Deliver Us From Ervil

11: At Four O’Clock

It’s 1988. One summer’s day, in a sleepy suburb of Houston, a team of experienced police officers are called to the scene of the first in a series of horrific crimes. Several murders have been carried out in different parts of Texas at exactly the same time: 4 o’clock. There’s another link too, all the victims were former associates of Ervil LeBaron. The brutally executed assassinations send shockwaves through the public, and bring together investigators and prosecutors from across the country, all united in their goal of bringing the multi-generational crimewave sparked by Ervil LeBaron’s legacy to a grinding halt. But first, they’ll need to work out who, exactly, was responsible. Deliver Us From Ervil is produced by Novel for iHeartRadio. For more from Novel visit <a href="http://novel.audio">novel.audio</a>See <a href="https://omnystudio.com/listener">omnystudio.com/listener</a> for privacy information.

In the 1940s, a group of Mormon dreamers started a town in the Mexican desert. But what began as a utopian vision quickly turned sour when the founding family’s son, Ervil LeBaron, struggled for control of the community and unleashed a multi-generational crimewave – the ripples of which are still being felt today.
From bank robbery to drug smuggling, auto theft rings to multiple murders, a deadly cult evolved into a sophisticated organized crime family. In Deliver Us From Ervil, journalist Jesse Hyde tells the story of Ervil LeBaron and the unlikely ensemble of reporters, cops, survivors and family insiders trying to halt his bloody legacy.
Deliver Us From Ervil is produced by Novel for iHeartRadio.