Polygamist cult leader finally captured after 15 years on the lam

A cult leader and polygamist who spent 15 years on the lam to avoid sex crime charges was finally detained in Mexico on suspicion of killing two men and a boy.

Orson William Black Jr., 56, was arrested Sunday along with four of his wives, a woman described as a “concubine” and 20 other people.

Prosecutors are investigating whether he was involved in the deaths of the victims, ages 15, 19 and 23, whose bodies were found at a ranch in September.

The victims, who are thought to have been members of Black’s religious group, may all share his last name, prosecutors in Chihuahua said.

“During the investigation, it was notable that the victims did not have birth certificates and that the members of the religious community who appeared to identify the dead did not claim the bodies, and so the US consulate was contacted to provide information on this group,” the state prosecutors’ office said, identifying the victims solely by their first names, Robert W.B., Jesse L.B. and Michael B.

The cult leader was arrested after a two-day series of raids on several homes in the sect’s “commune,” which also turned up a bizarre collection of 65 stuffed animals or animal heads including zebras, buffaloes, a lion and a bear.

Authorities also found several frozen animal carcasses.

Black was charged with illegal possession of wildlife and human smuggling. The 20 Americans caught with him face deportation.

He was a member of the polygamous The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints but split from the group in the 1980s.

The creepy sect chief allegedly married two underage girls and was charged with three counts of sexual conduct with a minor in 2003 in Arizona, but fled to Mexico before he could be prosecuted.

Prosecutors said one of his child brides had given birth to a boy in 1998 named Robert William Black. It was unclear whether this boy was one of the murder victims.

With Post wires