polygamy and the marriage of young girls to adults. Warren was reported to have more than 80 wives, more than a dozen of whom were previously married to his father Rulon. Under Warren’s leadership, high-ranking church men were assigned multiple wives, while “reassigning” the wives and children of men who fell out of favor. Two of Warren’s children accused him of sexual abuse, including his son Roy, who killed himself on Friday.

In 2005, Warren was charged with sexual assault of a minor, as well as a charge for arranging the marriage of a 14-year-old to her cousin. He spent a year on the run before police captured him in a Cadillac full of disguises and burner cell phones. Seth Jeffs was also arrested and convicted for harboring Warrenand concealing his whereabouts.

Warren went on to serve life in prison but Seth Jeffs returned to the FLDS, which said it no longer arranged child marriages. In a 2009 interview in a Texas compound, Jeffs said he had seven wives and 19 children. Jeffs presented his polygamous family as a godly arrangement. But behind the scenes he and other church elders were conspiring to break the law. In 2016, they were convicted of an elaborate scheme to game the SNAP food program by claiming benefits for the compound’s sprawling families, then hoarding the benefits for themselves and the church.

When Texas seized the FLDS compound, Jeffs and many followers of his church moved to a new facility outside rural Pringle, South Dakota. Like their eventual Grand Marais neighbors, Pringle