Attorneys for the estate of deceased polygamous church leader Rulon Jeffs are asking a judge to return control of a communal land trust to the church's governing body.
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Attorneys for the estate of deceased polygamous church leader Rulon Jeffs are asking a judge to return control of a communal land trust to the church's governing body.
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San Angelo, Texas » In a pre-trial hearing today, 51st District Judge Barbara Walther denied a state request to move the trial of Allan Eugene Keate from Schleicher County to Tom Green County.
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CHARTING
POLYGAMY LEADERSHIP
Splinter groups have embraced polygamy and branched out to communities
in Utah, Montana, Arizona, southern Canada and Mexico. (A 2.3 mb PDF
file download)
ORIGINS
OF POLYGAMY
Polygamy's origins in Utah go back to the 1800s.
A look at its origins and continuing practice among fundamentalist
Mormon sects (through 2004).
BY
THE NUMBERS
A side by side statistical comparison of two
modern polygamist communities and the states as a whole.