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RENA CHYNOWETH WAS ACQUITTED for Dr. Rulon Allred’s murder, but in July 1990 she appeared on The Sally Jessy Raphael Show, where she admitted to being his killer.
Ramona, who aided Rena in Dr. Allred’s murder, eventually surrendered to the authorities. She was only put on probation.
Heber and Patricia LeBaron, and Douglas Barlow, are serving life sentences without parole for the four o’clock murders.
Aaron LeBaron was sent to prison for forty-five years for masterminding the four o’clock murders.
Richard and Cynthia, both children of Linda Johnson, surrendered and eventually testified. They provided the information needed to convict others, so Richard was sentenced to only five years and Cynthia was granted immunity.
Delfina was a brave heroine through it all and has now peacefully passed on.
To me it’s sad that the blood of those unfortunate souls who were atoned will continue to seep through the pages of history.
Floren, Ervil, and Verlan as children.
Dayer LeBaron with daughter Lucinda.
Verlan at age sixteen.
Joel and Floren riding horses.
Ervil LeBaron, the infamous cult leader.
Joel claimed to be a prophet and started his Church of the Firstborn of the Fullness of Times.
Floren was with Joel when the church was established.
Nephi Marston was a childhood friend of Ervil’s, and they had both followed Ben as a prophet at one time. Ervil stole Nephi’s wife Anna Mae and replaced her with two Mexican maidens. Nephi died in a tragic automobile accident with five other church members.
Alma, Ervil, and Delfina with the kids headed to Spencerville for church.
Lucinda was locked up in a two-room adobe house for years.
Joseph, Joan, and Maudie became orphans when their mother, Lucinda, was in a mental hospital.
Joe’s truck was used to haul produce to sell in the mountains.
Mauro Gutierrez was the first male Lamanite to convert to the Church of the Firstborn.
Floren, Lucy, and Verlan in 1955.
The LeBaron and Spencer children in Spencerville.
Joel and Ervil on an LDS mission.
Colonia LeBaron, 1962.
All of the French missionaries.
Joan holding Andre in front of my adobe house.
Joy Marston, me and Gaye Stubbs. Joy Marston (Nephi Marston’s sister) was Ervil’s first Caucasian wife. Gaye Stubbs was the prophet Joel’s third wife. When Joel was courting her, she took care of me when I had typhoid fever.
Joe Marston (Nephi Marston’s father) once followed Ben LeBaron as a prophet, along with Alma and Ervil. He later joined Joel’s church.
Betty Tippetts was like a sister to me. She caught Ervil in bed with Nephi Marston’s wife Anna Mae.
Maud LeBaron.
Ervil’s daughter Rebecca with her husband, Victor Chynoweth. Ervil ordered that Rebecca be put to death.
Ervil Morrel LeBaron.
Verlan and me, 1969.
Dan Jordan and Ervil.
Floren, Alma, Verlan, Joel, and Ervil at a church conference.
The remains of the tower, which was burned to lure out the townspeople.
The LeBaron brothers with their mother in Mexico.
WORKS CITED
Anderson, Scott. The 4 O’Clock Murders. Hardcover edition, New York: Doubleday, 1992, pp.182, 184, 267, 271, 274, 277, 279–280. Paperback edition, New York: Dell, 1994, pp. 339–341, 346–347, 352, 415, 420–422, 431.
The Bible, King James Version. Leviticus 20:14, 1 Peter 2:9, Numbers 15:32–36, Deuteronomy 13:6–9.
Book of Mormon. Salt Lake City, Utah: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1958. 1 Nephi 1:1–4, 1 Nephi 12:23, 1 Nephi 4:12–13, 17, 18.
Bradlee, Ben Jr. and Dale Van Atta. Prophet of Blood: The Untold Story of Ervil LeBaron and The Lambs of God. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, pp. 65–67, 92, 99, 174, 229, 231, 240–241, 246.
Doctrine and Covenants. Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1963. Sections 85, 132, 132:61–62, 135:3.
Journal of Discourses. Volume 1, p. 83; Volume 3, p. 226; Volume 3, p. 247; Volume 4; pp. 49–50; Volume 4, p. 375.
LeBaron, Verlan M. The LeBaron Story. Self-published, printed by Keels & Co., Inc., 1981, pp.61, 201–210, 233, 247.
Priesthood Expounded. Originally published by the Mexican Mission of the Church of the Firstborn of the Fullness of Times, August 1956. Peace Publishing Co., Chihuahua, Mexico. (1991 Revised Ed. by Harvard Pratt Stubbs, pp. 15, 32, 57–58).
Tanner, Jerald and Sandra Tanner. The Changing World of Mormonism. Chicago: Moody Press, 1981, pp. 241, 490, 497–498.
Young, Brigham. Manuscript History of Brigham Young, 1846–1847, comp. by Eldon J. Watson. Salt Lake City, Dec. 20, 1846, p. 500; Feb. 24, 1847, p. 500.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
IRENE SPENCER lives in Northern California, with her husband of twenty-one years, Hector J. Spencer. During the twenty-eight years of her first marriage to a polygamous husband, Irene gave birth to thirteen children (all single births). She also adopted a newborn girl, who became her ninth child.
Irene has 123 grandchildren and 60 great-grandchildren. Among her many talents, she is an accomplished seamstress, a great cook, and fluent in Spanish, and she has traveled to twenty-three foreign countries and twenty-three states speaking about polygamy and related issues.
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