Janetta Jessop, identified as Jeffs’ 63rd wife, recalls being woken by her mother and hurriedly dressed so Jeffs could propose to the teenager. “All they had to do was feed him the wrong things, which they did.” Rohbock goes on to all but accuse Jeffs of murdering his father, FLDS leader Rulon Jeffs, after Jeffs had impregnated one of the young women he insisted his father marry. And Ron Rohbock, the former head of security for the FLDS and a key participant in “Prophet’s Prey,” says he later learned Jeffs had raped Rohbock’s daughter in that office. The look on their faces, he says, was like “having your soul ripped out of your body.” He also describes his uncle’s predatory ways and seeing traumatized children, who’d spent time with Jeffs behind closed doors, leaving his office. Nephew Brent Jeffs discusses the “brainwashing” that took place at the FLDS school, where Jeffs served as principal. It’s an approach that proves far more chilling than Lifetime’s salacious efforts.Ĭontributing to the documentary’s horror-movie feel, investigator Sam Brower - who wrote the book on which the movie is based and whose inquiries, along with those of author Jon Krakauer, are the driving force of “Prophet’s Prey” - presents the ruins of the Alta Academy in Sandy, Utah, like something out of “Ghost Adventures.” Instead, Berg relies on interviews with family members and former friends in the bare-bones, no-frills doc. But the polygamist sect leader, who would end up wedged between Osama bin Laden and James “Whitey” Bulger on the FBI’s 10 Most Wanted List before his arrest in 2006 during a traffic stop just north of Las Vegas, is largely absent for much of the film. Audio recordings of his now ghoulish-sounding lectures are interspersed throughout. We’re shown photographs of him, both as a child and with several of his child brides. Like every good movie monster, Jeffs remains hidden throughout most of the documentary. Lives are ruined and families are torn asunder in the polygamous strongholds of Colorado City, Ariz., and neighboring Hildale, Utah, as the result of Jeffs’ whims. Written and directed by Amy Berg, the Oscar-nominated filmmaker behind “Deliver Us From Evil,” which told the story of pedophile priest Oliver O’Grady, “Prophet’s Prey” is a haunting tale of unrelenting awfulness. Unlike the hunky rebel portrayed by “Scandal’s” Tony Goldwyn last year in Lifetime’s “Outlaw Prophet: Warren Jeffs,” the imprisoned leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is presented in full-on bogeyman mode in the documentary “Prophet’s Prey” (9 p.m. Just in time for Halloween, Showtime is unleashing one of the creepiest, most depraved characters you’ll ever see on television: Photo: Olivia Fougeirol/Courtesy of Showtime "Prophet‘s Prey" director Amy Berg during production of the documentary.
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