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A tale of polygamy, syringes, teens and babies ends after drug cartel killings in Mexico

Beth Stubbs got engaged on her 15th birthday. Her future husband — very future, she would explain later — Orson William Black Jr., was 37. He already had a legal wife and other women in his plural family along the Utah-Arizona line.

That day, Stubbs and Black talked about having children. Stubbs would later tell investigators Black handed her a little book. She said the book instructed her on how to artificially impregnate herself with Black’s semen.

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“Did he tell you why he did not want to have regular sex to have kids?