He said you will be destroyed in the flesh. Destroyed, try again. She got out and helped investigators uncover the truth about this powerful prophet. This is a horrible thing to listen to. A sinister secret caught on tape. It will just rock you. For too long he eluded the law. Could she finally bring him down . I looked him square in the eyes as if to say we meet again. Im lester holt. And this is dateline. Tonight unbreakable. Heres keith morrison. Reporter its a long way home. Back to that place tucked away beneath the towering red cliffs that join utah to arizona. The place she lived in that other lifetime. Its tough to be back. It brings up a lot of feelings that are really raw. Reporter then, when she was known as sister becky and wore those colorful prairie dresses piled up her long and braided hair and shared a husband with more than 60 other women. It was here in this place they call short creek or just the crick here where it happened on the dark side of the realbig love. A lot of its the same and a lot of it has changed and im not the same person that i was either. Reporter her name is Rebecca Musser. She has come back to the crick for the first time in years hoping to find family or friends she left behind. Anyone that is, who might actually speak to her. Given what she did. Given what she caused. Oh, yes. Shes the one. Youve heard, perhaps, about the strange, religious leader, his shocking crimes, his dramatic undoing. Here is the incredible behind the headlines story which she chronicled in brand new book. These are the secrets told for the very first time. The story of the woman in red versus one the fbis most notorious fugitives. The unlikeliest soldier who went to war with a prophet and said if that is holy and that is divine and that is heaven, i will take hell. Reporter short crick is actually the two little towns of hildale, utah and colorado city, arizona. The mountain that rises above them is called caanan. Here live some 8thousand souls, the core, the center of what they call the work. Most people know it as the flds, fundamentalist church of latter day saints. No, not mormons. Mormons are considered apostates around here and doomed for eternity for the perceived sin of having rejected fundamentalist tenets like plural marriage. Polygamy. The life into which becky musser was born. We were taught you should want to be a plural wife because it was more holy. You were fulfilling this higher law by being a plural wife. So not just allowed. Required. By god. Their measure of success is for the women to marry a good, faithful, priesthood man, where she brings forth as many children as she can. Because the more children he has, the the larger of a kingdom he has. Reporter not exactly mainstream belief, or even legal, for that matter. But this is, after all, america, blessed with a constitution that quite pointedly shelters religious freedoms in all their stunning variety. Beckys father, lloyd wall, a convert to the work, was a College Educated engineer, who lived in Salt Lake City and designed equipment for the space shuttle. In public, he was very successful but in private . In private, lloyd was fully aware, as they all were, that polygamy was illegal so he did all he could to keep his huge and growing family secret. My father had 25 children total, nine from his first wife, 14 from his second wife and two from his third. Did you feel different from people around you . They told us that we were different from the rest of the world. Your parents did . Yes, and our parents taught us that we needed to be more obedient because we had this higher way of life. And so they just created a tremendous gap between us versus them. And terrified us of the outside world. Reporter there was a reason for that primal fear buried deep but unforgotten in the dna of the flds. The raid. It was july 26th, 1953. The governor of arizona ordered the arrest of every single man in short creek. And more than 250 children with their mothers were carted away; some of those familiies werent reunited for years. Rebecca, like every flds child heard the story over and over again from the time she was old enough to listen about the day they remembered as their most terrible and about those awful things the outside world did when the policemen came. And so they were watchful, wary of the outsiders who lived around their crowded split level here in the Salt Lake City suburbs. My dads first wife and her children lived in the top floor, and my mother, the second wife, and her children lived in the downstairs, the bottom basement floor. How did the two wives get along . Not so good. [ laughter ] no . No. There was a tremendous amount of jealousy from my fathers first wife. Reporter nevertheless, said rebecca, she practiced the work and studied the holy books and put her trust and faith in the church. And in its prophet rulon jeffs. To rebecca, uncle rulon, who ran the church from his home here in salt lake, was more than just a man. By then, he had 10 wives and over 50 children and as little becky was taught to believe he spoke directly with god. He was our connection to the divine. And so yes i did look up to him. Reporter so of course rebecca along with everyone else in the flds obeyed the prophets every directive. To obey was the key to salvation. Obedience is the only, only act that you can perform and anything otherwise is damnation. Reporter but, as rebecca entered her teens, change was in the air. Behind uncle rulons gentle smile rules hardened. Control tightened. Not just for rebecca of course. For all of them. This was her childhood friend, Andrew Chatwin. Rulon jeffs started teachin, you dont have a choice anymore. You have to be perfectly obedient. Youre ordered to donate your time ordered to donate your car or make sacrifices that you normally wouldnt do because it was hurting your family. Like more autocratic. Dictatorial . Yeah, very, very dictatorial. A lot of the members were going around and putting everybody on the spot constantly. They would say well are you for him or against him . Reporter rebeccas father was very much for the prophet. He enrolled his children, including becky, in uncle rulons special flds School Called the alta academy. And there, the elements of an explosion were mixed together. All that remained was to light the fuse. 3 c3 llamada la alta academia. I couldnt sit down for a week. I make a lot of purchases for my business. And i get a lot in return with ink plus from chase. Like 50,000 bonus points when i spent 5,000 in the first 3 months after i opened my account. And i earn 5 times the rewards on internet, phone services and at Office Supply stores. 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Just a shell of its former self, only the weeds for company, here on the fringe of Salt Lake City. This is or, was the alta academy, once the most prestigious flds school. Here, hundreds of children as seen in their old yearbooks were instilled with the teachings and tenets of the flds faith. Including Rebecca Musser who was a student here for more than 10 years. So this was your classroom, 4th grade. 4th grade thru 12th grade would meet here in this room. And mr. Jeffs would teach for morning class. Reporter mr. Jeffs was warren jeffs, the principal of alta academy and one of rebeccas primary teachers. Tall, slender, warren was one of uncle rulons, the prophets, many sons. Warren was an authority in the school. He was close to the prophet. And warren, would talk to him every single day and kind of be his fathers messenger. Reporter this most private of private schools, away from the prying eyes of the outside world, taught the basics of reading and writing, arithmetic. That was when rebecca also discovered a natural musical talent. She learned to play and love the violin. She also listened carefully to warren jeffs lessons in strict obedience, even if that did not always come so easily. What we called holy was this love of obedience, this level of dedication. And i strove for that. I didnt have boyfriends. And i didnt sneak out. And i didnt drink beer. Thank you, thank you, thank you. Oh thank you, ladies and gentlemen. Thank you. Reporter warren jeffs knew how to have fun though. Or certainly seemed to be enjoying himself in this rare video shot at school. Louder, louder he was kind of goofy, a little bit of the nerdy. The three bears episode two. Reporter but he ran the place with an iron hand, said rebecca, developing and dictating every aspect of the class curriculum as if he had something bigger in mind. There was always a calculated part of him, about what was going on, and what the dynamic was, and how it affected him, and what his next best move was whether it was for power or position. But i never felt completely relaxed around him. And i think that im not the only one. Reporter very true, said rebeccas fellow student Andrew Chatwin. He started doing things that were mentally abusive. And then it went physically abusive. Reporter how do you know . He implemented a school rule, that if you got three fs or three late assignments, he would beat you on the back of the legs with a yardstick. Reporter including you . He gave me one beating. And it swelled up like a half an inch on the back of my legs. I couldnt sit down very good for a week. Reporter principal warren jeffs pointedly excluded subjects that conflicted with flds theology like evolution, for example. Didnt happen. Or even men on the moon. One small step for man reporter that didnt happen either. Which is how Young Rebecca first ran afoul of the prophets son. I had gone to kindergarten and first grade at a public school. And i remember so distinctly the day an astronaut came to visit our school. And i was mesmerized. And so then i go to alta academy. And somehow, there was some discussion about astronauts. And i spout out that, yeah, theyve been on the moon. And perhaps that moment was the beginning of it, the first skirmish, and, oh, but not the last. Reporter rebeccas outburst earned her too many trips down the hall to warren jeffs office. Where he very strictly and sternly reprimanded me, sayin that, there is no way that god would allow any mortal man to walk on the moon. Its only a trick. It didnt really happen. And dont you ever bring this up again. Reporter by then the prophet rulon jeffs, had announced that the end times were upon them. He also announced that he would be the very last prophet. He personally would welcome jesus back to earth. In the meantime they would have to be absolutely obedient to his every directive. Trouble was rebecca was having more and more trouble being as obedient to her principal, the prophets powerful son warren jeffs. I was always in trouble for being stubborn. And so, and i would ask the question, why . That doesnt make sense to me. If gods a god of reason, how come this doesnt make sense . Wheres the missing link . Reporter all the while, of course, rebecca understood that the church was planning her future for her. She would bear many children. Shed be given to a husband of the prophets choosing and share him with other wives. Just how it was. For the women, theyre owned. Body, mind and soul. In their marriage covenants it says, do you give yourself to your husband of your own freewill and choice . Reporter they all said yes. The alternative, after all, was damnation. 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Reporter rebeccas father has told us that he believed she wanted to marry the prophet. That it was an honor for her. But oh no, says rebecca. Her father was wrong. It was more like a horror. I did not not want to marry rulon jeffs. Reporter to an octogenarian, a man who who was in his 80s for heavens sake. He was 85 and i was 19. Reporter they held the wedding in the living room of uncle rulons sprawling house in Salt Lake City. September 17, 1995. I had just resigned myself to the fact that that was my fate and just to surrender to it. This is my prince charming, this 85 yearold ah. Man . My prince charming. I just remember walkin in and feeling like, just stand up and do your duty. Reporter she wore the White Wedding dress she sewed herself. But she did not walk down the aisle. No here comes the bride for her. Just a brief exchange of vows witnessed by her family and uncle rulons many other wives. He couldnt stand up. He was kind of leaning up against, like, a bench and feeling what it felt like. cause his hand was real shaky, holding this old mans hand. I felt lost. And why dont i feel like this is the right thing inside . I was ashamed that i was not thrilled to be marrying a man more than four times my age. Reporter and something else, which was certainly no thrill at all. Because she was married to uncle rulon, his children were now her children. Which meant that the Authority Figure shed learned to fear, the man whod tormented her for years at school, warren jeffs, was suddenly her son. After i married rulon jeffs, warren was strangely nice. But he could also be very stern and make sure that you knew your place, your duty, and what was required of you. Reporter and life as a married woman required serving the prophet. Any way he wanted to be served. They had a phrase for it, keeping sweet. To keep sweet means that you are absolutely without question obedient to what is being asked of you. No matter what that may be. No matter what that may be. With this sweet attitude there should be no anger, no resistance, no even we were told that asking the question, why . Was wrong. Reporter so whatever uncle rulon wanted, he got. And though he was 85, he still wanted sex. When i first married him, it was two to three times a month. How can a man of 85 with 19 wives perform the functions of a husband . He was old. And even though he couldnt, he certainly did try. It was horrifying. I kept trying to say, this is a man of god and yet hes doing this to me. And if he talks to god, then surely god will give him the message that i am terrified. Reporter but neither god nor anyone else seemed to be paying attention. So the next time the prophet called for her, rebecca did the unthinkable. She refused to see him. I said, no. I am not ready to come and stay with you. I was not going to go through that again. And i was willing thats a pretty big deal to take the consequences. To refuse it was a huge deal. Reporter word of rebeccas refusal got to warren jeffs. And again, she said, she was called to his office. The petty skirmishing was over. Now, she knew, she was in very real jeopardy. He used scripture to tell me it is your duty to be a comfort to your husband, especially my husband because he was the prophet. That he received direct revelation from god. And he said, dont you ever, ever, ever, ever tell your husband no again. If you do you will be destroyed in the flesh. Reporter destroyed in the flesh . Well, maybe not rebecca. Maybe someone else. 3 c3 trit en la carne . Problems to get in the way my volunteering. Thats why i asked my doctor about breo. Oncedaily breo ellipta helps increase airflow from the lungs for a full 24 hours. And breo helps reduce symptom flareups that last several days and require oral steroids, antibiotics, or hospital stay. Breo is not for asthma. 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