Krakauer reviews not only the case and its consequences, but the history of the Mormon Church and its splinter Fundamentalist groups (of which the Lafferty brothers were part of) and their strict adherence to Polygamy (which is at the root of this case. Allen Lafferty lived a polygamous lifestyle and his wife Brenda, rebelled against his 'prophecies'.
It is a well researched history and very informative. What I find so sad, is that the legal and court systems seem to fail these victims of Polygamy so frequently) and that these religious 'fundamentalists' are just as violent as other extremists - using God to justify flat out murder.
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