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Reporters from ABC went to Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz., collectively known as "Short Creek" and found a couple interesting things.
First and foremost, they found former town Marshal Helaman Barlow looking a long way from his clean cut days as a cop and loyal member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints.
The embedded video is worth watching if only to see Barlow ride a motorcycle with long white hair and a Fu Manchu. (Also, look for one of Trent Nelson's photos at the 1 minute 45 seconds mark.)
The ABC piece also recounts how Barlow has started telling federal agents how he and other marshals obstructed them and other law enforcement.
A second ABC piece follows two of Lyle Jeffs' sons who have left the FLDS. The young men and an ABC team drive through the towns.
Give ABC credit: This piece offers the best television depiction I've seen of the FLDS security (also known as the "God Squad") that follows visitors in the towns. The trucks with tinted windows follow you. People inside may follow you. But in the end that's all they do.
Or at least that's my memory of it. Nelson and I haven't been followed in years.
That might be because church security tracks us on camera. Here's our map of the surveillance cameras we found in 2013.
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