The bodies of 48 members of the Doomsday cult were found in burned down buildings. Five more bodies were found in a burned house. Investigators say the cult was obsessed with death and considered it an illusion. Experts say cult leaders told their followers that fire would lead them to a new world on another planet. Deaths were thought to be timed astrologically. Officials say this weeks mass suicide could have happened on Thursday night. That's winter solstice the longest night of the year