Grieving father searching for missing grandkids after daughter allegedly murdered by cult leader
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A Kansas grandpa is desperately searching for his four grandkids after their mom was brutally murdered and dumped in a shallow grave — allegedly by her husband, a self-proclaimed Mississippi cult leader called the “Silver Creek Messiah.”
One of the last things La’Datra Williams, 26, told her grief-stricken dad, U.S. veteran Eddie Williams, on May 20 was she was “determined” to leave Charles Sims and his polygamous cult, which believes he’s a true vessel for the Holy Spirit and ordained by God almighty to fix the world’s problems.
Sims is charged with first-degree murder for La’Datra’s killing.
“I don’t know where my grandchildren are, and I need to find them,” Eddie Williams told The Post this week.
Sources said Sims’ other wives — he has four — may have taken the children to Missouri.
The authoritarian Sims, 57, confessed to slaughtering La’Datra after several days of questioning, and led cops to her remains on July 14, two months after she vanished from Williams’ 18-acre property in Silver Creek, Miss.
Now, police are investigating other deaths and disappearances connected to Williams’ cult, which has compounds in Kansas, Missouri and Louisiana.
“Hopefully, with everyone’s efforts, she will be his last victim, and this monster will be put away for the rest of his life,” Williams said.
Lawrence County Sheriff Ryan Everett told The Post Sims has four wives living in different states and between 22 and 31 children, including La’Datra’s four kids: Elijah, 7, Elissa, 5, Elaina, 3, and Eli, 2.
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