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Missing Idaho Teens Believed to Have Returned to FLDS Community, Sheriff Says

Their mother warns that followers of jailed leader Warren Jeffs may have abducted them under a 2022 revelation urging the return of children to the church.

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Law enforcement officials in Jefferson County, Idaho, issued an AMBER Alert after two teenagers, 13-year-old Allen Larand Fischer and 15-year-old Rachelle Leray Fischer, went missing.
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Overview

  • An Amber Alert for 13-year-old Allen Larand Fischer and 15-year-old Rachelle Leray Fischer remains active with tips coming in from across the country despite no confirmed suspect vehicle.
  • Investigators report the siblings were last seen in traditional FLDS clothing and likely traveled to Trenton, Utah, their former community stronghold.
  • Elizabeth Roundy, who left the FLDS church in 2020, suspects the involvement of cult members including her ex-husband Nephi Fischer and missing daughter Elintra in an abduction plot.
  • Jeffs’s 2022 “revelation” directs followers to return children to the church for a death and resurrection ritual intended to make them “pure.”
  • The case echoes the 2023 disappearance of older sister Elintra Dee Fischer and underscores ongoing custody battles and religious tensions within the family.