Amber alert issued for 2 lacking Idaho teenagers linked to FLDS

Idaho officers are searching for two lacking youngsters related to the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Allen Larand Fischer, 13, and Rachelle Leray Fischer, 15, had been reported lacking on June 22 from Monteview, Idaho.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s stated the youngsters are believed to have left Monteview and probably returned to Trenton, Utah, the place they beforehand lived. It’s believed the youngsters went lacking between 6 and eight p.m. on Sunday,

Idaho State Police launched an Amber Alert for the youngsters. Allen is described as 5’9’’, 135 kilos, with longer sandy blonde hair and blue eyes. He was final seen sporting a blue shirt and blue denims. Rachelle is 5’5’’, 135 kilos with brown hair and blue eyes, final seen in a inexperienced prairie gown.

“It’s believed that the youngsters willingly left to return to Trenton, Utah resulting from spiritual beliefs,” the sheriff’s workplace initially stated.

On Tuesday, the sheriff’s workplace stated they weren’t positive if that they had left the state.

“Presently, we’re uncertain if they’ve left the rapid space or are nonetheless shut by,” officers stated.

The sheriff’s workplace famous that their older sister, Elantra Dee Fischer, now 18, was reported lacking on Jan. 1, 2023 and “has not been situated at the moment.”

Anybody with info on their whereabouts is requested to name the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Workplace at 208-745-9210 possibility 7 or dialing 911 on your native regulation enforcement.

FLDS is a polygamist sect that splintered off the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, and adherents reside in small cities on the Utah-Arizona border.

FLDS is led by fundamentalist Mormon chief Warren Jeffs, who was arrested in 2006 and has been serving a life sentence in Texas since 2011 for sexually assaulting ladies he took as little one brides. He’s seen by many as the religion’s present prophet.

Allen and Rachelle’s mom, Elizabeth Roundy, stated she returned from her household Bible class Sunday night time and located them each gone.

“My youngsters requested if they might go right down to the store to get on the web … so they might watch movies whereas I went to the category,” Roundy advised EastIdahoNews.com. “I allowed them to do it, and that wasn’t very sensible of me. I allow them to go down there, and after I got here again to get them, they had been gone. Anyone got here by the store and hauled off with them.”

Roundy was a part of the FLDS Church, however was exiled in 2020. She moved to Idaho and after a prolonged custody battle for her three youngsters along with her ex-husband, she was awarded full custody in 2021. However her ex, Nephi Fischer has fought to get them again, in response to the outlet.

Efforts to contact Roundy and Fischer by telephone had been unsuccessful Thursday.

Roundy believes that the youngsters’ older siblings and different members of FLDS had been concerned in abducting Allen and Rachelle.

“I consider they might have been watching and it’s my guess that they had been lingering round within the neighborhood someplace ready for an opportunity to seize the youngsters,” Roundy advised the outlet. “I’ve seen their automobiles driving previous my place, up and down the roads, even previous the store the youngsters acquired picked up at simply barely on Friday.”

“I’m very involved about their well-being, and naturally, I’m lacking them very badly. I’m heartbroken they’re gone,” she added.