PHOENIX (CN) — The fifth of eight women indicted in an Arizona child sex abuse ring was sentenced to 15 years in prison Friday for her role in recruiting young girls into illegitimate polygamous marriages with the religious leader of…[Continue Reading...]
HILDALE, UTAH (AZFamily) — Mayor Donia Jessop is what you might call a Western pioneer. She’s the first woman to hold Hildale’s top office. During her seven years on the job, Jessop has overseen a truly remarkable transformation in her…[Continue Reading...]
FLAGSTAFF, AZ (AZFamily) — An extensive witness list for the upcoming Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints polygamy trial has been released and it includes the infamous self-proclaimed prophet Warren Jeffs. Jeffs is imprisoned for life in Texas…[Continue Reading...]
Every year, millions of visitors from Arizona and across the U.S. make Zion National Park in Utah part of their vacation. The number of tourists has ballooned over the years from about two million in the late 90s to now…[Continue Reading...]
Your Netflix queue may be chockablock with cult documentaries, but Valley life coach Brooke Walker lived one when her family joined Mesa’s now-defunct Church of Immortal Consciousness in 1986. Extricating herself from the organization led her to struggle with guilt,…[Continue Reading...]
Lori Vallow, the notorious “doomsday cult” mom who murdered her own children because they were “possessed” by evil spirits, was by all accounts a normal woman until she met writer Chad Daybell. That meeting would result in several deaths, including…[Continue Reading...]
Three Arizona women were sentenced to a total of seven years in prison Wednesday for obstructing an investigation into child sex abuse among members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Brenda Barlow, Marona Johnson and…[Continue Reading...]
Outside the small town of Mayer, Ariz., 14-year-old Katie Farran and other teenage girls were engaging in a ritual they had done many times before. At the Spring Ridge Academy, Farran and others gathered in a room for “Feedback Group,”…[Continue Reading...]
Lori Vallow’s Arizona trial has been delayed until February 2025 to give the defense for the “Doomsday cult mom” more time to review the “substantial” discovery in the case. A Maricopa County judge granted the defense’ earlier motion during a…[Continue Reading...]
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