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...DIEGO: Doctors have completed autopsies on nearly all of the 39 cult members who committed suicide in a Rancho Santa Fe mansion earlier this week. Tests confirm that they died primarily from lethal doses of the drug Phenobarbital. Officials say the families of 31 group members have been notified so far. Although the group's videotapes and website constitute one of the most elaborate suicide notes in history, the search for information about their activities and their reasons for choosing to die continues. Police have removed all of the computers from the house and turned them over...
RANCHO SANTA FE, California: Perfection, as any website designer will tell you, is absolutely essential in HTML coding. Misplace a bracket, spell a command wrong, and the whole page could come crashing down. So when it came time to die, the 39 members of a mysterious San Diego cult went about it in the same precise manner they had conducted Higher Source, their web design business. The suicide plan was meticulously organized. Each member received a hand-written recipe with suicide instructions: take the package of pudding or apple sauce, stir in the drug phenobarbital and eat it, quickly drink...
RANCHO SANTA FE, California: The Benedictine monks painstakingly hand-copied manuscripts so that their order could sustain itself self-sustaining revenue from within its walls. The Higher Source made web sites. In a sprawling, spotless mansion packed with bulk food and computer hardware, at least forty modern-day monks designed and built web sites for businesses on the outside, including the San Diego Polo Club, a movie company, and a British maker of airline parts. On Wednesday, in three neatly planned shifts, they died. The world saw Jonestown, felt Waco, and cried cult. And this time, a cult...
...claim to have seen McVeigh with an unknown second man on the day the bomb truck was rented. Nor apparently has the FBI shown the Jacques sketch to folks around Nichols' home in Herington, Kansas. There, Barbara Whittenberg remembers a Ryder truck pulling up in front of her Santa Fe Trail Diner a day or so before the bombing. "There was three gentlemen that came in and sat down and ordered coffee," she says. One, she says, was Nichols, another, McVeigh. "The one question I asked was where were they going. And the third person said, 'Oklahoma.'" The three left...
DIED. ALFONSO ORTIZ, 57, Native American anthropologist whose writings offered a rare and richly detailed insider's view of the pueblo; from heart complications; in Santa Fe, New Mexico. His classic 1969 book, The Tewa World, was a breakthrough in Native American scholarship...