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News.com.au
06-07-2025
- News.com.au
Fears missing teens were abducted by polygamous religious group's bizarre ‘prophecy'
US police are searching for a 13-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl suspected of being kidnapped as human sacrifices for an apocalyptic Mormon prophecy. The Jefferson County, Idaho, Sheriff's Office declared an Amber Alert (abduction notice) after Allen Larand Fischer and Rachelle Leray Fisher vanished from their mother's home. The teens' mother, Elizabeth Roundy, says she fears the abduction is related to a prophecy proclaimed by the convicted child sex predator founder of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). The 2022 'revelation' from Warren Steed Jeffs orders his followers to 'prepare themselves and their children to either be translated or Celestial resurrected, some able to remain on earth, others to be lifted up to a sun-star orb world'. Followers must 'consecrate and return their children to the church by any means necessary'. Only then can they be made 'pure' before the 'end times'. This 'translation' through death and resurrection, Jeffs adds, will occur sometime in 2025. Roundy says her children disappeared on Sunday while she was attending a bible class. 'My children asked if they could go down to the shop to get on the internet … so they could watch videos while I went to the class,' Roundy told East Idaho News. 'I allowed them to do it, and that wasn't very smart of me. I let them go down there, and when I came back to get them, they were gone. Somebody came by the shop and hauled off with them.' The children were wearing prescribed church clothing. Rachelle was in a traditional dark green prairie dress. Allen was in a standardised blue shirt and jeans. 'It is believed that the children willingly left to return to Trenton, Utah due to religious beliefs,' a Jefferson County Sheriff's Office statement reads. A 'twinkling of the eye' Jeffs is serving a life sentence after being convicted of child sex offences in 2011. His trial exposed the polygamous practices of the FLDS, including widespread allegations of forced child marriage. Jeffs remains in close contact with his community despite being behind bars. East Idaho News has published a copy of Jeffs's rambling 'revelation', in which he details how his followers must die before being raised again. 'Keep these eternity troughs in your souls. And now realise why mortal Keyholder Warren Jeffs is constantly being led by Jesus Christ to teach train the first principle of the Gospel required to live all the other laws and principles of the Gospel of Jesus Christ to earn the highest degree of glory in the Celestial Kingdom,' the 10-page testament states. It predicts 2025 as the year of 'translation'. 45 … I reveal the eternity truth, that less than five and one-half years from now date, of the gentile calendar time measure, calendar among gentile nations – this the revelation given the date of August 8, 2022AD, gentile calendar time order measure of time – the actual years since Jesus Christ's birth is three additional years; this being, according to Jesus Christ's calendar measure of time, since the birth of Jesus Christ, 2025 years since the birth of Jesus Christ. It states a 'New Jerusalem' will arise in Missouri. 47. And the New Jerusalem Zion City prophesied to be built on North America continent, the Center Stake of Jackson County, Missouri, will soon begin after the sudden-striking full cleansing soon-sent whirlwind judgments of Jesus Christ depopulate both North and South America of all wicked peoples and wicked nations. And the righteous saints will be lifted up and be placed in hidden United Order communities, hidden from any other gentile nations surviving on other continent lands of this world. It instructs believers to prepare to be 'Celestialised'. 59. And they will prepare themselves and their children to either be translated or Celestial resurrected, some able to remain on earth, others to be lifted up to a sun-star orb world, shining eternal sunlight on this world, to dwell there for a time, to learn how to dwell on the Celestial sun-star orb world before this world is Celestialised. It insists that, after three days, they will become 'pure'. 92. Yet on a translated orb world, there are no evil spirits when people pass on to be resurrected; because translated people must die. That is called in the scripture 'twinkling of the eye' time period; yea, more clearly, Godhead twinkling of the eye time period, the time period Jesus Christ's physical body lay in the grave before He was resurrected, approximately two and one half days to three days in the grave, then resurrected pure. To achieve this, though, Jeffs's followers must die. 93. And translated peoples must die. And their physical body stays in the grave on a translated world for that few days and nights; and they being so pure they can be resurrected same time period as Jesus Christ was resurrected in the meridian of time. Lost in translation Elizabeth Roundy left the Fundamentalist Mormon cult five years ago. While granted custody of her youngest children, they have maintained contact with their father and his church. 'It just gives me the shivers down my back to read those things anymore. Because when I used to be part of it, there was so much that went on that even looking at it right now, it just makes me sick inside,' Roundy said. 'It's terrifying. The things they told us to do when I was still part of it were erratic and manipulative. You never know what they're capable of.' An older daughter, 18-year-old Elintra Dee Fischer, disappeared in 2023. But Roundy says she suspects Elintra may have joined her father in abducting her younger siblings. 'I believe they were watching and waiting for the right moment,' Roundy said. 'I've seen their vehicles driving by, even past the shop where the kids disappeared.' Police say a search for several cars seen around the children's home at the time of their disappearance has so far failed to produce results. This is just the latest in a series of high-profile cases involving the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the US this year. In January, Arizona man LaDell Jay Bistline was sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of child sexual abuse. The 46-year-old congregationist was found guilty of distributing child pornography and sex trafficking involving at least 10 children between the states of Nebraska, Colorado, Utah and Arizona. Court documents state that Bistline delivered two of his own daughters, aged nine and 11, to become child brides of his 'prophet,' Samuel Bateman. Moretta Johnson was 19 and one of Bateman's 22 'spiritual wives' (10 of whom were underage) when she was arrested in 2023. In February, she was convicted for assisting in the kidnapping of eight young girls and coercing them into sexual activity. An FBI affidavit claims Bateman organised sexual events involving minors and gave 'wives' as gifts to his male followers as rewards for obeying their 'Heavenly Father'. The men donated Bateman money, and allegedly gave him access to their own wives and daughters.
26-06-2025
Amber Alert issued for missing Idaho teens linked to FLDS group
Two teenagers went missing from eastern Idaho, according to local authorities, and their mother says she believes they left with members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS). Rachelle Fischer, 15, and Allen Fisher, 13, were last seen on the evening of Sunday, June 22, 2025, in Monteview, Idaho, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff's Office. Elizabeth Roundy, the children's mother and former FLDS member, told Salt Lake City ABC affiliate ABC4 she believes her children left with their older sister to fulfill religious obligations. The FLDS is a polygamist breakaway offshoot of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and its leader is serving a life sentence in prison. "They [were] willing to go because they think that it's their salvation," Roundy said. The Idaho State Police issued an Amber Alert for the two teens. The children were last seen wearing traditional FLDS clothing, police said. Rachelle was reportedly wearing a dark green prairie dress, while Allen was seen in a light blue shirt with jeans and black slip-on shoes. Rachelle is 5 feet 5 inches tall, 135 pounds with brown hair and blue eyes. Allen is described as 5 feet 9 inches tall, 135 pounds with longer sandy blonde hair and blue eyes. Authorities believe they may be attempting to return to Trenton, Utah, where they previously lived, due to religious beliefs. The children's older sister, Elintra Dee Fischer, now 18, was reported missing on January 1, 2023, and has not been located. Roundy told ABC News' "IMPACT x Nightline" in a 2023 interview, "I am positive that FLDS are hiding Elintra." Roundy believes the case may connect to broader developments within the FLDS church. In 2022, Warren Jeffs, the sect's imprisoned leader, began issuing new "revelations," including one in June 2022 calling for children of ex-members to return to the fold, according to the messages, which ABC News obtained. In 2023, ABC News attempted to reach the FLDS church through Helaman Jeffs, the son of Warren Jeffs, who had been issuing his father's "revelations," but did not receive a response. ABC News also wrote to Warren Jeffs in prison but did not hear back. Warren Jeffs is currently serving a life sentence for sexually assaulting girls as young as 12 but continues to lead the sect from prison. The Jefferson County Sheriff's Office is asking anyone with information about Rachelle and Allen to contact their dispatch center at 208-745-9210.
Daily Mail
25-06-2025
- Daily Mail
Young Idaho teens 'taken' from home as part of terrifying PROPHECY, stricken mother claims
Two Idaho teenagers have vanished under chilling circumstances that their mother believes are linked to a radical end-times prophecy issued by imprisoned polygamist leader Warren Jeffs. Allen Larand Fisher, 13, and Rachelle 'Shelly' Leray Fischer, 15, disappeared from their Monteview, Idaho home on Sunday, June 22, wearing the traditional clothing of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints. Their devastated mother, Elizabeth Roundy, 51, fears they were taken by older siblings or loyal church members as part of a disturbing religious directive allegedly calling for the children to become 'translated beings' - through death and resurrection. 'Somebody stopped by and took them,' Roundy told ABC4. 'They [were] willing to go because they think that it's their salvation.' Roundy, a former member of the FLDS church, left the sect over five years ago but says her children remained deeply entangled in the group's belief system. She believes the two teens were lured or taken by their missing 18-year-old sister, Elintra Dee Fischer, who vanished on January 1, 2023 and has never been found. Roundy alleges the church told her how to runaway. 'I am positive that FLDS are hiding Elintra,' Roundy said in 2023. 'It's just so erratic what they're being told to do. You never know what they're going to be told to do,' Roundy said, expressing growing terror over what might happen next. Cult leader Warren Jeffs continues to influence followers of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS) from behind bars. The mother believes the alleged abduction stems from a 2022 revelation by Jeffs, the FLDS 'prophet' who is serving a life sentence for child sexual assault, that instructed followers to gather their kids to prepare them for spiritual transformation. The so-called prophecy, reportedly circulated among FLDS families, warns that followers must 'prepare themselves and their children to either be translated or Celestial[y] resurrected.' According to Holding Out HELP, a Utah-based nonprofit aiding those fleeing polygamy, it is no metaphor. 'The last few years a new revelation came out,' said Tonia Tewell, the group's Executive Director explained to News 8. 'It encourages them to gather their followers, and they get to become translated beings, but they must die first, and then they'll be risen like Jesus Christ in two to three days and made pure. 'It's a five-year revelation. We're three years into it. And so I think she [Roundy] is worried that her kid's life may be taken at the end of the day.' Roundy's history with the FLDS church appears to be tainted by trauma. She says that in 2014 following a miscarriage FLDS leaders separated her from her children as part of her 'repentance.' Authorities say the missing teens are possibly en route to Mendon, Utah, near Trenton She was away for more than five years, eventually returning to regain custody only to discover disturbing stories about her children's care and psychological conditioning. 'I was worried sick about my children the whole time I was gone,' Roundy said. 'I didn't know whether they were being taken care of or loved. I know that they've been brainwashed to think that I'm a bad person.' Her fears escalated after learning of Jeffs' apocalyptic 'translated beings' doctrine and reports of families being instructed to remove children from former members' homes to prepare them for death and rebirth. 'They truly believe that the only way to reach salvation is to go back to the FLDS,' Roundy said. Authorities say the missing teens are possibly en route to Mendon, Utah, near Trenton, where they previously lived in an FLDS-affiliated community. Roundy believes they may be with adult siblings still loyal to the church. Jefferson County Sheriff's Office says the children may have been traveling in a gray Honda or Hyundai sedan with Utah license plates. Authorities are unsure if the teens are still in the area or have crossed state lines. Despite no solid evidence linking a specific vehicle, detectives have narrowed the disappearance to a two-hour window on Sunday evening. Warren Jeffs, once the undisputed leader of the FLDS Church, was convicted in 2011 for sexually assaulting underage girls, some as young as 12, whom he claimed as 'wives.' Despite his incarceration in a Texas prison, he is still considered the church's prophet, issuing revelations from behind bars and allegedly coordinating the movement of followers through intermediaries. 'There are some revelations out that are really concerning… that talk about becoming translated beings, but they must die first,' Tewell said. Jeffs' influence, according to some experts, mirrors that of infamous cult leaders like Jim Jones and David Koresh - radical figures who led followers to mass death under the guise of spiritual purity. The case of Allen and Rachelle may not be isolated. Holding Out HELP and other advocacy organizations report an uptick in missing youth linked to FLDS enclaves, often tied to disturbing new teachings that reframe death as a path to redemption.
Yahoo
16-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
7 Must-See Netflix True Crime Documentaries to Watch Right Now (May 2025)
Netflix creates so many true crime documentaries, it can be really difficult to pick out the best of the bunch. Between stories of religious cults, deceptive roommates and murderous spouses, there's so much bone-chilling crime to choose from. Watch With Us is here to help you wade through the terrifying swamp of true crime by highlighting seven great documentaries about the world's evils that you can watch on Netflix. Check them out below. Need more recommendations? Then check out the Best New Movies on Netflix, (HBO) Max, Hulu, Amazon Prime and More, the Best Movies on Amazon Prime Video Right Now, the Best Movies on Hulu Right Now and the Best Movies on Netflix Right into the disturbing world of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a sect that gained national attention for its controversial leader, Warren Jeffs. Directed by Rachel Dretzin, the documentary provides a detailed examination of Jeffs' rise to power and the shocking abuses that occurred under his leadership. Through interviews with former members, law enforcement and archival footage, the series portrays the psychological manipulation, polygamy and patriarchal control prevalent in the FLDS community. Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey not only highlights the personal stories of those who escaped the sect but also unravels the legal and moral dilemmas surrounding the prosecution of its leaders. Keep Sweet does a remarkable job of sensitively portraying the experience of the abuse survivors, allowing their voices to be heard without exploiting them. It also shines a light on the courage and resilience of the survivors. Ever felt fed up with your roommates? Well, you might thank your lucky stars for them after watching this documentary series. Every episode delves into the unsettling stories of seemingly ordinary roommates who turned out to have sinister and sometimes deadly motives. These roommates' faux pas go far beyond leaving dishes in the sink all night. Worst Roommate Ever showcases stories of manipulation, deception and, in some instances, violence that led to shocking outcomes. The series combines interviews, dramatizations and archival footage to provide a comprehensive and chilling look at the unnerving world of dangerous cohabitants. Worst Roommate Ever highlights the importance of vigilance and awareness when choosing who you live with. By blending firsthand accounts with structured narrative arcs, it creates a captivating viewing experience. Novelist Michael Peterson seemed like any other concerned husband when he called emergency services to report that his wife Kathleen had fallen down the stairs. But after finding her dead, authorities began to suspect that Michael had bludgeoned his wife to death and pushed her down the stairs to make it look like an accident. This twist-filled docuseries will have you second-guessing every instinct as you learn more about a deeply complicated marriage. The series was originally released on French streamer Canal+ in 2004, but received an update in 2013 as the case was reopened with new evidence. It won a Peabody award, received widespread critical acclaim and was later adapted into a limited HBO series starring Colin Firth and Toni Collette. If you thought Hollywood was sleazy before watching this true crime documentary, you'll be glad you weren't there between 1984 and 1985. Night Stalker tells the story of Richard Ramirez, a serial killer and sex offender who killed at least 14 people during a series of break-ins in L.A. and San Francisco. The four-part miniseries has a 71% approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes. What if what happened to you was so horrible, no one could believe it? Denise Huskins was labeled 'the real life Gone Girl' when she was kidnapped from the California home she shared with her boyfriend, then reappeared unharmed. Police assumed the kidnapping had been staged because the circumstances surrounding it were so bizarre, but this three-part documentary shows the incredible proof that the couple was telling the truth all along. There's something deeply heart-wrenching about a mother giving up her daughter for adoption in hopes that she'll have a better life. But what if that mother learned that her daughter's life turned out much, much worse than she could ever have imagined? Into the Fire: The Lost Daughter follows Cathy Terkanian as she tries to discover what happened to her birth daughter, Aundria Bowman, after she went missing in 1989. Cathy's determination will inspire you, but the conclusion will chill you to the bone. This Emmy-winning true-crime series shows how the internet can turn anyone into a detective. When pornographic actor Luka Magnotta went viral online for a video in which he suffocated two kittens, Deanna Thompson and John Green were so horrified that they took it upon themselves to track him down. The efforts of the two amateur sleuths led to a global manhunt as authorities began looking for the murderer based on their information. Meanwhile, Magnotta's sadistic activities had moved beyond animals to humans. Don't F**k With Cats is disturbing, yet strangely inspiring in its depiction of how ordinary people can become heroes. It's a deeply engrossing story with a fascinating and gruesome conclusion.
