News - Carolyn Jessop
America's largest and most -secluded polygamist colony will be showcased in a new four-hour tour, organizers say. The tour will offer accounts from guides who had lived in The Creek, the historic name for the community on the Utah-Arizona border that is home to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, The Salt Lake Tribune reported. The tour's promotional literature promises answers to questions from the curious: Why the prairie dresses and long braids? No makeup? More than one wife? All questions to be answered during 'The Polygamy Experience.' Richard Holm, who was exiled from the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 2003, and his brother, Heber Holm, who left the community 35 years ago, will lead the tours.
By Nancy Perkins Deseret News CONVERSE, Texas -- Tammy Jessop wasn't anywhere near the YFZ Ranch when Texas authorities raided the sprawling polygamist community just outside of Eldorado in early April on abuse allegations, but she's here now.
A Texas grand jury indicted three more people belonging to a polygamist sect's ranch that authorities raided in April, sheriff's deputies said.
By Terri Langford, Houston Chronicle Jul. 22--ELDORADO -- Female members of the polygamist sect are refusing to answer questions before a grand jury in West Texas meeting this morning to consider criminal child abuse charges against the group.
By Brooke Adams, The Salt Lake Tribune Jul. 22--EL DORADO, Texas -- FLDS spokesman Willy Jessop was pulled over and handed a subpoena early Tuesday morning to appear before a grand jury considering criminal charges against members of his polygamous sect.
