Hello, this is David Weinberg. If you've enjoyed The Superhero Complex, you should check out another podcast from the team's at Novel and I Heart Radio, deliver Us from Irville. It's hosted by journalists Jesse Hyde, and it tells the story of a group of Mormon dreamers who founded a town
in the Mexican desert in the nineteen forties. They wanted to build the closest thing to paradise you could find on Earth, But when the founding family's son, Irville LeBaron, tried to wrestle control of the community, their utopia turned into a murderous cult. Irville and his followers evolved this cult into a sophisticated crime family, a wild kind of mafia, operating unseen for decades, robbing banks, stealing cars, and smuggling
drugs with a Mexican cartel. As time passed, they enacted a series of ever more elaborate fascinations following a blueprint laid out by Irville LeBaron's Opus, the Book of the New Covenants. In the show, Jesse, the host, speaks to the reporters and cops who tried to hunt them down and bring them to justice. Survivors of their attacks, as well as insiders who grew up within this crime family.
Many of the interviewees have never spoken about this publicly before, and the show includes previously unheard archive recordings from the heart of the cult. Coming up next is the first episode. If you want to hear more, search deliver Us from Irville on the I Heart Radio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.