How a Hoax Call Exposed Warren Jeffs’ FLDS Compound — Part 4

How a Hoax Call Exposed Warren Jeffs’ FLDS Compound — Part 4

In 2008, Texas authorities raided the FLDS Yearning for Zion Ranch and removed more than 460 children—the largest child custody action in U.S. history. The phone call that triggered the raid came from a woman in Colorado who had never been to the ranch. It was a complete fabrication. And it led investigators to evidence that was anything but fake.

Inside the compound: a temple with beds for underage ceremonies. A Bishop’s Record documenting child marriages. More than one in four of the teenage girls either married or pregnant. And audio recordings that captured Warren Jeffs’ voice during the assaults of two children—a twelve-year-old and a fifteen-year-old who later bore his child. The Texas jury deliberated less than thirty minutes before convicting Jeffs and sentencing him to life plus twenty years.

Part Four of the Hidden Killers FLDS series covers the raid, the backlash, and the trial—including the Utah conviction that was overturned on a technicality and why Texas made sure the same mistake wasn’t repeated. For the true crime community, this is the chapter where the system finally catches up to the man it ignored for decades.

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