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Amber Love (she/her)

@amberunmasked.bsky.social

6 months ago

Book cover for She Knew No Fear (a woman in a prairie dress wearing a bonnet, looking away from the viewer)

Mike King with a huge smile shaking hands with a woman in the audience.

Mike King is a lively speaker who is better in an hour presentation than the short episodes of his podcast Profiling Evil. He loves his audience! He has a few books. I'm interested in the one about his great great great great great grandmother's murder.
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Amber Love (she/her)

@amberunmasked.bsky.social

6 months ago

FLDS Infant Cemetery Have They Been Forgotten?

On the profiling evil site, Mike created a map for the LDS babies' burial ground. #profilingevil
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Amber Love (she/her)

@amberunmasked.bsky.social

6 months ago

Promo pictures and QR Code for Mike's upcoming podcast on Cults: Garden of Evil season 1.

Mike and his wife will do similar charitable work with other proceeds. His next podcast is "Cult Files: Garden of Evil."
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Amber Love (she/her)

@amberunmasked.bsky.social

6 months ago

Mike did find the secret LDS caves that a lot people said were a myth. A woman gave him the keys and coordinates. He mapped the burrowed dirt tunnels. Except there were massive metal doors on vaults installed for all the firearms, food supply, and money.
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Amber Love (she/her)

@amberunmasked.bsky.social

6 months ago

Jeffs confessed in prison that he was never the One True Prophet, that it was Jessop all along. He never really stepped aside. Jeffs said anyone excommunicated could rejoin if they praised him and tithed. @crimecon.bsky.social #profilingevil

Amber Love (she/her)

@amberunmasked.bsky.social

6 months ago

A photo from Mike's video of his personal exploration of the secret underground cave of Warren Jeffs and his cult sect of the LDS.

Mike King kept investigating because there were mysteries he wanted to solve: Where were the secret LDS caves? What happened to all the babies in paupers' graves, their own side cemetery of only infants? How to take down the god squad, Jeffs and Jessop.
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Amber Love (she/her)

@amberunmasked.bsky.social

6 months ago

Mike King on stage

When Rulon died, his oldest son was skipped over and his son Warren claimed to be the new one and only prophet.
Jeffs was horrific about CSA and his 87 wives of all ages. He went to prison but still ran operations through Willy Jessop, his right hand man.
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Amber Love (she/her)

@amberunmasked.bsky.social

6 months ago

Slide "Justice: Past & Present" Sacred roots, shattered covenants: tracing polygamy to biblical origins to early Utah adoption before a seismic shift in 1890. Ghosts in the desert: personal encounters investigating LDS, the haunting stories, and the lingering questions. From conviction to compassion: perspective shift from chasing down religious predators to prioritizing healing and victim protection.

Splintered LDS groups hated each other. One bombed another's chapel and murdered who they felt went against their god's words.
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Amber Love (she/her)

@amberunmasked.bsky.social

6 months ago

Mike King animatedly speaking on stage.

Mike has studied many cults.
In cult settlements when they leave to make their own society, they build around their biggest sacred space. They have their own banks, "doctors," police, schools, and utilities. Everything in life is run by leaders. #profilingevil @crimecon.bsky.social

Amber Love (she/her)

@amberunmasked.bsky.social

6 months ago

Slide Cults are counterfeits of faith. Coercive leaders exploit the language of religion to disguise perversion as devotion. This deceives followers into believing that God endorses what in truth, he condemns.

Mike continued. Mormons who disagreed with abolishing polygamy left to form a new settlement in southern Utah. The feds raided Short Creek in 1953. 165 children were removed, but some were later returned.
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Amber Love (she/her)

@amberunmasked.bsky.social

6 months ago

Promo pictures and QR Code for Mike's upcoming podcast on Cults: Garden of Evil season 1.

There are 2 types of cults: those who seek to convert to add membership; and generational, birthing people into knowing nothing else and coercing them to stay.
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Amber Love (she/her)

@amberunmasked.bsky.social

6 months ago

Mike King (white man with white hair)

🧵 Mike King prefaced his presentation on investigating the F/LDS cult explaining that polygamy goes through many faiths. The practice was outlawed in the US and Utah (as it was just becoming a state) where the Mormons also made it against their code. @crimecon.bsky.social #profilingevil

Amber Love (she/her)

@amberunmasked.bsky.social

6 months ago

Mike King coming to shake hands in the audience before his presentation begins.

Mike King at CrimeCon

Mike King with the non-VIP audience

Mike King is more like a popular folk singer not enough people know by name rather than a rockstar whose posters are everywhere. I want to read his book about his great great great great great grandmother. @crimecon.bsky.social #profilingevil