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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Cavallier

Mother of two missing teens thinks they were snatched to be sacrificed by religious followers linked to jailed polygamist Warren Jeffs

An Idaho mother fears her two missing children may have been taken as part of a chilling religious prophecy that instructs followers to return children to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints so they can die and be resurrected as “pure” beings.

Elizabeth Roundy, a former member of the polygamous Mormon fundamentalist group, says her 13-year-old son, Allen Larand Fischer, and 15-year-old daughter, Rachelle Leray Fischer, disappeared Sunday night while she was attending a family Bible class.

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