John Craig

Age: 62

Summary: former cowboy movie actor and onetime political candidate who owned one of Colorado's premier dude ranches Wilderness Trails Guest Ranch in the 1960's and was cast as an extra in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, who also ran as a Republican for the Colorado House of Representatives in 1970 and nearly won a race for the State Legislature, but who left his family to join the U.F.O. cult Heaven's Gate in 1975 and was sometimes described as 'second in command' to religious cult leader Marshall Applewhite in later years.

Cause of Death: Suicide by massive drug and alcohol overdose

Born: May 4, 1934

Died: March 24, 1997

Location: Rancho Santa Fe, California