ON THE RUN

Reward Offered for Idaho Teens Kidnapped by Warren Jeffs-Led Cult

Investigators say the siblings may be en route to Utah.

Violence prevention group the Uvalde Foundation for Kids is offering a $5,000 reward for the safe return of two Idaho teens who disappeared in an apparent cult-related kidnapping. Siblings Rachelle and Allen Fischer, ages 15 and 13, respectively, were abducted from a shop near their home in Idaho on Sunday, two years after their sister, Elintra Dee, 18, vanished under similar circumstances. Their parents, Elizabeth Roundy and Nephi Fischer, were both members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS), a polygamist cult led by convicted sex offender Warren Jeffs. However, Roundy left both the cult and her husband in 2020 and had full custody of their children before their disappearances. Roundy told East Idaho News she believes her ex-husband is behind all three abductions and may be following a “revelation” from Jeffs that instructs followers to sacrifice their children so they can be resurrected as “pure” souls. Officials from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department, who issued an Amber Alert on Monday, say they’re unsure whether the children have already left the state, but believe they “willingly left to return to Trenton, Utah, due to religious beliefs.” In addition to the reward, the Uvalde Foundation says it’s conducting a “multi-state effort to locate the teens.”