The Latest Breaking News from Warren Jeffs

False Prophet sect leader who featured in Netflix documentary jailed for extra 24 years

Bateman, a self-proclaimed prophet, previously claimed to have more than 20 ‘spiritual wives’

The Independent UK · Aug 26

Polygamous leader featured in Netflix series faces sentencing after girls rescued from trailer

He was one of the trusted followers of Warren Jeffs, who is serving a life sentence in Texas for sexual assault of children

The Independent UK · Aug 25

‘When I watched the girls loving this man, I felt sick’: the woman who exposed a polygamous paedophile

Without Christine Marie, Samuel Bateman might never have been jailed for his crimes among the Mormon community of Short Creek. What drives the heroine of Netflix’s hit documentary Trust Me: The False Prophet?

The Guardian - UK · May 1

A timeline of two towns on the Arizona-Utah border once controlled by a polygamist sect

The neighboring towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona, have transformed in the years since Warren Jeffs led a polygamous sect there

The Independent UK · Jan 30

Towns scarred by Warren Jeffs’ polygamous ’cult’ undergo dramatic transformation

The towns functioned for 90 years largely as a theocracy

The Independent UK · Jan 30

Utah lawmaker creates bill to try and block people from crossing the border for underage marriages

Representative Melissa Garff Ballard hopes that the bill will crack down on crimes similar to those committed by convicted child sex offender Warren Jeffs

The Independent UK · Jan 19

16yo forced to marry Utah teen by a cult, but the ‘marriage’ didn’t last. But fate had other plans

Having lived under the thumb of the cult's leader, they had no choice as teenagers.

We Got This Covered · Oct 15, 2025

Mormon leader Russell Nelson has died aged 101. What’s next for the church?

Russell Marion Nelson Sr, prophet and leader of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, has died aged 101.

The Conversation · Sep 29, 2025

She left a fundamentalist Mormon cult. Then her children went missing

NEWS: After escaping a fundamentalist polygamous group, Elizabeth Roundy fought to rebuild her life and protect her children. Now, they are missing — and she believes the FLDS is behind it. As more mothers come forward with similar stories, a chilling pattern is emerging, Andrea Cavallier writes

The Independent UK · Jul 13, 2025

‘They think that it’s their salvation’: FLDS cult-like religious group suspected in disappearance of Idaho teens

Their mother has a history with the notorious FLDS group.

We Got This Covered · Jun 27, 2025