‘TERRIFYING’

Mom of Missing Idaho Teens Says They Were Snatched by Warren Jeffs Cult

The mom-of-three says her ex-husband and eldest daughter may be involved in an FLDS plot to “sacrifice” her two youngest children.

An Idaho mother says all three of her children have been abducted, and followers of imprisoned cult leader Warren Jeffs may be to blame. Elizabeth Roundy’s two youngest children, Rachelle, 15, and Allen, 13, were abducted from a local shop Sunday night, and the mother believes Jeffs’ polygamist cult, the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, is responsible. Roundy, a former cult member who was exiled in 2020, says this has happened before: her eldest daughter, Elintra Dee Fischer, 18, disappeared under similar circumstances in 2023. The mom-of-three believes Elintra was abducted by her father, Nephi Fischer, an active member of the FLDS, and that the pair may have played a role in abducting Rachelle and Allen. Roundy also says her ex-husband, who does not have custody of the children, has a “terrifying” motive for taking them: she believes he may be following a 2022 decree from Jeffs urging followers to “return their children to the church by any means necessary,” before sacrificing them so that they may be resurrected “pure.” Local authorities say tips have been “pouring in” since they issued an Amber Alert on Monday, but they have not yet confirmed a suspect.