Don't you want devoted followers who leave their families for you, give their money to you, give their bodies to you, give up their lives

for you, consider you God, and will kill for you? Don't you want to become a cult leader?

Hello again and welcome to serial killing a podcast where we also veer off the serial killer path to delve into topics

within our beloved true crime community. Now of course I want to thank some of my

patrons.

Janice Hammer, Katerina, Robert, Florence,

Teresa, Sarah, Sophie, Nanette, Emily, Gabriel,

my two Emmas, Bree, David, John, and Judy.

Thank you so, so much. I appreciate you.

So this podcast is going to be on the cult Heaven's Gate.

Now I know that this is another one that's been quite frankly done to death, but again, as I've said before,

there's a whole generation of people that are just

awakening to the love of true crime that aren't really aware of this particular

group so let's go ahead and go through it. It was highly, highly requested. It's not too

scandalous or upsetting. I don't believe there's any disclaimers needed so just

sit back and enjoy the story. Now Heaven's main character was a man by the name of

Marshall Applewhite. Marshall Hurf Applewhite Jr. was born on May 17th, 1931 in Spur, Texas.

So let's get into some history for that time.

Now as we've talked about this, Let's get into some history for that time.

Now as we've talked about this before, it still had a very significant impact in the United States.

The Great Plains was suffering from terrible droughts.

This on top of the over-farming of the area led to huge dust storms and soil erosion.

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