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Patterns of Polygamy - Religion the ‘controlling force’ inside Kingston clan
Friday, August 8th, 2008Source: clippertoday.com
For many, living a polygamist lifestyle seems almost impossible to comprehend. For former members of the Davis County-based Kingston clan, however, it was simply the structure on which most of their lives have been based. “You don’t just give up your religion all of a sudden,” said former Kingston member Christy Tucker, who [...]
Patterns of Polygamy Davis County’s Kingston clan
Friday, August 1st, 2008First of four parts
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It started in February 2007 with a letter by a former member of Davis County’s secretive Kingston clan to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid and other prominent national leaders. The letter, signed by anti-polygamy crusader Victoria Prunty, then executive director of Tapestry Against Polygamy, supported Reid’s call for a federal investigation of [...]
A Family’s Tangled Ties
Tuesday, July 1st, 2008Full Story at: Newsweek.com
Lu Ann Kingston was 15 when she married her first cousin Jeremy Kingston in a hush-hush 1995 wedding in Bountiful, Utah. As members of a secretive society of “fundamentalist Mormons” whose leaders practiced polygamy, Lu Ann’s family thought nothing of the fact that Jeremy, then 24, was such a close relative–or that [...]
Utah Attorney General considered Texas-style raid on Kingston clan
Tuesday, April 8th, 2008Via ABC4.com
What is happening in El Dorado, Texas almost happened here in Utah. ABC 4 News has learned recently that Utah’s Attorney General almost launched a raid in Salt Lake against another polygamist group.
Tuesday, ABC 4 asked Attorney General Mark Shurtleff had he ever thought about doing what Texas did, and Shurtleff said, [...]
The Kingston Clan Surfaces
Wednesday, March 19th, 2008Heirs of dead man seeking inheritance from polygamous group
By Pamela Manson
The Salt Lake Tribune
“Heirs of a man who spent years working in a cooperative managed by the polygamous Kingston clan are asking a judge to order the group to turn over $1.2 million and two residences to them.
In a lawsuit filed last week in 3rd [...]
Creditors want to force mine to file Chapter 11
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008From the SLTRIB
A coal mining company owned by Utah’s polygamous Kingston clan is fighting back against its creditors who are trying to force the company involuntarily into a Chapter 11 bankruptcy. The creditors - Aquila Inc. of Kansas, House of Pumps and Owell Precast of Sandy - asked the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for Utah in [...]