{"id":160272,"date":"2022-07-13T14:06:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=160272"},"modified":"2022-07-13T14:06:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-13T14:06:27","slug":"inside-terrifying-wave-of-mormon-cult-murders-that-led-deranged-brothers-to-slaughter-baby-in-crib-after-call-from-god-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/inside-terrifying-wave-of-mormon-cult-murders-that-led-deranged-brothers-to-slaughter-baby-in-crib-after-call-from-god-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Inside terrifying wave of Mormon cult murders that led deranged brothers to slaughter baby in crib after 'call from God' | The Sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

IT was an unforgivable crime that shocked America – the slaying of a young mum and her baby daughter by a Mormon claiming to be carrying out God\u2019s work.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Now the murders of 24-year-old Brenda Lafferty and 15-month old Erica in 1984 have inspired diver Tom Daley\u2019s husband to write a grisly drama series about the faith he escaped from in his teens.<\/p>\n


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Oscar-winning writer and producer Dustin Lance Black has created a Disney Plus true crime called Under the Banner of Heaven starring Andrew Garfield as the cop investigating the slayings.<\/p>\n

Brenda, who is portrayed by Normal People\u2019s Daisy Edgar Jones, had the misfortune to marry a man whose five brothers were all part of a fundamentalist Mormon sect in the state of Utah.<\/p>\n

She tried to dissuade her husband Allen from getting involved with the sinister School of the Prophets, which was led by his brother Ron Lafferty.<\/p>\n

Brenda did not accept the view held by some Mormons that men could have several wives, setting her on a fatal collision course with the brothers.<\/p>\n

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Both Ron and his brother Dan believed that wives should be \u201csubservient\u201d to their husbands and that a punishment of death was justified for those that disagreed.<\/p>\n

They are both said to have followed the doctrine of Mormon extremist Ervil LeBaron, which deemed that certain 'crimes' against their strict faith were deserving of \u201cblood atonement.\u201d<\/p>\n

No one was safe from the warped principal of 'killing for God'. Ervil himself had even assassinated his own brother, Joel, in 1972 in a string of murders as he sought to consolidate control of his church.<\/p>\n

Six years later, in one of the most shocking Mormon deaths, Rachel David and her seven children plunged from an 11th floor balcony in Salt Lake City, after claiming she'd received a revelation. <\/p>\n

Ron and Dan's extremist principals meant they were thrown out of the The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saint, which is the proper name for the Mormon faith.<\/p>\n

As they descended further into religious fundamentalism, the brothers turned their anger towards Brenda, who they thought was determined to split the family.<\/p>\n

\u201cBrenda stood up to those Lafferty boys," Brenda's mother, LaRae Wright, later said. <\/p>\n

"She told [Allen] in no uncertain terms that she didn\u2019t want him doing things with his brothers. And the brothers blamed her for that, for keeping their family apart. The Lafferty boys didn\u2019t like Brenda, because she got in their way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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