COLORADO CITY -- Cascading, red rock faces enclose the towns of Hildale, Utah and Colorado City, Arizona, which the people there collectively refer to as Short Creek. They call themselves “crikers.”

Over the last decade, Short Creek has garnered nationwide attention for a robust polygamist history under the influence and control of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and more specifically, the church’s cult-like prophet and child sex offender Warren Jeffs. Copy article link Sign up for our newsletters

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