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