Joseph F. Smith, nephew of the founding prophet, and his family. Courtesy: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Of all the Mormon doctrines, none caused as much ...

This story appears in the February 2010 issue of National Geographic magazine. The first church members arrive at the Leroy S. Johnson Meeting House in Colorado City, Arizona, at about 6 p.m ...

Samuel Bateman took more than 20 women and girls as spiritual wives from 2019 to 2022, leveraging his status as the leader of the polygamist Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

(CNN)-- Long after she escaped a polygamist Colorado City, Arizona, community in 1986, Flora Jessop found another way to escape: cocaine. "It killed the pain. It killed the hurt," she said.