Ervil Lebaron Quotes

These fervent Lambs of God, as they called themselves, were largely drawn from among Ervil’s fifty-four children—progeny who remained fanatically devoted to their father long after his death. Led by a son named Aaron LeBaron who was just thirteen when Ervil died, this gang of boys, girls, and young adults—most of whom had been physically and/or sexually abused by older members of the sect and then abandoned—resolved to avenge Ervil’s death by systematically spilling the blood of the persons listed in The Book of the New Covenants. A prosecutor assigned to the case referred to this pack of parentless kids as the LeBaron clan’s “Lord of the Flies generation.

But even into 2021, the offspring of Joel, Ervil, Verlan, and Alma Dayer Jr.—their sons and grandsons—were still battling over who had the rightful authority to hold the leadership of the Church of the Firstborn in Mexico. These rivalries continued to play out in Colonia LeBaron and the immediate vicinity, and even though the murders have stopped as of this writing, the family’s history of violence is never far from the surface, even though now complicated by the newfound prosperity of the clan.