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Missing polygamist – lawyer says he was taken up into rapture

The FBI thinks that Lyle Jeffs, the polygamist religious leader accused in a multimillion-dollar food stamp scheme, disappeared from house arrest by coating his ankle monitor in olive oil and sliding it off.

That explanation may fly with non-believers, but in court documents filed last week, Jeffs’s lawyer has put forth a divine reason for his disappearance – the miracle of rapture.

The FBI isn’t buying the heavenly intervention angle. Read more

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