Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
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Nov 1, 2026
AlexaHOST
What
JenHOST
in the FLDS is happening? Are they like the Federalist Latter-day Saints? No,
AlexaHOST
no, no, no.
AlexaHOST
I don't even know what the church is called.
speaker_0NARRATOR
This week on X-Plix, kids meet Trail and Jessup.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Trail was born into the polygamous cult called the FLDS.
speaker_0NARRATOR
Trail's story is about growing up in that world.
speaker_1HOST
So yeah, I'm Never Done, this is our first one.
Robin DreekeHOST
And so- They probably really readily accepted whatever the prophets that did look it up.
Robin DreekeHOST
They thought Chad was a prophet, much like we've seen in IBLP and FLDS as well.
Robin DreekeHOST
You know, these people think these prophets are anointed by God on earth.
Robin DreekeHOST
And so whatever they say is their gospel and they got to do it because not just did Chad rope these women in, but he roped the guys in to commit murder.
21 MINS LATER
Robin DreekeHOST
And so somehow or other, Lori and Chad were able to really love bomb her in, just like cults do, and just groom her into this way of thinking that just— And again, it seems surprising if you look at it as this case as a standalone, but we've seen this in every single one we've covered.
Robin DreekeHOST
Again, I keep going back to the Duggars and IBLP.
Robin DreekeHOST
And then FLDS and, you know, ultimately Warren Jeffs, you know, it's where it all started from.
Robin DreekeHOST
These people get so sucked into this way of life through this twisted stories they're told.
Mari HowesGUEST
They're family situations.
Mari HowesGUEST
But There was a young woman who came in that was running from a group called the FLDS, which is an offshoot of the.
Mari HowesGUEST
It is not the mainstream Mormon church in Salt Lake.
Mari HowesGUEST
It's an offshoot in sort of Colorado, Arizona and.
Mari HowesGUEST
she was talking about this religious group as if it was sort of a bad boyfriend or a bad husband or a bad parent.
Mari HowesGUEST
And her story really sort of stuck with me.
Mari HowesGUEST
So even though my book doesn't touch on the FLDS at all, it was sort of a seed that germinated alongside these bigger legal questions.
Mari HowesGUEST
And now I don't know if I've answered your specific question or not.
Robin DreekeHOST
And so it probably really readily accepted whatever the prophets that did look it up.
Robin DreekeHOST
They thought Chad was a prophet, much like we've seen in IBLP and FLDS as well.
Robin DreekeHOST
You know, these people think these prophets are anointed by God on earth.
Robin DreekeHOST
And so whatever they say is their gospel and they got to do it because not just did Chad rope these women in, but he roped the guys in to commit murder.
21 MINS LATER
Robin DreekeHOST
And so somehow or other, Lori and Chad were able to really love bomb her in, just like cults do, and just groom her into this way of thinking that just— And again, it seems surprising if you look at it as this case as a standalone, but we've seen this in every single one we've covered.
Robin DreekeHOST
Again, I keep going back to the Duggars and IBLP.
Robin DreekeHOST
And then FLDS and, you know, ultimately Warren Jeffs, you know, it's where it all started from.
Robin DreekeHOST
These people get so sucked into this way of life through this twisted stories they're told.
Robin DreekeGUEST
And so- They probably really readily accepted whatever the prophets that did look it up.
Robin DreekeGUEST
They thought Chad was a prophet, much like we've seen in IBLP and FLDS as well.
Robin DreekeGUEST
You know, these people think these prophets are anointed by God on earth.
Robin DreekeGUEST
And so whatever they say is their gospel and they got to do it because not just did Chad rope these women in, but he roped the guys in to commit murder.
22 MINS LATER
Robin DreekeGUEST
And again, it seems surprising if you look at it as this case as a standalone, but we've seen this in every single one we've covered.
Robin DreekeGUEST
Again, I keep going back to the Duggars and IBLP.
Robin DreekeGUEST
And then FLDS and, you know, ultimately Warren Jeffs, you know, it's where it all started from.
Robin DreekeGUEST
These people get so sucked into this way of life through this twisted stories they're told.
Robin DreekeHOST
They probably really readily accepted whatever the prophets that did look it up.
Robin DreekeHOST
They thought Chad was a prophet, much like we've seen in IBLP and FLDS as well.
Robin DreekeHOST
You know, these people think these prophets are anointed by God on earth.
Robin DreekeHOST
And so whatever they say is their gospel and they got to do it because not just did Chad rope these women in, but he roped the guys in to commit murder.
22 MINS LATER
Robin DreekeHOST
And again, it seems surprising if you look at it as this case as a standalone, but we've seen this in every single one we've covered.
Robin DreekeHOST
Again, I keep going back to the Duggars and IBLP.
Robin DreekeHOST
And then FLDS and, you know, ultimately Warren Jeffs, you know, it's where it all started from.
Robin DreekeHOST
These people get so sucked into this way of life through this twisted stories they're told.
JasminHOST
What does the
AndriaHOST
Volturi represent? The FLDS? What is this? I don't know.
JasminHOST
The Vatican.
AndriaHOST
I don't know.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Also a Colorado City native, Flora Jessup was born and raised in the same polygamist community as these two runaways.
Flora JessupSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
I was born and raised in the FLDS cult.
Flora JessupSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
My dad was married to my mother and her younger sister.
Flora JessupSOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
And between the two of them, they had 28 of us.
8 MINS LATER
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
Some of them had broken off, started their own town, their own sort of branch religion from this.
speaker_8SOUNDBITE_SPEAKER
So he had become much more important than some of the earlier prophets.
speaker_4NARRATOR
Under the Jeffs' absolute rule, the congregation renames itself the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ and Latter-day Saints, or FLDS.
speaker_4NARRATOR
By the late 1990s, Rulon and Warren Jeffs control almost every single aspect of the life of their nearly 10,000 followers, including their assets and their homes.
Jane BordenGUEST
That's how baked into our DNA it is.
Jane BordenGUEST
And so this is what happens in cults when people get policed for disagreeing about something or, you know, in Warren Jeffs, FLDS used to send… First thing I thought of
Jane MarieHOST
with the
Jane BordenGUEST
hairdos and… He used to send people around knocking on doors to literally police social norms.
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