Long story short. Couple goes through divorce. Mother doesn't want Dad getting custody. Mother kidnaps 4 year old daughter and flees Utah to go to Missouri. Mother hides in a cult compound belonging to a fundamentalist group of the Church of Latter Day Saints. Cult leader espouses couple different things, like praise for Bitcoin and Native American rituals.
https://www.fox6now.com/news/kimberly-d ... t-compoundA Utah woman is accused of kidnapping her then-4-year-old daughter in January 2023 and evading law enforcement for 18 months, with help from her adult sons, before she was finally caught.
At the time when Kimberly Dell Davidson-Drolet, 53, allegedly kidnapped her daughter, she and her now-estranged husband, Laurence Drolet, were in the process of getting a divorce.
Seems that everyone involved in the plot, like the mother and her adult sons, have been charged with kidnapping and conspiracy to commit except the cult leader who actually hid the mother and daughter, while knowing she had taken the daughter illegally. Apparently the end goal of all this was to raise money for the mother and leader to flee to Thailand.
More info from the Federal Attorney's office.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-ut/pr/non- ... s-compound
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