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The Righteous Branch of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints

The Righteous Branch of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, also known as The Righteous Branch, The Branch Church, The Peterson Group and Christ’s Church, is a fundamentalist Mormon sect of the Latter Day Saint movement. It is based in Iron County, Utah. The Righteous Branch has approximately 100 to 200 members, most near Modena on Utah State Route 56 in Iron County, 7 miles (11 km) west of Beryl.[2] The […]

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The Branch Davidians-Waco

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The Branch Davidians were a religious group that was founded in 1935 by Victor Houteff. The group was originally a splinter group of the Seventh-day Adventist Church, but they later broke away from the Adventists and formed their own church. The Branch Davidians believed that the end of the world was imminent, and they prepared

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The Apostolic United Brethren (AUB)

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The Apostolic United Brethren (AUB) is a Mormon fundamentalist group that practices polygamy. The AUB was founded in 1929 by Lorin C. Woolley, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church). Woolley was a high-ranking official in the LDS Church and a close associate of LDS Church President Joseph F.

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The LeBaron Family

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On 27 June 1988, four murders took place across three different locations. All occurred in Texas at the same time: 4pm. The date, journalist Sally Denton would later note in her book The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land, marked 144 years since the killing of Joseph Smith, the founder of Mormonism. The four

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Brian David Mitchell (kidnapper of Elizabeth Smart)

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Brian David Mitchell was a Mormon fundamentalist who kidnapped Elizabeth Smart in 2002. He held her captive for nine months, during which time he repeatedly raped her. Mitchell was eventually convicted of kidnapping and sexual assault and sentenced to life in prison. Mitchell was born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1953. He was the

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Warren Jeffs

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Warren Jeffs: A Charismatic Cult Leader Warren Jeffs was the President and Prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (FLDS Church), a polygamist sect of Mormonism. He was convicted of two counts of first-degree felony child sexual assault in 2011 and is currently serving a life sentence in a Texas prison.

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