Change came with near-death experience in 1972 From Correspondent John Holliman (CNN) -- The young life of Marshall Herff Applew ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

“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 ...

Heaven's Gate began in the early 1970s with co-founders Marshall Herff Applewhite and Bonnie Lou Nettles. Applewhite was the son of a Presbyterian preacher and became a talented stage actor and ...

It happened 20 years ago this month. In a Rancho Santa Fe mansion, Marshall Applewhite, a preacher's son and former seminarian who had fashioned a religion that merged evangelical Christianity ...

Season 2 Episode 4 Preview: In 1975 in Oregon, Marshall Applewhite held an early meeting drumming up interest in his Heaven's Gate cult. One man who was mildly interested said he was convinced ...

Marshall Herff Applewhite Jr. was an American cult leader who founded what became known as the Heaven's Gate religious group and organized their mass suicide in 1997, claiming the lives of 39 people.