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"The Mexican Mormon War" (documentary on the Mormon vigilante militia fighting a drug cartel in Chihuahua). Vice.com. 2012. Bennion, Janet (2012). "The Church of the Firstborn of the 'Fulness' of Times (The LeBarons)". Polygamy in Primetime: Media, Gender, and Politics in Mormon Fundamentalism. Brandeis University Press. pp. 43– 50.
On 20 August 1972, in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, one of Ervil's followers, Daniel Jordan (who was married to one of their nieces), shot Joel LeBaron in the head while Joel's young son was asleep in a car in the driveway. Ervil was tried and convicted in Mexico for Joel's murder, but the conviction was overturned.
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.
Mexico captured a gang leader accused of being the mastermind behind the massacre of nine women and children of U.S.-Mexican origin, authorities confirmed on Wednesday, a move that Washington ...
Mormon leaders immediately proclaimed Pratt as another martyr, [99] [100] with Brigham Young stating, "Nothing has happened so hard to reconcile my mind to since the death of Joseph." Many Mormons held the people of Arkansas collectively responsible. [101] "It was in accordance with Mormon policy to hold every Arkansan accountable for Pratt's ...
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 ...
Found beaten and shot to death in a car in a parking lot 66 December 15, 1979 North Charleston, South Carolina: Ruth Teuscher (missionary) LDS Church Found beaten and shot to death in a car in a parking lot 65 February 1987 Lisbon, Portugal: Roger Hunt (missionary) LDS Church Shot and killed by a security guard who thought he had stolen a car 19
CIUDAD VICTORIA, Mexico (AP) — The anonymous tip that led Mexican authorities to a remote shack where four abducted Americans were held described armed men, people wearing blindfolds and plenty ...