Ash Kelley

They do everything together.

You do form human bonds.

Of course.

You find out that 39 of the people who you were closest to over the last few years...

all died at once.

Like, I don't know how you digest that.

Absolutely.

Just fucked up.

But that meant that of the 42 members of Heaven's Gate who followed Marshall Applewhite to California, the only one who remained alive was Richard Ford.

Holy shit.

Who I started talking about in the beginning.

That's wild.

One member.

So within a few weeks of the discovery at the house, the medical examiner's office had managed to identify all but one of those who died in the Heaven's Gate compound.

And eventually they did identify the 39th person.

We'll post everybody's name.

Yeah, for sure.

So the families were all notified of the deaths by the sheriff's department, obviously.

But by then, this is so sad, most of them had already received letters of videos from their estranged loved ones explaining what they were going to do or what they had already done at that point.

That's chilling as hell.