Two of Hansen's daughters legally married when they were under the age of 18 to young men in the Kingston Group. Had Snow been a better behaved, more devout member of the Kingston Group, Hansen said, there may not have been a push to have her legally marry at 16. Michaels and Mary Nelson describe similar experiences with their financial aid applications and awards. Polygamist John Daniel Kingston, left, in attendance at a memorial for the 13 (and one still missing) victims of a Sept. 14, 2015, flash flood. They belonged to the Order and had toiled in the cult for years. Ive lived a good life. Sometimes, lying in bed at night, he thinks of his brother who died not far from here, and the rest of his siblings who remain in the Order. Look around, Stephen says. They threw away their possessions, donned matching blue overalls, and pitched canvas tents on a patch of land north of Salt Lake that would come to be known as the Home Place.. Markey said the plaintiffs are making the case to a judge that the Kingston Group is a cult and criminal enterprise rather than a religion. DeRieux was photographed in Layton, Wednesday, July 11, 2018. You better check on your gold, Young told her. 12 Paul J. WILFONG was born on 4-13-1912 in Marlinton. To cope with the disorientation and loneliness of leaving one world for another, many turn to drugs. Paul was upset any of this had been reported at all, says a former member close to the boys. In qui tam cases, the federal government can either join the plaintiffs in recouping losses and pursuing damages and fines, or let the plaintiffs prosecute the lawsuit on their own. 1 choice. According to former members of the Order, decades of inbreeding have resulted in rampant birth defects throughout the family. Former Order members remain convinced the Knights stole the gold. At Washakie, he forced clan children to decapitate cows with chain saws to toughen them up, and sometimes beat the children for some infraction of the Orders rules like forgetting to face the Home Place three times a day and pray. The roof sagged, the carpet was worn, and the place reeked of cheap cologne. But we paid it all back.. Snow said her marriage fell apart over her not liking the Kingston Group and her husband wanting to have another wife. It was time. While his dad was running the order from Salt Lake City, Stephen grew up on a cattle ranch called Washakie, near the Idaho border. Paul E. Kingston, considered the top man, signed as a witness for four of the marriages that The Tribune found outside Utah. If the father believes his son received true direction from God, the son is sent to Paul Kingston or one of the people he designates to consider marriages. One of them approached the front door while the other kept a lookout. I was scared to death when I left. From a clan ranch in Nevada, Stephen called his brother Ben, who had left the Order a few years before. took great pains to never show his wealth and taught his followers to do the same. Polygamy is a legacy of the early teachings of the mainstream church, which abandoned the practice in 1890 and now strictly prohibits it. It empowered Stephen before that, no one had ever stood up to Daniel Kingston or any of them, says a former member. But the more the deputy pressed, the more their stories didnt add up. The groom wore a suit. At 17, she agreed to marry a man in his early 20s. Youd show up for a welfare call, or a domestic-abuse call, and it was just real run-down.. Home. (Like most kids in the clan, Stephen wasnt told who his father was until he was old enough to be trusted to lie to protect the Order.) 'I am the daughter of his fifth. He became particularly obsessed with a plant called comfrey, which he believed would protect his clan from the nuclear war that would usher in the apocalypse. If they kill me, they kill me, he says. The groups, whose members believe polygamy brings exaltation in heaven, are offshoots of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. She called her sister-in-law Patty Kingston, who lived across town. She does not favor a change in the marriage age. Sometimes his father read the Book of Mormon from the pulpit and talked about things regular Christians would recognize, like tithing or repentance. The well-kept yellow house sat on the corner of a tidy cul-de-sac called South Bonner Circle surrounded by a black wrought-iron fence. According to written histories, John Ortell Kingston, father of the current leader, also encouraged his family members to marry other kin to improve their own bloodline. He even had charts showing who were the higher families in the sect so his daughters knew where to look for a mate. John Gustafson, a representative of the Davis County Cooperative Society, an affiliate of the Kingston Group, disputed the lawsuits claims. Incest is endemic in the clan, with uncles marrying much younger female relatives; in 2003, police showed up at an Order barbecue and arrested a clan member for marrying his underage cousin. The plaintiffs estimate the eight combine to have 106 wives. It was a grimy, derelict-looking place. Murdaugh is accused of fatally shooting his son, Paul, 22, with a shotgun and his wife, Maggie, 52, with a rifle near the dog kennels at the family's hunting estate known as Moselle. Log In Once logged in, you can add biography in the database. Paul Elden Kingston is an accountant and attorney who has served as the Trustee-in-Trust of the Davis County Cooperative Society (DCCS), a Mormon fundamentalist denomination, [2] since 1987. Some former teenage Kingston Group brides acknowledge they werent forced to marry; they made a choice. If you ever do that again, he said, Ill blow your head off., It was an astonishing moment in the history of the clan. If the father believes his son received true direction from God, the son is sent to Paul Kingston or one of the people he designates to consider marriages. We were off on our own out there and really close, Stephen says. In the meantime, the police were closing in on the missing silver. Chuck Lepper, vice president for student affairs and enrollment management, said that no review is planned at this time. Many consider Kingston the top man in the group. DeRieux remarried at age 21 to a man who isnt from the Kingston Group. Paul Elden Kingston is an accountant and attorney who has served as the Trustee-in-Trust of the Davis County Cooperative Society (DCCS), a Mormon fundamentalist denomination,[2] since 1987. Romero has said her concern is for all girls, not just those in polygamous sects. They had eight children whose baptisms are recorded in the same church. She didnt want to be in that house anymore; it reminded her of my brother. To test her devotion, Stephens father began calling her in the middle of the night and telling her to move the family to a new location. By our latest survey, the majority of DCCS college students were not using government funded financial aid, including many who would qualify if they had applied. Children born into the clan make up much of the labor force. [10][11]. One is a first cousin. The couple have since divorced. We will continue to do so. Noticing Stephen, he put the barbells down and came over to the boy. The lawsuit was filed May 24 in Salt Lake Citys federal court by Mary and Bryan Nelson. Regardless, all those applying should do so legally. Eventually, Stephen was sent back to Washakie and was placed under the supervision of his uncle, one of the familys most feared enforcers. The son of the clans prophet, Knight, then 18, had once seemed destined for a leadership role within the Order. However, Grant claims she endured years of sexual abuse by a half-brother as a child. Jessica as well as Snow, DeRieux and Hansen all favor raising the legal marriage age in Utah and other states to 18. J.O. Former members estimate Paul has 30 wives and more than 50 children. During his tenure Kingston has followed his father's practice of plural, child, and intra-family marriage. He died on 6-4-1998 at the Beckley Veterans Administration. He had arranged for a banner to be placed over a bridge there. She said the marriage disintegrated when her husband married spiritually one of her half-sisters, who was 22 at the time. Thats when Nicole Mafi, one of Paul Kingstons daughters, says in the lawsuit she was called into a meeting of recent high school graduates to discuss going to college. Many of these men are also given stewardship of the Orders business holdings sent out to run the clans coal mine or ranches, or to oversee one of its many storefronts. All of their children who survived the Great Famine emigrated. Depending on ones view, members of the Kingston Group either take care to follow marriage laws, or work to circumvent them. The theft of the silver bars from Rachel Youngs basement, they concluded, had been a copycat crime. It was a wild place, says Scott Cosgrove, a former detective with the Box Elder County Sheriffs Office, who remembers the ranch as a broken-down spread, guarded by a feral pack of boys who patrolled the fence line from the back of a pickup armed with shotguns. There are thousands of members in the group. sltrib.com 1996-2023 The Salt Lake Tribune. One of the Orders leaders did jail time for severely beating his own daughter after she fled an arranged marriage to his brother. We dont expect any of the claims to prevail in a court of law.. While the Kingston Group, founded in 1935, is not affilated with the FLDS, members practice a fundamentalist version of Mormonism that involves polygamy. Later the Order reportedly bought slot machines from mob-controlled companies. During his tenure, Kingston has followed his father's practice of plural, child, and intra-family marriage. Their grooms were 22. Others say they buried it out in the desert and are slowly cashing it out. The DCCS reaffirms that each individual has their free agency to choose whom and when they will marry, the statement said. Paul Eldon Kingston, the leader of Utah's polygamous Kingston Group, also known is the order, is named as a defendant in a bombshell lawsuit alleging sex trafficking. The lawsuit from Michaels and the Nelsons asserts the defendants are liable for up to $27 million in damages and another $20 million in penalties. I am in love with old cars and horses. Members who have left in recent years say that changed after some of Paul Kingston's brothers were convicted of. Were fucked, they told their cousin. When people hear organized crime, they think of mobsters. The woman who married in 2014 at age 16 and asked not to be identified is still with her husband. Jessica Kingston didnt want to be a polygamist. Jessicas dad told her the wife can get only as high as her husband rises. Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune The plaintiffs estimate the eight combine to have 106 wives and 911 children. A sheriffs deputy traced the license plate of the Honda to a run-down house in a working-class suburb south of the city. sltrib.com 1996-2023 The Salt Lake Tribune. I dont really have too many friends, but the ones I do, I wouldnt trade for anything., Among Stephens friends were two of his cousins, Luke and Scott Brown. And it would be several years after that before he stole from his father for the first time. The marriages, former followers say, can be used as a tool to keep girls in the Kingston Group, known among younger members as The Order. For their part, the brides sometimes see legal marriages as a way to avoid becoming polygamists later (and consequently being matched with a husband perhaps twice their age) or a means to escape their parents crowded households. He would talk to them about marriage and thinking of whom to marry, Hansen said. Cousin Carl E. Kingston, an attorney, is said to have a mere two wives. As time passed, his dogma became even stranger. Birthdate: 1791. Marriage preparation can accelerate at puberty. Andrea Johnson was buried on June 13, 1992, at the Bountiful Memorial Park. When Elden died in 1948, leadership of the Order fell to Stephens grandfather, J.O., a short, miserly man with bony shoulders and thinning hair. Two teenage boys had been spotted entering Rachel Youngs home. While the Order preached strict abstinence to its children, forbidding even incidental contact between the sexes, there seemed to be no rules after marriage especially for the clans leaders. Death: January 25, 1867 (75-76) Immediate Family: Husband of Lydia Kingston. He became obsessed with homeopathic treatments and herbal remedies, teaching followers that through proper diet they could live to the age of a tree. When lightning struck a tree at the Home Place, he taught his followers that the tree had divine powers and was a gateway to heaven. Carolyn Yvonne Kingston was born in 1938 in Elmo, Utah, to Charles Elden Kingston, and his first wife Ethel Gustafson, so she was the daughter of the first prophet of the Kingston Clan. Matt Gaetz Called Out for Citing Chinese Propaganda in Hearing The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time Paul Elden Kingston (1959- ): Known as the "Watchman on the Wall" who claims to hear from God regularly, Paul is the son of John Ortell. [9], Records show he signed as a witness on 4 lawful teenage marriages over a 20 year period. A young child is also one of the accusers in the suit with allegations the child was raped by his or her father, who allegedly raped the mother. Paul Kingston and his wife, Mary Kelly, were natives of Moinies (Meenies) townland, Drimoleague, Co. Cork, Ireland. But the constant fear has subsided. Older teenagers were crammed five and six to a room, sleeping on the floors of trailers. It alleges sex trafficking, sexual battery and child abuse, and seeks a jury trial and unspecified damages. While some despised Ben for his apostasy and refused to speak with him, Stephen had remained in touch with his brother. Its all political, Jessica said. Investigators have said 52-year-old Maggie Murdaugh was shot four or five times with a rifle, while 22-year-old Paul Murdaugh was killed by two shotgun blasts near kennels on the family's . The clan is lead today by Charles E. Kingston's son, Paul E. Kingston, who is said to have more than 30 wives. As he talked to the woman who lived there, Luke Brown came out of the house, and his brother Scott soon joined him. Her own father David Kingston has 18 wives and around 200 kids. The bride was 16. (Paul Kingston and other leaders of the family ignored repeated requests for comment for this story. Paul J. Kingston Sr., 93, of North Huntingdon, died Saturday, Oct. 2, 2021. But it is likely that Kingston could recognize some of himself in Stephen. The suit says sect members might have obtained tens, if not hundreds, of millions of dollars through false applications. Back then, Paul Kingston stood around five feet ten and weighed close to 200 pounds. (Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) Jessica Kingston claims she was groomed into choosing marriage at age 16 by her parents and the polygamous sect. Mary Nelson grew up in the sect and names her father, David Kingston, as a defendant. 1 choice [of whom to marry] in The Order, Jessica Kingston said. Within a year, Paul Kingston would take a fourth wife. According to people who have left the Order, the cult exploits its 2,000 members as virtual slave labor and hides profits from tax collectors. The clan, known privately as the Order, runs what prosecutors believe is one of the largest organized-crime operations in Utah, overseeing its far-flung empire from a string of secret locations and backrooms. If that child comes to her at age 16 wanting to marry, she said, she will have questions. When he had finished, he walked toward Stephen, who was sitting on the tractor. Jessica said her husband was on a group text that went around listing girls or women who had not yet married with jokes about how old the females were getting. She said the lawsuit is well plead and noted there have been previous successful qui tam cases in student aid programs. At clan gatherings, girls who were still in their teens danced with men old enough to be their uncles, whom they were sometimes forced to marry. Come back, his dad will say. The issue is available now on newsstands and in the digital archive. But the Kingstons have remained in Salt Lake, operating virtually undetected in a city of more than 1 million people. Stoddard was the president of the Latter Day Church of Christ, the Kingston Groups incorporated religious organization. Now, former members say, girls who will be plural wives meaning they have only a spiritual marriage to their husband are left alone until they are 18 so laws about sex with a minor wont apply. Contact. The plaintiffs estimate 40 to 50 children from the sect were college age in each of the past six years. Businesses and individuals have the autonomy to choose and operate as they see fit as evidenced by a huge diversity of industry and management styles among members. They should refrain from this decision until they can be well informed to make a mature and thoughtful decision before entering into marriage.. Later that afternoon, in another house across town belonging to the Order, a woman named Patty Kingston opened her closet to discover that a chest of gold coins worth as much as $5 million had vanished. Her top choice the one whom she felt God told her to marry was a man five years older than she and to whom she was related on both sides of her family tree. This article related to the Latter Day Saint movement is a stub. He snapped the padlock on the first crate and began stuffing the silver ingots into duffel bags, lugging them back out to the waiting Honda. Regardless, all those applying should do so legally.. Five of the women suing alleged they were coerced into marriage as minors and raped by their husbands. One afternoon, as Stephen and his cousin were taking a break from fixing a tractor that had broken down in a hayfield, Daniel Kingston pulled up. All I like to do is work on cars and hang out with friends and ride my ponies, he wrote one night on his MySpace page. The pressure became so intense DeRieux stopped going to dances. But because they were the sons of the prophet, they got away with it., Stephen vehemently denies that he or his brothers had anything to do with the heist. The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity and contributions are tax Then one night, a clan member called and told him that the Order planned to kill him. Snow contends her mother was one of the people who told her she needed to think about whom she was going to wed. Photo by Nate Carlisle, The Salt Lake Tribune | Shirley Hansen, seen here July 21, 2018, stands along 2100 South near State Street in Salt Lake City. Snow and her mother, Shirley Hansen, have differing stories on what the moms role was in her daughters marriage. The "9" represents his status as a "numbered man" in the Davis County Cooperative Society, also known as the Kingston Group. LDS Church wants to light up a temple in a place that prides itself on dark skies, For husband-and-wife team, this new restaurant is the culmination of a decadeslong dream, offered such statistics to counter the stereotype, Nicole Mafi, one of Paul Kingstons daughters. It didnt take long for them to break down and confess that they had robbed their aunt. They seemed happy, Ron says. Still stunned at the sudden loss of their brother, Stephen and his siblings were numb with grief. Like Stephen, the boys were considered troublemakers by the Order and like Stephen, they knew a lot about how the clan handled its money. That includes the fraud within Washakie Renewable Energy as well as what the plaintiffs allege was a separate scheme by sect members to bilk a U.S. Department of Agriculture program to provide free lunches to child and adult day cares. Each daughter married one of their cousins, who also are pictured with their parents. Jessica suspects her dad was pushing her toward another man. Alex's wife and son, Maggie and Paul, were shot to death at their home in 2021, and Alex is currently on trial for their murders.. Its his father, the prophet, calling to coax his wayward son back into the fold. Girls are told they will need to pray to God so he might show them who their No. They and Mafi also accuse a sect-affiliated tax preparer of falsifying tax returns for Kingston Group members to report lower incomes, partly to boost student financial aid. Their father rarely came by, and because the nearest town was 18 miles away, the kids forged a fierce bond among themselves. According to former Order members, they worked long shifts sorting coal and operating heavy machinery in unsafe conditions. A copy of the lawsuit also is available there, though no other filings in the case are. The families of 19-year-old Stephen Smith who was rumored to be . It was also around then that Stephen, at the age of 14, began to see the clan for what it really was. Comparable graduation rates have been attained by our bachelors and advanced degree students when compared to the state of Utah and the U.S., despite an uphill battle of active discrimination against our students. As he grew older, Stephen turned out to be as rebellious as his own father had been. Come and get me, Stephen said. John Daniel Kingston, who according to court testimony once had 14 wives, was on hand in 2011, when his sons held an open house at the Washakie production plant in Plymouth near Interstate 15 and . These days Stephen works on a cattle ranch near the Idaho border, just down the road from where he grew up. No one would accept the guilty by association view in any other culture that has been adopted by the public for ours. Girls who agree to become plural wives tend to be more devout and usually live in homes without their husband, thus receiving less scrutiny. I felt for his pulse, but he was already gone., That night, Paul Kingston arrived at the ranch. View Site This story has been shared 116,307 times. Paul Vallas' Net Worth In 2023 Explored. On this much, though, mother and daughter agree: Snows father was the primary driver. (Photo courtesy of Kollene Snow) Kollene Snow, 16, poses in her dress before her 2009 marriage in West Valley City. To hide the scope of his organization, J.O. The lawsuit includes a copy of whats alleged to be an agreement children had to sign before going to college. Do you think if I took $5 million in gold, Id be working out here?. Hopefully, the politician is leading a comfortable . To go to Colorado, DeRieux said, she and her fianc drove to Price, where they jumped into a 15-passenger van carrying their parents, the other two sets of brides and grooms and their parents. Sometimes he parked his immaculately buffed burgundy Ford Thunderbird on the curb, but it was rare to see the man himself. He also had dozens of children a brood that would eventually grow to around 300 and he had a hard time telling them apart. Thats your Uncle Paul, she said. They are paid not in cash but in scrip, an arcane form of credit used by the Mormon pioneers that can only be redeemed at company stores. Jessica is hardly the only girl to make such a choice. A few days later, the groom-to-be picked up Jessica and took her to Murray Park. Shortly after 10 p.m. on June 7, 2021, Alex Murdaugh called 911 from his property in Islandton, South Carolina, to report that he had found his 22-year-old son Paul and his wife Maggie, 55, murdered. Hanging up the phone, she rushed to her closet. A short, blustery man with a hair-trigger temper, Daniel Kingston had reportedly once kidnapped two boys at gunpoint and led them out to the Great Salt Lake (the charges were later dropped). While much of the focus of any polygamous group is on plural marriages that happen outside the law, records and interviews with current and former first wives in the Kington Group lend insight into how legal marriages are facilitated. According to All Famous Birthdays, Paul Vallas has a staggering net worth of $5 million. As lore has it, Elden was the one mighty and strong predicted by Scripture, who holding the scepter of power in his hand would set in order the House of God. With thick white hair, a lantern jaw and a commanding presence, he had no problem attracting followers. For parents, there can be other practical considerations in letting a teen marry, Hansen said. The Salt Lake Tribune, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity and contributions are tax But age alone wont determine her answer. He told her he believed one did not need to practice polygamy to reach heaven. And then, when the men get mad at each other, they wont let the [other] mans sons come forward to marry one of their daughters. He is not ready to forgive his father. September 1, 2018. The clan believed he had their treasure, and they were sending someone to kill him. If you would like the full family tree and I feel your request is legitimate I will email it to you. J.O. A lawsuit alleges leaders of a Utah polygamous sect bilked federal student aid programs by instructing teenagers to omit their fathers and other sources of income when applying for benefits. 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