I'm Suruti, I'm Hannah, and welcome to Red-Handed, where we are going to dive headfirst back into the disgusting human being that is Mr Warren Jeff's's. Boo. Boo indeed. So last week,

if you listened to the episode, which if you haven't, I would highly recommend that you go back

and listen to Part 1, because last week we went through the blessed bonkers and bigamy loving

beginnings of the Mormon Church. And how a massive, massive, massive love for multiple

marriage birthed its fundamentalist offshoots. We saw how the weird, lanky, 14th son of its

prophet, Roulon Jeffs, ended up out of 65 siblings swooping in to replace him. This time,

we're charting the dramatic rise,

savage totalitarian rule,

an eventual downfall of one of history's most powerful cult leaders.

We'll see how Jeff's lived it up in New Orleans,

while all joy and even laughter was outlawed among his thousands of followers.

And we'll also hear some shocking, depraved revelations from the courtroom,

which were beyond anything, anyone at the time, could ever have imagined.

In 2002 with Warren Jeff's at the helm, things in FLDS went from obedient to completely fanatical.

Everything in the lives of the faithful became gradually stricter and more joyless.

One choice Jeff's quote from this particular time was,

Work hard for the privilege of working harder.

Sounds a bit Nazi-ish to me.

It sounds like how you're going to homeschool your children.

Listen, I'm all for fun and games, but we're here to work.

As we said last week, all of the followers, businesses, every penny of their savings,

absolutely everything they had, was handed over to the church.

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