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GwenPolygamy Persists in FLDS Communities Despite Arrest of Leader Warren Jeffs
Ben Bistline, a former polygamist, local historian and author of two books, laughs when asked why the practice persists in the Utah-Arizona border area. The outside world, he...
Ex-FLDS Parents in Draper, Utah, Search for Missing Children They Believe Church Is Hiding
Parents who have left the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints held a press conference in Draper, Utah, on Friday, April 19, 2024, to ask for...
Church official in San Angelo, Texas, baffled by judge’s idea of LDS members monitoring FLDS prayers
A Texas judge has asked whether members of a local congregation of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints would be willing to help supervise prayer services...
Court Documents and Investigator Allege FLDS Required Husbands to Watch Designated Men Assault Their Wives
The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamist group led by Warren Jeffs, is the subject of court documents and a private investigator’s account...
Judge in Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada, allows FLDS priesthood records as evidence in trial of three accused
Documents admitted into court in British Columbia allege that three accused people from a polygamous community in Bountiful, B.C., took two girls, aged 13 and 15, to the...
Former FLDS Caretaker’s Wife Seeks Sole Custody of Son and $250 Monthly Support
A former key ally of polygamous-sect leader Warren Jeffs may be closer to finding his family, but a reconciliation appears unlikely. Wendell Musser has sued Jeffs to learn...
Ten former members sue alleged Utah polygamous sect leader Paul Elden Kingston in federal court
Ten women who say they left or escaped a group led by Paul Elden Kingston filed a federal complaint on Wednesday against Kingston, thirteen of his family members...
Legacy of 1953 Short Creek, Arizona, Raid Shaped State Dealings With Polygamous Communities
The Texas raid on the compound of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) near Eldorado recalled a similar operation more than half a century...
Former FLDS Member Rebecca Musser Recounts Testimony That Helped Convict 11 Church Leaders
In September 2013, NPR’s *All Things Considered* aired an interview with Rebecca Musser, a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS),...
