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Prophets prey running time9/23/2023 ![]() ![]() But it draws on enough inside voices - or, rather, previously inside voices, since cast aside by the prophet - to paint a chilling portrait of a megalomaniac. ![]() It only gives a cursory nod to all the meticulous work by law enforcement and prosecutors that led to his downfall. The narrative that Berg has assembled will not be the definitive story of Warren Jeffs. While Brower, too, gets his screen time, the film very much remains in the hands of its director, Amy Berg, who came to fame herself as the maker of “Deliver Us From Evil.” That 2006 documentary was about the American priest Oliver O’Grady, who admitted to sexually abusing two dozen children, but also about the cover-up by the Catholic hierarchy that protected him. While researching the FLDS, Krakauer forged an alliance with private investigator Sam Brower, who wrote about his seven years digging into the church in a 2011 e-book, also titled “Prophet’s Prey” (and with an intro from Krakauer - a nice marketing coup). Reproduce freely with attribution.Also, and not incidentally, this was before the younger Jeffs was placed on the FBI’s Ten Most Wanted List and later convicted of child sexual assault. But capturing the criminal hasn’t put an end to the crime.Īny original material on these pages is copyright © 2004. For a while he occupied a place on the FBI’s most-wanted list between Osama bin Laden and James “Whitey” Bulger. Jeffs is said to be still running the FLDS from his jail cell as many as 10,000 members continue to follow his teachings. Yet many of those blighted children were returned to their families after an appeals court ruled that the authorities had overstepped their bounds, while Mr. (The Church of Latter-Day Saints renounced the doctrine of polygamy in 1890.) ![]() And some of the child victims were freed by authorities from what amounted to imprisonment and enslavement in FLDS compounds, thanks in large measure to an activist attorney general in Utah. Jeffs is in prison for the rest of his life, having been captured in 2006 during a traffic stop near Las Vegas, and convicted, in 2007, of two felony counts of child assault. Was, and by all accounts in “Prophet’s Prey,” still is-that’s the most shocking part. Jeffs’s rogue church was, fundamentally, a crime syndicate built by and for sexual predators. Jeffs took over the church on his father’s death, declared himself a prophet, promoted polygamy that frequently involved underage girls, set up isolated communities throughout the vastness of the Southwest and reigned supreme over thousands of believers as a veritable godhead, All the while, the film contends persuasively, Mr. The half-educated son of a crackpot father who ran a splinter group calling itself the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), Mr. ‘prophet’s Prey’ Review: a Predator and His FlockĪs horror upon horror unfolds in “Prophet’s Prey,” Amy Berg’s shocking documentary about the mad polygamist Warren Jeffs and his followers, one may marvel, in horror, at the elaborate forms that deviancy can take. ‘prophet’s Prey’ Review: a Predator and His Flock, by Joe Morgenstern, Wall Street Journal, ![]()
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