The issue is available now on newsstands and in the digital archive. The education figures he cited would be a few percentage points higher than the average for Utah as a whole, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. DeRieux says the other two girls were her half-sisters, both age 16. He told the children they would all be applying for financial aid, enrolling at SLCC and majoring in business administration, the lawsuit cites Mafi as saying. All of their children who survived the Great Famine emigrated. It was Mothers Day in 2000, and Stephen and two of his brothers were speeding up a dirt road for dinner at an aunts house. He went days at a time without eating, convinced it helped provoke visions, and believed that by the laying on of hands he could heal his followers from sickness and disease. To go to Colorado, DeRieux said, she and her fianc drove to Price, where they jumped into a 15-passenger van carrying their parents, the other two sets of brides and grooms and their parents. The incident took place in Sullivan County around 8:15 p.m., Monday, Feb. 27 in the hamlet of Loch Sheldrake. Paul J. Kingston Sr., 93, of North Huntingdon, died Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. Shortly after that meeting, the complaint continues, Mrs. Church leader Paul Kingston conducted the service and his brothers John Daniel and David were speakers. DeRieux was photographed in Layton, Wednesday, July 11, 2018. They were finally getting even. When Paul turned 21, he married Richaun Dye. But the constant fear has subsided. With the Orders leaders taking so many wives for themselves, the clans younger men were often unable to find anyone to marry. A sheriffs deputy traced the license plate of the Honda to a run-down house in a working-class suburb south of the city. No one has been criminally charged. Pulling up, he noticed the getaway car parked in front of the house. Eventually, there was a meeting between Jessica Kingston, her parents and Paul Kingston. If that father says yes, the groom talks to the girl. The ones that misbehave, they try to push them to marry as soon as they can, Hansen said. By the time he was 30, he would have more than 10. Duringa 2020 trialfor a California businessman accused of carrying out a nearly $500 million biodiesel fraud scheme with a member of the Kingston Group, attorneys for the businessman called the Kingstons an incestuous polygamous group that is always scheming to defraud the US government in what the group calls bleeding the beast., A spokesman for the group, Kent Johnson, called those allegations categorically false.. He asked him if he was being obedient, then excused himself to talk to Stephens mother. To her horror, all that remained was a ring of dust, marking the place where a chest of gold coins had once stood. I strongly believe they are an organized-crime family, Shurtleff says. Trump Melts Down Over Murdoch Admitting Fox Lied About Election Fraud A passerby might catch a glimpse of children in the windows, but for the most part, the Young family kept to themselves. This article appears in the June 23, 2011 issue of Rolling Stone. Each time turning up no significant violations or nothing at all. Romero has said her concern is for all girls, not just those in polygamous sects. (Jessicas dad and the young man had taken courses together at the University of Utah.) Money, sex and power. All Rights reserved. Johnson did not provide the raw data to support those statistics. After the wedding, Richaun chose the name Knight randomly a practice designed to prevent prosecutors from proving that men in the Order have multiple wives. Johnson said neither he nor any other representatives of the cooperative society were aware of the lawsuit until contacted by The Salt Lake Tribune recently for comment. Death: January 25, 1867 (75-76) Immediate Family: Husband of Lydia Kingston. Girls who reach their mid- and late teens can start to feel the pressure to wed. Jessica Kingston said when word gets out that a boy or young man has asked a girls father for permission to marry her, friends and family are walking up to that girl asking, Did you pray about him?. Jessicas dad told her the wife can get only as high as her husband rises. It was just the best choice, some say, among their bad options. Their grooms averaged 20 years and 18 days. Boys are taught that the prophet demands absolute loyalty and that they should be prepared to defend the clan. They threw away their possessions, donned matching blue overalls, and pitched canvas tents on a patch of land north of Salt Lake that would come to be known as the Home Place.. Paul Vallas and wife Sharon have been together 38 years. He served one day in jail. 1 choice [of whom to marry] in The Order, Jessica Kingston said. At 17, she agreed to marry a man in his early 20s. She was definitely the pick of the litter, and thats why Paul got her, Ron recalls. As he grew older, Stephen turned out to be as rebellious as his own father had been as a boy. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Viewers Can Watch Prince Harry Talk to a Trauma Expert for $33.09 Inseparable: Twins Peter (left) and Paul have lived. The young women ranged from about age 18 to 22. But 16- and 17-year-olds in Utah need only the consent of a parent to wed. Idaho, Colorado and Nevada, where the The Tribune also found Kingston Group marriages, have similar age and parental-consent requirements. Fortunately, our population has already attained a higher graduation rate for high school and associates degrees for men and women in the DCCS. On this much, though, mother and daughter agree: Snows father was the primary driver. I was scared to death when I left. From a clan ranch in Nevada, Stephen called his brother Ben, who had left the Order a few years before. He snapped the padlock on the first crate and began stuffing the silver ingots into duffel bags, lugging them back out to the waiting Honda. This story has been shared 116,307 times. Paul Valls's wife is Sharon Vallas. They steer clear of banks, fearing theyll steal their money. She said the marriage disintegrated when her husband married spiritually one of her half-sisters, who was 22 at the time. Members of The Order are taught they need to be in a plural marriage to reach the highest heaven. Only the inner circle knew the hoard even existed, says Christian Kingston, a former Order member. In an analysis written in 2015, a University of Maryland sociologist found that nationwide 37 percent of people who marry before age 20 divorce in the first 10 years. Rates of college attendance that meet or exceed the Utah average have been a point of pride in the Kingston Group, whose members have offered such statistics to counter the stereotype of children from polygamy, especially girls, being uneducated with no opportunity for self-improvement. Shortly after 10 p.m. on June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh called 911 from his property in Islandton, South Carolina, to report that he had found his 22-year-old son Paul and his wife Maggie, 55, murdered. One crime had been solved but the chest of gold stolen from Patty Kingstons closet remained a mystery. For parents, there can be other practical considerations in letting a teen marry, Hansen said. When he noticed that the boys had stopped working, he became enraged. That cousin is also a defendant in the lawsuit. The groom was 21. Attorneys for the Nelsons and Michaels also did not return messages seeking comments. In Salt Lake County, for example, there were 45 marriages in which the bride or groom was 17 or younger, according to data from the county clerks office from Feb. 1, 2016, to April 10, 2018. These days Stephen works on a cattle ranch near the Idaho border, just down the road from where he grew up. Kingston's death came 3 weeks after his legal wife, Luana Joan Kingston, died of breast cancer, according to her obituary. Stephen calmly waited until his uncle got close, and then he reached behind the seat and pulled out a shotgun, leveling it at his uncle. The Knight brothers were driving new trucks, and so were their friends, says Levi Kingston. Her parents placed her in what she called a repentance home, where she wasnt allowed to communicate with anyone without supervision. He charged across the field and started brutally beating Stephens cousin. They sat there for a moment, warming their hands against the sputtering heater. He directed some of his own children the plaintiffs estimate he has 27 wives and more than 300 offspring to seek more financial aid than they would have otherwise been entitled to, the suit cites one of his daughters as saying, and when the assistance exceeded what the student needed to attend college, the sect kept the proceeds. He slept with a different one each night, in accordance with their ovulation cycles, and sometimes disappeared during lunch to have sex with a favorite. Businesses and individuals have the autonomy to choose and operate as they see fit as evidenced by a huge diversity of industry and management styles among members. It wasnt like we thought about it a lot. If they kill me, they kill me, he says. A nationwide debate is underway about teens, especially girls, marrying. Mysterious cars followed his girlfriend, and he once came home to find that someone had rifled through his drawers. Then their father said something they never expected. Paul Elden Kingston: Paul Kingston is the leader of the Latter Day Church of Christ, also known as the Kingston Clan or The Order in Utah. According to former Order members, they worked long shifts sorting coal and operating heavy machinery in unsafe conditions. In 2006, it was estimated that Paul Kingston had up to 27 wives (including three half-sisters of his), [5] some . Directories Newly added. To cope with the disorientation and loneliness of leaving one world for another, many turn to drugs. I dont really have too many friends, but the ones I do, I wouldnt trade for anything., Among Stephens friends were two of his cousins, Luke and Scott Brown. His life was in danger, the voice on the other end warned. If they are money-laundering or making money in support of polygamy and incest, then they probably meet the statute.. Everyone knows it., After the gold disappeared, the Knight brothers suddenly seemed to have a lot of money especially for young men on their own in the world for the first time. When someone is interested in marriage, the process is something more like a job interview than a courtship. The third plaintiff is Michelle Michaels, who the complaint says left the sect in 2017 rather than become a spiritual wife to a cousin who has nine wives. Their neighbors had no idea that the family were prominent members of the Kingston clan, the most powerful polygamist cult in America and one of the most dangerous. deductible, Report a missed paper by emailingsubscribe@sltrib.comor calling801-237-2900, For e-edition questions or comments, contact customer support801-237-2900or emailsubscribe@sltrib.com. Alex's wife and son, Maggie and Paul, were shot to death at their home in 2021, and Alex is currently on trial for their murders.. The accusers also claim that the group arranged child marriages so that girls would become pregnant and beholden to their husbands and the religious sect. (Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) The groom wore a suit. As the first of Paul Kingstons many wives, Patty enjoyed a privileged role in the Order including access to vast wealth. Mafis mother is Paul Kingstons fifth wife, yet when filling out the aid forms, the woman advising her told Mafi not to submit anything about her father, according to the lawsuit. Order girls are taught from birth that their primary purposes in life are to be obedient, a submissive wife, and to bear as many children as possible, the suit states. He seemed like the most amazing guy, Stephen recalls. Another group of kids called the Lost Boys, who were kicked out of the polygamist cult the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, ended up on the streets of Las Vegas and Phoenix, some turning tricks for drugs like meth and heroin. Many consider Kingston the top man in the group. For the marriages performed in Utah, Bill W. Stoddard signed as the officiant until his death in March. She was 68. It was all on me, and, for the most part, thats the case where it is the girls decision whether she wants to get married at that age., She said she knows of a few cases in which the girl was pressured by family or faith leaders to marry, but I can count them all on one hand.. It felt like it was us against the world. His older brother Richard, a burly diesel mechanic, taught him how to fix cars. Hansen said during family home evenings nights when a mans family gathers for religious studies and games her husband would take girls 12 and older who were single and lead them in a teaching. This didnt belong to you anyway., As big as the heist was, it attracted almost no attention in Salt Lake. Managed by: Donate to the newsroom now. Each daughter married one of their cousins, who also are pictured with their parents. He no longer believed in the Order, but he knew that leaving would mean being shunned by his own family, and because he had been forbidden from making friends outside the clan, there would be few people in the world he could turn to. Those two unions happened in Colorado, where its legal to marry your cousin. The suit was filed against the groups leader Paul Eldon Kingston and 21 other members. Over the years, the Order has armed itself to ward off rivals, and once stalked and intimidated a judge who was meddling in the clans affairs. . The now-20-year-old said she and her husband have started a family of their own. Many of these men are also given stewardship of the Orders business holdings sent out to run the clans coal mine or ranches, or to oversee one of its many storefronts. Not every Kingston Group follower marries as a juvenile. (Paul W. Kingston, (Ph.D. Columbia University, 1980) is Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Virginia. If someone is mature enough, they should be able to do whatever they want.. Members who have left in recent years say that changed after some of Paul Kingston's brothers were convicted of. Its who I am., To keep the police from prying into the matter any further, the clan also hired a private investigator to track down the missing gold. Known variously as "Brother Paul," "the leader," and "the man on the watchtower" by Order members, this unremarkable, balding middle-aged man reportedly has 27 wives and over 300 children. My 4-year-old comes to me and says she has to find out her No. Did the Utah Legislature do enough to save the Great Salt Lake? After the boys were taken into custody, one of their first calls was to Stephen. Mrs. Jessica saw the list. All I like to do is work on cars and hang out with friends and ride my ponies, he wrote one night on his MySpace page. J.O. 1 choice. There, stacked on the concrete floor, were crates filled with bars of silver. This is nothing more than a continued attempt in a long history to keep DCCS members from accessing education and services every other U.S. citizen is legally entitled to. Mafi recalls Paul Kingston telling the children who attended that meeting that The Order was going to be trying out something new, the lawsuit says. Later the Order reportedly bought slot machines from mob-controlled companies. The clan, known privately as the Order, runs what prosecutors believe is one of the largest organized-crime operations in Utah, overseeing its far-flung empire from a string of secret locations and backrooms. The Knight brothers werent afraid to fight, or to stand up to authority. In the meantime, the police were closing in on the missing silver. At a minimum, the statement said, two employees review every student file flagged for verification to ensure quality assurance in our processes.. Kingston had told gaming regulators in California. A husband and wife died while on a fishing trip after falling through thin ice in the region. The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity and contributions are tax John Daniel Kingston, who according to court testimony once had 14 wives, was on hand in 2011, when his sons held an open house at the Washakie production plant in Plymouth near Interstate 15 and . Or wed set traps and raise them as pets., In many ways it was an idyllic childhood, except for the fact that the ranch also doubled as a work camp for disobedient clan wives and rebellious kids. His face was crushed, Stephen says now, matter-of-factly, his eyes going blank for a moment. Jessica as well as Snow, DeRieux and Hansen all favor raising the legal marriage age in Utah and other states to 18. Sometimes his father read the Book of Mormon from the pulpit and talked about things regular Christians would recognize, like tithing or repentance. Members who have left in recent years say that changed after some of Paul Kingstons brothers were convicted of crimes related to child abuse, sex with a minor or incest. 2023 NYP Holdings, Inc. 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While the Order preached strict abstinence to its children, forbidding even incidental contact between the sexes, there seemed to be no rules after marriage especially for the clans leaders. Jessica has begun working with Hope After Polygamy, a charity started by the cast of Escaping Polygamy and other former Kingston Group members to assist people leaving polygamous sects. Exhibiting LGBTQ+ tendencies can indicate impure blood, according to the lawsuit. [5][6][7][8] Members generally seek the blessing of parents and religious leaders before choosing to marry. They had eight children whose baptisms are recorded in the same church. This article related to the Latter Day Saint movement is a stub. Had Snow been a better behaved, more devout member of the Kingston Group, Hansen said, there may not have been a push to have her legally marry at 16. Jessica Kingston said a girls devotion and attitude are often measured by her view of polygamy. Johnson said the Davis County Cooperative Society takes no position on the issue. Every now and then, as hes driving around the ranch, his phone will ring. Come and get me, Stephen said. Investigators have said 52-year-old Maggie Murdaugh was shot four or five times with a rifle, while 22-year-old Paul Murdaugh was killed by two shotgun blasts near kennels on the family's . Jessicas father relented during the meeting and gave his approval for his daughter to marry her No. . It wasnt forced, said the woman, who asked not to be identified because of stigmas that often come with being associated with a polygamous sect. Complete statement from Davis County Cooperative Society: For decades, the DCCS has encouraged its members to be well-educated, well-informed, independent thinkers. Knight was born in Salt Lake City, the sixth child of third-generation polygamists. The plans fizzled because her mother didnt believe DeRieux had received direction from God to marry the man. When Stephen was a boy, the clan would gather for the New Year in a warehouse in the city for its annual ritual: the numbering of the men. In all likelihood, Stephen and his brothers had stolen the gold from Patty Kingston first and then the Brown boys, in an effort to emulate their cousins rebellious acts, had robbed their aunt weeks or even months later. They did so July 3, 2008, in Grand Junction, Colo, where records show two other couples from the Kingston Group married that day. He then severed her index finger, cleaned off the three bones, and carried them with him the rest of his life, believing that the totem kept her spirit with him. She's since left the marriage and wants the legal marriage age raised to 18. He inherited the top leadership position in 1987. In summer, the kids swam in the reservoir as their mother, Richaun, watched, the boys doing back flips off the rope swing into the water; at night, as the sun set behind the mountains, they all sat together to watch the clans buffalo herd grazing in the pastures. One baby deemed to have too many deformities was allegedly put in a shoe box and left to die. By our latest survey, his statement said, the majority of DCCS college students were not using government-funded financial aid, including many who would qualify if they had applied. Luke Brown now insists that he and his brother simply borrowed the silver, and planned to return it to their aunt later. 12 Paul J. WILFONG was born on 4-13-1912 in Marlinton. The group sought to maintain Pure Kingston Blood by arranging marriages between cousins and other close relatives, and shunning relationships that werent between white people, the lawsuit alleges. The boys were sentenced to two years of probation and taken back into the Order. 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