he doomsday prophet promised to bring forth an apocalypse for all those with him in the compound. When the ordeal over 90 people were dead. Many of the survivors blame the U.S government for their attack on the compound and have since launched a million dollar lawsuit.Marshall Applewhite believed that a UFO would come to the planet and pick up him and his followers. When the ship did not arrive when expected he and 39 of his followers committed suicide with the cult belief that they would rise to meet a space ship in the sky How could 39 intelligent people be so misled by a confused cult leader predictions seemed destined to never turn out? The group known as the Heaven Gaters died in three shifts over a three-day period. 15 cultists died the first day, 15 the second and the remaining nine the third day. As one set of cultist ingested the poison, a lethal dose of Phenobarbital mixed in with pudding and/or applesauce and chased with a shot of vodka, they would lie down and another cultist would use a plastic bag to speed up the dying. A frighteningly anal-retentive mass suicide, the cultist would clean up after each round of killing. Before the last two killed themselves, they took out the trash leaving the rented mansion in perfect order. Wanting to be helpful even after dead, all bodies had some sort of identification. Strangely, though, they also had five-dollar bill and change in their pockets and small suitcases neatly tucked under the cots and beds. Applewhite was not only able to convince his members that suicide was their only option, before this he had all of the men castrate themselves, in order to suppress their sexual desires. Illustrating the complete control he had over his followers.Charles Manson, the son of a teenage, bisexual, alcoholic, prostitute was the poster-boy of institutional life. Before he was thirty-five, he had spent more than half of his life incarcerated During the late 1960s he built himself a har...
