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...last week, in that spacious Rancho Santa Fe mansion, with the bougainvillaea in full bloom outside, 39 bodies were laid out on their backs on bunk beds and mattresses, looking like so many laboratory specimens pinned neatly to a board. Each was dressed in black pants, flowing black shirt, spanking-new black Nikes. Their faces were hidden by purple cloths, shrouds the purple of Christian penance. Those who wore glasses had them neatly folded next to their body, and all, helpfully, had identification papers for the authorities to find. The house, more than one awed witness noted, was immaculate, tidier...
...farewell tape looks like a garden party of the apocalypse, with the California sun shining and the trees in the mansion's backyard blowing in a gentle breeze. The speakers talked as if they were looking forward to a holiday, not a vodka-phenobarb cocktail. Said one woman: "We couldn't be happier about what we're about to do." Said a man in his 40s: "I've been looking forward to this for so long." Said a woman, laughing slightly: "People in the world who thought I'd completely lost my marbles--they're not right. I couldn...
...case you were blissly biking across Europe last week or adrift on a Carnival cruise through the Caribbean, a mass suicide took place Wednesday in a mansion in posh Rancho Santa Fe, Calif., a San Diego suburb...
...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: 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...