Answer Them Nothing: Bringing Down the Polygamous Empire of Warren Jeffs
Written by Debra Weyermann
Narrated by Kate Marcin
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When police raided the Short Creek compound of the Fundamental Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints in 1953, it soon became a political and publicity nightmare and eventually cost the governor of Arizona his job. From that point on, skittish public officials allowed the polygamist sect to practice its tenants unmolested for the next 50 years and turned a blind eye to child abandonment, kidnapping, statutory rape, incest, and massive tax and welfare fraud.
But then Warren Jeffs, a new FLDS prophet, escalated the sect’s crimes to near madness. Activists watched in horror as he used his limitless authority and the resources of a tax-supported community—in essence, a feudal empire on the Utah/Arizona border—to devastate thousands of lives on cruel whims, marrying girls as young as 11 to 60-year-old men and driving off teenage “lost boys” who Jeffs felt threatened his authority.
Answer Them Nothing is the chilling story of the victims, activists, prosecutors, judges, cops, and attorneys who in 2001 began the struggle to dismantle the FLDS empire and bring Jeffs and his henchmen to justice. It is a mesmerizing journey into one of America’s darkest corners, a story that stretches over three states and deep into history of the powerful Mormon Church.
Debra Weyermann
Debra Weyermann was an award-winning journalist who wrote for numerous publications, including the Arizona Daily Star, the Denver Post, Harper’s, and the Santa Barbara News-Press.
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- Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5This is not "read" by a human, it's AI and it's extremely creepy
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5As a European, I thought Mormons were just a US oddity of people living in the past with bizarre religious ideas. I had no idea it could take the form of an actual mafia organisation. I don’t know how many times I went « WHAAAAATTTT ???!!!!! » during the book. I hope they can get rid of all the unsavoury characters and excesses!