On March 26, 1997, a tip from a former member led police to a grizzly discovery: 39 decomposing bodies in a San Diego mansion. The Heaven’s Gate massacre was the largest mass suicide that had ever taken place on US soil.

SOURCES
Heaven's Gate: America's UFO Religion; By Benjamin Zeller 

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