Murder of three teens in Mexico led police to a fugitive US polygamist and his dark world

[Judi Lynn]

Orson Black was arrested after the bodies of three Americans were found near his Mexican ranch – then police and neighbors learned the truth about his life

Luis Chaparro in Ciudad Cuauhtémoc
Saturday 11 November 2017 02.00 EST

Rancho El Negro is a five-hectare property amid rolling fields of corn and cotton at the foothills of a lonely mountain outside the town of Ciudad Cuauhtémoc in the north Mexican state of Chihuahua.

Neighbours – mostly members of the region’s German-speaking Mennonite community – referred to the farm as “The Company” and had little to do with its owner.

They knew he was called Black, and lived with several women and young children in a rough concrete house and a handful of RVs. There were stories that he was an American businessman who kept a menagerie of animals including horses, and at least one bear.

“We almost never saw him or his people. He was not a Mennonite and he didn’t go to church on weekends,” said Juanito Peters, Black’s closest neighbor, before adding: “He had a very untidy way of living.”

More:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/11/polygamist-mexican-ranch-assault-charges-bodies

[denbot]

1. That's some crazy shit.

Didn't Romney's Grandfather move to Mexico around that 1890 time frame?

[Not Ruth]

2. Is this another white male mass shooter?