Prophet of Death: The Mormon Blood Atonement Killings by Pete Earley

Author:Pete Earley [Earley, Pete]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Pete Earley, Inc.
Published: 2014-01-18T07:00:00+00:00

Chapter 30

FOR three days, Jeffrey stormed around the farmhouse, openly discussing how he was going to kill Kevin. “He’s in Buffalo hiding. I could get up there and do him and be back overnight.” He telephoned Kevin’s mother but Kevin had already warned her not to tell Jeffrey where he was hiding. He telephoned the Veterans Administration hospital where Kevin had worked in Cleveland and the one in Buffalo too, but Kevin had not left a forwarding address. Jeffrey finally gave up. “Whether he dies at my hand or whether he dies because I say the prayer that raises the mountain and causes the earthquake really doesn’t matter,” Jeffrey told the group. “Kevin is dead to God.”

In March, Jeffrey learned that Bill and Eleanor Lord had resigned as tour guides and were moving out of the Sidney Rigdon house. He and Alice insisted on helping them move. Jeffrey’s group moved everything in one day. Bill was impressed. “It was swell.” It reminded the Lords of an old-fashioned barn raising where everyone got together to work hard and build a barn in one day. Jeffrey and Alice refused to accept any cash so Bill took everyone out to dinner. Jeffrey was happy. The Lords had moved far enough from the temple that he wouldn’t have to kill them.

By the first of April, the takeover permeated every conversation at the farm. Frequently, it was Alice who brought it up. As the “mother” of the family, Jeffrey had assigned her the job of taking care of the minor children during the temple takeover. Besides Jason, Kristen, and Caleb, she would have to watch the Luffs’ two children, and Molly Patrick. She was in charge of buying food for the takeover too. The family would need food between May 1, when they seized the temple, and May 3 when Christ appeared.

“What do you like to eat when you are under stress?” Alice asked Shar one afternoon.

“I don’t know,” Shar replied. “’Why?”

“Oh, I was thinking about the takeover. Isn’t this weird? I mean, what we’re talking about is the insurrection of a national historical monument!” During the next few minutes, Alice speculated about how long it would take the television cameras to arrive and whether the group would be on the national news. Would 60 Minutes do a segment on the family? Alice’s sister, Terri, had moved to Saudi Arabia with her husband. Alice wondered if the television stations in the Middle East would broadcast the story. “Everyone was getting geared up,” said Shar.

One night in mid-April, Jeffrey announced that he was not going to teach his regular class nor drill the group on various military procedures. Instead, he read a passage from the Book of Mormon. It was verses 1 through 47 in the Third Book of Nephi, chapter 5, which told how Jesus Christ had appeared to the ancient Hebrews in the New World after he had been crucified by the Jews.

. . . They cast their eyes up again towards heaven; and behold, they saw a man descending out of heaven.

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