined Tim Blake Nelson and Vera Farmiga for the project, which is currently in production. Nelson and Farmiga are set to play the cult's leaders, Marshall Applewhite and ...

Marshall Applewhite, the cult’s co-founder and leader, was a music instructor at UA in the early 1960s, about 12 years before he founded Heaven’s Gate with a co-believer, Bonnie Nettles.

Marshall Applewhite's brainwashed Heaven's Gate cult members ate a drug-laced applesauce on their final 'graduation' day. The crazed man told them to commit suicide to reach true holiness.

What was eventually discovered is that they were told by their leader, Marshall Applewhite (aka “Do”) that they should join a spaceship that’s trailing the arriving Hale-Bopp comet.

April 16 2018, Published 4:42 p.m. ET Texas music-teacher-turned-cult-leader Marshall Applewhite, became known for leading the biggest mass suicide in American history in 1985.