misdemeanor charge of filing a false report, her case was eventually dismissed. but rod parker, one of the attorneys who represented the flds, was furious about the actions of the texas rangers. what they did is they described a person who didn t exist and used it to justify a complete search of the ranch. reporter: families separated, children shipped away, some not returned for almost two months. a sacred temple defiled. but neither the rangers nor rebecca had second thoughts. sarah barlow may have been a fake, they said, but what warren jeffs was doing here with underage girls appeared to be very real as seen in these pictures seized during the raid. do you carry around with you any sort of sadness, guilt, something, about how much you had to do to get that evidence against warren jeffs? no. no regrets? no regrets. no.
in. we don t want to use force to gain entry. but any cooperation evidently wasn t green lighted by warren. reporter: rebecca hadn t arrived yet. but she knew what was happening. i was terrified because i didn t know what was in the temple. i knew how they hold that temple as sacred. and i was scared because if there was going to be an incident, it would ve been over that temple. reporter: a decision was made. the rangers used a battering ram. and at that very moment, said the members of the flds, their temple was defiled. could never be a temple again. the moment that stays with me is the entry of the temple. the pounding on the door just echoed across, and to me it just signified that the period that existed in secrecy or cloaked for so many years was coming to an end. reporter: as sergeant hanna and the other investigators entered the temple, they marveled at its workmanship, its elaborate design, its decor.
communicating with customers wasn t easy. she didn t know saying words like cool and hip. she took them literally. even though i spoke to u.s. language, i had no idea what people were talking about. so, it was overwhelming. and she pine for her family. i was able to stay in touch, covertly, with some of my family members, and at least it was one of them. life was not good for at lisa, then 17, not at all. there is lots of abuse, psychological, physical, mental, sexual because. i think, watching rebecca go, and finding out later on that she wasn t dead, the lightning had not come down and struck her. open my eyes. with, newfound courage at least so left allen, and then fled the flds. i got the chance to go to oregon, where she was living at the time, and my brother and her where there. and i look back on that moment as a very pivotal point in my
in what she wore. we were not allowed to wear the color red growing up. and warren had gone into extensive preaching about how evil and dark and immoral the color red was. so i thought, hmm, how could i send him a message that he never broke me? so i chose to wear the color red. reporter: rebecca testified how warren jeffs created, condoned and encouraged a culture ripe for abuse. he would tell me that under no circumstances do you ever, ever, ever tell your husband no. reporter: for two weeks, warren jeffs watched in silence as the case played out before him. and then, the jury took up the question protection of girls versus the prophet s idea of correct religious practice. i knew that if he was to walk away a free man it would just ingrain the people of the flds because it would prove to them that he really, truly was god s disciple.
a big one, he survive but only barely. frail, confused, couldn t remember his wife s names. call them all, sweetie. then, warren jeffs issued instructions. no one was to know, the severity of the prophet severity speak kept secret, especially to the members of the flds. when it is time the people is that the profit was doing fine, only that he needs some rest. as if to prove it, the marriages continued. rulon was eventually made to 65 women, most of them young. his sign for the fateful of a healthy profit. an outsider was watching all of this with very different eyes. a private investigator who s made it is business to track and right about the flds and s leaders, many sour sam brower, but concerned brower was not so much the sickle profit and is wise, as it was the young man