True Crime Vault: The Cult Next Door: The Mystery and Madness of Heaven's Gate

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True Crime

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🗓️ 20 November 2024

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Decoding the mysteries behind Heaven's Gate cult; survivors speak for first time. Originally aired 3/11/22 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	This is Deborah Roberts.
0:01.7	Welcome to the 2020 True Crime Vault.
0:05.2	Each week, we reach back into our archives and bring you a story we found unforgettable.
0:10.9	You broke her teeth.
0:12.0	He broke her bones.
0:13.4	Poisons that you could use that would be undetectable.
0:16.9	Oh, my goodness.
0:18.3	What have you done?
0:20.5	Take a listen.
0:22.6	Four bodies. Sixteen bodies. Twenty-nine. Grand total to 39.
0:27.4	Okay, clear the way. What in the hell happened here? Who are these people?
0:32.5	Members of the cult who believed there was a UFO waiting to transport them to the kingdom of heaven.
0:37.9	Hold your patch. Heaven's Gate away team.
0:41.3	Diane Sawyer reporting.
0:43.1	Are you still the messenger?
0:44.7	How did so many smart, idealistic young people end up ensnared in a cult?
0:50.4	39 to beam up.
0:51.7	Convinced this one man could teach them to perfect themselves and get to heaven.
0:56.0	It's the cult.
0:57.0	I mean, it's the cult of cults.
0:59.0	It's the cult of truth.
1:00.0	By trying to erase their gender, their sexuality, their private thoughts.
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