Officials have released the name of a woman who died Tuesday night after being pulled from a Boise Bench waterway. Boise police and fire rescue units found the woman “fully submerged” in the Ridenbaugh Canal near the 2900 block of…[Continue Reading...]
In a quiet corner of the American Southwest lies a village where one man having three or more wives is not an anomaly; it’s expected. In this community, dozens of children may share the same father, and everyone seems to…[Continue Reading...]
The last man to be sentenced for aiding cult leader Samuel Bateman with transporting children for sex acts in Arizona wept as he accepted responsibility for handing over his wives and underage daughters to the self-proclaimed prophet who sexually abused…[Continue Reading...]
B.C. Supreme Court has awarded a default judgment in a case that put B.C.’s controversial fundamentalist Mormon bishop Winston Blackmore before the courts again, this time on allegations he sexually abused a woman when she was a “young child.” A default judgment…[Continue Reading...]
Angela and Cade Johnson were married at a laundromat in 2003 when she was 16 and he was 19. They exchanged vows not by choice, but because the notorious polygamist cult they grew up in — the Fundamentalist Church of…[Continue Reading...]
Angela Johnson revealed what her childhood in the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) was really like A nurse has told how she managed to flee a notorious polygamous cult which makes members completely 'isolated from the…[Continue Reading...]
CEDAR CITY, Utah (ABC4) — On Monday, Feb. 10, a southern Utah man with connections to the FLDS religion was arrested for several sexual crimes. Officials believe more victims may come forward, according to arrest documents. Lehi Rulon Jeffs, 20,…[Continue Reading...]
HILDALE, Utah — The Short Creek communities of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona are closer to Zion National Park than I knew. The Smithsonian Butte Scenic Back Country Byway begins just outside of Zion and ends in the town…[Continue Reading...]
BRIGHAM CITY — A group of bikers dressed in leather have logged thousands of miles on their motorcycles on a mission: to find missing children. “When we pull up with a bunch of us making a bunch of noise, and…[Continue Reading...]
More than 70 years ago, Arizona took an aggressive step to crack down on polygamy with a mass arrest in Colorado City whose effects are still felt today. What happened: On Jan. 26, 1953, Arizona Gov. Howard Pyle sent more…[Continue Reading...]
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