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The LeBarón family's enclave in state of Chihuahua was founded by Alma LeBaron, who moved there in the 1920s. [6] [12] Among the hundreds of dual-national and bilingual residents within the pair of sibling communities are independent fundamentalist Mormons, members of the Church of the Firstborn, and members of the mainstream Latter-day Saints.
The LeBaron family, led by Alma Dayer LeBaron Sr., affiliated with the leadership of Mormon fundamentalist leader Joseph White Musser beginning in 1936. In June 1944, five of Dayer LeBaron's sons, Alma Jr., Benjamin T., Ervil, Ross Wesley, and Joel, were excommunicated from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) for ...
Many of his family members and other ex-members of the group remain in hiding for fear of retribution from LeBaron's remaining followers. [ citation needed ] However, when LeBaron's daughter Anna LeBaron, who escaped from the cult aged 13, published an account of her life and the cult in 2017, when she was 48, she said that the blood-letting ...
Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Getty/APHe’s been called the “Mormon Manson,” but polygamist Ervil LeBaron and his Mexican-based family managed to make Charlie and his gang look almost ...
In August 1987, Aaron took the younger children to Jordan's home, asking for shelter and sanctuary from the other family members. Although Jordan did not fully trust Aaron, he allowed them all to move in. Two months later, Jordan took his family and the LeBaron children with him on a camping trip. He was shot and killed at the campground.
But all of the victims were believed to be members of the extended LeBaron family, who live in a decades-old settlement founded by an offshoot of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ...
Daughters of the Cult is a documentary television series directed and produced by Sara Mast. It explores the life of Ervil LeBaron, the leader of a religious fundamental group who ordered the murders of his opponents, told through the eyes of former members, and children of LeBaron.
All of the victims were apparently related to the extended LeBaron family in Chihuahua, whose members have run afoul of the drug traffickers over the years. Benjamin LeBaron, an anti-crime ...