LA Weekly on Heaven's Gate

By at 5:14 pm Wednesday, Mar 21

Mark Mauer says:
Picture 7-10 I know you just linked to a Heaven's Gate story from SD. But I think you'll dig our cover story on it too. Joshuah Bearman interviewed "Rio," the sole survivor of the group. He actually joined Heaven's Gate after learning of them from an LA Weekly article we ran in '94 (also online here) .

But here's the kicker. We have several exit videos with group leader DO and other members shortly before they committed suicide -- or rather, before they left their vehicles for the spaceship behind the comet.

We're adding more videos now, and should have several up by this afternoon. We also have Rio's explanation of the suicides and why he still believes.

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