The above letter was sent in a FedEx packet in March of 1997 by the members of the group that has been dubbed by the media as the Heaven’s Gate cult to Mark and Sarah King who currently administer heavensgate.com under the guise of the TELAH foundation. The Kings have repeatedly claimed that the website was “left” to them but as the above letter demonstrates the “Internet Account Info” was sent to two additional individuals, RKK (aka Chuck Humphrey) and OSC (aka Wayne Parker). As this letter and the two below to RKK clearly demonstrate the diskettes with the Final Press Release and Earth Exit Statements were sent to RKK with instructions to upload them and not to the Kings (aka MRC/SRF). In fact the group stated to RKK that “We are hoping that with your computer skills, you might choose to assist us in this capacity for whatever length of time feels right to you”. No such statement can be found in the letter to the Kings. Based on these letters there is no evidence that the Kings received the diskettes with the updates to the website. They have claimed in interviews that they did and even provided pictures of the diskettes that they supposedly received and yet there is no mention in any of the three letters that the Kings received of the diskettes other than “these final statements are on a separate disk which hopefully RKK will be able to upload” and a mention of sending the disks to a Romanian webmaster.

Also, as is stated in the letters, the “original master” for the Exit videos that the group produced days before their departure was given to RKK with the instruction “we thought you would know best how to duplicate the tapes and where to distribute them for widest coverage”. The Kings have repeatedly stated that they were given “all” of the group’s intellectual property. Also, the masters for the Beyond Human series were given to another former member named JHN.

The reason why I have this and other letters to the Kings from the HG group is because they gave them to RKK shortly after the news of the “cult suicide” was broadcast. The following story has never been told in its entirety.

After receiving his FedEx packet on Tuesday, March 25th, RKK communicated with the Kings and OSC via phone and flew from Denver to Phoenix where the Kings and OSC lived (separately) arriving in the afternoon on Wednesday, March 26th. RKK met OSC at Sky Harbor airport and they chose to book another flight to San Diego that same day. The news had not hit yet and they wanted to check on the house in Rancho Santa Fe as they all had been given a document describing the location and how to get in through an unlocked door. As they were on the way to the house the news broke on the radio. Rio Diangelo, who had also received a mailed packet, had decided to go to the house with his employer rather than contact any of the other former HG members who had been listed on a document in said packets. After going to the house Rio contacted the authorities as is well known.

RKK and OSC chose to fly back to Phoenix at this point. RKK was sleeping in OSC’s apartment when Mark called at 3am(on Thurs., March 27th) expressing nervousness about the TELAH address being on HG.com and wanting RKK to remove it from the site. The address was a mailbox at the King’s Postnet business in Phoenix. The ONLY task that TELAH had prior to late March of ’97 was handling any mail requests that came in for the HG Book and video tapes. There is no evidence that they had anything to do with the placement of an ad in USA Today in 1993 as they have claimed.

No one except the Class (HG ) had access to the website prior to late March of 1997. The Kings have claimed that they received instructions prior to this on how to be a “satellite and communications center” for the group but there is no evidence of any prior communications with said instructions other than their say so in numerous anonymous interviews that they have given recently. On the document listing all who received the packets the Kings are described as ” former classmembers currently handling TELAH’s mail”. Interestingly two of the other recipients of the packets are described as being in a “satellite relationship in terms to the class”; OSC and FLX/ABL. Even more interestingly only OSC is described as a “current classmember” on this document. This would call into question Rio Diangelo’s repeated claims that he was the “sole surviving member” as he is described as a “former classmember who left class in late February of 1997” on this same document.

The Kings have even claimed that they had a conference call with the group on March 21, 1997 just days before the Exit. I am highly suspicious that this is another falsehood as I will demonstrate. In December of ’96 RKK received a call from Do asking him to set up a mailbox with the name Right To Know. RKK stated that it was extremely rare to receive a phone call from Do and in retrospect he felt it was something of a goodbye call to himself and GNR, another former Class member whom he was living with at the time. I once asked RKK if he knew if the Kings had received a similar call in the months leading up to the Exit. He told me that the Kings had related to him that they had not received any phone calls from the group in the months leading up to March of 1997. In fact, GNR related to me that when she and RKK were speaking with the Kings on the phone after receiving the FedEx packs that Sarah repeatedly said, “how could they do this to us”? in reference to the Exit. If you read any of the interviews with TELAH they will paint a very different and self-aggrandizing picture of the events of the aftermath.

Back to the narrative. Apparently Mark did not have the access codes to the hg site or he didn’t know how to make changes to it which is why he was desperately trying to get RKK to do it. As RKK describes it in his unpublished manuscript he “went back to bed after trying to explain to MRC that I would try to get it done in the morning”. RKK furthur stated that he “felt bad that they were so nervous” so he ” stayed up for another hour to make the changes….but the site was so busy I was unable to access the server”.

After barely getting any sleep RKK and OSC went to meet the Kings that morning. “Shortly before 7 AM OSC and I met with MRC and SRF in a strip mall parking lot where they transferred all of the things they received from the class to our keeping….MRC and SRF handed over all their paperwork they got from the class along with two sets of keys to all of the cars and trucks the class had parked in a San Diego airport parking lot”. This is why I have all of the letters that the Class sent to the Kings as RKK gave me copies of them. I had transcribed some of these letters to a freewebs site but the site was frozen due to a “copyright issue” so I am highly suspicious that the Kings raised a stink because I had an audio file of Do speaking to the Class on there. The Kings eventually copyrighted all of the HG materials and even trademarked the name Heaven’s Gate despite their being NO instructions from the Class to do so. The Kings won’t mention or provide copies of their letters that they gave to RKK because those letters infringe on the false narrative that they continue to spin about these events. More about the copyrighting later.

After the meeting RKK and OSC flew back to San Diego to “retrieve a couple of the cars and get some things out of the storage locker”. In the letter to the Kings pictured above the Class describes the location of multiple storage units along with the access codes for the gates to the facilities. The key to the units was included in their packet which they turned over to RKK and OSC. This is important as the Kings NEVER went to San Diego during this time period and never retrieved anything from the lockers.

To quote the letter to the Kings, “Enclosed is a key to our storage units which we prefer remain confidential to you and whomever on the above list would be most helpful to you-WE SUSPECT RKK AND OSC WOULD LIKELY BE A BIG HELP” (emphasis mine). At this point I think that it is quite obvious that in the initial aftermath of the “mass suicide” the Kings had no interest in doing any of the tasks that were offered to them and had turned those tasks over to RKK and OSC and wanted nothing to do with the Class. In fact, at one time there was a short article on cnn.com that I cannot find anymore which stated that reporters had asked the “owner” of the Postnet that hosted the TELAH address if they knew the Heaven’ Gaters and the anonymous owner stated that they did not. This would have been on the same morning as the meeting in the parking lot as that was the first opportunity that the media had to investigate the TELAH address as RKK had been unable as of then to remove it as per Mark’s request.

In their letter to the Kings the Class stated “It is our desire that any items of value that are retrievable by you be divided among those who feel inclined to disseminate our information”. RKK goes on to state that “The class had mentioned in their letters they would prefer we remove some items which they felt would be better if the authorities did not get. I interpreted this to mean the hundreds of audio tapes that were made in the class over the years beginning with 1982 up through 1997”. These are the tapes that were later copyrighted by the Kings. However, considering that RKK copyrighted the tapes made from 1982-85 under the Right To Know name that Do had asked him to use there may be some legal issues with the King’s copyright. http://www.worldcat.org/title/heavens-gate-classroom-teachings-audio-tapes-plus-the-complete-heavens-gate-web-site/oclc/75382107

Once they were in San Diego RKK and OSC retrieved a Lincoln Continental that they gave to RKK and a Mazda mini-van that was given to OSC. They then went to the storage lockers, “We opened the larger of the storage lockers and found it packed full right to the door with boxes…The first boxes we pulled out contained the audio tapes I had felt the class wanted us to protect.”. At this point I think that it is safe to say that the “items of value” that the class wanted to go to “those who feel inclined to disseminate our information” were the audio tapes. They spent fifteen years making them and stacked them up right next to the door and used the phrase “disseminate our information” in regards to the locker’s contents.

RKK goes on to state that “There were about six or seven boxes of audio cassettes and several other boxes of extra Beyond Human video tapes. Since we did not have room in the L-car(Lincoln Continental) to retrieve the entire contents of the storage locker, both OSC and I agreed that we should just take the tapes and some other supplies he could use in reproducing the big blue book”. OSC had been asked by the class to register the book with the Library of Congress.

After checking the other storage locker which contained a “lot of camping stuff and other household items” they left to retrieve the M-van(Mazda) and started to drive back to Phoenix. After driving for a couple of hours they got a hotel room and drove to Phoenix the next morning, Friday, March 28th. On arrival in Phoenix OSC put some “tapes” in a storage locker and he was planning to fly back to San Diego to “try to get the computers out of the storage lockers”. RKK drove to Denver at this point and placed the tapes he had in a storage locker there.

On Saturday, March 29th OSC contacted RKK and told him that another lock had been placed on each of the San Diego storage lockers. An individual at the storage company recognized the class member (DST, aka Tom Nichols) who had rented the locker from the TV coverage. After alerting the authorities the Sheriff put the additional locks on the units. At this point RKK states that he “had been trying to to stay in phone contact with MRC and OSC but they seemed to be so afraid their phones were tapped it was all but impossible to have a conversation with them. I did not know what was to be done with the tapes, but on Monday I started looking for a couple lawyers(sic)….I was hoping to locate an attorney who would be able to represent the classes’ interest in recovering the remaining effects of the class that was (sic) taken by the San Diego Sheriff”.

Later that next week RKK left Denver for Phoenix. Along the way he met with another former class member in Flagstaff named PYP. After spending a night in Flagstaff RKK drove to Phoenix during which time he received a call from Holly of Mars Media who was running the site where hg.com was hosted. Holly and another individual named Chris ran Mars Media and knew members of the class and had received a letter from them that I have a copy of as they gave a copy of it to RKK. Holly told RKK during this phone call that “someone had redirected the domain name to a non-existing address effectively confiscating our site”. RKK asked Holly at this point if she could remove the TELAH address from the sites (heavensgatetoo.com was up and running and another backup site in Romania was still being set up at this time) as MRC and SRF were still very nervous about their address being used”. Holly told RKK that she would see what she could do once they got a new server up.

In Phoenix RKK met with OSC and PYP and they “agreed” that PYP and RKK would go to California to meet with a lawyer that had been referred to RKK by a reporter.

“By now MRC and SRF had been making some efforts towards getting involved with trying to do the task that the class had given them. I had jumped in to pick up where I thought they were not doing it. That was a mistake as they got really upset with me later because I was trying to do their task and they had not asked me to do it. I was confused for I didn’t understand how I could have made such a mistake in how I had interpreted them and the intentions of the class as described in their letters”. Later on it became clear to RKK why they were behaving this way towards him.

While in California RKK had 500 copies of the Exit videos made as he had been instructed by the class to do. At this point, “PYP offered to start checking the e-mail for Heaven’s Gate. Since the class had given me all of the passwords to each of their e-mail accounts, I passed them on to PYP”.

Shortly after this RKK met with the Kings again in Phoenix. RKK had met with an Entertainment Attorney in San Diego just prior to this meeting and the Kings had started talking to the same lawyer. Mark told RKK that the entertainment attorney wanted to “form some kind of entity to be able to get all the right’s to Heaven’s Gate stuff including copyrights on all the web pages and their logos”. Furthermore, Mark told RKK “there can be 10’s of millions($) at stake”.

The above statement is to me the smoking gun concerning the King’s desire for the Class’ materials. They had no interest in ANY of the tasks that were offered to them-and had previously absolved themselves of all tasks by giving them to RKK-until the Attorney had filled their heads with the idea that there were tens of millions at stake. Interestingly the Kings did eventually copyright everything HG related including the audio tape collection

I know for a fact that the Phoenix address was changed to the Right To Know address in Denver on hg.com because I sent RKK a letter and that is how we came to be in contact in 1997. Furthermore, it’s my understanding that the Internet archives will bear this out. All of this conflicts with the story that the Kings have been telling in recent interviews. They have repeatedly claimed that TELAH is to be the “sole” distributor of HG information and they even filed a lawsuit against RKK’s vehicle’s daughter that claimed as much. According to the suit, “TELAH holds the sole responsibility for dissemination of intellectual property created by that organization”(HG). Also, “This included transfer of all copyrights and trademarks held or asserted by the organization, all right to the organization’s websites”. These are blatant lies that are easily refuted by the letters the class sent out and RKK’s narrative of events in 1997.

Either I am making all of this up, the letters and RKK’s role in this or the Kings are lying. No one else has offered a detailed explanation of what happened after the class left. Mark King has accused me of having ‘hard opinions” about him but he has NEVER offered ANY proof of any of his claims. Why doesn’t he show the world the letters that the class sent to them? Because, like I stated, he doesn’t have them. All that he has is an increasingly lie-filled narrative that paints he and his wife as tireless martyrs for Heaven’s Gate.

The Kings have copyrighted all the HG info and even trademarked the name Heaven’s Gate. The class did NOT instruct them to do this. According to the letter to the Kings, “We also asked OSC to register the Heaven’s Gate Book with the Library of Congress”. So, the Kings would have us believe that even though this is the only mention of the HG Book in their letter, the class wanted them to copyright it!? In contravention of the Common Law Copyright that the class used for the Book? RKK and I initially tried to take the higher side with the Kings but it became clear to both of us who they were serving with their words and actions. Also, as per the following RKK and I provided the CD-ROMs with 218 of the audio tapes on them to the Library of Congress; http://www.worldcat.org/title/heavens-gate-classroom-teachings-audio-tapes-plus-the-complete-heavens-gate-web-site/oclc/75382107. Right to Know Enterprises is listed as the publisher of the materials.

At this point in the narrative RKK met with JSTODY (aka Wayne Cooke), another former member of HG. JSTODY made a trip to Mexico to obtain phenobarbital as he was planning on doing what the class did, leave this world as was RKK. After having dinner with JST and his daughter in Vegas RKK flew to Nasheville to meet with Chris and Holly who ran Mars Media which had been hosting hg.com. Chris had downloaded about 1300 emails from hg.com and RKK spent much of the afternoon going through them. RKK also stated in his manuscript that “Holly was very helpful in getting the changes made to the website”. RKK had flown to Tennessee after being invited by Chris and Holly to “see what we could do about getting the web site back”. While he was at Mars Media they received a call from Rio. According to RKK, ‘This was the first time I actually was able to talk to him since the event. He was not returning any of my calls to him since Mar 25, and I was really glad to hear from him so we arranged to get together when I got into that area”.

I find it interesting that Rio would not return RKK’s calls and as mentioned earlier, that Rio took Nick Matzorkis to the Rancho Santa Fe house instead of contacting anyone else on the list of former class members that should have been in his FedEx packet. To me this was the beginning of Rio trying to separate-perhaps even elevate-himself from other former class members. Some news articles have claimed that Rio was “left to find the bodies” and yet the location document with instructions for getting into the house was also given to RKK, MRC/SRF and most likely all the former class members who received the packets. And he never returned RKK’s calls, he called Mars Media and RKK happened to be there.

RKK returned to L.A. and met Rio at the Century City Mall as per Rio’s request. Rio was “wearing dark glasses” and had a baseball cap on. According to RKK, “He seemed to be asking most of the questions and I felt like I was being interrogated”. RKK asked Rio why he “had not been in contact with anyone else over the last two weeks” and Rio was very defensive, “RKKody don’t pick on me. You know how things are. I’m not picking on you please don’t pick on me”. This behavior makes no sense unless somewhere deep down Rio knew that he should have been returning RKK’s calls but his ego couldn’t admit that so he lashed out at RKK. RKK stated that, “I really suspected that Rio’s lawyer simply put the clamps on his revealing anything until the ABC deal was signed”. The ABC deal was described by RKK as something that he had “heard through the grapevine that Rio signed 2.5 (sic) million dollar deal with ABC. This involved a movie that was never made that was going to focus on Rio.

Meanwhile Rio started criticizing RKK for “taking” the audio tapes that he and OSC had retrieved from the storage lockers and that “I should have turned them over to MRC and SRF. Also, Rio went after him for putting Right To Know on the web site and for charging $10 for the farewell tapes. As RKK stated, “I was starting to feel like there was a division being drawn between ex-classmates. Some were aligning themselves with MRC and SRF and the San Diego lawyer”.

The facts here are not in dispute. Do asked RKK to create the entity called Right To Know. The Kings demanded that RKK remove the TELAH address from hg.com and they gave RKK everything from the FedEx packet including the keys for the storage lockers and cars. Only after talking to the San Diego lawyer and after the initial media heat had died down did the Kings want to get involved again and Mark’s comment about there being “millions at stake” is to me their obvious motivation for getting involved.

RKK was given the masters to the Exit videos with instructions to distribute them. Rio had signed a 2.5 million dollar deal with ABC (https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/national/0404tv-mass-suicides.html) and then was critical of RKK for charging $10 per tape to cover copying costs. RKK had also asked Rio for help in distributing the audio tape collection and Rio told him to “return” the tapes to the Kings. Except for the tapes that RKK copied and he and I digitized they have never been made available. It is my position that the Kings and Rio were co-opted and continue to be by the forces in opposition to the Next Level. They have been used to suppress information that Ti and Do wanted to be distributed. Mark and Sarah are still claiming to be the “surviving” members of HG and Rio has claimed that he was the “sole surviving member” and yet they were all described as “former” members on the list of those who received FedEx packs and in the letter to Mars Media. These individuals allied with each other to attack the one individual who was doing the most to distribute the HG info.

If you peruse the Internet you can find numerous interviews from the past few years with the Kings in which they praise themselves and conveniently never mention RKK. They also never mention any of their actions from the immediate aftermath of the events of late March in 1997. They have never offered any proof that the class wanted them to copyright the materials or that TELAH was to be the “sole distributor” of the HG information.