Today is Saturday, October 2, 2021.

On this day in 1871, the leader of the Mormon church and former governor of Utah, Brigham Young,

was arrested on charges of bigamy.

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Welcome to Today in True Crime, a Spotify original from Parcast. Today we're covering the arrest of Brigham Young, along with three other high-profile Mormons.

Let's go back to October 2, 1871.

The afternoon was filled with tension as U.S. Marshal, Matthewson T. Patrick,

marched toward the Lion House, one of Brigham Young's many homes in the Utah Territory.

He knew that any legal action against Young might be seen as an assault on all Mormons in the territory. He knew that any legal action against Young might be seen as an assault on all Mormons

in the territory. Young was more than just the leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day

Saints, or LDS, and their former governor. To his followers, he was a prophet. Young had led the

faithful across the Great Plains to the Salt Lake

Valley, which was still part of Mexico at the time. There, he promised them a land free of the

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