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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 tha...

We didn't create those circumstances. warren jeffs did. >> he did. >> but he obviously didn't see it as a crime. he saw it as him doing his priestly duty, right? >> he understood that the outside world viewed it as a crime, that society did because even in the priesthood records, there was a quote or a comment that he made that, "if the outside world knew what i was doing, they would hang me from the highest tree." >> reporter: for the next several months hanna and hensley painstakingly picked through oceans of paperwork looking for anything to link warren jeffs and other flds members to speci...

In. we don't want to use force to gain entry." but any cooperation evidently wasn't green lighted by warren. >> reporter: rebecca hadn't arrived yet. but she knew what was happening. >> i was terrified because i didn't know what was in the temple. i knew how they hold that temple as sacred. and i was scared because if there was going to be an incident, it would've been over that temple. >> reporter: a decision was made. the rangers used a battering ram. and at that very moment, said the members of the flds, their temple was defiled. could never be a temple again. >> the moment that stays with ...

Ranch, curious about it, but also concerned about what was taking shape out there in the desert. nick hanna was a texas ranger. >> west texas people are generally pretty friendly and pretty welcoming individuals. but they were certainly concerned because, you know, texas has a history of having some incidents involving, whether it be waco or, you know, the branch davidians. >> reporter: as yfz was under construction, the texas legislature changed the age at which a person could marry with parental consent from 14 to 16. rebecca heard about the ranch, too. she wondered if any members of her fam...

They knew they had hit the mother lode. >> they had just tons. i mean, 400 boxes of physical papers, plus all of the digital information, and it was all of these records. >> we found church records, family records and probably the most important thing was the priesthood records which are the dictations of warren jeffs. his locations, his movements, his directions. really it was a road map to all the activities of the flds community. >> reporter: every dictation, every record, every file had to be scrutinized page by page. >> walking into there and going, "oh, my goodness, look all this." >> re...