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Cops probe bizarre polygamist doomsday Knights of the Crystal Blade sect amid claims kidnapped girls, aged 4 and 8, were to be married to groups prophet
Emma Parry
The Sun UK
DECEMBER 6, 2017 9:27pm [AEDT]
US police are investigating a bizarre doomsday prepper cult after kidnapped children were found hidden in water barrels, shipping containers and an abandoned trailer at a remote compound.
Police in Utah also told Sun Online they were looking into claims that two of the kidnapped girls - aged 8 and 4 - were to be married to the so-called prophet of the Knights of the Crystal Blade sect Samuel Schaffer.
Mum Micha Coltharp reported that her four children S 6, W 7, D, 8, and H, 4, had been kidnapped by their dad John Coltharp - who she was divorcing - back in September.
She told authorities that doomsday prepper Coltharp had taken the kids, along with his parents Keith and Catherine, to join Shaffer and the Knights of the Crystal Blade - which she said was a religious survivalist sect.
Coltharp, 33, was arrested last Friday but refused to give the location of his children and an Amber Alert was issued.
Police in Iron County, Utah, later discovered a remote compound made up of shipping containers, where they found the two kidnapped boys - S and W - and their grandparents.
Officers were told that Shaffer, 34, had taken the two Coltharp girls D and H - along with his own daughters L 7, and S 5, to sleep in a tent near the compound.
After a huge search air and land search, Shaffer was found wandering alone on a dirt track and arrested on Monday.
He gave cops the general location of L and H, who were found that night hidden in a blue water barrel in subfreezing temperatures.
The 34-year-old initially refused to reveal the location of the other two girls - D and S - but they were finally found around an hour later in an abandoned trailer in poor health.
The two boys were checked by doctors and interviewed by police.
All four girls were taken to hospital and later released except the youngest child S who remains in an unknown condition.
The four Coltharp children have now been reunited with their mother, according to police.
Read more at:
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...t/news-story/415a2813f5e55335682b43f3fe63a3e6
Emma Parry
The Sun UK
DECEMBER 6, 2017 9:27pm [AEDT]
US police are investigating a bizarre doomsday prepper cult after kidnapped children were found hidden in water barrels, shipping containers and an abandoned trailer at a remote compound.
Police in Utah also told Sun Online they were looking into claims that two of the kidnapped girls - aged 8 and 4 - were to be married to the so-called prophet of the Knights of the Crystal Blade sect Samuel Schaffer.
Mum Micha Coltharp reported that her four children S 6, W 7, D, 8, and H, 4, had been kidnapped by their dad John Coltharp - who she was divorcing - back in September.
She told authorities that doomsday prepper Coltharp had taken the kids, along with his parents Keith and Catherine, to join Shaffer and the Knights of the Crystal Blade - which she said was a religious survivalist sect.
Coltharp, 33, was arrested last Friday but refused to give the location of his children and an Amber Alert was issued.
Police in Iron County, Utah, later discovered a remote compound made up of shipping containers, where they found the two kidnapped boys - S and W - and their grandparents.
Officers were told that Shaffer, 34, had taken the two Coltharp girls D and H - along with his own daughters L 7, and S 5, to sleep in a tent near the compound.
After a huge search air and land search, Shaffer was found wandering alone on a dirt track and arrested on Monday.
He gave cops the general location of L and H, who were found that night hidden in a blue water barrel in subfreezing temperatures.
The 34-year-old initially refused to reveal the location of the other two girls - D and S - but they were finally found around an hour later in an abandoned trailer in poor health.
The two boys were checked by doctors and interviewed by police.
All four girls were taken to hospital and later released except the youngest child S who remains in an unknown condition.
The four Coltharp children have now been reunited with their mother, according to police.
Read more at:
http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/re...t/news-story/415a2813f5e55335682b43f3fe63a3e6
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