Word: mormonized
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...their close-knit Mormon community, the Smarts' joy at Elizabeth's return was everyone's. Yet even as the Smarts feted their daughter, the grim epilogue to her ordeal was beginning to unfold. For now it remains a swirl of dark allegations and questions. How could police, who twice had nabbed Mitchell on petty crimes, not have seen the kidnappers living so conspicuously in their midst? "All we had was a description and a sketch," said Salt Lake police chief Rick Dinse at one point. And, perhaps most confounding, how did this young girl with the toothy, all-American smile...
...Smart. A so-so student at Skyline High School, he lost himself in hobbies like model rocketry before launching himself into drugs and alcohol. At 19 he married and had two kids with a woman named Karen, but the two split up. Soon afterward, he became active in the Mormon church. There he met Debbie, whom he married in 1980. According to Debbie, the David Mitchell she fell in love with was a gentle, deeply devout man. But she says he soon became controlling; he banned bright colors from her wardrobe and, she alleged in interviews last week, sexually assaulted...
...series of television interviews, Barzee's daughter Louree Gaylor alleged that Mitchell was "always hugging me the wrong way." Once Gaylor moved out, the couple claimed to have received a divine direction to sell off all their belongings. At one point, Mitchell and Barzee were both excommunicated by the Mormon church, possibly for promoting polygamy, which is outlawed. "I watched these people go down," says Cornelius Samuel West, a naturopathic physician, who invited Mitchell and Barzee to sleep in his basement. "At first he was clean-shaven and coherent. Then he grew the beard and went into his Jesus...
...Married by America, the audience is supposed to pick a couple to get hitched. But it turns out one contestant, former Playboy model DENISE L., is already wed. Upside: she may, if Fox doesn't ax her, attract coveted Mormon viewers...
...don’t wear it on my sleeve,” he said. But Hatch does try, he said, “to exemplify what it means to be a good Mormon...