Cult detective who ‘solved great-grandma’s murder’ relives horror moment he exposed sickos who ‘raped kids 4,000 times’
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A POLICE officer who uncovered a sick sex cult made an even more remarkable discovery 12 years later — by solving the 1886 killing of his great-great-grandmother.
Utah-based Mike King was rocked to his core in 1991 when a woman, completely unannounced, walked into the station and confessed to living in a cult in a nearby suburb.
King and his fellow officers jumped into action and uncovered the Zion cult, led by the deranged Arvin Shreeve, who systematically raped and sexually abused hundreds of women and children over a 10-year period.
It was a serious shock to come face-to-face with such evil.
But when King inadvertently cracked the mystery of his ancestor Jane McKechnie Walton’s death — more than 120 years after her murder — all his tireless detective work culminated in the most personal resolution of his career.
“It was a remarkable ending to two wildly contrasting and troubling cases,” he told The U.S. Sun.
While solving a family mystery that had baffled relatives for decades, the discovery of the twisted Zion cult proved to be gut-wrenching in the extreme.
According to King, there had been “rumblings” for at least a decade about a “group of peculiar” people in the small town of Ogden.
But officers had assumed the complaints were linked to children caught in the middle of bitter custody disputes—not the horrific reality unfolding behind closed doors.
At the time, King was working undercover sting operations, buying stolen cars and doing what he described as “real police work.”
“I felt like we were really crushing crime,” he said.
Little did he know he was on the brink of uncovering one of the worst cases of cult-related sexual abuse involving minors in US history.
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