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Marshall Applewhite, the founder of Heaven's Gate, and Bonnie Nettles, a nurse, meet at a hospital in Houston. They open a metaphysical bookstore.
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The couple closes the metaphysical bookstore and set out to find their spiritual mission.
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The couple travel around the country.
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More people join Applewhite and Nettles and agree to meet in Gold Beach, Oregon. When the meeting happens, Applewhite and Nettles call themselves Bo and Peep, respectively.
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Applewhite and his wife go to Ojai, California, where they recruit a mother and her daughter.
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The group meets in Waldport, Oregon to wait for a spaceship to land but it does not show up. Around 30 people join the group. Later on, the group waits for a spaceship to show up at Colorado National Monument.
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Nettles exclaims that the group will not hold public meetings any more. About 80 people leave the group the following year. Applewhite then goes by Do while Nettles goes by Ti.
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Nettles passes away from liver cancer.
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The group puts an advertisement of them in USA Today and begins recruiting members. This is where the internet starts to be used for recruitment purposes.
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The members of the group spend months living in a compound in a New Mexico town.
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The members move into a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe.
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The group commits mass suicide and the bodies of the 39 cult members are then discovered in the mansion.