Who was the leader of the cult, who in 1993 committed mass suicide on a farm in Waco, Texas?
Waco, Texas resource study to be presented to Congress. The bones are currently on display at the Waco Mammoth National Monument, part of the National Park Service. On February 28, 1993, a shootout occurred in which six Branch Davidians and four agents of the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms died. After 50 days, on April 19, 1993, a standoff between FBI agents and Branch Davidians ended in a fire that destroyed their compound, referred to as Mt. Carmel, thirteen miles from Waco. Seventy-four people, including leader David Koresh, died in the blaze. This event became known as the Waco
Mass suicide go on a journey aboard a spaceship they believed to be following comet Hale–Bopp. Some male members of the group underwent voluntary castration in preparation for the genderless life they believed awaited them after the suicide. In May 1997, two Heaven's Gate members who had not been present for the mass suicide attempted suicide, one succeeding, the other becoming comatose for two days and then recovering. In February 1998, the survivor, Chuck Humphrey, committed suicide. In 2007, in Mymensingh, Bangladesh, a family of 9, all members of a novel "Adam's cult" committed mass suicide by hurling themselves onto a train.