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Call it trying to hide in plain sight, police in utah have launched an investigation into a polygamist family starring in a reality tv show called sister-wise. it premiered on sunday. the show followed an ad executive and his four wives, 13 children, and three step children. four wives. they say they want to shed some light on polygamy. that s illegal here in the usa but in a statement the family says it was a risk worth taking. trace live from the west coast newsroom with more on this. it s illegal but they don t prosecute it so often. reporter: very rarely, some 38,000 fundamentalist mormons who are not connected to the mormon church who are still practicing polygamy but the last conviction was tom brown in 2001 because he married a 13-year-old and the show is called ....
Brown and his wives are fundamentalist mormons and say they believe in plural marriage. but polygamy is illegal in utah. it s considered a felony crime there. apparently brown is not too terribly worried about putting it all out there on dvd. take a look. 20 years ago i married mary, and then 17 years ago, i married janelle, and then 16 years ago, i married christine. fox news analyst, former federal prosecutor and doug pannis is a family law attorney. let s start with the law. we put it up on the screen here. utah statute on bigamy, a person is guilty of bigamy when knowing he or she has a husband or wife the person purport toss marry another person or cohabitates with another person. does this statute appear to be tailor made for cody brown add his wife? i think this statute was made for cody brown and his ....
Daunting than the fear of continuing a society in secrecy and darkness. ok, it s worth noting the family is not a part of the mainline mormon faith. trace gallagher is in our west coast news hub. i know they call the show sister wives but only married to one of them. only married to one, shep, and her name is mary but calls the other three women his spouses even though there really is no legal contract. but apparently, when you talk about polygamy, it s not as much about the marriages. we ll look at a clip of the show. as it is about the cohabitation and it turns out the cops in utah don t like the fact that the browns are cohabitating on national television. listen. we ll see where the investigation takes us. any other crimes you re looking at at this point? we ll see what happens with the investigation. there are some 38,000 fundamentalist mormons that are still practicing polygamy. shep? ....