All of the questions everyone once had were now answered. The Dark Side of Rancho Santa Fe. Though she earned a master’s degree in computer science at UCLA, she seemed to be losing interest in life in 1975, when she encountered the cult. List of the deceased Heaven's Gate members March 28, 1997 Web posted at: 8:15 p.m. EST (CNN) -- Of the 39 people who died in the mass suicide, 30 had been identified by Friday afternoon. “We didn’t.”. 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[74] Heaven's Gate believed that all existing religions on Earth had been corrupted by these malevolent aliens. “I guess this group just came around with flyers and she decided to join,” says her father, Lyle Strom, a senior U.S. district judge. Sandoe, son of an evangelical minister, had been decorated for his service as an infantry paratrooper in Desert Storm in 1991, and friends remember him as a popular senior class president. “He said they were bickering inside the cult.”, At first, Yvonne was going to leave with her husband. I asked the following questions: What made you interested in wanting to join Heaven's Gate? Nettles was determined to impose order, insisting that daily routines be spelled out to the minute. Bio. Heaven's Gate And if you're too young to remember, this was cutting edge at the time. To jog your memory, 39 members of Heaven’s Gate were found dead on march 26, 1997, in a mansion in San Diego, CA. 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