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The gunman reportedly killed Christina Langford after she jumped out of her vehicle and waved her hands to display she wasn't a threat. She was discovered 15 yards from her vehicle with her 7-month-old baby uninjured in the vehicle. [25] Phone messages between family members showed the progression of discovering the incident.
Ervil Morrell LeBaron (February 22, 1925 – August 15, 1981) was the leader of a polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group who ordered the killings of many of his opponents, both within his own sect and in rival polygamous groups, using the religious doctrine of blood atonement to justify the murders.
Alma LeBaron moved his family to Mexico, where the government showed no interest in prosecuting polygamists. After Alma's death, his son Joel founded The Church of the Firstborn of the Fulness of Times and named himself the One Mighty and Strong. Ervil LeBaron served as his brother's second-in-command for several years, but in 1967 began ...
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 ...
The Nov. 4 killings have traumatized northern Mexico's breakaway Mormon communities. ... “The massacre has simply allowed me to support and love family,” said Bostwick, a convert to ...
Mexican officials have arrested a man in connection with last year’s horrific massacre of three Mormon moms and six children on a rural road in the northern state of Sonora. Identified only as ...
Beginning in 1936, the LeBaron family became close to Joseph White Musser, a leader of the young Mormon fundamentalist movement in Mexico. In 1944, the family was excommunicated from the LDS Church for teaching and practicing plural marriage. For the next 11 years, the family were members of Rulon C. Allred's Apostolic United Brethren.
When the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints renounced polygamy, Johnson and his family, like many Mormon fundamentalists, continued the practice. In 1924, Johnson's grandson, Alma Dayer LeBaron, Sr. moved his family to Mexico, where the government showed no interest in prosecuting polygamists, settling near Colonia Juárez, Chihuahua. [1]