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Article: New film by ex-wife takes aim at FLDS

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August 27, 2006
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As a former polygamist wife, Laurie Allen said it gave her common ground with the people she was filming for her documentary on the Fundamentalist LDS Church in Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Ariz.

"My family's homestead is three miles away. I went to school in Colorado City for two months when I was in the second grade," she said.

Allen grew up in the notorious LeBaron polygamous sect. Her great- uncle Ervil LeBaron ordered a series of murders from prison, where he served a life sentence for killing a rival polygamist leader. She said she is a cousin of Jacqueline Tarsa LeBaron, who was recently added to the FBI's Most Wanted list in connection with a series of

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