Survivors who endured decades of abuse and violence have detailed their experiences in a Mormon fundamentalist cult led by a polygamist known as “Mormon Manson,” who is credited with dozens of assassinations.
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“It was shocking. You sit there and think, 'This is impossible,'” Celia LeBaron, one of the cult leader's daughters, said in a new documentary. “If I hadn't gone through that experience, I don't know if I would have believed it. Our family was killing people because of our father.”
LeBaron's other child, Hiram, who was interviewed on the series, told producers that he did not know exactly how many siblings he had on his father's side.
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Daughters of the Cult, a new Hulu documentary produced by ABC News Studios, arrived on the streaming platform on January 4th. (ABC News Studio)
The Utah-based Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, commonly known as the Mormon Church, renounced polygamy in 1890.
In response, Alma Dayer LeBaron moved south of the border with his wife and children in 1924. NBC News reported. Ervil and his older brother tried to leave their father's community and join the Latter-day Saints.
However, after the family was excommunicated for practicing polygamy, they responded by founding the Church of the Firstborn.
LeBaron, who would go on to have 13 wives and at least 50 children, isolated himself and founded his own church in the 1960s. Soon, he began targeting rival cult leaders, persuading his own followers to follow his orders in exchange for admission to his heaven.
“We were taught to live in reverence for him as God's prophet, the only true prophet on earth,” says Ervil's daughter, Anna LeBaron. told the BBC.
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“It's shocking,” Celia LeBaron, one of the cult leader's daughters, said in a new documentary series. She says, “I sit there and think, “This is impossible.'' “If I hadn't experienced it, I don't know if I would believe it.'' I was there.” (ABC News Studio)
Blood atonement, an old Mormon doctrine that allows the killing of sinners to purify evil, was used as a reason for the killing, the BBC reported. Church leaders refer to the practice as a “theoretical principle” and do not implement it in practice, according to the Deseret News.
According to the documentary, LeBaron killed his own brother in 1972 to gain control of the group. Before being sentenced to life in prison for the death of rival sect leader Rulon Allred in 1980, he allegedly encouraged his followers to carry out numerous murders on his behalf. .
LeBaron was arrested in Mexico two years later on suspicion of killing his brother, but the conviction was overturned due to technicalities or, according to some people interviewed in the five-part documentary, as a result of bribery. Ta.
His followers attacked Los Molinos, an offshoot sect started by LeBaron's brother, and killed the leader of the rival cult. They destroyed the town and killed two people, but Baran Lebaron was unharmed.
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Arvil LeBaron died of an apparent suicide in prison at the age of 56 in 1981, but after his death his supporters engaged in further murders. (Related news organizations)
The Los Angeles Times reported that the cult would kill at least 25 people in Mexico.
Allred, a Salt Lake City homeopath and chiropractor with 48 wives, led the United Brotherhood of Apostles until, on May 10, 1977, two women disguised in red wigs attacked him. He reportedly broke into the clinic and shot him dead on LeBaron's orders. oxygen.com.
Rulon Allred, leader of the rival United Brotherhood of Mormons, was murdered in 1977 by two of his followers. Two women disguised themselves with red wigs to invade his clinic in Utah and shot him dead in the exam room. (Related news organizations)
According to a report in Oxygen magazine, police investigating Alred's murder were ordered to search for Alred after his followers received a pamphlet from the Church of the Firstborn Lamb of God that told readers to “repent or perish.” He said he began to suspect that religion was a motive for the killing.
Two red wigs and a box containing a gun were found near the scene, and investigators were able to trace the gun to his youngest wife, Lena Chynoweth.
Once LeBaron was arrested, his string of criminal activities began to unravel, from murder to sweatshops to a car theft ring.
But even after his apparent suicide at age 56 in 1981, his supporters continued to kill in his name.
In still images from the five-part documentary, a group of LeBaron's surviving children can be seen hugging each other. It is unclear exactly how many siblings he has, but LeBaron estimates he has around 50 to 55 children. (ABC News Studio)
Based on the teachings the late LeBaron wrote while in prison, his supporters have created a hit list of about 50 people, Oxygen reported.
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According to VICE, several members of the cult were arrested in the '80s and '90s, and one person was arrested in 2011 in connection with four murders in Texas.
In 2019, nine members of LeBaron's family were shot and killed by a Mexican hitman while they were in a motorcade headed to a wedding, VICE reported. The family is said to have spoken out against drug traffickers and advocated for loosening gun laws to protect themselves from drug traffickers.
