Marshall Herff Applewhite–known as “Do” to his true believers– is not the first millennialist seer, and he almost certainly won’t be the last. What in his strange brew of twisted Christian theology, castration, science fiction, belief in UFOs and mastery of the Internet led 38 others, ranging in age from 26 to 72, to forsake their families and then suffocate themselves? A special, behind-the-scenes report on the worst mass suicide in U.S. history–and whether it could happen again.
