The group’s belief system had never been infallible. There had been adjustments along the way; revisions meant to keep the wheels turning whenever prophecies didn’t manifest. But then, in 1985, Bonnie Lu Nettles died. And her passing threw Heaven’s Gate’s whole world askew. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
1976 was a turning point for Heaven’s Gate. The spaceship that was promised had not arrived. Members were defecting. Nettles and Applewhite gathered their truest believers in Wyoming and made it clear: Things were going to be different from here on out. Much different. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When Bonnie Lu Nettles and Marshall Applewhite meet in Houston in 1972, it’s not for the first time — at least, not according to their birth charts. They’ve known each other in a past life. And in this lifetime, they have a joint mission. They set out, amid a wave of social and political upheaval, to find it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Apprehending Mary Mallon was not a one-time affair. After she was forced to quarantine, she was allowed to reenter society under one condition: she would never cook for anyone again. But “Typhoid Mary” refused to play by anyone’s rules. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In what became one of history’s most infamous accounts of contagion, a domestic cook spread typhoid to dozens of people in New York through her trademark dessert: homemade peach ice cream. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Scotland Yard built its case against Dr. John Bodkin Adams, who was believed to have killed over a hundred of his elderly patients between 1935 and 1956. The impending trial would lead to notable changes in the medical and legal systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
He rose to prominence in the 1930s treating the wealthy as a General Practitioner in the town of Eastbourne, England. But Dr. John Bodkin Adams didn't want to just treat the wealthy. He wanted to be IN with them. And he would do it by any means necessary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
28-year-old Hans Peterson had spent four long years nursing rage against Dr. David Cornbleet, the dermatologist who prescribed a drug that's side effects turned Peterson's life upside down. And in October 2006, Peterson rented a car and drove it to Chicago for a final confrontation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
A hospital murder unfolded at the intersection of grief and illness in January 2015. Stephen Pasceri, mourning the death of his mother, met with one of America’s top heart surgeons, Dr. Michael Davidson — not to seek treatment, but revenge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In June 1992, Dr. John Kemink was fatally shot by a former patient, retired car salesman Chester Leo Posby. Posby blamed the doctor for an injury that had upended his entire life. But he also believed that Dr. Kemink was conspiring to kill him. In Posby’s delusion, the only way to save his own life was to take the doctor’s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In January of 2013, Dr. Ron Gilbert was shot and killed in his office by a new patient who said his name was Allen Gold. Only he wasn't a new patient and his name was actually Stanwood Elkus. It had been 20 years since Dr. Gilbert originally diagnosed him, and Elkus was back for revenge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the aftermath of Marilyn Sheppard’s murder, media speculation drove the narrative against her husband Sam. He was convicted and imprisoned for a decade before getting a second chance at freedom. Sam Sheppard finally had a new lease on life — but his reinvention would come at a cost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Dr. Sam Sheppard and his wife Marilyn fell asleep at home watching a movie with friends on the evening of July 3rd, 1954. Early the next morning, Sam awoke to a horrific scene. Marilyn and her unborn baby were dead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
As we look ahead to the new year, we want to take one last chance to say thank you for the year that was — and present our "Best of 2021"! Please enjoy this episode from our fan-favorite podcast, Solved Murders. In August 1969, actress Sharon Tate was living the Hollywood dream. Until it turned into the bloodiest kind of Hollywood nightmare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
For the better part of two decades, Charles Cullen homed in on a pattern that allowed him to continue his killing spree nearly uninterrupted. But in 2003, a nurse friend of his became an informant — piecing together exactly how he was able to outsmart hospital administrators and detectives alike. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Between 1987 and 2003, Charles Cullen worked at ten different medical centers across New Jersey and Pennsylvania. In that time, some suspect the lethal nurse claimed over 300 lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After poisoning his wife and his mistress’s husband in 1991, Colin Howell tried and failed to outrun his guilt. Finally, years later, he did as his religion taught him to do: he confessed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Throughout his life, Colin Howell did everything he could to appear godly and upright. But in the early ‘90s, the staunchly religious dentist committed two murders in Northern Ireland — and got away with it for nearly two decades. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
It takes a certain type of evil to poison a person, but a far greater kind to do it repeatedly, and to one's own wife nonetheless. It wasn't that Dr. Pritchard loathed the woman he married. She simply stood in the way of the inheritance he was after… and the maid he'd taken as his consort. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In May 1863, a young woman's charred remains were found resting in the surgical chair of a surgeon's home office. Whispers flew about town, claiming that Dr. William Pritchard had torched his own practice. As it happened, unsavory deeds were far from beneath Dr. William Pritchard, a man who married and meddled all for the sake of a shiny reputation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Fatigue, nausea, and cramping are all symptoms that dialysis patients regularly face, as they rely on their medical professionals to do the work that their kidneys once did. But in 2008, at a clinic in Lufkin, Texas, these ailing convalescents dealt with far worse. One of the nurses among them was administering bleach, in lieu of care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When malpractice occurs, justice often lies with the hospitals who hired the malicious professional in the first place. But it was all too easy for Texas institutions to turn a blind eye to Dr. Christopher Duntsch's medical indiscretions in 2012. Duntsch, in turn, hopped from one facility to the next, falling deeper into a deluded rampage, until his egregious oversights caught the attention of two sleuthing doctors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
When Dr. Christopher Duntsch was ousted from the biotech startup he co-founded, he pursued a new career in medicine as a spinal surgeon. He was inexperienced, inept, and arrogant — but his charm secured glowing reviews and second chances everywhere he went. By the time alarm bells started ringing, his hospital employer was in too deep to let their investment walk away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In 1986, Donald Harvey began a new job at a hospital in Ohio, where he moved from suffocating patients to poisoning them in lethal experiments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Donald Harvey was a hospital orderly in Kentucky and Ohio who killed dozens of patients in the 1970s. He was also a neo-Nazi who learned witchcraft, and would regularly summon a spirit he called Duncan to choose his next victim. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
In the late 1980s and early ‘90s, a young respiratory therapist made medicine his whole life. But the extra shifts and multiple jobs started taking a toll — and it wasn’t long before rumors began circulating that Efren Saldivar’s “magic syringe” was putting patients in body bags. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Even though he helped produce life-saving vaccines and water purification practices, Dr. Shiro Ishii’s biowarfare facilities and epidemics launched by his team are likely responsible for hundreds of thousands of deaths. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Coming out of the influenza pandemic of 1918, Dr. Shiro Ishii wondered if disease could be used as a weapon. After invading Manchuria in the early 1930s, Japan authorized him to conduct horrific experiments on Chinese locals to determine the effectiveness of biological warfare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
After getting away with two murders in 2008, Anthony Garcia tried returning to medicine — but repeated rejections left him spiraling. Once again, he focused his revenge on Creighton University doctors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
Wanting to make his parents proud, Anthony Garcia tried to complete his residency to become a doctor. Four failed attempts at four different institutions later, Garcia knew a path in medicine wasn’t for him — so he set out on a quest to enact revenge. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
