"So many tragic stories" (Warren Jeffs and the FLDS Church Pt. 1)

The Daily Crime

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🗓️ 6 May 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Fifteen years ago today, the FBI added a new name to its Ten Most Wanted Fugitives list: Warren Jeffs, the leader of a the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Joe Dana with KPNX in Phoenix joins to discuss his coverage of Jeffs and the FLDS Church dating back to the early 2000s. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Coming up.
0:01.2	To step into Colorado City in 2001-2 time period, it's to kind of step back in time.
0:11.5	You feel like you're in almost 100 years earlier in Pioneer America.
0:17.2	For Vault Studios, I'm Reed Redmond.
0:19.7	You're listening to The Daily Crime.
0:28.6	15 years ago today, the FBI announced a new top tenor, as they call it, a new addition to their top ten most wanted list.
0:37.4	That's right. His life is just a few minutes of time in eternity.
0:42.0	50-year-old Warren Jeffs, the leader of a fundamentalist polygamous sect.
0:47.3	A man who'd for years proclaimed himself to be the voice of God to his thousands of followers.
0:53.2	Because he would call over the intercoms.
0:55.5	He was the only one he could talk on the intercoms.
0:57.3	When he was added to the most wanted list, Jeff stood accused of multiple counts of child
1:01.7	sexual assault in Arizona and one count of rape as an accomplice in Utah.
1:06.3	Crime survivors would suggest were only the tip of the iceberg.
1:10.5	The psychological torture that they brought me through, I didn't think that I would survive it.
1:17.8	Here to take us through the long and tangled history of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus
1:22.2	Christ of Latter-day Saints, or the FLDS Church, is Joe Dana, a watchdog reporter and anchor
1:27.4	with 12 News in Phoenix, Arizona.
1:29.5	Joe, 15 years ago this week, the FBI added the leader of this group, Warren Jeffs, to its
1:35.0	most wanted list. But let's start with this. When did you first start covering Jeffs and the
1:40.9	FLDS church? I first went up into Colorado City in about 2002, and I had a
1:48.6	background, a general knowledge of the area from what I had read, but also a personal background in the
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