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Heaven’s Gate, religious group founded in the United States on a belief in UFO’s. The group advocated extreme self-renunciation to the point of castration. It burst into public consciousness following the su!cide of 39 of its members in a suburb of San Diego, california, in March 1997. Founders Marshall H. Applewhite and Bonnie Nettles met in 1972, and soon became convinced that they were the two “endtime” witnesses mentioned in Revelation 11. In 1975 they held gatherings in California and Oregon that attracted their initial followers. Those who attached themselves to “The Two” dropped out of society and prepared for the “transition” to a new life on a spaceship. And The name "Heaven's Gate" was only used for the final few years of the group's existence, and they had previously been known under the names Human Individual Metamorphosis and Total Overcomers Anonymous.#fyp #foryoupage #heavensgate #truecrimetiktok #truecrime #SanDiego #cult #history

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Around 9 o’clock in the evening on February 4th,1974,there was a knock on the door of apartment #4 at 2603 Benvenue Street in Berkeley California. In a burst a group of men and women with their guns drawn. They grabbed a surprised 19 year old college student named Patty Hearst, beat up her fiancé, threw her in the trunk of their car and drove off. Thus began one of the strangest cases in FBI history. Hearst, it was soon discovered, had been kidnapped by a group of armed radicals that billed themselves as the Symbionese Liberation Army, or SLA. Led by a hardened criminal named Donald DeFreeze, the SLA wanted nothing less than to incite a guerrilla war against the U.S. government and destroy what they called the “capitalist state.” Their ranks included women and men, blacks and whites, and anarchists and extremists from various walks in life. They were, in short, a band of domestic terrorists. And dangerous ones. They’d already shot two Oakland school officials with cyanide-tipped bullets, killing one and seriously wounding the other. Why’d they snatch Hearst? To get the country’s attention, primarily. Hearst was from a wealthy, powerful family; her grandfather was the newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst. The SLA’s plan worked and worked well: the kidnapping stunned the country and made front-page national news. But the SLA had more plans for Patty Hearst. Soon after her disappearance, the SLA began releasing audiotapes demanding millions of dollars in food donations in exchange for her release. At the same time, they apparently began abusing and brainwashing their captive, hoping to turn this young heiress from the highest reaches of society into a poster child for their coming revolution. That, too, seemed to work. On April 3, the SLA released a tape with Hearst saying that she’d joined their fight to free the oppressed and had even taken a new name. A dozen days later, she was spotted on bank surveillance cameras wielding an assault weapon during an SLA bank robbery, barking orders to bystanders and providing cover to her confederates#fyp #foryoupage #history #LA #truestory #truecrimetiktok #truecrimetiktok #lawenforcement #thailand

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Santiago Meza Lopez aka El Pozolero (The Stewmaker) was first captured back in 2009 and confessed to helping the brutal Sinaloa Cartel disappear countless bodies. Estimates as to how many people he dissolved have ranged from around 300 to thousands. He was known to work across at least 10 locations in Tijuana, Mexico, most notably the Chicken Coup farm near to the US border. (The Stewmaker was sentenced to a decade in prison back in 2012, and was scheduled for release in 2022)#fyp #foryoupage #history #mexico #truecrimetiktok #truecrime