marshall applewhite you go first.is took calls from the anguished families. he tried to help. >> i recall like it was yesterday the quivering voices on the phone and how deeply it hurt them. >> it makes me want to cry. because i think what a waste. all of those 39 people, what a waste. >> it's devastating to this very day. >> i just wish that she could have found something worth living for here. >> thank you. >> everyone who was there is gone. >> thank you. >> i ends with the fade to black. it ends also with silence. >>> when we come back, where is that anonymous caller today? we find him again. i could've waited to tell my doctor my heart was racing just making spaghetti... but i didn't wait. i could've delayed telling my doctor i was short of breath just reading a book... but i didn't wait. they told their doctors. and found out they had... atrial fibrillation. a condition which makes it about five times more likely to have a stroke. if you have one or more of these symptoms irregular heartbeat, heart racing, chest

. >> marshall applewhite, do, is basically their god. >> who is this man?promises they'll be carried to the next level of existence in a ufo. a life of isolation, rituals, hoods blocking their faces, some even castrating themselves to curb sexual desire. >> your only chance to evacuate is to leave with us. >> before he was do, he was the son of a successful presbyterian preacher. >> was always on the honor roll. just a born leader. >> he was a wonderful person, at one time. be a beloved music professor, - have children. >> secretly he has got the gay affairs going on. >> when he is 33, a shadow moves in. his wife goes back to the parents, the children go with her. >> we didn't even have the word homosexual when we were going to school. >> in the 50s. >> his old friends knew nothing of the reason he had to resign. >> in a different world in a different time with more acceptance of being diverse he might have been able to deal with it better. i don't know. >> applewhite is in new mexico, cast away from his childhood religion and tormented by voices and vision

. >> marshall applewhite, doe, is basically their god. >> reporter: a god who wants them to erase genderughts. >> heaven's gate was so extreme. >> reporter: and who were these followers before they walked through his door? dreamers. high achievers. a valedictorian and presidential scholar, she is lonely and follows them to the end. the brother of a famous heroine on "star trek." so many people vanishing into a cult, while their parents, children, lovers are desperate to find them. >> my parents were in the heaven's gate cult. >> my wife was yvonne. >> what happened to my brother? >> is he still living? i had no idea. >> i think, what a waste. all of those 39 people, what a waste. what a waste of talent and beauty. because they were good -- they had good hearts. these people were not malicious. >> diane's eye-opening report, "the cult next door," tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here. so many brave families speaking all these years later. we'll see you then. good n >> new information tonight as a federal investigation into yesterday's fiery caltrain crash gets underway. gas prices conti

they're through with another cam is more or less 50/50 we see by the cpac that applewhites that theyisten but once they discover what this all about, most people not all of them, but most of people, they shut up. they sort of free to speak of this again. there's a lot of rumor that every call is monitored and you know, you're in great danger, but it's still getting through . so, you know, we're able to tell the people what is happening there. so it's about fifty to fifty and that must be a difficult hurdle to cross. so the idea of so many calls are being monitored. you must speak to a lot of people who are just utterly terrified of what might happen to them if they say anything anti war to you. >> yeah, absolutely. absolutely. and you know, is is a chilling experience actually to speak to these people. i've done a dozen calls myself and, you know, open your eyes what is actually happening in russia. and it was the level of fear is enormous. so how do you get around that when you're talking to people? what do you tell them to try to help them over that fear? okay, so the, the main thi