![]() ![]() Ervil LeBaron is said to have led the attack. Police authorities have established that from this point onward in the secret war, gory events occurred very rapidly:Īugust 1972: Joel LeBaron is murdered in Mexico by order of his brother.ĭecember 1974: A squad of men and women on a commando-style raid firebomb the Mexican village of Los Molinos, a Mormon community. In short order he took thirteen wives and embarked on his crusade of blood. Undaunted, Ervil quickly founded the Church of the Lamb of God and announced that he was the genuine One Mighty and Strong. He assessed Ervil as unstable and stripped him of his leadership in the sect. In 1970 Joel had suffered enough of such insubordination. Furthermore, he envisioned that the One Mighty and Strong had supremacy over all Mormons.ĭetective Forbes said that Ervil sent out notes announcing that he was the final authority and that all group members must pay tithes to him. Ervil also declared that the doctrine of blood atonement demanded that all sinners be put to death. He decided that Adam was God and that Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism, was the Holy Ghost. ![]() Joel declared himself God’s prophet and demanded that all of his wishes be carried out and obeyed without question.Įrvil wasn’t so certain that Joel was correct, and since Ervil was in the enviable position of writing most of the sect’s literature, he could set down the facts as he perceived them. Joel LeBaron, upon his father’s death, announced that he possessed the Key of Power, and he founded the Church of the Firstborn of the Fullness of Time. Ervil and his six brothers were, in turn, excommunicated in 1944. One such group of fundamentalists settled in Chihuahua, Mexico, and titled themselves “Colonia Juárez.” Ervil LeBaron was reared in this colony of polygamists, the son of a farmer excommunicated from the mainstream faith in 1924 because of his bizarre beliefs and teachings. Many of the groups left Utah and went to Mexico, Arizona, or California. Each sect was led by an individual who claimed to have the keys of authority. However, a number of groups broke off from the original Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and established their own versions of Mormonism. At the time when Utah was trying to become a state, the church decided to discontinue the practice of multiple wives. The Mormons practiced polygamy until the late 1800s. The murder of Jordan, self-styled prophet apostle of the Church of the Lamb of God, was only one in a string of mysterious slayings that remain wrapped in a cloak of secrecy. Someone was waiting for him when he left his hunting camp. Jordan had been shot in the head and chest with a 9-mm handgun. Utah detective lieutenant Paul Forbes revealed that Jordan’s body was found in the southern part of the state. He had committed the fatal error of straying away from the protection of nine of his wives and twenty-one of his children while deer hunting. In October 1987 the man accused of Joel’s execution, Daniel Ben Jordan, was himself gunned down. The web of murders centers on the now-deceased Ervil LeBaron, an excommunicated polygamist who declared himself to be God’s prophet on Earth and assumed the title of the “One Mighty and Strong.” In a book of “New Covenants” that he wrote while he was in prison, LeBaron drew up a blueprint of death for “traitors”-members of feuding sects in Utah, Arizona, Texas, California, and Mexico.Įrvil was so ruthless that he had his pregnant daughter killed for disagreeing with him, and he ordered his brother Joel shot down to clear the path for his own bid to become God on Earth. At least a dozen other disappearances of sect members have gone unreported since 1981. And it may be that the killings noticed by the police and the public are only some of the deaths. ![]() The Mormon historian Tom Green believes that over twenty killings of members of polygamous sects have been motivated by religious beliefs and by the desire to gain rival prophets’ financial assets, their congregations, and their multiple wives. Murderous Mormon sects have conducted a bloody, secret religious war, wreaking vengeance on individuals judged wayward in the eyes of God. It is a summary of a conspiracy theory, not a statement of fact. The following article is from Conspiracies and Secret Societies. ![]()
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