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‘The Leader’ Director Michael Gallagher and Star Tim Blake Nelson on Why the Story of the Heaven’s Gate Cult Is Relevant Today: ‘When There Is Nothing but Certainty Within a Group, Danger Can Strike’

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When director Michael Gallagher was eight years old, 39 people died in his neighborhood in San Diego, California. They were the victims of the infamous Heaven’s Gate cult, who died in a coordinated mass suicide timed with the approach of…[Continue Reading...]

California cult leader handed 225-year-to-life sentence for sex crimes against followers

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BUTTE COUNTY, Calif. — Sansue Vang, a Hmong religious cult leader from Oroville, was sentenced to 225 years to life on Tuesday, June 9, for multiple counts of child molestation and rape against young girls and women in the organization,…[Continue Reading...]

Dramatic thriller “The Leader” portrays the infamous Heaven’s Gate cult of the ‘90s and leaves no jaw unslacked. [Tribeca]

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There is a delicacy and there is a purpose to making a movie that tells the story of a cult, especially when telling the story of Heaven’s Gate, the cult that is responsible for the highest casualty rate by mass…[Continue Reading...]

‘Gone to Brazil’: The chilling note Catherine was left before her daughter disappeared with a doomsday cult

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When Catherine McDougall visited her daughter for the last time, she knew something was wrong. In 2007, Chantelle McDougall, 27, and her six-year-old daughter Leela were living in an isolated farmhouse in Nannup, a three-hour drive south of Perth, with…[Continue Reading...]

A Religious Community Cut Off From the World Forced Women Into Submission for Decades. Inside New Zealand’s Gloriavale Cult

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Located in a remote part of New Zealand, the Gloriavale Christian Community has been compared to Gilead from The Handmaid's Tale. The secretive religious cult was founded in 1969 by Neville Cooper, who later changed his name to Hopeful Christian.…[Continue Reading...]

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