Elizabeth escaped Warren Jeffs' cult 5 years ago. She fears her children are now being 'sacrificed'.

Elizabeth Roundy holds grave concerns for her two children, Rachelle Fischer, 15, and Allen Fischer, 13. 

The teenagers were last seen in the evening on Sunday, June 22, 2025, in Monteview, Idaho, according to local police in Jefferson County. 

They vanished after going to a local shop to access the internet, per their mother's account. 

Since their disappearance, an Amber Alert – a public notification system to recover missing children believed to be abducted or endangered – has been issued by Idaho State Police. 

However, it's not your average missing persons case. 

Roundy is a former member of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (FLDS). 

She left the polygamist breakaway shoot of the Latter Day Saints five years ago. 

The church, which was the centre of the Netflix documentary Keep Sweet: Pray and Obey, has raised controversy after its leader Warren Jeffs was convicted in Texas in 2011 for sexual assault of a minor, after taking child brides, aged 14 and 12, according to The Guardian. 

The publication reports that Jeffs, 69, wed as many as 80 women and children throughout his tenure as the church's leader, however the state doesn't recognise these so-called 'spiritual wives'. 

He was sentenced to life in prison. 

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Elizabeth Roundy believes that her children may have gone with their older sister, who is still part of the church that runs despite its leader being incarcerated. 

"They [were] willing to go because they think that it's their salvation," Roundy said.

It's not the first time Elizabeth has lost a daughter, with her elder daughter Elintra Dee Fischer going missing from the house in 2023 when she was just 17. 

She has not been heard from since. 

Roundy alleges that the cult-like group are taking the children back into the fold, despite her being granted full custody of them by the courts. 

She believes the children's father, Nephi Fischer, may be involved, claiming he repeatedly attempted to regain custody.

"I believe they were watching and waiting for the right moment," she said. "I've seen their vehicles driving by, even past the shop where the kids disappeared Friday night."

Fear of a dark truth within the FLDS. 

Despite being incarcerated, Warren Jeffs still releases so-called 'prophecies' from prison. 

ABC News reports that in 2022 he released one calling for followers to come back into the fold, die and be resurrected into heaven. 

"The recent revelations from Warren Jeffs are very scary," Elizabeth Roundy told the publication.  

The revelation said his followers should "prepare themselves and their children to either be translated or Celestial resurrected". 

It continued that FLDS members must "consecrate and return their children to the church by any means necessary" to be "pure" for "end times", per news.com.au. 

East Idaho News has published a copy of the revelation, in which he names 2025 as the year of 'translation'. In it, it says, "translated people must die". 

Elizabeth Roundy, who has firmly exited the church, cannot believe the things that FLDS followers are being told. 

"It just gives me the shivers down my back to read those things anymore. Because when I used to be part of it, there was so much that went on that even looking at it right now, it just makes me sick inside," Roundy told East Idaho News.

"It's terrifying. The things they told us to do when I was still part of it were erratic and manipulative. You never know what they're capable of.

Jefferson County police are actively searching for multiple missing children related to the FLDS church, but they have been unsuccessful so far. 

"I'm very concerned about their well-being, and of course, I'm missing them very badly. I'm heartbroken they're gone," Roundy said. 

Jennifer Fullmer, a public information officer with the sheriff's office told People, that the children's Amber Alert was actioned after learning of Jeffs' 2022 revelation.

"The information we got was about this revelation; that the children are supposed to gather to assist in the building of Zion so that they can die and become pure and translated beings," she said. "We don't have any concept of when [or] how quickly children should be gathered and brought back to the church so that they can die and become pure beings."

It's not the first major FLDS controversy to occur this year. 

In January, 46-year-old LaDell Jay Bistline was sentenced to life in prison for child sexual abuse, with court documents showing he handed over his two daughters – aged nine and 11 – as child brides for Samuel Bateman, one of Jeffs' ex-followers who started his own off-shoot congregation following Jeffs' incarceration. 

You can read more about that case here: Warren Jeffs led a polygamous cult. When he went to prison, a new evil replaced him.

Feature image: East Idaho News.