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Hello and welcome back to Cult Leader. I'm your Cult Leader Spencer Henry and this week we are back with part two of the Mormon Manson and what a wild ride it has been so far.

If you haven't listened yet, please go back and listen to part one before listening to today's episode or nothing will make sense.

But does it ever? For those who have heard part one, we'll start with a little recap just to refresh our memories. It's been a week. But before we do, let's catch up a little.

It's just a crazy movie last night. It's called Prisoner, It Stars Hugh Jackman and Jake Gyllenhaal. Sorry, Swiftie. I know this is a very sensitive time. But it was a wild movie. I hadn't seen it before. I think it came out in 2013. So it's been out for quite some time. But the ending did make was one of those ones where you're like, what? Come on. But I guess it makes sense.

I don't think I've watched anything else really worth mentioning. I know a lot of you have sent in recommendations now for movies with a twist. So hopefully I'll watch some of those this weekend. My sister, I told you guys I'm a little little later.

Well, right now when you guys hear this, she will be here. She's coming today and I'm very excited because she also loves a movie with a twist. So we're gonna watch a lot of movies. Gonna take her around to my favorite haunts. I know I really, it's hard when I record things back to back. Like I recorded little later yesterday.

When that happens, I'm like, I don't really have a lot. A whole lot to tell you. So let's just get into it. Okay. I'll shut up now. In part one, we covered the murder of Dr. Rulon Allred who was a small town doctor who turned out to have a cold like following via his leadership of the, how do you say it?

Because someone was commenting on this, apost, I say apostolic is a apostolic brethren united. And as authorities began investigating, they learned that he in fact had an arch nemesis, a rival prophet or some would say a rival cult leader, herbal, labyrinth.

We briefly touched on the history of polygamy, how and why Mormons ended up in Mexico. Oh, by the way, I forgot to mention this in last week's episode, but that vice thing that I watched the Mormons versus cartel series. They mentioned this and I completely forgot that Mitt Romney, his father, I think, was born in Mexico.

It's crazy, it's crazy to see popular figures tied to situations like this. But yeah, so we talked about how they got to Mexico and how it ended up being the cult compound for the labyrinth family called colonial labyrinth, but that came later on.

We learned a little bit about their family history, the labyrinth, but there's still so much to unpack. Oh, in the murder of Dr. Allred by Irvils devotees, the Irvalites.

Well, it turns out it was actually more like an assassination. The killing of the doctor was just a pawn in a much bigger plot for Irval labyrinth to take in as many followers as possible. This man would stop at nothing, even after he died.

Murder by definition is the killing of one human by another.

Assassination, however, is the murder of an important person conducted for political or religious reasons. Well, throw a big ol emphasis on religious here. When we wrapped up, we learned about the hit list that was included in a self-written Bible, Irval had penned prior to his death in prison.

And we're going to get to the murders that followed, but first we have to get into the murders that occurred before the assassination of Dr. Allred during that time frame and the CD history of the labyrinth family.

As previously mentioned, the labyrinth made the move to Mexico in 1924, following excommunication from the LDS church that they had called home.

This landed them in Juarez, where Mormons had started building out little communities in the late 1800s. Several families put down roots here, but it was really the labyrinth who I feel like were responsible for building out how do I want to say this?

Outlining a little community there.

Alma Labyrin, who was Irval's father, had grown up going back and forth between the US and Mexico in his younger years prior to the excommunication that led them there in 1924. As Alma and his wives grew their family, they faced a little bit of backlash from others who had settled there.

I guess some of the local families had begun to kind of follow suit with more of the mainstream LDS church ideology in denouncing polygamy and things like that, not everyone, but some. Alma, however, believed it or not, Irval's father was another self-described prophet and had received quote powerful revelations from God that he should be there on Earth to represent God.

I mean, talk about a God complex in the most literal form. Ruth Werner, Werner is one of the many granddaughters of Alma. She's the niece of Irval Labyrin as well.

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