All tagged asphyxiation
In 1997, authorities responded to an emergency call in the Rancho Santa Fe San Diego suburb, where they discovered thirty-nine bodies, all members of the new religious movement Heaven’s Gate. This would be the largest mass suicide in the United States.
In August of 1987, Donald Harvey pled guilty to 37 murders committed over a span of nearly two decades. Harvey mostly preyed upon patients at hospitals where he was working, and he proclaimed himself to be an 'Angel of Death,' killing to relieve sick people of their pain. As the manner of his sadistic crimes came to light, it became clear that nothing could be further from the truth.
