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True Crime Obsessed

20: Prophet's Prey

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime Obsessed

True Crime, Comedy, Society & Culture

4.234.9K Ratings

🗓️ 3 October 2017

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In 1999, writer John Krakauer stopped at a gas station in Colorado City, AZ, a place he had never been. What he found was a town frozen in time, with women in long prairie dresses and hairstyles that rang of the 1800s. The curious sight led him on a journalistic investigation into a modern day 'prophet' named Warren Jeffs and the cult-like FLDS (Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints). When the investigation of Warren Jeffs sends him on the run, he winds up in the number two spot on the FBI's 10 Most Wanted List. The number one spot being occupied by Osama Bin Laden. The manhunt for Jeffs uncovers his 'religion's most vile atrocities including the forced marriages of underage girls, rape, and polygamy. Fun, right? But fear not, we play a LOT of "The Book of Mormon" in this one.

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you're like, my heart and soul want this. I am of age. I am an adult. I'm a human. I

1:34.8

can say in words that this is what I want. I don't care what you do.

1:38.0

Wait, of course. I don't care. It's just the standard use of subjugation of women.

1:41.7

Yes, if you use women and children as currency and you literally do. If you want to marry

1:47.3

Kids, kids only like under 15.

1:50.3

Right.

1:51.3

Fuck you.

1:52.3

Yeah.

1:53.3

And I'm gonna say whatever I want about you.

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Exactly.

1:55.3

That's the thing.

1:56.3

He's abusing these kids,

1:58.3

and then he would go right back on top of that stage.

2:01.3

And for each sword of God.

2:04.3

Warren told them to give him their paycheck.

2:06.3

Everything they make.

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