20/20

Justice for Faith

October 31, 2026·1h 24m·8-min readnarrativetrue crime
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This 20/20 True Crime Vault episode is Diane Sawyer's exhaustive two-year investigation into Heaven's Gate, the UFO cult whose 39 members died in the largest mass suicide on U.S. soil in March 1997. Using never-before-heard audio tapes, hidden home videos, and first-time interviews with s

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People

Marshall Herff ApplewhiteBonnie Lou NettlesDiane SawyerRio D'AngeloAnanda JohnsonDick JocelynNick MatsourkasRick ScullyNichelle NicholsJoan Van ArkYvonne HillGary St. Louis

Topics

CultsInvestigative JournalismLong Form JournalismTrue CrimeUnsolved Mysteries

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