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Podcast: Darkness Radio
Episode: The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land w/Sally Denton
Description: True Crime Tuesday presents The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land w/Sally Denton!
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 in...