The community of Short Creek lies along the Utah/Arizona border in the town of Colorado City. The area is surrounded by massive red rock formations on one side, and desert on the other side. The town is divided by a road called “U-zona” with Utah on one side of the road, and Arizona on the other. While this may seem like a simple, quirky little feature at first, this location was chosen strategically, so that the residents could flee from one state to another in order to evade the government. This community is home to many FLDS community members, and this town is the setting in which Warren Jeffs started to gain total control over his followers.
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Sources:
Splinter Group: Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS) from Mormonism Research Ministry
Who Is Warren Jeffs And How Did He Become The Leader Of The FLDS? from Oxygen: True Crime
Warren Jeffs’ Survivors: Where Are Merrianne Jessop and Veda Keate Now? from SpikyTV
FLDS Fast Facts from CNN
19 Things You Probably Don't Know About FLDS Polygamists from BuzzFeed
What Is a Cult? from Study.com
Characteristics Associated with Cults from Janja Talich
What Happened to the YFZ Ranch? Does it Still Exist? Where is it Located? from The Cinemaholic
FLDS Beliefs 101 - Apostates from FLDS 101
Court releases tapes of Jeffs instructing girls he took as wives (with audio) from The Salt Lake Tribune
Exodus of the FLDS from The Salt Lake Tribune
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