Episode Notes — Warren Jeffs and the FLDS

Case: Warren Jeffs and the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) Locations: Hildale, Utah; Colorado City, Arizona; Yearning For Zion Ranch, Eldorado, Texas Period covered: 1953–2026

Key people:

• Warren Jeffs — FLDS prophet from 2002, convicted in Texas in 2011 of aggravated sexual assault of a child and sexual assault of a child
• Elissa Wall — forced into marriage at age 14; testified publicly under her own name and wrote a memoir about her experience
• Brent Jeffs — Warren's nephew; filed a 2004 lawsuit alleging childhood sexual abuse, later wrote publicly about it
• Rozita Swinton — Colorado woman later identified as the source of the 2008 hoax call th ...