In 1997, 39 people killed themselves in a house in Rancho Santa Fe. They were members of the Heaven's Gate cult. Paul Magers reports.

with Steve Hassan...

10-year-anniversary of the day 39 cult members committed suicide in California.

Ten years after the 39 suicides, the sole survivor is back – and he has something urgent to tell us.

Rio DiAngelo has a message he wants to share with the world...

..."That DO was the second coming of Jesus Christ. That's what I'm here to help people understand."...

• Rio's Statement
  The sole survivor of Heaven's Gate, in his own words
  By Rio DiAngelo

Ten years ago, 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult committed mass suicide inside a Rancho Santa Fe mansion...

...Inside a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, 39 members of the Heaven's Gate cult lay dead. Convinced that a spaceship was traveling behind the comet and that they would be transported to the vessel to begin a new life "beyond human," they had poisoned themselves...

1997 Heaven's Gate cult members found dead

...San Diego, California, and discover 39 victims of a mass suicide. The deceased--21 women and 18 men of varying ages...

...The cult was led by Marshall Applewhite, a music professor...

An insider's theory on why normal, intelligent people follow charismatic cult leaders

Thirty-year-old Janja Lalich came to San Francisco in 1975 after completing an undergraduate degree at the University of Wisconsin and a Fulbright fellowship in France. Smart, well educated, and strong-willed, she was also looking for something important to get involved in, something greater than herself that she could devote her talents and her passion to. She found it-or thought she had�in the Democratic Workers Party...

...In her new book, Bounded Choice, Lalich explores the similarities and differences found in two seemingly disparate groups-the Democratic Workers Party and the ill-fated Heaven's Gate, which claimed 41 lives in 1997. "On the surface, these groups couldn�t have been more different," she notes. "A hardcore political group out to change the world, and a way-out-there, mystical UFO group ready to leave the world. From an in-depth study of the two came my bounded choice model, which attempts to explain what happens to people who reach a point where they're willing to commit suicide or, in the case of our group, do things that ran completely counter to what we believed, in terms of creating a more just world."...