S17 Ep85: The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land w/Sally Denton
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🗓️ 19 July 2022
⏱️ 147 minutes
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Summary
On the morning of November 4, 2019, an unassuming caravan of women and children was ambushed by masked gunmen on a desolate stretch of road in northern Mexico controlled by the Sinaloa drug cartel. Firing semi-automatic weapons, the attackers killed nine people and gravely injured five more. The victims were members of the LeBaron and La Mora communities—fundamentalist Mormons whose forebears broke from the LDS Church and settled in Mexico when their religion outlawed polygamy in the late nineteenth century. The massacre produced international headlines for weeks, and prompted President Donald Trump to threaten to send in the US Army.
In The Colony, bestselling investigative journalist Sally Denton picks up where the initial, incomplete reporting on the attacks ended, and delves into the complex story of the LeBaron clan. Everything from it's migration to Mexico to it's unusual fight for water rights, to surviving the formation of Mexico's drug cartels and their recent alliance with the NXIVM sex cult, whose now-imprisoned leader, Keith Raniere, may have based his practices on the society he witnessed in Colonia LeBaron.
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| 1:02.8 | Welcome back to the best in True Crime. |
| 1:05.1 | Talk Radio. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm Tim Dennis. |
| 1:08.1 | Got a good show for you today. |
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| 1:19.3 | segment of this show. We've got a good show for you today folks, |
| 1:24.3 | in that we've got an unusual case we're going to talk about. |
| 1:27.0 | We're going to talk about a book called The Colony, Faith in Blood in a Promised Land, |
| 1:30.7 | our author that we'll talk to today is Sally Denton. |
| 1:34.8 | It's an investigation into the 2019 killings of nine Mormons in Northern Mexico, |
| 1:39.7 | which drew international attention. The colony offers a glimpse into a strange, |
| 1:43.9 | little understood world of fundamentalist Mormon outposts there in Mexico. |
| 1:49.2 | And there's lots of twists and turns folks. |
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