A ctor Jim Parsons, who rose to stardom while playing Sheldon Cooper in the long-running sitcom The Big Bang Theory, has found his next role. After a Broadway run and his work as ...

Among the cult's following, Marshall was known as "Do." Following the discovery of the Hale-Bopp comet in July of 1995, Marshall told the Heaven's Gate members that it was a signal from aliens.

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 ...

In the early 1970s, Applewhite met Bonnie Nettles, who would go on to found Heaven's Gate with him. She fostered his belief that he was a prophet with a divine mission.

Heaven’s Gate was led by Marshall Applewhite, who went by the name “Do,” and Bonnie Nettles, who went by “Ti.” ...

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.

Marshall Applewhite, the cult’s co-founder and leader, was a music instructor at UA in the early 1960s, about 12 years before he founded Heaven’s Gate with a co-believer, Bonnie Nettles.

Marshall Herff Applewhite 65, music teacher turned cult leader Missouri prosecutor Tim Braun never forgot the car-theft case that came his way in 1974, when he was a novice St. Louis County public ...

Heaven’s Gate leader Marshall Applewhite’s heart disease may have hastened his death after he took a lethal mix of drugs and alcohol, according to an autopsy. Results confirm the charismatic ...

April 16 2018, Published 4:42 p.m. ET Texas music-teacher-turned-cult-leader Marshall Applewhite, became known for leading the biggest mass suicide in American history in 1985.