From Deseret News archives:

Videotape reveals Jeffs' mannerisms

4-hour record provided to News may help in search for the FLDS leader

Published: Friday, June 9, 2006 3:25 p.m. MDT
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To the world outside the Fundamentalist LDS Church, he has been known only as the fugitive polygamous prophet. The photographs show a warm, patriarchal smile betraying what authorities contend is Warren Jeffs' cruel legacy of child bride marriages, the dissolution of families, the excommunications and the bleeding of a community's financial resources.

Now, law enforcement want a purported videotape of Jeffs that shows him moving about as he speaks.

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The Deseret Morning News has obtained a copy of rare videotape of fugitive Fundamentalist LDS Church leader Warren Jeffs.

"It's the first video I've heard of," Utah Attorney General Mark Shurtleff said Wednesday. "I've heard of lots of (audio) tape recordings, but not a video of him."

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The video, which is nearly four hours long, was provided to the Deseret Morning News by a source who wished to remain anonymous because of family who remain within the FLDS Church. The source contacted a reporter hoping to publicize Jeffs' moving images and assist police in apprehending the polygamist leader who is on the FBI's Most Wanted List.

"Hearing his voice with the pictures, his mannerisms. If that'll help them (law enforcement), that's all I care about," said the source, who also was said to be providing a copy to the Utah Attorney General's Office.

Shurtleff said if his office obtained a copy of the videotape, he would forward it to the FBI.

"To have some actual motion pictures would be very helpful. We've been using a pretty old photo anyway," he said.

The video was shot in 1993 when Jeffs was principal of the Alta Academy, a now defunct FLDS school at the mouth of Little Cottonwood Canyon. The tape is old, it skips at times and the colors bleed a little. Dozens of FLDS children sit in a room, waiting to be entertained by the musical program.

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A video shot in 1993 shows FLDS leader Warren Jeffs as principal of the Alta Academy, a now defunct FLDS school.

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